The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-01
wendell Phillips On the West.

sion house, where we were warmly received
by kind friends and were at last home.
! Wendell Phillips On the West.
On his return to Boston from his recent lee
turing tour through the West, Wendell Phil
lips spoke to a crowded audience at Tremon
| Temple. The following is the closing portion
of his address:
In reference to the West, Mr.. Phillips sale
that the people of that section are wide awake
to the perils of the Republic. The difficulty
was that the Democratic party was drawing III
lines. Municipal successes, all over the lana
from Wisconsin, by the way OF Chicago, Cleve
land, Rochester, Utica, all along the line, IN
dicated that that party was going to take tht
place OF enthusiasm on national affairs. The
negro was not the question. He was the peb
| BILE in the cog.wheel, which had got to be re-
moved or the machine would not work. Ht
was not there to speak tor him. he had ne
message from Washington or the Great Wes
about him He holds the key of our position
no party can succeed without him. He was no
! in question. The greater question was-are
free institutions to survive? Is slavery, when II
goes down into its grave, to drag repuoheanlsn
| with it into common ruin. The last words o.
the President to him were-'It is big Job
/ the country little knows how big. There should
| be no union of parties without an express nm
Outstanding of IDEAS This Commonwealth
struck down party lines, and what was the con
sequence? Judge Thomas in the House Of
Representatives. An empty chair would be
worth its weight In diamonds. Applause a
union of parties which forgets ideas, which con
quers only to fight over again on the Held OF
victory 10 decide which idea shall precede the
other, is worse than defeat. This message
that he brought home from the West, II he
IL, fafIf Il 90.
not the hollow support of words. Give US an
Intelligent and avowed determination and pur-
pose that this war shall not end until slavery is
swept from the surface Of the continent"
Throughout the West, Mr. Phillips said, the
! Democratic party reaTs its head Ii gave me
the benefit of an incessant advertisements
owe audiences of thousands and teus of thou
sands to the fact that a fortnight before | ap-
preached the city, the Democratic press loaded
its columns with advertisements for me. GIN
cinnati heralded me with the most excellent
advertisements, and sent ME sealed as her a
postle to the banks Of the Mississippi. Laugh
teri Il was Democratic endorsement that Gin
cinnatt gave me. [Applause'l Ii opened my
way to the hearts OF the pralries so quickly
that I was almost afraid men would suspect me
of collision but when l got there found the
same cordial enthusiasm" the same relentless
ideas in the masses that l find here, but the
same lack of organized effort the same rest
ing on the logic of events-the same certainty
that God wouid work out his own purpose in
his own time In the meanwhile, they We're
listening to the ntrigues of politics, to make
the next Congress weaker than the present, 10
clog the wheels Of Government they were
leaving a press, poisoned with Southern in
trigue, 20 build up seeming pnblc opinion
that should bring hack temporary triumph,
a lulI. even, compromise, not impossible.
What are we fighting for to-day The South
is fighting for the bred Scott dec1son Tor
slavery in the Territories and slavery in the
District. One year has wiped slavery out OF
the District. Do your duty tor six months,
aud We will wipe it out of the Territories; an
other six months, and we win wipe it out of
the States I Applause But leave it a year
and we may see Cincinnati mobS in every
seaboard city the public mind may be sway ed
to and fro with intrigue. What complain of
is. that YOU Republicans, you aboljtonists, are
not standing to your guns The enemy are
sowing their tates, and you do not answer them
Mr.. Phillips then referred to the suggestion
i'm the Presidents message III regard to com
pensation and onization-exceent things,
he said; if properly applied. Colonze the
biack-we get rid OF hands; colonize the whites
we get rid OF mouths. So it was the slaves who
shonll be compensated, not the masters, as a
matter OF Justice but yet the nation would
compensate the masters, because they could
not take CAL of themselves, and set the slaves
free. because they could. He ridiculed the idea
hat the entranchised slaves would rush TO the
North. They wonld stay where they are; be-
cause they like the climate, and are accustom-
ed to the cultivation of the products raised on
that soil.
Mr. Phillips spoke OF the devotion of some
Western men whom he met TO the cause OF
the country who had given all their sons to
its service, asking only that, if they should fall
upon the battlefield, liberty should spring from
their blood He said he did not believe Mc
Cleuan to be traitor, but he thought he rep
resented, with Buell. and Halleck, the Fair
faxes and Essexes in the English Revolution
III J64O who were anxious not to hurt any
body; while Fremont, Sigel and Hunter rep
resented Cromwell and lfeton, who were not
afraid 10 strike even the King
/ In conclusion, Mr.. Phillips spoke OF the sup
mort he had received at the West from the Ger
mans, remarkiRg that; whenever he was threat.
ened with 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 Yankee, no Buckeye, no Hoos-
Ter, no natives, no foreigners, no black, nc
white no German, no Saxon,. in that beauti-
! fuI future which we behold, only American cit
7 liens. with one law impartial over all lap
/ 9lause:l ar empire stretching from the lakes
/ to the Gulf from the Atlantic to the Racine
| every race, every man free and Union, IN
diyisible in its interests and It's PATRIOTISM al
the granite that uIderlies the continent. Iha
Aac shall be our future, but in order to it, sup
mort your own representatives.. / speak to th'
! merchants of Boston who bound the Missis
/ sipni to our harbor - bind now the Gulf o
Mexico to Boston l speak to the politicians o
/ Massachusetts, you who have sent these he
pubIican Senators and Representatives II
Washington, stand by them Remember tina
YOU have no support in your press-it Is vas
sal The press of the Connecticut Valley Is d
base as that of the seaboard. If Massachu
sets saves herself, it is to be in spite OF he
editors. | want voice from the Legislature
I want voice from the Exch ange; l want
voice from Faneul Hall. II you do not give il
you are deserving the place of Massachusetts
in this struggle, which is to lead The Yves
looks to you the South looks 10 you. In
Massachusetts, regiments are the wors: treate
Massachusetts soldiers The worst hated, becau
they are recognized a. he most fixed IN thel
purpose. Show it to be the same in pc litics
on the field. Encourage the President to en-
large his Border State message encourage
Mr. Stanton his whole Cabinet, to say, WITH
{ in six months-'Death to every Institute
that makes war upon the Republic, and liberty
to every man under its flag" prolonged ap
plause.l
i FORTS JACKSON AND ST PHILIP .-Ine a
tacl, on these Forts was made on the I4th, "
suppose by CONS Porter and Farragut. !ne
are situated on the banks Of the MISSISSIPPI
ear its mouths, Fort Philip on the east ban
and Fort jackson ON the west The former !
ffty miles southeast Of New Orleans 3g, IN c. q
rect course-the latter ffty-three' These al
the only forts on the Mississippi from its mouth
to New Orleans. Porter eYldentiy propose ~ i
, on in his lair.
Surely that man may be envied who can e'
, nork chops for supper, and sleep without
! gruDt.