Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-12
Wendell Phillips on the War.

lists in jeff Davis's army, and who hates the
Union with as much ferocious bitterness as
do the leaders of the "McConnell wing of the
Democracy" in this State has made spcech
on the war. He is as savage towards tue
! President and the Cabinet as is the Marys-
Vile Express, and has as little confidence III
General Scott as has Russel Of the London
Times. The place of the speech was Boston,
and the occasion the anniversary of the birth
day of Theodore Parker Phillips pays his
| compliments to the President as follows:
To-day the Administration has been six
months in office, and what have they done !
| Six months The weapons which our peo-
ple have placed in their hands, how have
they used them Give two months to root
out the public offices, and what have they
done? Europe looks across the water and
sees twenty millions Of people-their bonds
! at SO in the market, their harvests IN Their
barns, and their prosperity on substantial
bass. Europe also looks across the water,
and sees eight millions without credit, with
out food, and without munitions of war. The
Congress of the one sits guarded with l00,
600 soldiers, and the Congress Of the other
unassailcd. Europe sees the North acting
has been twice beaten back like a stricken
hound. 1t sees the weaker portion aggres-
sve at every point ] ask, then, in these
four months, what has the Administration
done in response to the people. 1t has done
nothing with that immense military array.
Has IL done anything in response to popular
sentiment? Has it set forth any principle,
or any avowal of purpose, r. any great pub
lie opinion which they are to use? Not a
linen word The world sreculates up
on the purposes of the United States. 1t
seems TO me so far-and six months is not
a very short time at crisis like this-that
the hour has come, but not the man. Nc
man with purpose indi-ated--no gallant spir
it to gather up the enthusiasm of the people
that indispensable requisite personal 10y
atty, which has carried all nations through
like emergencies-none. My view is, tha
= the trial of democracy shows the masse
! equal to the emergency-but the Admins
tration not equal to it, either in courage, or
in craftsmanship.
lie says that the President was born il
Kentucky, and that General Scott is "A Nir
ginan, and that "no man gets over his birth
place" This is mistake. We could intro
duce Mr.. Phillips to some very dirty fellows
born within a days journey from Bunke
Hill, who are groaning over the measures @
,, defense adopted by the Government agains
the Southern rebellion. 7hey have got owe
all feeling of sympathy with their birth
places Their ears never tngle when Yam
KEGS is denounced by the rebel press of Cot
: tondom, as vermin too vile to live. Whei
, meekiy salute whatever portion of his perso
may be presented for the purpose, and olIe
bounty for insults. Then, on the other
hand, has not the glowing eloquence of til
Kentuckian, Joseph Holt, proved that be re
CARDS the United States of America as hi
birthplace, and does he not lash with whip
of scorpions the wretches who seek to destro,
>, what it cost so much blood to erect? ? IIa
: ing born in q particular State docs not aifcc
D any true patriots position in the present cri
+ sis. Phillips has been opposing the grea
c Union majority of his native New Englan
ever since he entered public life, and ho
ranted against our nationality, in what a
e old friend, Ned Marshall when he hear
lie him, pronounced "devilish eloquenco.' Bt
II Phillips thinks there are some true patriot
IL in the South, and who, think you, are they
Vt Hear him:
Il don't believe that there is a Union maj
- at the South worth minding, except th
s blacks. There are hundreds, aye, thousands
! of men who have Union sympathies, bu
. they are like men carved in marble; the,
have not the courage to themselves felt Th,
t only men to count on the checker board, to
a day, are the blacks. 200 years of slavery
and the violation of every right that MAJ
holds dear, the boarded vengeance Of 81,
; generations, make the blacks inevitably ant
irrevocably loyal Whoever fails they re
= main true to the banner that promises liber
4 ty and Justice, if not revenge. Let our regi-
ments penetrate the South with that mes
sage. Let Fremont descend the Mississippi
, and when he falls on New Orleans, he viii
have half million of men under his flag.
Ofthe Cabinet he says;
! You may say that arraign the Cabinet
: | do Those six months should have wit
j messed the capture of Charleston and Ne,
Orleans and the landing of G,O0O men o.
q Sullivans Island. Sixty days after ther
: would have been jubilee in every hove il
Carolina. Instead Of that, | defy the mos
sanguine Republican to tell me what Iii
President means-to tell me when This wal
shall be conducted with anything like tha
e vigor which a bankrupt public demands. A
5 million a day. Our best blood shed in inef-
fectual forays.
The following bears so startling resemb
lance to some of the editorials of the Califor
MIA Express, that one would think Phillip
had plagiarized from the columns Of tha
journal, or that its editor had been in cores
: pondence with the arch-Agitator
1t is time that every Press should cry ou
that this inhuman butchery should cease o
vindicate itself in the face of the world Ii
six months England and France-the only
powers that can force your Cabinet to any
thing like vigorous prosecution Of policy
will interfere.
Is not this familiar to the readers of tn
Express? Its singular how similar are th
: thoughts and ideas of great minds. 1t is IN
necessary to follow Mr.. Phillips further. III
E has done the country service by his Speech
He is the oracle of Abolitionism, and he de-
E nounces the Administration for not convert
ing the war against rebellion into war fol
universal and immediate abolition. Iii
words should be ruDg through the nation
and the noble Union men of the South shoulc
hear them. They are the very highest au-
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