Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-03-29
WENDELL PHILLIPS


Since last wrote you strange things have
happened in Washington things surfrising and
startling, even in the midst of the revolution,
and which have, mOmentarily, Fixed the a,ten.
lion of the country. |.i
Strange among the strangest is, that Wendell
Phillips mas spoken, three times, treason, in the
Smithsonian Institute, and preached disanion-
Ism under the very nose OF the President and
Cabinet, and from rostrum upon which the
| Vice President Of the United States was seated
as a sort of side show. | heard Phillips each
time, and Prospect him very much as Doctor
ol Abolltioniem. He administers the pure black
mass without deceit, boldly, heroically, while
Seward, Lincoln, and other eminent practition
ers in the same school, artfully attempt 10 sugar
coat the pill with c0nstitutionality, and admin
iSter ito the nation "Witboutpain," 80 that"no-
body" may be "hurt," .r
Phillips goes in boldly. He says, ''I am an
abolitionist. have worked steadily for twenty
years to rend this Union. thank God, IL has
been accomplished. Never again may these
States be reunited, unless the last slave shall
have been freed. God forbid the reforming OF
the old Union" Such sentiments were uttered
here in Washington, and many, veTy many
prominent Republicans, members of the House
and Senate, listened to them with evident de.
light, and applauded their enunciation with
Stamping OF the feet and clapping of the hands
whiIe the Vice President of the United States
sitting quietly by, with semi mulatto grimacee
and bobbing Of his Afrioanized head, sippl6ed
his assent to and approval of all the atrocjoue
doctrines which this high-pressure disunionist
advanced.
ls not that stranger What political para
dox is this administration-thi Republican
party. The administration carries on war
avowedly to suppress treason and rebellion, but
| permits treason incarnate, In this Boston rebel
TO speak at the capital, be applsuded by men,
bers Of Congress, and indoreed by the Vice
President himself.
One day manis sent, without trial BY iury,
for expressing hostility 10 the Union, to Fort
Warren; the next day another is applauded and
cheered by Republicans for doing The same
thing more publicly, earnestly and offensiyelv.
More than this, when Wendell Phillips stated
tho! the negro was equal or superior to
the Caucasian, three poor fanatics cheered their
degradation. All pleased themselves much In
contemplating the exaltation of the Niger !.
notwithstanding HE rice Was to be on the iail Of
tho best white man government ever known.
AS specimen OF the logic of aboltionism, l
give you the following. The words are nv
own, in part, butthe thought, the argument, the
logic, are all the property sof Phillips. He
said, "The thrift OF nation, the intellect and
ability OF people, may be determined by the
value of exports they make. The Yankees Of
New England, by rising very early In the morn
lug, working very hard all day, aud going 10
bed late at night, manage to export at the rate.
per capita, la valuation, OF thirteen dollars per
lAnnums But the negro of St. Domingo, half
his time upon his back and looking up into the
clear sky, produces also thirteen dollars per
aRaum worth for exportation.' Now, II a negro.
Lying upon his back, can produce as much es a
laborious Yankee standing upcn his feet, must
not the negro aforesaid be equal or superior "a
the Yankee aforesaidr This msstefly piecs
Of logic brought down th, house, and Loyeiov
and Bingham and Julian and Sumner / lust then
noticed to be particularly jubilant in their de.
monstFstions Of laudatlon. ~ ss. '1
Phillips, of course, said nothing about tho
difference 10 climate and products between New
England and St. Domingo; nor did he inform
the audience that tropical fruits would grow a,
4 well in the island with niggers on their backs
as they would with them on their heads or feet
And the auditors were too full of faith to sus
pect scphistry in their apostle, and so they wen
to their homes, impressed with their own infe
riority TO niggeTs, and sorrowing that they wer
not born blacker than Hannibal Hamlin.
/ From the same premise that Phillips deduce,
the superiority of niggers to Yankees, wiBl
TO draw conclusion, thus: 1 '3as
The superiority of race can be determined
bysits exports. The races Of foul birds inhabit
ing the Guano Islands furnish yearly more Il
valne per head for expectation than any set O
Yankees who ever traded, or abolitioned, OF
whitiled 10 New England Therefore iti piaiI
10 be seen lhs. the foul feAlhered bipede Of th,
Guano Islands aforesaid are superior, great,
superior to the abolition Yankees OF Nss
England. rsis gga 2AN 3seli 4Gs0 " s18W
might gorarsher and say that the expofta
tions Of the Guano Ielsnda were more cvedita
Bile to their producers than many articles sen
-lout from New England are'to the Yankees