, 1862-03-19


4 year ago Wendell Phillips would have
teen sacrificed to the Devil Of Slavery any
where on PenDs} 1yaufa Avenue. To-day he
WAS Introduced by Mr. Sumner to the floor
Of the Senate. The Vice-Prcsldent left his seat
aud greeted him with marked respect. The
attentions Of Senators were Of the most flat
tering character Marvellous conquest Of pre-
JUDGES, and marvellous movement of Northern
ideas.
Listening to Wendell Phnlips's lecture this
evening in the Smithsonian Institute, were
Senator Powell Of Kentucky. and many other
Southern men Of note, the Vice President Of
the United States, and Congressman Of both
Houses thickly eat about the orator on the
platform. During his lecture lie was frequent
" interrupted by applause. Satd Mr.. Phillips:
America said to Europe, 81 breed heroes
sit down at my feet" John Brown, first OF
all men, deserved The Mountain Department,
next Fremont. Of the Presidents emancipa-
tion message be said it WAS voice from the
holy of the holes. 1t meant just this Gen
tlc1ncn Of the Border States, now is your
time to sell. The exigency mag arise that
will call me to take your slaves if you refuse
10 sell now.
The old negro preacher said that il there
werr text in the Bible bidding him 20
through a stone wall, he would jump at It,
| and trust to the Lord forgetting him through
The President had gone ut slavery. It was
| for the nation to get him through. The meg
sage was xerx little Med7s, s., bnt a;a; il vas a
| ton was initiated in the West ladies
| by suggestion that the Colonial Legislatures
| should lmeliorate tho condition OF the slave,
it was very little wedge, but it was driven
| home. The President lad not entered Ca
| naan, but he had turned his E1ce toward it,
| ssying, If I can't conquer with cannon, will
I with Emancipation. The message asserted
| tie fitness to govern Of the 19,000, 900 who
had shaken off their Southern masters. There
| was no doubt Of the constitutional power to
| do What the President Threatened Anything
could be done in time Of war to save th<
State.
In suepending the writ Of ha5eas corpus, ms
| king Treasury notes legal tender, blockadinE
| Charleston with sunken stone vessels, tht
Constitution Of Peace had been transgrcsset
as it was in the embargo in 1el2, in the pur
| Florida, and the theft of Texas.
| To-day Abraham Lincoln was the most IN
limited despot this side of China He sits to
day surrounded by thupderbolts forged b,
South Carolina. He has but to put forth Iii
word and h,,r1 one at the system of slavery
| we must help the President 10 make this wa
Of ideas. The South had marched up 10 th
Potomac with neither men, munitions, no
morgan idea.
Ne had men, munitions, money and Major
! Generals, but not yet an idea. Quaker gun
On one side, Quaker General on the other
Ian allusion which was received with tumultr
GUS applause1-stil, Mr.. Phillips said. tigh
Every cannon fired by Halleck or heard by 81
Clcl1an the never fired one) is better Ant
Slavery lecturer than thousand such Us
Tie end is sure.
II Abraham Lincoln does not hare the neg1
on his side, Jefferson Davis will have him q
his. Two paths lead to the end one tr,
path, one false one, which shall make II
! acute disease chronic
| Appealing to his hearers to seize the goldt
: | meInent, Mr.. Philips closed with words
: burning e1oquence, which We will not NUT
: late by attempting to transcribc from met
ory.