Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-13

Tug ApoLrrloxIsrs, like the rest of the an
niversarians, are now holding their Convention
in New York Their number, as usual, is mea-
gre, principally confined to Garrison, Pillsbury
aud Phillips, the stock actors of the troupe,
who have regularly amused the public for twenty
years with their TRADES. As they sink in
numbers and public estimation, their TRADES
become more and swecpingly abusive, and nc
cordingly we notioOby the reports in. our New
York exchanges, that they uttered their bulls
of accommodation on Tuesday against every
thing and everybody but themselves. They
denounced the Union, the Church, the Repub-
lican party, the Tract Society and Senator
Seward, in good set terms,-but reserved their
choicest Walls of wrath for Cheever and Beecher.
Wendell Phillips, by far the ablest man among
them, made one Of his enthusiastically violent
speeches Here is an extract from what he
said =
For ourselves wc begin at the root. We say
that the negro is n man, and If our fathers, or
the worlds heroes, were justified In rehesilon
against tyranny, then the negro, as man, Is
also Justified in so doing. And added Mir. Phil
lips, if lie cuts his masters threat, he is hero,
a Wallace, William Tell, Washington ten
fold over. We dare to say this because 1t Is
true. The negro, In the act CT Instruction
would be as much a man as any OF our fathers
who fought at Bunker Hill. In his sarcastic
but humorous vein Mr. Phillips proceeded 10
deno"nce the way that proGesscd advocates OF
abolition had Of lodging the question. He told
tale of the Emperor of Russia, who summoned
an engineer into his presence, and commanded
him To construct u railroad from Moscow to st.
Petersburg. The engineer drew the plan and
presented it to the Emperor "Why,' said the
latter, "this looks like snake" 1--WE have to
make these twists and curves, Sir" rcjoined the
engineer, ito avoid the cities Otherwise, we
should run through them NovogOrod and
Pesth, for instance" The Emperor took pen
Gil ana piece of paper, and made two dots, one
for St. Petersburg and the other Moscow; he
then drew straight line between them
There" said he, "buiid me that road " But,
Sire what is to become of the cities? ," 'Thc
cities" answered the Emperor, "must take care
of themselves" And SO continued Mr.. Phillips,
we say that here is Justice, and there the Slave
Draw a straight line between them. Oh, but
what will you do with DR.. Cheever? Let DIR.
Cheevcr take care of himself What vii you
do with the Republican Party? Let the Repub-
lican Party take care Of itself And that is all
that is to be said about it, We make a straight
line between Justice and the slave
In relation to the disappearance Of the prcju-
dice against color, the speaker considered ii Il
promising sign, and added that other EOou Signs
were rot wanting William II. Seward he
said, uttered the best thing the other day that
he ever uttered, and one of the wittieSt things
uttered for months by any one. When asked
by some person is he had read the speech Of
Stephen y. Douglas at some place in Illinois,
in which co!orcd people were called "mggerS,
and whether that speech ought not to make
him President. ''No," replied Seward, mo
man should be President who spells negro with
two gs" That remark Indicated the change in
public opinion within the last twenty-five years.
That word "niggcr" never passes mans lips
that it does not stamp him brute. He may
Sit in the Senate, but his place is the kennel
No, will correct myself his place is the Sen.
ate, ruled by confederation of Shareholders. =
The Republican Party, Mr.. Phillips Thought,
had changed places with the Democratic Party.
1t was ruined party, any way, for it had lost
the taiisman of success, having no Anti'SiaTery
principles.
Nothing could survive excerpts ideas. Tho
Parthcnon was in ruins, but the golden words
Of Socrates and DemoStheneS yet thrilled our
hears An, the mention of Demosthenes re.
minded him Chc spcakcr) that that great orator
had once delivered over one of his slaves to be
publicly tortured; yet History, through all its
centuries, had never censmrcd him for the act
Our New England Demosthencs had given over
four millions Of slaves TO be tortured, and now
the waves of the Atlantic beat upon tine dshon-
Ored grave in which he buried himself and the
whole Wing Party.
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