Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-02
Wendell PhiIIins.

No man is so clearly entitled to the graft
tude and respect of the present Abolition
party as WENDELL PHILLIPS. He has
watched over its cradle; he has guided the
footsteps of its youth; he is the guardian
leader and governing genius of its mature
years of power and prosperity. For thirty
years he has been twelvemonth in ad-
vance of his party; but he always found
the party at his heels ready to adopt his
ideas year after he uttered them. He is
the most successful bully of the age. Dis
daining to persuade, he intimidates his fol-
lowers into the adoption of his views like
giant threatening his pigmy retinue. A
searching analysis of this singular and des-
potic authority would account for it upon
various reasons; but its chief source is the
fact that he is sincere, while his followers
are not. He favors abolition, and negro
equality, because he believes in them; his
party follow him for reward, for the sake OF
Office, and for the fat spoils which drop
from his dogmas upon them. His word is
the law; his prophecies are the creed and
his doctrines the religion of the Abolition
party. His utterances are therefore, sig
niicant and important as they foreshadow
the policy of his party one year in advance.
In his speech in New York, last Wednes-
day, WENDELL PHILLIPS repeated his curse
upon the old Union, and invoked it upon
any new Union which was not founded
upon the absolute equality of the negro
with the white race. No Union will salts
fly him unless it is Union with miscegena-
tion and amalgamation as its corner stone.
He is no canting political hypocrite, trim
ming to ride into Office upon dogma or an
ism; and he insists upon pursuing Aboli-
tionism to its legitimate end-amalgama-
tion. Abolition, without negro equality
and universal amalgamation, is sheer hum
bug and hypocrisy and the only thing in
which PHILLIPS is consistent is In repudi-
ating this hypocrisy, and advocating Abo-
lition in all its length, breadth and depth.
This is the platform he has announced with
the confidence of an augur and the author
ity of an oracle. This platform is as GER
tain to become the platform of his party as
that the cycle of the year will bring with
it the seasons of blossom and bloom.
1t would be as futile to argue with
PHILLIPS as with the Doric column he
claims to resemble. What reasoning would
avail with man who scolds ABE LINCOLN
for not being sufficiently progressive and
radical upon the negro question? The only
way to touch him is to endeavor to coun-
teract his frenzy with reason his influence
with truth. With all his affectation of
purity and steadiness, WENDELL PHnLIps
is still more inconsistent than the wind
with all his pretentious advocacy of justice,
JUSTICE, JUSTICE, he is habitually unjust;
with all his ostentatious devotion to free
dom, he is tyrant in theory and in fact
with all his love for the negro, he is the
Africans worst and most heartless enemy.
He trembles at the prospect of Nc CLELLAN's
election, for fear his own freedom of speech
will he abridged; yet he approves of VAL
arrest and regrets that his
was not perpetual, and in the
next breath denOunces the kidnappers of
ARGUELLEs, the Cuban slave-dealer. He
approves of LINcoLN's suppression of three
hundred Democratic newspapers; shat is
not the despotism he complains of"-yet he
is alarmed lest MCCLELLAN, If elected,
''should tread in the footsteps of his illus
trious predecessor" He lauds the emanci-
patton proclamation as greater than the
Bible; yet he has no word of pity for the
four hundred thousand negroes who have
perished by virtue of it, and reviles the
President for not killing them faster. He
complains of no despotism except that
which affects the negro or himself and
with an overfowing love for humanity, he
coolly condemns eight millions of people to
determination by fire and sword, the exc
cutioner's axe and the hangman's halter.
Boosting Of being traitor for thirty years,
he now finds no penalty severe enough to
punish others guilty Of the same offense for
much shorter period. He is, in short,
philanthropist without charity, a feformer
without being an inlprover, and fanatic
without principle. a-ii la ...,, ..,s-,4
He Is the embodiment and personifica-
tion Of that fell and gloomy spirit of Puri-
tanism, whose only understanding Of lib
erty is to coerce everybody into its own be-
lief--the same spirit which fed from Eng
land for opinions sake, and Immediately
commenced war Of determination against
an unfortunate race for their opinions. He
is the fit representative Of Abolitionism