Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-21
Gelertto MS.
speech of Wendell Phillips
AT THE
Reception Of George Thompson,
In Lynn, Mass. .Nou. 26h.

In Lynn, Mass .Nou. 26h.
This is certainly, felow-citizens, a glad
sight for my eloquent friend to look upon
these enthusiastic crowds, pressing to extend
to him welcome, and do their part in atone
ment for the scenes of 1885, and to convince
him that even now, NOT as Boston speaks,
60 speaks the State. Cbeers.] And yet, it
is not in our power, my friends, with oil our
numbers or zeal, TO tender our guest so real,
80 impressive a compliment as that with
which Faneuil Hall fnttered him, the 18th
day of this month. 'Indignaton,' il has
been well said, is itself favored with sea-
son of compliment How potent has inan
q right to consider his voice, when whole
nation rises to gag him! No sooner does
our friend announce his intention of visiting
these shores, no sooner does nc set his face
hitherward, than the whole press howls in
concert, and alarm escapes oil along our sea-
board. One would imagine his brow must
be like that Of the archangel Byron de-
scribes, and that
where he gazcd, a gloom pcrvadcd space.
No sooner does he land, than mob law is
triumphant to silence him. Certainly, the
humblest man must be pufied up by such un-
cquivocal attestatons TO his Importance
CHEERS To suppose Faneuil Hall reused
TO such pitch by the advent of any insig-
nificant person,-to suppose the Daily Ad-
vertiser awakened to knowledge of any SO
recent event by u trifling matter, would be
ocean into tempest tossed
To watt feather or to drown hy.'
Laughter and cheers
Daniel Webster once said, in this county,
that in the cnse of suspected murderer,
suicide is confession In the same way,
mob law is confession; [cheers i confession
that the land knows itself guilty, cannot
abide the gaze of honest men, and breads
the testimony against itself of voice whose
trumpet notes have rung out over SO many
wel-fought fields of reform, and at whose
summons the best spirits of our father-land
are still glad to gather. Loud cheers. 1t
was an Irish character in one OF Levers nov
els, believe, who first proclaimed that he
had rather, at any time knock man down,
that argue with him:' but the preference
seems TO have found now admirers of of the
green isle. [Cheers. ] am not sure, Mr..
Chairman, that we are correct, after all, in
uscribing all this Indignation, in the city, to
the fear of national rebuke at the hands of
Mr. Thompson. j am afraid it was no such
honorable sentiment as the dread of being
held up to the gaze Of other nations, a mil
dewed ear blasting our welcome brothers
of having painted to us
Tito exulting tyrant's sneer
Borne to us from the old worlds thrones,
And all their grief, who, pining, hear,
In sunless mines and dungeons drcar,
How Freedoms land her faith disowns'
I fear we must trace it to baser origin
These are the hurricane months OF Ameri-
can politics. Every day seems TO have a
storm of its own; and the Wing party es-
pecially, is Just now scudding under the bare
poles of despair! [Cheers For the first
time within the memory of the Oldest inhab-
itant, Boston had been hurled from its su-
premacy over the State. Cushioned in the
luxurious seclusion of city life, party leaders
began to believe the mass of the people as
hear,less as themselves. Willing themselves
TO be slaye-catchers, they vainly thought
there were many others like them; forget
ting that God made the country, while man
made the town. Loud cheers.
The nnwelcome discovery that there were
men outside the city, who existed for other
purposes than merely to register the edcts
of State street, came with stunning sudden
ness upon them; and their cup was both SO
bitter and so full, that it was perhaps cruel
on our part to add drop 10 lis waters OF
penance; and especially so big and bitter
drop as George Thompson. [Cheers.l We
should have chosen our time better The
child, robbed for the first time Of its rattle,
should have been allowed time TO win over
its petulence. look upon the scene in
Faneuil Hall as made up full as much of the
last spasms of defeated Whiggery, (Webster
Whiggery, mean,, as of hatred of George
Thompson. Cheers. And it is in connec-
tion, partly, with this point, that hail these
tokens of welcome extended to him here,
and at Worcester, as of especial value. It'll
of great importance, just now, that the South
and the nation should understand Massa-
chusetts. Mr.. Webster has been trying to
persuade every body that he is the State
Some leading presses have labored TO show
that Webster Wbigdom and Massachusetts
were identical While things remained as
they were. it was impossible to offer conclu-
sive testimony to the contrary. Public meet
ings are here to-day, and gone Tomorrow
Protests, the most emphatic, from leading in
diyiduals, are easily dotted aside as mere
bntHcnks Of individual enthusiasm. Men