Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-05-15
Elegant Extracts from Very Recent
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To N@ 'iF' . cPOSoh'
A distinguished triumvrite- PHIL
LPs,. HoRAcE GREELEr. and WILLIAM LLoHl
GARRIsoN-- delivered speeches, reported in th'
Tribune before Republican Association a
the Cooper Institute, New York, on Wednes
day evening, May II.
Mr.. RUSSELL, the President Of the Assoois-
ton, introduced Mr.. PHILLlPs, as "ihs man whit
had done more than any other except JOHN BRow'
to bring this people to the banks OF Jordan
Mr.. PHiLLIrs in his speech said that "evel
since September % Of last year, the nation hat
turned its face Zionward, aud ever since Burn
eide took the helm Of the vessel it haa moved
toward that point."
The speaker EXPRESSED his sense OF the value
of the word ncontrabapd," aa applied 10 the
negro, as follows:
You know that when the rebellion fret broke
ont no men dared speak touching the negro. -
The South fought to sustain slavery, and the
North foupht not to have IL hurt. But Butter
nropoupced that magic word "coutraband," and
summoned the negro into the arena IL vas
Moor word. do not know that Il 10 sound law
but Lord Chatham eaid, "RutIus iber homo is
coarse Latin, but II is worth oil the elaseIos'-
Cobtraband is o bad word and may be bad law,
but Il Is worth all the Constitution
Mi. PHlLLIPs does not think the war ia ap-
preaching termination. for he eaid 10 bic
speech;
The South has not yet felt the firft symptom
of exhaustion. Get no delusive hope that our
conquest is TO come from any such source
This war willnever be ended by on event. IL
will never come to conclusion by great bat
tie It too deep in its sources; 1t is too wide
In ita Influences fer that. The great struggle
iu England between Democracy and nobility
lasted from I640 to 1860, taking a kiDg'a life
in ire progress, and vet failed. The great strug.
Gle between the same parties 10 France began
IN 1893. and ia not yet ended Our own revolu-
ton began in ITS, and never ill the outbreak
of the French revolution concentrated the at
tention of the monarchies OF Europe was this
country left in peace. And it will take ten or
twenty years to clear Of the scar OF such q
struggle. Prepare yourselves for lifelong
enlistment.
The idea Of HALLKcK's taking The field Ia
thus treated by the orator:
ehave got now two Gsnerals-in-Chie and
two Commanders in. Chief. They both live in
Washington. The sad news reaches us to-day
that one means to take the field, Lincoln aud
Halleck--they sit 10 Washington, Command
ers-in-Chief, exercising a somewhat disastrous
influence, that even BonspaFte would exercise
on Q battle if he tried to fghtit by telegraph a
bundled miles distant off But now it is said
one Of them means to take the field Heaven
forbid.
In pointing out the difference between HAL
LRoK and FREMONT, PHILLIPS said of the former:
He has not learned anything since he grad
uated at West Point, and does not want to. He
does not mean to undertake the labor Of think,
Ing. He Ia too indolent to 20 about to examine
o new idea. 1t is enough Tor him that it was
not in the text books when be graduated.
Laughter. Battles we're not fought 30 when
ne was taught, and If he is beaten according to
the book be is willing to be beaten.
As he passed along, the speaker gave the
following thrust at Secretury SEWARD:
Now In the two distinctions between Halleck,
routine and Fremont, Phelps, Butler, realities,
ia the distinction between tho future In mill.
tary affairs, in the differences between Seward
the politician and Butler the Government.
Why, II Seward Is q Republican God grant us
o Democratic successor.
PaILLiPs Is Of the opinion that If he could
select the Generals, the Cabinet at Washington
might be dispensed with. He says;
Only let me put at the head Of the advancing
columns Of the Union certain men that could
name, and the Cabinet at Washington may shut
themselves up and 90 to sleep with Rip Van
Winkle till 1879. [Laughter.l
, Curiously enough, though the orator was ad.
dressing Republican Association, he boldly
asserted that ABRAHAM LINCOLN is not Presl-
dent Of the United States, saying:
Your own great fellow citizen goes to Wash.
ington under the pledge Of the President too
much ina hurry to allow bim to leave Wash
ington for six hours, stays for week and comes
back without commission. Wby7 Because
Abraham Lincoln is not President Of the United
States; because behind him, ouFbiDg his pur-
pose, making conditions that baulk his designs,
making him doubt the purpose and the strength
Of the North, standing round him In civil and
military positions, are men who do not mea
that this battle shall be bFavely and gallautIy
fought through.
PMLLIPs is for general clearing out In Wash
ington. He would spare none of the present Of
fce-holdiDg gentry there. He says:
None of them--I am utterly impartial--nei-
ther President, nor Cabinet, nor Senate. Pee
off Seward, peel off Halleck, peel of Blair, peel
OF Sumner-yes, Massachusetts Senator'S OF
well % others. '
We bavetaken upso much space with these