The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-04-09
wendell PhiiIips.

While contending that mob violence |
cannot be justified under scarcely any
circumstances, we can not, at the same
time appreciate the indignation of
some of our cotemporaries, because of
the outrage committed the other even
ing against free speech in Cincinnati.
Our want of appreciation, in this case,
arises from the fact, that we do not be-
lieve some of those honest, who are
declaiming most loudly for the freedom
of speech, for Wendell Phillips. We
know to what limits the freedom of
speech has been carried in some locali-
ties of the United States. We have
known it to descend in our own city to
the vilest yalgarity and profanity, un>
til its patrons were compelled, for their
families sakes, to withdraw from it
their countenance and support, and
urge its punishment upon the attention
of unwilling grand juries. We have
seen this punishment after being in
ficted, clamorously turned into perse-
cution for free speech, and the convict,
made a martyr, borne in triumph from
the cell of county prison, upon the
shoulders of an infuriated rabble, and
in forty-eight hours after elevated to
our first municipal dignity. This
shows what demagogues can accomplis b
in the name of free speech, so that
Wendell Phillips or any of his class,
had better be left to an enjoyment of
their right, which in its exercise he
D and they invariably abuse.
The address which Mr.. Wendell
S Phillips is now delivering throughout
n the country, was first spoken by him
in Washington City. 1t was published
on the 10Th inst, in the New York
6 Tribune, and from it we quote the fol
lowing extract. Mr.. Phillips said:
"Ihave 'abored nineteen years to take nine
n teen, .Statss out of the Union, and if hav
8 spent any nineteen gears to the satisfaction o
The Puritan conscience: IL i0as those ninetee'
e gears The child OF six generations OF puri
n tans, ] was taught at mothers knee to low
l,aE nd xuhap nnp 10
: Webster taught me that the Union mean
making while men hypocrites and black mel
slaves, that it meant lynch law in the Caro-
e linas and mob law in Massachusetts,; that i
meant lies in the pulpit and gagsn the Sen
'0 ate; when | was told that the cementing @
II the U non was returning slaves to their mas
ters in the name Of the God that loved ant
had been taught to honor, l cursed the Con
n stitution and the Union, and endeavored
&c break it, and thank God, it is broken"
,f 1t is surprising that in a crisis lik
70 the present, when the country is con
"a vulsed from its center to its circumfer
o ence by fratricidal war, that some in
dignation should be aroused by sucl
o open and defiant avowals as we hav
is quoted? Phillips not only tells crea
n ton that he has hated, and labored fo
n the destruction of our Constitution
IN but the wild fanatic SANDERS the peer
u less and mighty dead. Wendell Phi
he lips infamously lied in the Capital
he our country, when he attributed do'
le trines to Daniel Webster such as |
O. uttered and published. And yet, this
= the impious monster about whom
many tears have been shed; not COZ
~ tent with breaking up the Uniol
'"' iackal-like, he descends to the ton
~ of, and SANDERS the memory of one
NC its ablest defenders.
~ This evening Wendell Phillips hol
~ forth in Chicago; since the outrage q
e.' luded to, it is remarkable to see he
- Mortified the abolition press of tn
=" city has become at the interferen
''S with the speech of the Abolition CO
spirator. Nothing has SO enrag
he them since Beauregard's firing on Fc
,rn Sumter. Not that they care partis
pil- larly for Phillips, but to vindicate c
the American birth-right, the freedom
old speech!
h a Eight years ago, when Stephen
aen Douglas returned to his home in G
the cago, after the adjournment Of q
ms gress, how did these champions of Fl
200, speech there treat him: His arri
us. was celebrated by his ef6gy hangi
ow- from nearly every gas-post in the c
,y's suspended by the neck, and visible
old in the glare Of the sun. Had he
,vo- bored for the destruction of his CO
who try for nineteen years." that he ,
,ich SO treated? Not he;- he has mer
trv. exercised the freedom Of speech in
Senate Of the United States, speak
pn" for a State which afterwards sustain
the his public conduct, and for that he
IDLE Cured the ribaldry and infamy allu
IN to. In 1852, Douglas stood on
all very trenches of the Union, and v
iore Webster, Clay, Cass and others,
upe- cued it from the assaults Of its enem
the then in Congress from New Engl
call .u - CO. co,,.l, roxo,;no