Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-16
wendell Phillips on the President,
Cabinet and Congress.
In his recent speech at Plymouth Church,
BROOKLYN, WENDELL PHILIPS said:

In ms recent speech at Plymouth Church.
Brooklyn, WENDELL PHILIPS said:
That is the exact secret What weneed is a
President aud Il Cabinet and the masses behind
hem. Applause Nov, l find no Ctbinet in
Washington, but only snag. Applause The
President i an honest man. but tell You how
think he is made. His stay for thirty wears at
Springfield. the center Of IlIinoiS--to the north
of hIm-the northern half of his State-Iree edu-
cation. intelligent Republicans; to the south Of
him-E.rpt-igDorant, pro-slavery worse than
doughiaced--that would be an Improvement He
has been balancing all his lite between the two
elements to be popular with both, and that is the
result of the balance. Applause
''That is the education of thirty years. 1t is 10
blame oi his he lived there and could not help
it. Laughter. He has succeeded in being
favorite in that Mosaic State of Illinois, and the
result is Abraham Lincoln Applause He
never walkel a straight line to a result. bur zig
gag, Applause, and he is not able at his present
age 70 get rid OF that old habit. Bat il is impos
sible that a man with that teaching should have
anything else but certain unavoidable bias 10.
ward the Southern side of these questions. He
could not have been elected if he had been =
Northerner. The reason why your Senator was
rejected because he was thought to be a
Northerber-a great mistake Applause aud
lauehter.l
II tell you we have a President the result of
Illinois politics. We have an Administration
that means to hand you over to the next Presi-
Dental election, aud let that decide the question,
hoping that it will result in a triumph of tie
Democratic party, who well turn the country over
into the hands OF the Southern saveholding aris-
tocracy. We have Senate thft. with only
twenty nine days before it, counting Sunday,
dare not tell what they know of the Presidents
Cabinet when the perpetuity of this country is at
stake"
Such Is the gratitude of Abolitionism In
obedience to its bidding, Mr.. Lincoln has nearly
destroyed the country, has lost the confidence of
Il majority OF the people. and is pursuing policy
which has aroused fearful agitation at the North.
Yet all the return he gets from the men who have
ruined him is kicks aud cuffs.
We glad of it, Ii he had possessed cour-
age aud frmness he would have relied in perfect
security upon the conservative masses of the
country Now be is distrusted by every one and
abjured in the mouth Of the arch Abolition dem
agogue
Will he arouse like Simpson. and strike these
agitafors and traitors from his path? Will he
even now join the ranks of the real Union men
of The country or will he grope on with vascil
latng steps, manaced by fanaticism and un-
nerved 10y the consciousness that he is not doing
his duty TO the countryl He can never satisfy
the Abolitonists Phillips himself, if President
tomorrow, would fail to satisfy them. No man
can execute impossible ideas.
Mr. Lincoln NAV lick the dust from the feet of
the Abolitionists but will receive neither graft
tude nor praise, for whoever attempts to execute
their policy mortiies and enrages them by evinc-
ing its stupidity aud wickedness.-l Detroit Free
Press.