, 1863-12-28
WENDELL PHILLIPS at COOPER
INSTITUTE.
REVIEW OF TAE PRESIDENTS
PROCLAMATION.
MT. Chase not the Man
for President.
DENUNCIATI0N OF SECRETARY
SEWARD.

~ 1ouueSu kAe o14toIl Hno SPOKE suQ3tan
Four year1 ago this month he fnd tho homo
to assist In giving the body Of John Brow
to the keeping Of the hills he loved. sslfish
ness, which calls itself conservatism, saecret
at his life as ridiculous failnrr; and SOM
men, who had called themselves lia friends
excused his attempt on the ground that h
was 1unatic. We knew better now. Tht
rebellion had broken into the cabinets Of thu
conepiratora, and We know Of surety now
that the echoes Of his rifles had hardly aiet
sTay on the banks Of the Shenandoah bcfort
south Carolina prepared for war in defenc!
OF her system -Four years rolled away, ani
on the exact fourth anniversary Of the day q
his burial, tho victorious President Offered
eleven rcbellions States permission to returr
TO the Union on conditions which John
Brown would gladly have accepted afte,
twenty years hard fighting. Marvellous pro
&c did to Theodore Parker, II may m iii; j
1opena terrible f1re.'' But the terms which
would hayc1becn gladly accepted in 1859-na.
kod and bald technical liberty for the negro
we're not to be thought Of a moment in
1858; applause ] After the gun at Sum
| bloody war, there was no safe and admissa-
Bile condition Of peace bnt the substantial,
practical protection Of the freedom of the
negro, and the elements of national life SO
arranged as to guarantee peace and democ-
| raey Within tue borders of the nation.
lGreat applause.l It was in the light Of this
remlnlecencc that hc was going to criticise
the Message aud Proclamation Of the Prcsi-
dent on the Sth day Of the present month.
Some men soy, why make any serious criti-
cism Of the Proclamation Of the President 2
we know rcry well that NJ: Lincoln did
not expect it would le accepted. He would
not insult the head Of great natioa by judg-
ing the solemn net of the most 1nomentoas
hour Of his life to be in such mood and pur-
pose that he was not willing to have it. az
cepted. No man who trusts either the sin
ccrity or the honesty of Abraham Lincoln
could look upon this proclamation IN any
other light than as declaration Of the terms
upon which the President was willing that
the Union should be reconstructed, Tie
people regarded the President as surveying
the contest from loftier outlook than was
permitted to any other man, and we should
masses Of the mutton would never do him, to
say TINT IN his deliberate Judgment, in the
full knowledge of the facts, that procla-
nation did not contain probable, possible,
and secure guarantees Of the future
peace and Integrity Of the Union. Others
,sid: why crltielse the President s.we
Zionward." He knew it. All honor to the
growing u1cn. And why did he grows Be-
cause they watered him. EApp1ausc] Why did
he advance: Because the nation pushed him
On. EApPlause.l If Mr.. Lincoln were a leader,
i Tonld be different; be would 60 to him;
but, with all his merits-and they were many,
with oil his serviccs-and they were momen-
tous-the President WAS not q leader; never
professcd to be q leader-the President was
the agent Of public opinion, who waited to
know what the people would allow him and
demand ofhim to do: His anxiety was North,
in opinion. to know how much he might
trust himself to act Chattanooga was d
bravc sound ut tho. White House, and gave It's
tenants sound sleep; but the election Of
SCHUYLER Co1fa1 was ten times braver, and
made him sleep ten times soundez, [applauseI
when he chose, ;bnt hc did not S1ow.whcther
the Northern people, eliminating In the elec-
tion Of the Speakership, meant to say amen
to the most radical dreams of the North; and
when lie heard of that yote in the House Of
Representatives, the peoples attorney at the
White House dared more than he. had eyer
dared before. ]Applanse,1
PROTEST AGAINST THE PRocLA.1iT1os.
As one Of the people, be {thc. spcakcr}
undertook to enter his protest against the
proclamation, and to ask them TO demand Of
the Government more than: that document
covered. He was doing no injustice to A{r.
Lincoln rs his old professor at the lay col.
he could say no question he coald not an-
swer. a1r. Lincoln had done such service In
this rtbellion-had carved for himself niche
SO high in the worlds history, that he could
well afford to have al1 his faults told: lap
plause.1 But the speakers opinion was That
bad the right class Of men presided over the |
dcstfnics Of the nation In the summer Of 1851,
We could haye finished the war in two years |
with all tho advantages that VIC should get |
out Of a war of i've But. providence placed !
us was vigilance; the tenure Of Democracy |
WAS to be worthy Of it. He reviewed the as |
poets Of the country at several successive |
periods, and said that men had thought |
at each one that Slavery must soon |
cease In the land, and SO it had sometimes
cry, :" Slavery Is dead,"-woull never be Sc
duccd from battling IT, until be saw it buried
beyond plummet reach. [Applausc.l Here
fcrrcd to tue history Of West India cmanci~
patton In its earlier stages, to show how mn
wise it Was to rely too much on fair appear
ances, or to abate nythtng Of v1gor in prose-
cutting unceasing warlarc against the fnstitu-
ton, until it was thoroughly and completely
destroyed. 3lr. Beecher, he said, was elo-
4uent, and his words had done much in Eng
land to correct the feelings and opinions Of
Tue masses toward tbs country; but Vicks-
bursh ard sd Chattanooga and Parrott guns,
sending 1M-pounds tcven miles, were more
terribly eloquent than he. Mr.. Lincoln did i
nor fear the South and he need not.
What Grant had not already done he would
10. Ne could hardly expect anything more
Of him 70. sixty or ninety days, but We could
and dig. [Applause and lauslteE:1 The war
was not ended; 1t did not touch its end: and
5ct its end was certain, and we might read 1t
in the light Of our power and :our persever-
lncc, with q cement that would laugh all
foreign interference to scorn- The Union is
al interference to scorn. Daniel Webster
said the cement Of the Union was the Fugi-
iyc Slave bill. lie never fcemented any
Thing, The cement Of this Union Is to be
lhe mutual respect Of the sections, bred of
That blood which has mingled on bravc1y-con-
Yankee us one who knew only how to cheat
she met him at Chattanooga and changed
her mind. The North thought Of the South
aR only gasconade-she has struggled with
her for four years, and learned to respect her
sincerity II not her INTELLIGENCE: Out Of TINT
stTuctible md as indiyisible as the granite
TINT holds up the continent The question
Is here ut the North, how far we will 60. All
civil wars are ended by compromise. There
never Was civil war In history in which one
party gained complete victory. The only
Once launched on the stormy, turbid waters
Of politics, you cannot tell.
ANOTHER OBJECTION TO THE PROCLAMATION. I
The second objection to Mr. Mnco MS proc
anation is, that he sets inside the conflsca-
t1on act; He says the shareholders, except
about seven hundred Of them, may re-
Turn to their estates, and the States may come
back, By a vote Of one-tenth, to the Union.
What does that mean? Why, land dictates
government, II the people own the laud, it
is democracy II o few men OWN 1t, 1t is an
olignrchy. Every Massachusetts farmer owns
bis house, and Jefferson Davis, multiplied by
Z million, could not make it anything bnt q
democracy. Conlscate the land Of the Sonth
and put it into the hands Of the negroes and
white men who fought for it, and ron may
90 to sleep with your parchments. We have
got the Union down there By natural root
[hat you cnnnot pun up. Plant hundred
thousand negro turner's and q hundred thous-
and Of white soldiers by their side, and
The South Will be secured. When Will
linn, the Norman, conquered England,
Hat ss consaat ad he Dc S,atS tS tEs saSs
among his mobiles and they hold it to-day.
The North may say III have conquered tie
South. I will diTide Its territory among my
nobles; the b1acks and whites hare won it,
md then we nre safe. Instead Of TINT, Andy
johnson stands to-day in Nashville. In sight
Of him is a man-one of the five to whom JEFF.
Davis gave s, ,000, 600, such as they are, with
orders to take that State out Of the Union;
Ind he did his best and failed, and now he
lives there on his own plantation, with rs
many Of his slaves as he can keep, protected
By Rosecrana, and is contractor with the
Var Department to furnish the timber ofour
railroads, out Of which be will make s6o, 900
tennessee on that counts Send that
man where you please, plant upon his
rBtate fifty men, who know that their
lille deed is the Union, and you may