The national Republican., 1862-03-17
More of w.nd.ii rniii,p., Lecture.

More of Wendell Phiii,ps' Lecture.
We vii, give In continuation ofour synopsis O
Fr,a.y eynning's lecture, ffom our last issue
Ui the matter 81 Hampton Roads, he sale
that " we had depended upon tho Cabinet
apna SeoretarysbtPs, or any wooden ships o
,ur old navy. We should have been swamped
but tho people sent n little Monitor, !" con
oeivcd, built, Atted out, and sent by the peO
pie themselves In opposition TO all former on
oial ideas, and the rebel battery was met and
bssteSt and our navy was safe. Just SO were
the pSbple In advance Of ofiicials In realizing
the position Of affairs In this crisis.
These are two paths leading out Of this war
me isradical, profitable, permanent--th othel
ruin. TN this view, he halted the act OF thu
President a. indicative Of good.
The Government had put itself at the foot oi
Great Britain when II returned the rebel com
mssiouers. He recognized no right In England
To- say what docks we shall visit, what harbors
all up. She only respects success, and she
alone insults weakness.
There WAS another glorious act Of President
Lnooln's-he had sent back John @. Fremont,
Tremendous oheering.l IfJohn Brown can not
have the mountains, he went for Fremont.
Brown was his first choice, but he bowed to the
'dispensations Of Providence and Of Virginia.
1t was sublime and proud aot, whena q general
athousand miles away from the capital sheathed
his sword In the face Of the enemy, and without
murmur retired; then democracy said TO Eu.
rope, J. breed heroes-sit ye down at my feet
All hail to John G. Fremont; we thank thee for
vindioating democracy.
We are lighting an aristooracy based on skin l.,
basod on race, on money; and we cannot trust
expedient We have consented for seventy
years TO the wrong. taking our quid pro quo u
the disgraCeful agreement, In the belief that
aur ideas should gradually become prevalent.
Massachusetts, even got down on her knees to
return Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims. Last
Spring, he said lot the slave States 60 ; now,
unless In twelve months Delaware, Maryland,
and half Of Virginia, within n hundred miles OF
the capital, should be free, he would wish that
the. capital had been shelled last Spring. II we
Quaker general on the Potomac, the war would
now be ended.
The object oil JEFF. Davis was not TO leave the
Union, but to control II. Kentucky wanted to
go North JEFF said. you cannot 50. The ques.
non IS now. shall liberty or slavery govern
she believed what she said. and would continue
TO believe I'LL she was converted. MassaChu.
setts powder and South Carolina fire had been
put together; An explosion followed; and com.
promisers had put the pieces together with the
nuttered charm OF saying the Constitution
back wards. y is n struggle between the slave.
holders and the people. Every. nation faces
such an ordeal once. In England, II WAS when
the Puritan fought the Cavalier; France con.
unned TIE struggle through u hundred years.
NOW the South comes up to the capital with.
out money, without men, but with an idea, and
meets the North with mon and munitions. but
without An idea. The only thing she lacks is
an idea. Fo< one, he was not TO be abolished /;
we shall not be abolished but If we want
peace we must abolish shareholders.
The South was wise TO begin when she did.
With characteristic audacity she had seized
one advantage after another until at last she
had grasped all. She was like husband and
wife, who were one. but the husband was the
one. but the South was the one, and very well
Contentod so long AZ she WAS the one.
He had never before stood on slave soil; he
wished to God the Senate had hurried up mat
ters earlier.
He did not believe the jealous assertions of
English papers that democracy ia on trial in
this country. The democracy Instituted In the
North has proved itself \ success. It WAS the
en)rt to weld aristocrats and democracy to-
gether that had failed.
what did he AJAX OF the Government? The
Goyefnment has got the right to apply An effeo-
Beaursgard, II indeed he did. South Carolina
had surrounded Lincoln with thunderbolts,
which he has only to use to accomplish the
work. It's neck and neck race between Lin
coin and Davis to see which will got the negro
on his side. Lincoln is now clothed with mil.
itary despotism, which can cut up slavery root
and branch. II was the despotism of slavery
that, without the warrant Of the Constitution,
bought Louisiana; again. bought Florida, and
subsequently stole Texas. And shall despotism
do great things for slavery for two generations,
and now shall It not do a little thing for lib.
erty'
TWAS barely possible that this struggle, which
COS, two regiments per month By disease, and
would tax half hours labor of every lsboring
man for thirty years, should pass aud produce
nothing: Let us, therefore, "s seize our oppor.
mil,