The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-08
PRESIDENT-MAKING.
wendell Phillips and Horace Greeley


WENDELL PHnLPs delivered harangue
at New York, Tuesday night, and was fol-
lowed by Mr.. GREELEY. The following is
a report Of what was said on President
making.
PHIL1Ps said:
Next year we launch into President-making.
In that terrible storm of personal ambition,
who knows the road that leads to safety? Mr..
Lincoln has one rival in that future, whose
head is highest, and he belongs to the treasury.
Now, Mr.. Chase has great merits; he has done
great service to the country. would like to
have him stay where he is (applause) if it were
only to see his bank system prove failure Zap
plause) if it were only to see the failure of that
magnificent project of his of turning the whole
banking capital of the country into tub with.
out |. bottom. If he must leave before his
schemes are tested, l want the people to remind
him that on two great occasions the virtue of
his anti slavery was tested and proved to be
base metal Let him give US soma reason to
hope thar if it is tested the third time it viii
prove better There was an heur when Mr.
Chase held the State of Ohio in his right hand.
Bred Democrat, in the State rights doctrine
of that period he knew the strength that q
State had a right to exert against the Union.
In the custody Of an Ohio sheriff was the no
best woman almost that ever trOd this conti-
nent, Judged by her opportunities Bred a
slaYe with no opportunity for culture, when
she saw the slave-master descending on her
cradle, she gave her babe up to God to save it
from bondage, the sublimity of a mothers he
roism. That was the highest historic moment
Ohio ever knew. There stood this slave
mother ipcarcerated by an Ohio Sheriff Gov
ernor Chase knew well her rights, that have
it from his own lips that he said TO the sheriff
~ will put, and have the right to put, every
soldier in the State in front OF that door before
a United States Marshal shall touch Margaret
Garner" And when he had said that he trav-
eled 120 miles and left the sheriff to take the
responsibility. A responsibility the Governor
dared not take the sheriff would not take, and
the woman went back into slavery. No South
Carolina Governor, with an Abolitionist in
prison in Charleston, would have ever gone up
to Columbia.
And the time when fourteen States threw
themselves at the feet of the President and de-
manded the removal of that man. your states
man, whose life is greater danger to this
nation in its struggle than that of Jefferson
Davis to-day-when fourteen States asked his
removal. between the indignant States and the
II will not call him traitor, for that is libel
lous. bat the recreant Secretary, Mr.. Chase,
flung himself as barrier and saved him.
Now. if he looms up for our President, sit up
nights, give yourself no sleep, watch till you
are sure no bondman lives beneath your BAN
ner. never will rest until see men whose
character this fiery war has brought to the, sur
face, and who show sense and courage rs their
qualities-I never will rest until they either
lead the nation or watch for it. In other
words until such men as Butler or Fremont
(applause) man the guns or hold the helm. no
man with justice to himself, to his children,
to the negro, to the Union can give rest to his
eyelids or silence to his lips. (Applause.)
The audience called for " Greeley" Gree
ley ~" Wake him up" Greeley"
Mr. Greeley came forward and said it was
har lly time to be making Presidents. He had
not quite decided that we were to have another :.
Though he hoped we should. He was not of
those to censtire condemn or discard, any one
of our statesmen who had been spoken OF to-
night either eommendingly or consciously.
He thought about the largest man in this Gov
eminent was the man who had been SO sharply
censured to-night-Governor Chase. He did
not say that he was the best man, but he
thought that, in spite of all that had been said
o-night Governor Chase was about the firmest
anti slavery man in the country; the man of
the largest thought was that statcsman who
had been fighting during all this war on the
very hardest ground, who had had the hard. st
command to manage, and whose battles so far
had all been victorious. We are not strong
enough yet to quarrel among ourselves; let US
rather strengthen the Government all we can,
by giving our support to its members. He had
always admired the confidence of this nation,
though he had not always shared it. he had
often gone to bed at night wondering whether
he would wake up in the United States Of
America or in the Confederate States of JEFF.
Davis This city has seen the time within two
wears when she would have given more than
two votes to one for jeff Davis on fair ISSUE
He knew what he was saying. He was thank
full to that God who has carried us in safety so
far. and trusted that the same care and prOtec
ton would continue to be extended to US.