Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-05
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POLITICAL.
Reported for the Morning Pennsylvania

An INcENDIARY LECTURE AND A
CcMBusTlBLE AuDIENcE.-Our readers
have a general iDdea Of who is Mr.
Wendell Phillips. lie is a fanatic Of
the coolest, most determined, deliberate
order. He is an orator Of mastery
force, eloquencc and grace; with a
voice as low and finely modulated as
music, aud in his lowest and most earn
est tones he pours forth the maddest and
most audacious radicalism and treason
Not syllable of rant, not word Of
moderation does he utter, but with an
intense quiet and calm he delivers his
eloquent denunciations. All his GEM
US, all his grace, all his enthusiasm, he
devotes to keeping alive the section ha-
tired cngeudered by Abolitionism, and in
an excited state of the public mind he
loves to gather together combustibles,
and piling them against the pillars OF
the Union he applies the torch-wait-
ing for the columns to crumblc and the
links of the Contederacy to burst. Last
evening Mr.. Phillips lecturcd at Nation.
al Hall. The house was packed. Qua.
kers, abolitionists, pro-sIavery people,
medical students, negroes, women's
rights women, free lovers, characters OF
all kinds, were there, and to cap the eli
max, the combustible elements thus
jumbled together were watched over by
forty or fifty policemen without their
stars or uniform they were principally
Of the Reserve Corpse. The Chief Of
Police was there, too, composedly wait
ing for something to turn up. BY a
miracle no disturbance took place, but
it is not the fault of Mr.. Phillips that
il>feeling did not break out.
The subject Of the lecture was "Tous-
saint L'Ovcrture," the negro who con-
qucred the Spaniards, French, English
and mulattoes in the Island of Hayti at
the close of the last century, and who
was subsequently sent to France and
starved to death in prison, during the
,.iSn vr tJopvlcvn T., WnlIe the troops
sent to Hayti by the French Emperor
temporarily conquered the Island.
Such was Mr.. Phillips subject, and
his special pleading made him exalt this
black soldier to the position OF the
Greek Phocion, the English Hampden,
"the great Virginia Washington" and
" hat he called "heaven's diviuest gift to
later age, John Browp, Of Ossawatto-
ME. :" What an antithcsis He took
occasion to exalt Toussaint above Ma
pOlo N above l., and above Cromwell
and put him on a level with Old Brown
He advocated flee tradc-to the great
disgust of his hearers and gave false
views Of the religious state of Pennsyl-
vania fifty years ago, by intimating that
the old keystone State ever restricted
religious freedom!
AIlthis incendiary trash was delivered
to this combustible audience as quietly
as ithc were shepherd feeding his sheep,
and with the severe but quiet eloquence
Of the practised inccndiary.
ONE HONEST BLACK REPUBLICAN,
Ever since tho lamcntablc apostacy of
the well known editor Of the Chicago
Democrat from the political faith which
he at a former period protested, an in
dulgcnt public have been locking in vain
for man politically honest, among the
molly hosts of the Black Republican par.
ty. Looking to that class of unlortun>
ates for the information NEST likely to
aid US in Our researches, and of course
believing every word they say Of cacl,
other, and implicitly relying upon such
reputable journals as the Chicago Demo-
crat, the Chicago Journal, and the Press
and Tribune, we had about come to the
conclusion that the whole party did not
contain man with political honesty
enough to last over night. For, really,
VIC have rarely, if ever, met with more
lucid expositions Of unworthincss than
those very reputable and truth telling
papers have given in speaking of each
other. But the recent sayings and do.
ings of the Democrat have afforded us.
an other religious individuals great re-
lief, and much dev0ut satisfaction. Fer,
besides the joy felt by righteous per-
son when distinguished sinner enters
into the kingdom safe and sound, we feel
to rejoice that his salvation, great and
glorious as it is, is altogether owing to
the power Of Democratic grace which
sticks to him like an affectienate brother
in all the wanderings and vicissitudes Of
his eventful life. We give it up. The
distinguished editor Of the Chicago
Democrat is an honest man-and about
the only one this side Of Harper's Ferry.
Moreover, he is q gentleman OF true
courage. He is head and shoulders
above the hypocrites with whom he has
been classed, in boldness, in consistency,
and in all the elements Of political and
moral greatness. He breaches treason
in way to bs understood-and what is
more he practices what he preaches.-
lie is not the man to urge men on to the
preparation of crime, and then abandon
them. He differs from his Black Re-
publican brethren, who hatch out insur
rections; and afterwards deny their of.
spring. Having couuseled the invasion
of sister state, and the murder of its
peaceful inhabitants, he now manfully
acknowledges the corn, land blasphemes
the name Of God by insoleutIy demand
ing his approval. And. "a the selicon.