Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-08
The DOctrine---WendcIl Phillips
Adopted by Inc New York RePubli
cans-A Century of War.

The Hartford Times, under the above caption,
thus comments upon a recent speech made in
New York by the notorious WENDELL PHILLIPs
before Republican association, the sentiments of
which had the approval Of the leading Republi
cans of that city. We reproduce the comments
of the Times to illustrate the views and opinions
entertained aud advocated by the leaders of the
Republican party. Says the Times:
WExDELL PHLLIPs addressed the 18th Ward
Republican Association in New York, on the
evening of the 9Th inst. He was favored by the
presence on the platform of Mayor OPDYKE, the
Republican Mayor of the city, who would now be
defeated, were he a candidate for re election, by
probably 40 900 majority. HORACE GRxELEY and
Hon. H. B. STANTON smiled upon PHILLIPs' eff
fort, and GREELEY and WN. LLOYD GARRISON also
spoke to the same audience.
VIM G. RUSSELL, Esq, presided, and intro
duccd Mr.. PHILLIPS to the audience, assuring the
people that PHILLrPs had ''done more than any
other man except JoHS BRowS to bring the na
ton to the brink Of Jordan The same policy,
if backed by the people. would probably plunge
it over the precipice.
WESDELL PHILLIPs commenced by saying that
he was " glad to be adopted into the politics OF
New York city," thus acknowledging his adop
ton into the Republican party.
He declared that the war was to "be long
.fghf-no local struggle" Addressing the peo-
pie. he said: prepare yourselves for a lifelong
enlistment How is the Government to be held
up in such struggle? It is to be held up
by our educating the mass and the opinion Of
the masses to the great function to which Provi-
dence has summoned them" He alluded to the
civil wars of Europe. of century or more in
duration, and declared that the French Revou-
ton had not terminated yet-hoIding out the
happy prospect that our struggle was "for life
time or a century. Happy contemplation
Some of the sentiments of Mr. PHILLIPS are
worth copying. He said:
'sCOntraband is a bad word and may be bad
law, butiI is worth all the Constitution. for, in a
moment Of critical emergency. it summoned a
saving element into the national arena, and it
showed the Government how far the sound fibre
of the nation extended"
al am for Cancellation, but not for conciliatiDg
the slaveholder. Death to the system. and death
TO the master, is the only motto. [Great ap-
plause
He added.
"There is a party for whom have conciIiation.
and this is its representative Cooking toward the
little white slave girl baDtised by Mr.. 3eecher,
last Sunday.) Applause In the veins that
beat now in my right hand run the best blood in
Virginia Of the white race, and the better blood
Of the black race of the Old Dominion-[ap-
plause the united race to whom i'm its virtue
belongs, in the future. country by the toll and
labor Of its ancestors redeemed from nature and
given to civilization aud the nineteenth century. "
Applause
Could more atrocioas sentiment be conceived
off ''The better blood" of the back; and the
"united race" to whom belongs. in the future
country" And this is applauded by the Re
publican audience. lie said further.
''The cook takes an onion-when she cooks j
she pees off layer after layer. till she gets to th'
white sound vegetable. Peel off Seward, pee
of Halleck. peel off Blair. and then you get to th
sound national element-the civil and militar,
purpose, the earnest belief, the intense devotion
to victory the entire belief justice which meet
StOnewal jackson equally. Never until thel
shall we succeed. / have compared Gen. II al
leck and Gen Fremont. You mey take anothe
parallel. One is Seward, another is Butler. MT
Seward does not believe in the war Hebelieye
in diplomacy; he believes in compromise; he be
lieves in politics"
"Peel off Seward, peel off Halleck, peel ol
Blair. Ia voice Of, '.Good."l peel off Sumner
(5ensationl Yes, Massachusetts Senators we
as others, and Ill tell you why. When the Gov
ernment called on New England for a negro reg
iment and we went from county to county ure
ing the blacks to enlist, one Massachusetts, Co
onel dared to say, in the face of the enemy, tha
he would rather be whipped with negroes tha
conquer at their side A Massachusetts Colon'
In that hour of emergency and critical issne, b
case within twenty days went before the Senal
of the United States, and the very week that h
apology was fled in the War Office at Washing
ton, Massachusetts Senators begged their relu
tant brothers to make him Brigadier General
Loud cries Of "Shame."l
He said that Gen. Butler told him that he o
fered Majors commission to a negro in Ne
Orleans. The negro said:
Thank you no matter where / fight. on
wish to spend what have. and fight as long as
can, if only my boy may stand in the street equ
TO white boy when the war is over" (Cheer'
Philps then illustrated his love Of freedo'
and his ideas Of republican government. by d
claring:
ssEverywhere throughout the Union. there
but one thing the Government cannot do to sa
the nation. aud that Is. make freeman into
slave Everything else Is within its power
One thing is certain, the Republican par
with its adopted children, black and white, .
supporting policy that will inevitably carry
nation to utter destruction, unless the people
terpose a barrier.