M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-03-27
Wendell PhnIips-HIs Puritan
Conscience aud DIsunIom.

uSHt VI tHc lliIhuclpld DuilStlu NIllVo
under date of the 10Th March, thus:
The maguanimous Republican
majority in the Senate concluded that
they could hear Wendell Phillips
speak without being corrupted; Sc
they showed the ever unflincllin 2 and
consistent Den ocracy to the wall, and
voted him the hall for to morrow
night"
This WENDELL PHILLlHs, who was
thus voted by the "maguammous Re.
publican majority" in the State Sen.
ate of Pennsylvania hearing in the
Smithsonian Institute, In that lee.
ture, as reported in the New York
Tribune Of the 10th inst, Mr.. PHIL
LIPS said:
81 have laborcd nineteen years tc
take nineteen States out of the Union,
and i'll have spent any nineteen years
to the satisfaction Of my Puritan con
science, it was those nineteen wears.
The child Of six generations of Pun
tans, | was taught alta mothers
knee to love purity before peace
And Shen Daniel Webster taught
me that the Union meant making
white men hypocrites and black men
slaves; that it ment lynch law in the
Caroliinos and mob law in Massachu
sets; that.it meant lies in the pulpit
and gags in the Senate when / was
told that the cementing of the Union
was returning slaves to tnoir masters,
in the flame of the God loved and
had been taught to honor, cursed
the Constitution and the Union, and
endcayored to break it, and, thark
Goo, it is broken P'
Again:
"lf John Brown can NOT have the
mountain, know cf no one to whom
its care ccnld be better intrusted than
John Q. Fremont. My fret choice
would have been Brown; but I bow
tolthe.. ..dispeLsaton OF Providence and
Virginia, and take John ., Fremont
Again:
81 think to day that unless this war
result in liberty it would 10 better
she bad gcne--infihitely better. I'm.
less within twelve monthes or twenty.
four Maryland is q free State, Della
ware.and half Virginia, and we be
enabled;to look cast and west Of that
marble Capitol on freedom, would to
God that building, with this city o,
Washiugt on, had been sheiled to ashes
last July, fer it is nothing but a bribc
tending to keep the North quiet"
AnrlH TCIlIilGM!SThI dlt-r Il r Caught.
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Yesterday morning we STATED. that a
prominent politician, and attache OIL
the p oSt Office, had been arrested on
charge of purloining letters contain
ing money from the mails. In justice
to the numerous employers in Iho Of
fees, it is but proper tn state the
name Of that parsonage. 1t is PROBES
sor E. S. Lippett, wei! known as a
school.teacher, Methodist preacher,
politician and lawyer being in latter
capacity Assistant City Solicitor for
two years. When Mr. Baum was ap-
pointed Postmaster, Mr.. Lippett re,
ceiyed appointment to responsible
aid lucrative position in the oflice.
1t is now alleged that a large mum.
Der efletters containing money have
been taken from the office at various
times, buG whether Mr.. Lippett is
is believed TO have been the thief is
not stated, but it is charged against
hlm that he took letters which he
opened, while on his return home to
Avondale and threw the pieces by
the roadside. These pieces were
gathered togather by a Mr.. @. and
his wife, and after they arrived gat
their friends house on thc,hill, where
they had been visiting, the pieces
were fitted togather and the contents
of the letters and superscription of the
envelopes arrived at. The same were
handed to Mr. Baum, the Postmaster,
who Immediately sci about TO inyesti
gate the same.
He found that Lippett was tho per.
son whom Mrs. Q. saw open the let
ters and distribute by the wayside,
after putting something in his pocket
now believed to be money. A war
ran! was issued, and Mr.. Lippett was
arrested by Deputp Marshal Rohner
just as the Professor was leaving the
office for hone. When the warrant
was read to him. Lippett exclaimed,
sit can't be, it can't be, it can't be =!
and asked to see Mr.. Baum, which
request being gratifed, he desired tc
know of Mr.. Baum what this meantl