The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-11-21
WENDLs PHILLIPS on THE LATE
- ELEDTIOy.

~. ELEgI10J. -,
Wendell Phillips, the laudator of John
Brown, delivered lecture in the fraternity
Course in Boston. on the evening of the 7th
inst, on the election There was an immense
crowd The Atlas and Bee, whose report we
use, says:
Every seat was occupied, the aisle filed and
the doolways packed by an eager crowd, who
listened with most intense interest to the words
of the brilliant lect 'rer. Mr.. Phillips appear
ance upon the platform wss the signal Tor
spontaneous and hearty applause, which swell
ed and deepened into the widest enthu siasm
as the audience recognized, among those who
accompanied him to the platform, the Cover
nor elect of the Commonwealth, John A An
drew. Mr.. Phillips was then introduced and
spoke as follows '.-.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: IF the tele-
graph speaks truth, for the first time in our
history, the slaoe has chosen President for
the United States. (Cheers) We have pass
ed the Rubicon, for Mr.. Lincoln rules to-day
much as he will after the 4th of March,
1t is the moral effect of this victory, not any
thing which his administration can or will
probably do, that gives value to this success.
Mt az Abolitionists, hardly an an.i-sIavery
man, Mr.. Lincoln consents to represent, an
anti-slavery idea. pawn on the political
Ichessboard, his value in his position; with fair
effort, We may soon change him for Knight,
Bishop or Queen, and sweep the board. Gap
plause.)
-- LINCOLN, SEWARD, JOHN DRowN.
This position he owes to no meritof his own
but to lives that have reused tie nation s ear
science, and deeds that have plowed deep into
de heart. Our childish eyes gazed with won
der at Maeizers chess player, and the pulse al
most stopped when, with pulling of wires and
breaking wheels, he moved pawn and said.
.check. Dur wiser fathers saw a. maa in the
box Ihsre was great noise at Chicago much
pulling of win and crcakipg,of Wheels then
forth steps Abraham L;9eoln- But John
brown wzs beh:nd ia curtain, and She can non
of March 4ih will only echo the rifles at Har-
pers Ferry Last year We STOOD looking sad
ly at that GLIB against the Virginia sky
One turn of the kelsidoscope-.the picture is
Lincoln in the balcony of the Capitol, and a
million OF hearts beating welcome heloT Loud
cheers 49, -
,.g Mr.. Seward said in 1850. "You may slay
the Wilmot Proviso in the Senate Chapber
and bury it beneath the Capitol today; the
dead corpse, in complete steel, will haunt your
Legislative halls Tomorrow" They slew the
martyr chief on the banks of the Potomac, we
buried his dust beneath the SHOWS OF North
Elba; and the statesman Senator of New York
wrote fer his epitaph, 'tjustly huRg," while
party chief cried i"amen;' but one of those
dead hands smote to ruin the Babylon which
that Senator'S ambition had builded, and the
other lifted into the Capitol the President Of
1864. (Applause) .r--
TIE DEFEAT OF BURLINGAIE.
For the Bell-Everett party, one egg has
given chicken. Mr.. Appleton is elected
Ann street and Beacon street has fused (Mer,
riment) AS the constituents could not be ad-
United to Mr. AqPlctons home-there not be-
ing police enough to watch them (grcat mer-
rilnent)-the speeches were made outside, and
we get all the secrets. Mr. Stevenson thinks
the ELECTION of MIR. Appleton the most Sim
OF the Constitution" I observed, last sum
mer, in the country, that the geese jalways
bowed when they entered barn, for fear of
hitting their heads. Q.aughter) Mr.. Bur-
ilngame needs no praise of mine. He stood,
like Hancock and Adams, the representative
of an idea, and the city that rejected hip dis
gracsd o y hersa4f: (Applause.) AS the old
English Judge said of sentence he blushed
to declare: ITO this I seem to pronounce
sentepce pot on the prisoner, but on the law
itself" 1t is, Boston, not Burlingame, that
has cause to blush to-day. (Cheers do
not envy Mr.. Appleton his seat You re-
m :mber Webster painted ashingtpn leaning
one great arm on Massachusetts and the other
on south Car IliHa Methinks see our mer-
chant prince entering. One hand rests famil-
iarly on the shoulder of Beacon street. the
other ,en : cambric handkerchief, twice doub-
led, to save the possibility of his touching the
shoulders of Ann street. daughter and ap-
plausa) What is his first act when seated
he, the representative of the fag ends of half
a dozen parties, broken meat of the po-
ltical charity basket? He speak the voice of
Boston, the home of Sam Adams, in this go
rio1s hour! What will it be? Whep Sher-
man is named for Speaker be says, "no," while
the heart Of Boston says "yes." And what is
his second and last act? To gather round his
table Davis and Mason-ipan who g!oried in
the blow which exiled Sunper from the Sen
ate for four years, and made Ghristedom trem-
Bile for his life-men who come for his wine,
and not for his wit;-and Boston, in his per
son, sinks to be their associate, no, their lack
ey. CHEERS Look at its Lipceln vote 4! 1
appeal from Philip drunk TO Philip sober
from Ann street oozened by old fogies to Ann
street under guidance of her native instincts.
loud applause) Mr.. Appleton representa-
neither the MERCHANTS of Boston nor its grog
shops-thoush ;his friends boast of having
carried him By their aid. They are both too
good for him. 80 DIS -tat ssaa L9t-
Mr.. Philips .rejoiced over the election of
John A Andrew as Governor, saying: woa
For the first time within my memory, we
have got man for Governor Of Massachusetts,,
a frank, true, whole-souled, honest MAN.
% [So Banks is not man. Now Banks is
not an Abolitionist, and Andrew is. Only
Abolitionists and slaves are men according to
Mr.. Phillips,] ..s.rrs.s, ~ -. ---''' al
q N. p. BANKS A TRAITOR AND A sNoB. :" 'J
But in common time the Chief Justiceship