The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-16
A Speech from Wendell Phillips.

C''NNI L l-Iillpo uSllNClS b1 WI
Tuesday evening, one of his char
actcristic lectures, at the fremont
Boston, to n crowded
audience. The following portion
of his remarks are taken from the
Boston Post:
Nine months ago in New York
he uttered an amen to the deter
mination of the Government to re.
store the flag on Fort SUMTER
Nine months had passed, and what
record had the Government to bear
to the people Of the United States?
The people with readiness and en-
thusiasm had placed means of every
nature-had provided armies from
the ranks of our best citizcns-and
yet it had absolutely nothing to
show for it. 1T had leyeIcd every
form of civil, Of constitutional
libc.ty, and over all the empire
the Cabinet at Washington had
welded dcspotlc power. Twenty
millions Of people had raised S10C-
0O0, 000; our armorics are crowded
with implements Of war, and yet
to-day We stand without a single
advantageous Capital besicged
by an army representing but ten
millions OF peopIe-our treasury
bcggared. enmonths have flown
and we stand in the same spot
Every voice from the pulpit-every
presS-had uttered its God speed
and yet no advance. And still
more, our Stars and Stripes had
been Inundated by the mother
country. With all these aids to
Government, it has nothing to re.
cord.
If we had a man for Prc5id emf or
an American instead of a Ken
tuckian, we should have the salts
faction Of attempting to save the
Union instead of Kentucky. The
lecturer could place no reliance on
the men who hold the reins OF
State. History would assign to
them their rightful responsibility
and disgrace. If we had a Presi.
dent, he continued, who would
open his eyes and see something
besides Kentucky, and if the Cabi.
net could see anything but political
prefcrment, the country would have
some reason for hope; but us things
were going, their memories would
sink to the tiffany which perpet'
yates the name Of Aaron Burr and
Benedict Arnold. i 4, for one,
said Mr.. Phillips, 'look for nothing
from our Cabinet at Washington.
So far as they are concerned, the
game is up-the Union is at al
end. X In six months | expect q
separation. The North is bank
rupt in character rs in money
x Before the summer ends, mn.
less the Government is aroused
from its deadly stupidity, we shall
see two Confederacies. The anti
slavery party, he alleged, haC
hoped for and planned disunion
because it would lead to the devel
opment of mankind and elevation
of the black man. lie did not be
.ieve in a Union that meant SLAYER,
in North Carolina and gags il
New York. * The only act tina
will immortalize Mr.. Lincoln, sal,
the speaker, is that when For
Sumter was attacked the fla,
should be upheld. After furthe
assaults upon the Cabinet, he aske,
what, so far as we can learn, doe
/, Government propose to do? To re
f construct the nation on the basl
, of 17S9-to put us back where W
were in 1860. With a barbarit
+ that was unparalleled it had stop
} ped up the harbor at Charleston
but a single slave the Government
had not the courage to touch.-
Every man with his eyes opel
from Sumner down, had said tina
+ there w s not strength enough t
| save tho Union and slavery !; an