Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-05-08
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE
WAR.

AT the Music Hall in Boston. Oh Sun
day last, Wendell Phillips threw of his
scruples against war, declaring that the
time for peaceful measures has passed. and
that the great battle between civilization
and barbarism is now to be fought
We copy from this discourse the follow
ing eloquent passages:
TIE WAR MARCH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Many times this winter, here and else
wnere. [ have counselled peace-urged as
knew how, the expediency of acknowl-
edging Southern Confederacy. and the
peaceful separation of these thirty -four
States One of the journals announces to
you that come here this morning to re-
tract these opinions. No not one of them!
Applause | need them all-every word
| have spoken this winter-every act of
TIVE nty-fve years of my life, to make the
welcome give this war hearty and hot.
Civil war is momentous evil.
1t needs the soundest, NEST solemn JUS
tifcation. | rejoice before God to-day for
every word that have spoken counseling
peace; and rejoice with an especially pro-
found gratitude, that for the first time in
my anti-slavery life. | speak under the
stars and stripes. and welcome the tread
of Massachusetts, men marshalled for war
Enthusiastic cheering. No matter what
the past has been or said; to-day the slave
asks God for sight of this banner, and
counts it the pledge of his redemption.
[ Applause Hitherto it may have meant
what you thought, or what | did; to-day
it represents Sovereignty and Justice. Re-
newed applause. The only mistake that
have made was in supposing Massachu-
setts wholly choked with cotton and eank-
cred with gold. Loud cheering. The
South thought her patience and generous
willingness for peace we're cOwardice; to-
day shows the mistake Size has been
sleeping on her arms since '76, and the
first eunon-ShOt brings her to her feet
ueitf tie aOar-cry Of the Revolution on her
Ups. Loud cheers. Any man who loves
either liberty or manhood must rejoice at
such an hour. [Applause.
l4tE WAX ONE Or bELt
Our struggle, therefore, is no struggle
between different ideas, but betsCeen bdrba-
rism and ciUilizatioR. Such can only be
settled By arms. prolonged cheering.
The government have waited until its best
friends almost suspected its integrity; but
the cannon shot on Fort Sumter has
opened the only door out of this hour /
There were but two; one was compromise, ]
the other was battle. The integrity of
the North closed the first, the generous
of nineteen states closed the
other. The South opened this with can
non shot and Lincoln shows himself at the /.
door. Prolonged and enthusiastic cheer
ing
WASHINGTON OUR THERMOPYLE
The war, then. is not aggressive but in |
and WaShiagtan has become
lhe -Z3sernaoPylH Of liberty and justice.
Applause. Rather than surrender it,
cover every square foot of it with living /
body loud cheers crowd it with million
Of men, and empty every bank vault at the
North to pay the cost. Renewed cheer
ing. Teach the world once for all, that
belongs to the stars and stripes, /
and under them no man shall wear
chain Enthusiastic cheering. In the
whole of this conflict l have looked only at
liberty-only at the slave. Perry entered
the battle of the lakes with, Don't give
up the ship" floating from the masthead
of the Lawrence When with his fighting
dag he left her crippled, heading north,
and mounting the deck of the Niagara,