Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-05-10

TIC Pu PO"S ANA A1'SiAiSoNAO ~ s
masses.
The President said to leading Re.
publican politician of New York -
"Why don't you hold conventions Of
ten, and let Ii. feel the mind of the ma
ton You cannot create as much an.
ti-slavery feeling as we shall need be-
fore we get through this war;" Zap
plause.) In other words, the Presi'
dent holds out his hands to the people,
and says-"An I right? How TAI
may go % Answer him. Tell him
the ice is thick thus far, and will be
thicker an arrows flight ahead. Tel
him that if his message to the Border
States leads you to say Amen, a mes.
sage to the Gulf States that says Lib
erty will have a fold Amen. Loud
applause.) :,
We stand just here: The Cult
States have made up their minds-they
want slavery without the Union. Out
side of New Orleans, which knows
that if she has not the great Valley of
the Mississippi behind her she is a des-
ert, do not believe in any Unionism
in the Gulf States. The Border States
have made up their minds for the pres
cnt-they want slavery and the Union.
The North, believe, in its masses, has
made up it's ,nind--it wants the Union
without slavery. loud applause. -
If that public sentiment can be ripen-
ed and made manifest, the Union Is
saved if it cannot, or if it does not
exist, the Union is gone. No juggle,
no trick, 20 superficial arrangement, if
possible. We have reached the level
of reality. If the Union is not, really
and absolutely, the preference, above
everything, OF the majority Of the
North, then it is gone. I believe it is,
and that it is our duty to make it man
ifest to the leading authorities.
Mr.. Phillips referred to the sug5es-
ton in the Presidents message in re-
gard to compensation and colonization
---excelIcnt things, be SAID, if properly
applied. Colonize the blacks, we get
rid of hands; colonize the whites, we
get rid Of mouths. So it was the slaves
who should be compensated, not the
masters, as a matter Of justice but
yet, the nation should compensate the
masters, because they could not take
care of themselves, and set the slaves
free, because they could. He riAiculed
the idea that the enfranchised slaves
would rush to the North. They would
stay where they are, because they like
the climate, and are accustomed to the
cultivation of the products raised or
that soil.
Mr.. Phillips spoke of the devotion
Of some Western men whom he met to
the cause of the country, who had Civ
en- all their sons to its service, asking
only that, if they should fall upon the
battle field, liberty should spring from
their blood. He said he did not be
lieve Mcclellan to be q traitor, but he
thought he represented, with Buell. and
Halleck, the Fairfaxcs and Essexes in
the English Revolution Of 1910, who
were anxious not to hurt anybody
while Fremont, Sigel and Hunter rep
resented Cromwell and Ireton, who
were not afraid to strike even the
King.
In conclusion, Mr.. Phillips spoke of
the support he had received at the
West from the Germans, remarking
that, whenever he was threatened with
a mob, he was certain Of receiving an
offer from the Germans of their lives
and their bodies. (Applause.) He
came home with one idea. No Yam
kee, no Buckeye, no Hoosier, no ma
tives, no forel gners, no black,no white.
no German, no Saxon, in that beauti-
ful future which we behold-onIy
American citizens, with one law I'M
partial over all (applause(; every rae,
every man free; and Union indivis-
BILE in its interests and its patriotism as
the granite that underlies the continent.
That flag shall be our future but in
order to support it, support your own
representatives. I speak to the mer.
chants of Boston, who bound the Mis-.
sissippi to our r-harbor. Bind now the
| Gulf of Mexico to Boston. | speak
to the politicians Of Massachusetts =
you have sent these Republican Sena-
tors and Representatives to Washing.
ton; stand by them! Remember you
have no support in your press-it is
vassal. The press Of the Connection,
Valley is as base as that Of the sea.
board. IF Massachusetts, saves her
self, it is to be in spite of her editors.
l want voice from the Legislature
want voice from the Exchange !
want voice from Faneuil Hall. II
you do not give it, you are desertine
the place Of Massachusetts in this strug-
gle, which is to lead. The West looks
TO you; the South looks to you. The
Massachusetts regiments are the worst
treated, Massachusetts soldiers the
worst hated, because they are recog.