Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-29
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speech the times by the famoul Abolition orator.
Wendell Phillips The drift Of The discourse Is abuse
Of the Lincoln Administration for not declaring the pur
Pose Of lie war upon the South to be emsncipaton--
Everybody he says) North and South knows that TO be
the object "Mr Seward Is not hoRsst enough to man
age this war. Mr.. Lincoln Is not bold enough yet
Therefore Mr. Philips proposes to get up meetings
t, embolden Lincoln and drive Seward from the cabinet
We make several extracts from il;
Does auy man dream that within an assguable time we
can CONQUER the Southern States by the present means
Will an army Of 900, 500 900, subdue the Gulf
States on our present pans When they have done it,
docs the history Of the last sixty years render il probs
BILE that the oaroaas Mississippi will stand snbdueds
Have right to found our future on the supposition
that the white race Of that half the nation are not a.
desperate Poland as brave Hungary, determined
a. Itays We may defeat them a dozen fields Of bat
tie but until we depopulate the State never shall
have subdued H. IL to me that there Is but one
way Of developing Union sentiment in those Southern
STATS and o. spbduing the Secession sentiment equally
and that H. by srrsyng might Of power, and putting
behind it purpose that shall remove the thar
makes two people. That's, no until you call 100000
Of blacks into liberty, and on our side sppansr
until you say to the South, "The Stars aud Stripes mean
liberty to every man-twen,y million Of men at the North
and four million at the South have said L. IT. In striking
down vile system the battlefield, any loyal man sui.
fers loss the nation shall share 1t with hm-not until
South, and array all that loyal side and annhi-
late the rest Al present. half Of the South cngs
10 slavery and to fight for It TO the DEATH Pde
Of race family pride, old associations and often sincere
convictions of the value OF slavery, produce this deter
miuatou The other half would gladly be rid Of sys-
tenn thew thoroughly know and bate but they dread
pecunary ruin in the change. Both halves believe the
North spite Of its protestaons means in the end soo
lton immediate aud unconditional. And thsy are right
Left to ite that is future as sure as the end
ksak half f tha A0ufh at tha ma
ton which DEGREES freedom will shield them from ruin,
and We have ct once with the North the slave and
half the Sou.h-the world the water, and God
above: success then Il speedy and ture
Outside OF that is the war; two years long, four years
long-cOsting million day, developing the courage
the love of country the character OF the North fes
lint when has lasted two years, and the unsubdued
South still stretches her hands to Europe, Europe viii
her independence and ought 70 do so and
then the divided nation viii present new policy TO the
free North and bankrupt South, to emancipate
because she too poor keep the slaves in their chains
On one side or the other of that line the ony eec
tive battle. hate think the present civil war
the bloodest stain the century, II 1t means only stars
and srpes"-R it means only the Union asit was But
every thinking that no matter what men wish,
II cannot mean the Union il Let this 20 on
twelve months, and the old Union be rebuilt
IL Was built Of compromise. Such war as this the
bitter fruits of years of sugry discussion OF proud con-
tempt on one side aud submission on the Other which
the hounds knew meant COWhrulCc uuu mldnl-suCu
war NAV have tress but in the end the only peace will
be unconditional submission of the other side
We must change the elements which have created this
Quarrel if we would end Il. They only to be changed
By emancipation or division.
What do / ask of the Government do not ask them
TO announce that policy Of emancipation now they are
not strong enough DO it. We can announce IL the
people can discuss IL the Administration are not strong
enough to announce it, do not care whether they
mean il or not; It utter ruin to announce 1t now.
I'M mi trati hall n1i.
cate shall manifest its character. II has not done it,
Its friends saw "We shall be called Abolition Admin
istrltion If we favor the AntiSlavery sentiment We
want TO be known as Constitutional Administration"
There ia the mistake There is the fundamental error
General Patterson General Cadwaadsr are using the
shoes General Butler has thrown away, and promising
TO nut down seryile instructions By the Constitution
thew have no right lift little finger against servile
Instruction until the Governor oil State asks it
When they make such proclamation it is alike uncalled
for, illegal and unconstitutional What call on General
Scott ard President Lincoln 10 do s that they shall
buke their Major Generals when they 90 outside Of the
Law TO propitiae the slave power want tie scales held
even For sixty years that Of Liberty has kicked the
beam | call on Lincoln and bis Cabinet at least to
hold them even Even fair play TO Liberty, under the
old Constitution will be such change will quell the
South and educate the North. If Gen. Patterson knows
no better than to suppress servie Instructions cashier
him on this side the Potomac The Administration can,
should ought If it liberty, indicate its purpose
bv these legal constitutional and imperative measnres
Why do they not? will tel you. Lieut.-Gen. Scott
Re a Southerner He is rs years Old. Ne is loyal,
honest devoted friend of the Union AID the sbe0t col
der We have. e means TO Keep bis oath to the letter
not he has natural and unavoidable tenderness to-
r,rds the section from which be sprang. las an old
mans fondness for the ASSOCIATIONS Of the past He
homes and trusts that by moderate measures by waiting
by paecce BY blockRdes by starvation, he can avoid
the sections ana bring them together again
IN . harmonious Union. Mr.. Seward would sacrifice
eve ything fof that Union BE has not the beginning
no. the e6d of pr.nviP!o. HIS own colleagues know
he is traitor and the fault rhI g!th the Admmins
ra;on Is that while honest men recognize lhs 2rest
elements eonLsiled in it, those honest elements suffer
themselves to be Compounded balanced by one power
full but at the same time known = b treacherous.
am only saying Of Seward what every Hiaa asys in Il
Washington what every honest man says all over the
country and especially in New York State.
suy.ass You are as brave rch strong as persis
tent you suppose yourselves to be- while We nsht we
have nothing bull Mexican az Goth American civil
zaiion before u.s. conflict Of States perpetual sar the
South fighting desperately, the mountains, ambus-
caass, serli warfare but Sighting Is that the country
we look orwari to- IL that the civilization which the
North would accept? Never II our statesmen cannot
give US anything better, mark me- If Europe does not
recognize in two years, the North will Compromise.
Northern trade, koFtheTp industry, Northern common
sense gill meyer suher sucE future for years. The
North will compromise before she viii endure it Save
u.s. either by emancipation or division. Nothing can be
40 than years of civil war, demorAlzing, Weakening,
the ultimate hope of either peaceful or
successful dealing with the slave question.
And yet / sec the value OF this war. am glad Gen.
Scott has 100000 men. | only hope that when Con.
gress is adjourned he viii advance into Virginia and
isLt do not believe there 5V0 y1 soldiers on the
o!les side. believe BeahTegsfd lives, spite or tee
graph and believe there ere some {OOoOor $4,000
men, with arms Of Sort In the State OF Virginia
the rest bravado. But it won't do rely wholly on
blockade TO siarye them out; it won't do to wait
III they dispense. The worth Of this is to redeem
toe character s the North. No Southern believes
tbs. the Northerner has sny courage. do not mean
that the South Gfeels to believe bs-s-e GOES be-
eye it. and but for the conduct OF Chsriss Sum
ner and dozen like him. abe has right to believe it.
Shs nsye; met in the Senate House OF Representa-
lives for siTty years. nors than half score OF men who
have dared 70 look her 10 The lac. She had right,
therefore to believe that the North craven 0. ped
der fos gns. abe could not bully, she could always
buy. Now the bepeEt Of this war-he blessing Of this
war-which shall buy 81 miRi Of dollars day,
and cheap at that is that we shall beat this sAgcy Fr
gpiA half dozen times into good behavior. We shall
convince these inGreduous Caronians that the North
can fight when she thinks Il worth while and then,
either in the Unon alongside Of it, they will live in
peace sni tEest US properly. They viii until then.
Gen. Scott Issy serve the Gulf States; he never will
stArye them OF the sspYqtion that New England is
coward That can only be cansoEseea out Of them on
tho sacred soil of Virginia. applause and tie lesson
in characters V-l.s from Harper's Ferry to New Or
leans
Ny policy, therefore, is give tho AdmDis: ton gener
ous sympathy give it all the confidence for honesty OF
purpose you saa. They mean now only the Union
That is Al! they mean present; but they willing
Ne should make them mean snythipg more we please.-
rbsy not like Seward-slppery equiyoss! false You
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