Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-16

WENDELL PHILLIPS NEW SESsArIoN-Wen en-
dell Phillips made very extraordinary speech
on Tuesday. at the Church of the Puritans be
fore the Ant-Slayery Society If he continues
in the same strain through his future speeches
be will speedily be denounced by the Admins
tration organs a cOpUerhead and traitor.
He commenced by the remarkable admission
that there were broader interests affecting the
country than those which concern merely the ab.
clifton of slavery He admitted that one great
danger of the country in the bunted vigi
lance AS TO individual rights. and The sacredness
of personal liberty. which resulted from the
despOtism of war. He asserted that there was
no other such deSpotIsm this side of the wall of
China that which Mr. Seward in his ia
nous dispatch To Lord Lyons, indicated was
practlced by this Government Vaandi char
could not have said more than that. Mr.. Phil
lks then proceeded to argue from the Constitu-
ton, the whilOm covenant with death" and
league with hell" saying that he had a consti-
tutlOnl right TO critlcise the Government. to ex-
press preference every four years for a new ad-
ministration, to stand by the existing admn>tra
ton only as far as the Constitution allows: and
bnally, that he was a constitutional American
citizen. treadlng IN the footsteps of the fathers
aud DENYING that Abraham Lincoln had life.
long right to Office Mr. Phillips went further,
and adopted the principal plank of the peace plat
form. As a white American citizen he dep
recatei the war. seeing in il the seeds
OF debt, military ambition, and despOtism and
stated his belief that the settlement of the
question involved would not be by battles but
by statesm tnship, which he nsinuated was not
possessed in any remarkable degree by the pres
ent administration It was somewhat surprising
to hear him say that he had neye- felt so hui
inflated in his life ~ when twenty millions of
white people were obliged 10 get down on their
knees. and ask the colored people to help them
fight their battles His audience had supposed
from his previous teachings that this had been
the most glorious act of the the Govern
ment and people since the commencement
OF the war. He WAS very harsh against
Mr. Lincoln and his advisers He first
Intlmated that the administration had NJ
head. and afterwards stated that it was
blind on account of having no heart to give it a
desire to see. OF Mr. Lincoln's speech on the
Fort Pillow massacre. he said that il was the
foulest insult to the black race ever uttered on
this continent Some of Mr. Phillips most SEN
slble remarks became quite unpalatable to the
audience. and the great apostle of abolition
speaking in DR. Cheevers church. on the ami
versary of the Anti Slavery Society. was
actually Kissed on one or two occasion during
his speech
But whv did not this wretched fanatic think of
all these things before urging on this fratricida
contictI If he and such a. he had not planted
the seeds of bitterness and hatred batweeu the
North and the South. the country wOui never
have seen this bloody fruit mature into the fear
ful conflicts of the last three years New
York Tribune