The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-05-12
the ABOLITION CRUSADE.
LESSON OF THE HOUR.
LECTURE By WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Demand for the Sacrifice Of Seward and Hal.
leck, Blair and ChaS. Sumner,
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Mr.. Wendell Phillips spoke IN the large hall Of The
Cooper Institute last evening. by nvitaton-as
he advertisement announeed-on the "etats Of
the Union." The price Of Animation swas twenty
I've cents, double the amount for reserved Seats
and the proceeds over expenses were announced
10 be for the benefit Of tho antislavery cause.
The hall well filled, but there such crowd "
the occasions recently whom Niss Dickinson spoke
In The same hail.
Among tho distinguished visitors on the platform were
Mayor Opdyke william Lloyd Garrison and that idsnli.
cal little slave child about whose baptism At plymouth
church last Sunday Mr.. Bsecher made such fu. The
little thing dressed In white with short sleeves and
low neck. II seemed % her guardian would have done
better by having her snug in bed At that hour Of the
evening Infant prodgiss should not be oted out on Ill
occasions.
The proceedings were opened BY the nomination OF q
chairman the meeting having been got up under the
spices Of the republican club Of the Sixteenth ward.
Mr.. Phillips presented BY the Chairman the man
who had done than any other except John Brown
10 bring the people 70 the banks Of Jordan Applause
FAITH AND PAuu1.
Mr.. PHILLIPS said:-I understand this s ward meet
ing-a meeting Of the Sixteenth ward Of New York. the
banner ward Of radical republication. (Appause.) A
very reasonably sized meeting for a ward meeting am
glad to be for the FIRST time in my life adopted
into the politics Of New York city, and 70
address ward meeting behalf Of justice and liberty
"Tbe lesson Of the hour, II me, patience and
faith "Possess your souls In patience" having
already attained, not as il We were already perfect, but
because the whole nation as one man has for more than
year set its face Zonward Ever since September 20
Of year the nation hss turned its face and
since Burnside took the helm Of the vessel It has
nation Il moving and moving in the right path there is
for doubt, there occasion despair We
have at last found out the method ana we are in ear
mat pa iron oouls Iau That
n once capable or that great courage No mat
matter how slow the motion either official or national
may be- now and then God lifts cloud and shows 10
hs blue sky behind No matter how darby political mis-
takes reacherics may lower the moment comes when
the great North that II 10 phatasmagoria and that
behind the great heart Of the nation beats true 70 s
destiny. (Appause.) when stood on this platform
months ago, said "You must not be surprised II
bloods flows in the stress Traitors are trying ~ take
the great capital Of the North out Of arms the de-
ocrac party Of the State 10 behind them.n But one ane
morning there was treachery In tho leading democrat OF
Albany the Mayor Of New York defeated him in his
drst move Applause when the ccsnties came
70 DO represented, the leaders found an army,
With officers and no rank and Gle. The Golian
OF Connecticut copperheads has been killed, not BY
STRIPPING, but girl (Apraause.) Or, we may
add 10 merits, that Of General Hamilton Of Texas the
eloquent champion OF the Union In the Counect
cut Then may almost soy that out Of the mouths Of
girls and Shareholders God 10 pcrfectng liberty ZAP
one afer another the shsms Of the Moth ZEN away
ID 70 be long eight. II s no local struggle II Is only
share OF the great battle going the world over and
which began ages ago. Our army IL only one grand
division, army corpe, doing It's duty In the great
struggle betwxt free Institutions and institutions
We are only the outskirts OF that struggle, and
wherscer caste lives, wherever class power extends
whether be on the banks OF the Thames or the seine
whether By the side Of the Gangcs or the Danube there
the South has ally, surely the surgeon "A knife
gives pain when touches the living Bbre Asa,nst that
mighty marshang 81 every thing that strong In human
sehncss the democracy Of the North des battlc That
democratic element OF the North strong enough were
10 one and united, 20 have crushed all its toes on
this continent In ninety days There never was q
time, since the commencement Of the struggle
when, N the North had been q unit, the war
cudsd, IL would have left slavery where II found H.
But the North has been unit With the North m
unitwith the democracy intelligent resolved IN ear
nest, the South never wouo have risked the struggle
ROUTINE.
But she knew that the North was divided into three
great parties. One routiDewest Point too law 70
think. fAppause, mingled with Kisses Il converts
hunkersm Into ndoieace-indoence and cowardcs--toe
past the who goa his IDEAS before he was twenty
and who would rather think his father thought than
take the labor q thinking for himself. He a bunker
and viii die such.
Tho second eenen, 10 The element Of race-hatred OF
the negro ncgrorba the saxon contempt N the back
blood, the degust with the question Of the negro the
hatred q him another che contempt of him IA
slave aud The WEAKNESS 81 the question Outside Of that
the democracy of the North the good sepse nj the
term-tte who believes in the manhood of bs
brother the world oyer and wiling he should nave
hie rights. Against such Norin the south rebelcd
hand tied behind by negro haired and the other
by constitutional sorupses, and Wet Point on its
North the South rsbeled. You remember u well The
North tAat never dared H. apply the Inc asd the pun
met O. the cthics ~ evil ethat never dared ~ have
a logic "a, you'd Know 10 back snd 10 sbse when Il