Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-04-02

| expected a serious Disturbance thAt might
! probably end in boodsiied. We expected to
! find the OPERA House crowded with rowdies,
and that me lecturer would find 1t cnnyrnicut
! not To Attempt 10 speak. Our astonishmcnf
/ was great. therefore, entering Mr.. Pixies
/ i.fot,Ie. to find the honse nearly filed with an
! Intelligent, well behaved and respectable an
/ disnce about one fourth OF whom were ladies'.
There was prrmedtated de
sign 10 prevent Mr.. Philips from lecturing
| 1t was participated in by many respectable cit
| zens, hut the task was committed TO degraded
| hands, that many who were anxious to have
the lecture interfered with, became ashamed
CT the affair before the lecture was half over.
The indecency OF th- mob destroyed the in
tended purpose. The lecture was delivered
ana nobody hurt. We make no report of Mr.
Philips speech, and shall only add that his
caimneSs of manner and moderate opinions
surprised great many who expected TO hear
raving ftnaiic. lie av0wcd himself no long
er dIsuni"nist, satisfied that slavery has al
ready received its death blow, and has only to
s'iurn over and die" His efforts now. he
said, are directed 10 the prevention OF com
promises, which III his opIniun, would only
lend To proiong fhe contest between the intel
Irctnal democracy of the North aid the arIs.
tocracy of the South. That is his lecture in
Il nutshell"
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Democratic
tlon OF Mr.. Philips speech, from which report
we take the following extracts
''Alter Mr.. Philips had been speaking some
time, lie said We are entering upon the
great struggle which people have ever IA
voidcd-a struggle b,tweeu the few and the
man!-a struggle between ariStocracy and de-
m"cfAcy. The North represents democracy,
founded on industry, brains aud money; the
SOuih AN aristucracy founded on slave labor
an aristocracy whose right hand is negro sla-
very and those left is the ignorant White man.
'.At this point a heavy boulder was thrown
from the third tier of boxes. 1t struck "a few
feet from The speaker. 1t came crashing IA
mong tie tuut-ligh!s like ctuuOn shot. Sim
nltane'uAiy with The boulder came u couple of
eggs. that burst like bombs, dispensing Il per-
fnme more pot mt than fragrant. One of these
ndernus missiles struck the speaker. The
eggs were thrown from the left of the second
tier, and were accompanied by series of yells,
like n"thImg unless II he the whnnp of a
scare of Iufnriated lnlIdua: s.DDwn with the
traitor" "Egg the nigger Phillips" and
dozen other oppfohrI"us epithets. Ii is due
hr. Philips To say that ho stood calm ana col
lected, wilh"ht moving muscle or hinciing
an inch. When The tumtlt had somewhat SUBJ
sided. the speaker resumed his discourse
ALLOW word more. do not know
what that fellow man meant who sent that
stone. hat / meant no Insult to the nnusavp-
holding white man Of the South. | sympa-
ihize with them, tor they suffer from des-
p"tiSm whose right hand is power and whose
left hand is ignorance. If Sonth Carolina
ever sees the utmost exatation of ner masses
ii viii be when the Stars and Stripes guaranty
freedom to every Ifembrr of the thirty four
States There many things which .4meri.
can citizens cannot do, and one thing tchich J
hnow they cannot do, aud that is 10 prerent this
belt Of the american continent from being, in
serenity years or less time. one connfry. gocerned
by one scepter, indissOLuabic as grGnite.' -