The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-11-14
Wemdem PhIIIIps ana Politics.

One of the most gifted Of our literary
men and most eloquent Of our public ora
tors is Wendell Phillips of Boston. There
IS no more striking illustration Of the in
fuence which q mans religions views has
upon his actions and worldly sentiments
than in the case of Wendell Phillips. Edu-
Gated in the academic shades of veneIa-
bic Harvard College, which now exults IN
! having reformed the puritanism and CALVIN
ism of the Pilgrims Of New England into
| a literal christianity; the associate OF Gar
rison and Parker, even surprising them IN
their free and expurgating construction OF
the Bible he has by his education, associa-
ton, and liberalism, come TO regard all
matters in politics and religion with afree-
dom, which in politics has grown into a
contempt for all the established constitu-
tional obligations and restraints Of the peo-
pie.
The night after the Presidential election
he delivered an address on current politics,
which, to say the best of it, was decidedly
racy. 1t is not just to Judge the enlighten-
ed and commercial capital of New England
by any one of the vast audiences which as
semble 10 applaud the poetic flights OF ora
tory, or bitter invectives of representative
men, Yamcey can fiji FanieuI Hall, q the
old cradle of Freedom" to its utmost ca
pacity, and meet with applause. Mr.. Ever
EFT or Mr. Cushing can call together a great
multitude, who will sympathise heartily
with their stad old conservative principles.
And William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell /
Phillips can easily fill Music Hail. at their /
Fraternity lectures, to hear them scoff at Ie- |
ligion, and denounce the Constitution as a +
covenant with death and an agreement I
with hell" Mr.. Phillips has contented .
himself during the canvass, with writing
articles for Garrison's paper against the
Republican party and its principles, and de-
Mr.. Lincoln as {" a slave hound !"
but now that the canvass is over, and the
people have, by so significant a vote, de-
clared in favor of Mr.. Lincoln and conser-
vative Republicanisn, Phillips can see, in
in the result, g triumph for the cause of
Liberalism and Abolitiousn1 though he
says plainly that Mr.. Lincoln is not an
bolitionist-hardly an anti-slavery man
judging from Mr.. LiRcolns characters
rom his speeches, and from the platform of
lis party, we are confident his administra-
ion will be a conservative and national one.
We are confident that he will be true TO
me Of the leading principles of his party,
oH-tHterfersnce tcih SleireJY ut The StdtcS-
We have no fears Of pacific settlement Of
hese vexed political questions, if the States
will only give him the quiet control of the
government as the President of the MAORI
y. Our only fear is that President Blu
hanau will permit the mischief to be done
efore the new President is inaugurated- He
) now placed in position either TO retrieve
Il great measure the imbecility and cor
upton Of his administration by An exhibit
ion of statesmanlike patriotism, or to hand
lis name down to posterity linked insepara-
,ly with that of Arnold and Burr. If he
gill only act with prudence, firmness and
atriotism, and at the close of his term hand
he reins of "A united government to Mr.
.incoln's guidance, we have no fears as TO
zig ability TO meet all emergencies with
tatesmanshp and patriotism equal to the
angers which surround him. We do not
xpect that he will satisfy eitheriMr. Phillips
r Mr.. Yancey, but he will rally to his sup
ort the conservative masses in every sec
ion of the Union, and give peace TO the
ountry.