Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-03-24
WENDELL PHILLIPS LECIC"H'
ri cA; T.nee extracts from a

WENDEkb EnAAAss
The Chicsgo Times extracts from
report Of Wendell Phillips Abolition
lecture which he is delivering through
the country, the following choice para
graphs. taken from report OF the same
,ha. appeared in the New York 1''
5,ne few day. stree. We recommend
cham - rho consideration Of the Adolf
t;oni,,s Of this locality, in order that
they may see their own treason
81 have" Phillips says, sought hon.
es,lv TO sever this Union" Again:
"John Brown, the most Influential
American in aiding our clvilization-a
man who has done more in the provl
dence Of God to shape the fate OF this
generation than any other man save
one, whom / am proud to name and Sit
at his feet, William Lloyd Garrison"
Again:
81 have labored nineteen years to take
nineteen States ont Of the Union, and,
il have spent any nineteen years 10 lne
sat. siaction OF my Puritan conscience II
Was those nineteen years. Inc chlId %
six generations OF Puritans, | was taught
at mothers knee to love purity before
peace. And when Daniel webster
taught me that the Union meant making
white men hypocrites and black men
slaves: that it meant lynch law IN the
C.rohnas and mob law in Massachu
setts; that it meant les IN The ph'pi'
and ra,s in the Senate when was
told nat the cemenling OF the Union
was returning slaves 10 their masters, ~
the name OF the God ] loved and had
been tau sht to honor, | cursed the Con
st,,utiop and the Union, and endeavored
10 break it, and, thank God, !. Is bro
ken"
Again:
III John Brown cannot have the
mounta II, know Of no one to whom It's
care c5ul be better Entrusted than John
Z. Fremont My first choice would
have been Brown; bat bow to the dis
pensa,lon Of providence and Virginia,
aud take John &. Fremont"
Again:
81 think to-day that unless this war
result in liberty it would be better she
had gone-lntnlteIy better. Unless,
within II months or "a, Mar, land is a
free State, Delaware and half of Vir-
ginia, and we be enabled to look east
and west OF that marble Capitol on free
dom, would 10 God that building, with
this City Of Washington, bad been shell
ed to ashes last July, for it is nothing
but bribe, tending to keep the N,rlh
quiet. But believe now, as | believed
last fall, If We had had no Quaker guns
at Ccntrevile, or Quaker Generals on
the Potomac, that We might have put
this country beyond question to-day"
And again:
sAnd now al last is the golden hour
on the clock of the century struck. Up,
men of ideas! Up, children of the Puri-
tans in the nineteen States! Seize the
golden moment hurl at the system the
thnnderbolt it has gwen you; proclaim
justice to Carolina bless her with liber-
~ and prosperity. Have but one race
from the Atlantic to the Pacific; one
race forever, as indivslble as the granite
that underlies the continent, to rule this
magnificent inheritance, and have no
nation il Europe that dare dictate to her
how she shall ill her harbors.'
How comes 1t that such men are per
mittcd to stalk through tie land un
trammeled, While others, whose sins are
not halt as dark, are arrested and sent
oil to some prison fort without Judge or
jury. Wendell Phillips breaches treason
in Washington City, and the Vice Pres
ident is his right hand man while he
does it. lie is invited to different
places to advise the people to trample
the Constitution under foot, and to al.
mon'sh them to pray tor the downfall Q;
,hc Union