Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-04-05

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Last night Wendell Phillips lectured before
the Washington Lecture Association at the
Smithsonian, upon the text, Seize your oppor-
%tunity.' AS an sboltiOnist, he said he had no
great interest in the war The system Of slavery
had received its death-blow in the house Of its
friends, and he felt as much at ease in looking at
the war as an sbOlitiOnist as the audience would
experience in looking at Rsrey with Cruiser in
his hands. The i~nitiatOTy contest was com
menced in Kansas, and the South was re-enact-
ing Missouri, ald the North is Kansas.
In noticing the beginning of John Browns
career in Kansas, the lecturer said he deemed
Browns labOrs of more value to the country
than any other living man except VIM. Lloyd
Garrison. Every cannon Halleck has ever fired,
or Mcclellan ever heard, (for he has never fred
one is q better auti-slavery lecturer than was
ever heard in the capitol or in Fsneuil Hall.
The first line of the Presidents recent mes
sage went straight to his heart. Its purport is
Border States, now is your time to sell. He
vas not acquainted with rail splitting, but IN
derstood that a NAL thin wedge was first ap
pled. This was a wedge-s small wedge, but
still a wedge. He looked upon it as the first
voice of the gOvernment-and he was here to
persuade the people now to sustain the Presi-
dent. People had begun to think that Presi-
dent Lincoln thought of nothing but the State
OF Kentucky. The snti-slavery sentiment had
at last conquered the Cabinet, and it was the
duty Of the North to stand up and assist the ad-
ministratiOn in the new work.
The President, in his message, had opened the
door Of emancipation q foot, and he (Philips)
with a coach and six, and VIM. Lloyd Garrison
for a driver, would drive right through. The
President goes on the thin ice as far as he dares
let us tell him the ice is thick and 20 on. The
President could not be expected to DO The
uvOrk-h a uuO,y1I ga- 50 - III - -
with you" He (the l%ecturer) had labored for
seventeen years to take nineteen States out of
the Union but if the Constitution would be in
terpreted to mean justice, he was willing to
sustain and guard it. There were Wi paths out
OF the war-One of peace, radical, permanent
and prOsperOus-the other of seeming peace.
With the latter path this difficulty, now an acute
attack, would become chronic, and the nation
would be necessarily raeked with eommotiOn
and strife.
He cared very little about the teehnicalities of
the Constitution, Last spring he was willing
that South Carolina should go, and if in twelve
or twentY-tOur months Maryland, Delaware, and
halt OF Virginia, were not free, and the capital
be compelled to look 6 hundred miles to see a
slave, it would be better if it (the capital) had
been sheled to ashes last July. He did not be-
lieve there was a secession. Il was a conspiracy
to get possession Of Washington and rule the
country, and it was a great mistake of
JEFF. Davis in being out of Washington last
The South came up to the Potomac
men, munitions or money, but with an
idea and the North came down with men, mu-
nitons and money, and without an idea.
Slavery began the war, and the government
had the right out of rebellion 10 smite slavery to
the dust. He thanked God for creating Beaure
gard, if he did, and every South CaroIiDisn that
up to the Potomac, as they had given the
government the right to destroy slavery. He
send a hundred thousand men into South
Carolina, and force the government into a policy,
and when the yellow fever of the South broke
out among our men, he would garrison the forts
with acclimated negroes, under white officers,
and hold them against the world.-WashiagtOn
Star.