Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-28
From the Boston Courier, April l3.
wendell Phillips ON the Policy of
Government.

The abstract which we give of Wendell Phil
lps's address we commend to the public consid-
Grafton. The speech is an "eye-open for
its logic certainly, its sense or its decency-but
for its revelations.
Last evening, Wondell Phillips delivered an
address by invitation of the Fraternity Associa-
ton, in Trement Temple The body of the hall
was crowded with people, and the galleries were
about half full. Rev. J. NJ Manning and
Collector j Z. Goodrich occupied prominent seats
on the platform. Mr.. Phillips introduced by
Mr.. Charles W. Slack, who said, in substance
that he (Mr. P.) had recently placed his hand on
the heart of the great West, and found it all
right
In commencing, Mr.. Phillips said: certainly
owe great thanks to you and the Fraternity that
have given me an opportunity to speak here to-
night, marked as this week is by one of the
greatest events in the history of progressive
movements, that any OF US has seen, or any of
us perhaps, may be permitted to see. For the
first time the constituted authorities make one
step towards the motto-"Freedom National" +"
Neither you nor could have expected to live to
see that result-nOt the most sanguine of us ex-
pected so much. In a nation that lives so fast,
it gives good promise that some of us may live
to see the whole country, so far it acknowl-
edges the stars and stripes, free from the etters
of slavery. South Carolina, 1inging down the
ton of slavery; and as heretofore the nation fol-
lows her lead. | came back from the West with
the same idea that carried there, that the death
of slavery is recorded. You may see it
in the expression of the people YOU may
see it I'm the expression of the nation, and,
| think, in the intention of the statesmen; but /
care little for intentions. When / see IA man
half way down the Falls of Niagara | don't ask
his intentions. / find great encouragement every
I EvI - IN, +la Of tl,a
dent. | believe he means what he said to the
Border State Gentlemen, YOU
love slavery; / hate it; you mean it shall live;
mean it shall die." believe he lacks neither in
tention nor capacity. If he lacks anything, he
lacks will. | believe that what he lacks will be
found in his Cabinet, which exists in one man,
who, like Atlas, is able to bear the whole nation
on his shoulders-Stanton. L don't believe in
anv Cabinet outside of him.
We had Secretary of State once who told the
Minister to France, Mr.. Dayton, that the conflict
would cease without disturbing the status of the
slave; but the nation has drifted so far that he is
lost sight Of Mr.. Chase. who placed Mcclellan
at the head of the army. against the earnest re-
mOnstrance of General Scott, has faded out of
sight The keynote of the Secretary of War is,
You'll fight, you'll go out. Mr.. Blair says,
"Why can't have a court martial for Fremont?"
because | have too much to do to wash your
dirty lnen," says the Secretary. | don't think
the Secretary of War is an Abolitionist to day,
but he is on the anxious seat. If jeff. Davis
holds out till next January, he will be one. l
don't believe the newspaper stories that Stanton
has gone out of the Cabinet; but if he has, we
have lost the key of our position He is the only
man on the continent who deserves the name of
the Napoleon of the crisis. Mr.. Lincoln may
abolish slavery--he can't save it, the nation may
abolish savery-it can't save it. God has said,
"Let my people co." but we have been hardening
our hearts until He now seals the mission of
emancipation in the blood of our frst-born.
Toombs said he would call the roll of his slaves
Bunker Hill; l have first heard the roll call of
Massachusetts regiment on the sacred soil.
The President is ahead as vet of the manifest.
ations of the people. He has taken a step in adj
vance and holds out his hand for support. His
recent message contains more than We have ac-
corded to it. Noticing criticisms on his
message lately, he said there was "mOre in him
than people saw" In illustration he told story
of an Irishman down in Maine who went into an
apothecary's store and called for glass o. soda.
The Maine law was in force, and he whispered to
the man behind the counter, " You couldn't put
drop of the crather into t, could yer. .unbeknownst
to meself2" $50 this message" said the Presi-
dent, contains something unbeknown to those
who asked for it," Be happy that you live to
hear such words as are conveyed by that message.
For the first time the Administration of this
country has done an anti-slavery act A short
time ago Mcclellan banished the Hutchinsons
from the Potonmc--a slight sign; the soldiers
hang on to John Brown great sign
The Gulf States have made up their mind;
there is no Unionism in them, except in the city
of New Orleans-because of her commerce.
The Gulf States say, "Slavery without the
Unon"-the Border States say, Slavery and
the Union," and the Northern States have made
up their mind that they want "Union without
slavery" If this cannot be made manifest as the
mind of the North, the Union is gone; neither
YOU nor will ever see il again. believe 1t
does exist. and il is duty to make it manifest.
That is what have to say to you to night.
Mr.. Phillips said the golden hour afforded by
our reverses at Manassas and Balls Bluff for
declaring direct emancipation had gone by With
victory to our arms, party lines are being drawn.
The Democratic party is drawing its lines. The
recent municipal elections all over the land indi-
cate this. The future of the negro was secure
he was out of the ring. The question to be de-
cided was. "Are free institutions to survive this
struggle9'' There should be no union Of parties
without community Of IDEAS Il leads to the
election of such men as Judge Thomas, in the
House of Representatives. An empty seat there
would be worth its weight in diamonds. The
message he brought to them from the West was.
"Give us support of ideas, not words" He