Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-07
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tFrOm the New York Times Noveubsr2l
The Course Of Lectures instituted by the young
men Of Rev. IL Wad Boechcr's congregation,
in Brooklyn, bad announced upon its programme
me the name OF Mr. Wendell Phillips of Boston,
as the speaker for last evening Throwing a.
side cture which he had been for some time
preparing upon literary theme, Mr.. Phillips a
few days ago sought dispeusa'ion from the for
mality Of a lecture, and permission TO substitute
tor it stump speech on the prominent topic of
the hour. The permission having been readily
accorded, last evening saw the walls of Plymouth
Church, accustomed as they are to crowds
crowded more than is leir custom; the audience
in fact, being throDged and eager as ever
waited upon the tloquence of the noted orator
Mr. Phillips, upon his appearance, was re-
oeived with vehement applause. When it had
subsided, he said
Z LADIES AND GENTLEMEN; Ispeak with the nv.
most sincerity, when say that cannot expect -
speaking from this platform, and to you-to say
anything ON the vital question of the hour, which
you have not already heard. l should not In that
sene willingly have come here but, when great
4 question divides the community all men are cal
| led upon to vote, aud l feel to night that / am
simply giving my vote. am only saying "dito"
4 ia what you hear from this platform day after
| day. And, would willingly have avoided,
ladies' and gentlemen even att hls lst moment
borrowing this hour IRON you, l tried to do
better by you, Like the freshman in tho story,
J offered TO hold the hat Of Hon Thomas Cor.
win, of Ohio. enthusiastic applause if he
would only mako speech, aud most unRccouut
| sbly, am sorry TO ray, he declined this gene
rous offer. GLaughtcrl So l am obliged to
fulfil my appointment, and deliver my little lee.
ture myself
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION AS IT IS AND As II OUGHT
ToBR.
"I'he Lesson Of the Hour" | think the les
son oil tho hour is insurrection. TSansaton I
lnsurrection OF thought always prtcodes the
inaurrcction OF arms The last twenty years
have been instruction of thought. We seem
TO be entering on new phase Of the great NOR
al American struggle 1t seems to me that We
have never exhibited as Amrrioans--we have
never exhibited tur own civilization. We
have held back from the inference which we
ought 20 have drawn from the admitted princi
pies which underiie cur life We have all the
tlmidity of the old world when we bend our
eyes upon ideas of the people; we shrink back
trying to save ourselves frim the inveterate
control ofthe thoughts of the millions The
ldeA OF civilization on the other sioe OF the water
see ms to be, that men are created to bs taken
care OF by somebody else. God did not leave
him fit to 60 alone; he is in everlasting pupil
age 10 the wealthy and the edueaied Tho
religiOus, or the comfortable cllssCs ore an
everlasting probate court o take care of HIN.
The Old world, therefore, has always dreaded
the aVerage conscence-the common sense of
the millions
1t seems to me tho idea Of our civilization
underlying all American lfe-is, that we do
not need any Protector. We need no sale
guard. Not only the inevitable, but the best
power ahis eide of the ocean, is the uniettercd
average common sense of the masses. lnsttu.
tions, as we are accustomed to call them, are
but past eboard, and intended to be, against the
thought of the street Statutes are mere mile
stones, telling how lar yesterdays thought had
travelled and the talk Of the sidewalk to day is
the law of the land
now TO MAKE THIEos STRAIGHT.
The Emperor Nicholas, it 10 said, ordered
Col. Whistler, one OF his Engineers, 10 lay down
for him road for a railway from st Peters
burg TO Moscow, and presently the engineer
brought HIM in large piece OF card paper, on
which was laid down, like snake the design
ed path OF the iroD locomotive between the two
capitals. Whats that" said Nicholas.-
"lhat's the best road, was tho rcply "What
do you make it crooked fort" "Why, we turn
this way To touch this great city, aud TO the
lett to reach that immense mass of people, and
to the right again to suit the business Of that
cOu ntry." Yes The Emperor turned the
card over, made new dot for Moscow and an.
other for Petersburg, took a ruler, made a
straight line, and said, "Build me that road "
(LaughtCr) 'But what will become of that
depot of r-ade, of that townl" 81 don't know;
they must look out for themselves" (Cheers J
: Aud the emperor of omnipotent Democracy
says OF Slavery, or of a Church, this is justice
and that 10 iniqntyi ana the trace OF Gods
thunderbolt gOes in a straight line from one 20
the other, aud tho Church that cannot stand il
must stand out Of the way. (Cheers.)
THE EDUolrIoN or the LAST QUARTER OF CEN
/ TURY.
! There have been various evidences ofeduc-
ton. will tell you Of one. The first evidence
that sinner convicted Of sin and too blind or
= lazy TO reiorm-the first evidence that he can
give that his nature has been touched, is that
he becomes hypocrte he has the grace to
pretend 20 be something. Now, the first evi.
dence that the American people gave Ofethat
commencing grace of hypocrisy was this; in
1888, when We commenced the anti Slavery
agitation, the papers talked about slavery, bond
age, American slavery, bold, frankly and
bluntly. In a few years it sounded hard; Il hal
, a grating effect; the hardest throat OF the har
dest Democrat felt IL as IL came out SO they
spoke Of the ''patrarcha institution" Qauqh-
2 ter) then OF the domestic institution" (contin-
ued laughteT) aud then Of lhD peculiar institu
tiOn," UaughteT) ami in a year or two il got
beyond that, Mississippi published n report from
her Senate, in which she went a stride beyond
that, and described II as economic subor1ma.
tiou." (Renewed sughter.) A Methodist Bsh
Op in Ohio was TAX to task for holding slave
. in reality, bat his Methodist brethre6 were not
courageous enough to say "slayes" right out in
meeting, and 40 they said the Bishop must get
rid Of his "impediment''- loud laughterl-an
the late Mr.. Rufus Choate, in ie last DemoeTa,
tic canvass m my own State, undertaking and
neeessitatod 10 refer 10 the institutions Of the
South, and knowing that his old New England
lips, that had spoken so many glorious free
truths in the twenty years that were ended
could not foul their bast days with the hated
word, he pllrased it "a different type of indus
a try" Now, hypocrisy--w "it is tho hon
y age that Vice renders to Virtue " When men
begin TO get weary Of capital punishment, they
n binisb the gallows inside the jll yard, and do
y not let any body see il without q spec al card
Of invitation from ths Sheriff. Aud so they
= have banished Slavery into p1t phrases and d ish
It words, so that II you should dig our Egyptian
II Hunksnsm up from the grave into which II il
Il rapidly sinking we SHOULD have TO have a com
y meBtator Of the true German blood 10 find ogl
what all these queer, old, peculiar, imsg Unable