Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-15
TT. TUESDAY MORNING. MAY Is, 1860.


ent Anti-Slavery Movement and William
II. seward.
Wendell Phillips, in late speech in New
York, thus referred to the present anti
slavery movement: ID o.L ogorrceT adL
He thought they had very peculiar reasons
for rejoicing over the position and prospects
Of the anti-slaYery movement. The sky
looked clear-the futtire looked bright. He
was not sure whether there was mitch neces-
sity for holding such a, meeting as this
Perhaps they were holding too many, having
Just finished n very interesting and excited
session of the American Antl-5lavery Society
at tCharleston--and looking forward TO another
interesting debate at Chicago next week by
other agents of the same society. Perhaps
they did wrong In delaying the public by
thus filling up the interval by meeting Of
their 1.-THE society's) own. Still, after all, he
supposed it was necessary that they also
should express their opinions of current
events; and he was glak to stand here, there
fore, and glad at the presence of those who
stood with him. He thought they had heard
the John Brown of the American pulpit (Dr.
Cheever) this morning, and he should be dis
posed to say with Mr.. Burns:
""shput for the good swords ring.
Shout for the thought still truer."
He would 90 for the sword, but he would
go also for the thought which plowed deeper
and lasted longer in thinking nation like
ours. He thought he had right to call DR..
Cheever the John Brown of the American
pulpit, for the Church of the Puritans was in
insurrection to-day. .tApplause.l Union
square was the Harpers Ferry of the Amer
lean conflict. The only trouble was to CLEAN
after such reapers as DR.. @. and find any thing
to say. But the sky looked bright. We had
great many breaks we had great many
dissolutions of the Union; the Methodists had
dissolved North from South a great many
years ago; the Missionary Society, with its
two Or three claimants for public support,
had been subdivided, and the Missionary So
ciety was now in fragments. Every thing
was breaking up, and the last of the great
Democratic party was broken too. Laughter ]
That party had found out that slavery had d
right every where. 1t hated the Republican
motto that Freedom was national, slavery
Sectional. Its, motto was slavery every
where, and the, counterpart was the DEM
ocratic Ia-ty no where. [Laughter.J This
reminded MIN of the story, told by traveller
in Northern Asia, ofa man who went into a
womans hut, and, after seizing the tea-kettle
showed that the more he was bent on seizing
it. the more it burnt him, and the more il
burnt him the more he yelled So of the
Democratic Party The more it clasped sla.
very bue LlOTt IL lelJ HuTJ, anu IL mol
be doubted that it would die with the whole
doctrine grasped within its arms. .rn
ABOUT wM. II. SEWARD. s.u
Well, what said the other party, and how
much did it say ? Mr. Seward had found ou
n new name for it, that of an "irrepressiblt
conflict" and in this he had found out new
they (the Abolitionists) didn't know any
thing, that they were turned head-over-heels
with their passions-couldnt see an inch be-
yond their own ignorance and mistakes
were mere boys-madmen-str
men and women, who did not know any
thing. And yet the man who said this was
the Statesman" who instructed us how tc
think. And yet there was an irrepressiblS
conflict, and between what2 Between labor
and cepitall-between the lungs and tn,
stomach. Was that craftsmanship? AnC
yet this was the doctrine-this was the states
| manship Of the Republican party. Word
meant a great deal. Tallcyrand told us, tn,
| highest use of words was to conceal thoughts
What was the cause, according to Mr.. Seward
of all this dficulty2 The mystery of th
Union. The fact that the North was afraic
of losing theUnion.nAs TO this very act o
Southern aggression, why had it succeeded
Why, because the North was afraid of losinl
the Union. rr. ..1. ...dIi- ha.-.
tor, "Why is it, Doctor, that some people are
born dumb" "Well," said the doctor, gath.
ering up all his eloquence, "the reason OF thai
is, that some children are born withou
speech" "Well now, said she, "Pm 80 glaC
| asked you; suppose if had asked my hus.
band, he would have said: "Cause it ism and
that was the amount of Mr.. Stewards speech
There was no explanation, no analysis, nc
demonstration of the causes that made the
North afraid of losing the Union, or made the
Union hazardous. Was there not, then, neeG
Of men like them-(the Abolitionists)--o
insurrectionists against Church and State, To
tell men all they need and fear2--that they
did nothing but scold their neighbors, ex.
haust the vocabulary of abuse-do nothing
but manifest the morbid bitterness of theiI
own envious spirit. Yet that old Puritan
stock from which they had sprung had borne
the same calumny, and survived the sneert
and sarcasms of such men as the writer O
Hudibras. ,.as Har .sii,..l. .T