Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-12-05
WHAT WENDELL PHILLIPS
SAYS

On the nlght OI inc tlh lhNl' w
Boston, Wendell Phillips delivered
nn oration To n crowded house, from
q which we select n few short para
graphs, His speech opens as fol
lows: >.
"LADIEs AND GENTLEMEN 1T
! the telegraph speaks truth, for the
first time in our history the slapt
has chosen President for the Y. s
lCCheors ! We have passed the Rub-
icon, for Mr.. Lincoln rules to-day as
much as he will aiter the fourth OF
March. 1t is the moral effect Of tho
victory not anything which his Rd-
ADMINISTRATION can on probably WI
do, that gives value 10 his success
Not an nbolitionist-hNrdly an anti
slavery man-Mr Lincoln consents
10 represent an anti-slavery ideas
A pawn on the political chess-board
his value is in his position with
fair effort we may soon change him
for Knight, Bishop, or Queen, and
sweep the board. Applause. This
position he owes to no merit oil his
own, but to lives that have reused
the nations conscience, and deeds
that have ploughed deep into the
heart. Our childish eyes gazed with
wonder at Maelzcls Chess Player,
and the pulse almost stopped when
with pulling of wires and creaking
wheels, he moved pawn and said
check Our wiser fathers saw n
man in the box. There was n great
noise at Chicago-much pulling OF
wires and creaking Of wheels-thcn
forth steps Abraham Lincoln. But
John Brown was behind the curtain,
aud the cannon of March 4th will
only echo the rifles at Harper's Fer
ry. Last year we stood looking
sadly at that gibbet against the Vir-
ginia sky. One turn of the kaleid-
oscope-thc picture is Lincoln in
the Balcony Of the Capitol, and n
million of hearts beating welcome
below. Loud cheers.
MIR. Seward said in 1850: you
may slay the Wilmot Proviso in the
Senate Chamber, and bury it be-
meath the Capitol to-day; the dead
corpse in complete steel, will haunt
yonr 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
wrote for his epitaph, Justly hung,
while party chiefs cried Amen :
but one of those dead hands smote
to ruin that Babylon which that
Senator's ambition had built, and
the other lifted into the capitol the
President of 1861. [lhpplapse]
Speaking of the progress Of anti
slavery sentiment, he says
"You know gcologists tell us that
away back there, before Moses,
[laughter] the earth hung a lurid
mass Of granite, hot, floating in
thick gas. Gradually the granite
and choke damp, as miners call it,
united and made limestone then
more choke damp was absorbed, and
sandstone came more still, and coal
appeared. By this time the air had
parted with all it's poison, and was
pure enough to breathe. Then came
man! Just such has been our pro-
gress. Our government hung lu-
rid, floating mass in the poisonous
atmosphere of New York Observers
and Heralds' Tract Societies, Mis-
sionary Societies, Pro-Slavery pull
pits, Union Meetings, Calhouns,
Everetts, Websters and Halletts,
slave hunters, Curtises. The chem
ical process began. They were par
TALLY absorbed. We had Wing par
ties, anti-Texas meetings, and Free
Soil factions. The change went on,
and finally we have party that
dare to say slavery is a sin-zin some
places The air begins to grow al
most pure enough to breathe. Ap-
plause.
And again:
o'That convention selected Lincoln
for their standard bearer. Enough
gain for once. First the blade, then
the ear, and then the full corn in
the ear DR.. Winship began with
dumb bell of ten pounds; after
four years he used two hundred in
each hand The elephants, when
crossing a river, send the smallest
first. Don't mount those Arab
steeds yet, Mr.. Seward! Wait a
little. longer. Who knows whether
that Liberator, whose printing office
Mayor Otis could not find in 1885,
may not be issued from the eastern
room of the White House in 1873.
And of the power to be behind
the throne he says
sDid you ever see on Broadway
you may in Naplcs-a black fig
ure grinding chocolate in the win.
dows? He seems to turn the wheel
but in truth the wheel turns him.
[Laughter,] NoY, such is the Pres
idcnt of the United States. He
seems to govern, he only reigns:-
As Lord Brougham said in a similar
case-Lincoln is in place, Garrison
in po,cer. Applause.]
OF the foundation of abolition, he
says:
"By the side ofthe New England
Primer, Lyman, Beecher and Ben
iamin Franklin, the New York Tri-
bune.and Herald, all our thirteen
Presidents kick the BEAM. The pull
pit and the steamboat are of infin-
itely more moment than the consti-
ton. The South owes the existence
of slavery to-day to the cunning OF
Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whitney;
and Fulton did moro to perpetuate
the Union than n Senate Chamber