The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-04
Wendell PHILLIPS On The War.

AT the aunual IA setting Oh the american
Anti Slavery Society,"" held in New York al
the Church OF the Puritaus, on the 10Th
ult., Wendell Phillips, among other orators,
addressed the Chair. lie cx pressed himself
in favor of peace, and deprecated single
hour more Of war. seeing in Its continuance
''the seeds Of debt, military ambition and
despotism, against which God will demand
q virtue and intelligence in the masses such
As history nowhere shows" lie profess SEQ
himself profoundly Inundated At the sight
of negro soldiers. "The most humiliating
hour ever livei," he says, "was when
twenty millions of white men, having
ground the negro to powder under their
heels 10 the death grapple with the south,
were Obliged to get down on their knees
AID ask the negro to help them fight"
1t must be recollected that the words
above recorded were spoken not 10y a 1nth
efn man, s,ut ty man who claims to be,
and is, the very head aid front OF the Abo-
liiion party in the Yankee nation. Even
ing infamy in which the Yankee
people have involved Themselves by
the employment Of negro soldiers, deei-
rms as he ia to carry through the nefarioua
projects of The Abolrtionists by any and every
means, fair or foul, honest or dishonest.
How then must it appear to the rest OF man
kind? Here is = nation, twenty millions
strong, boasting Of its strength and IFS re-
sources, as no nation ever boosted before,
possessing unlimited means CT aggression,
an army of half million, navy OF Geo yes
sells, unlimited supplies Of arms, ammuni-
ton, aud all the appliances OF war, having
access by means of its ships to all parts OF
the world, receiving annually quarter OF
million of immigrants, at least half of whom
are turned into soldiers as soon as they land
upon five millions of people, who
have no ships, whose ports are all blockaded'
who in the beginning had neither arms, nor
munitions Of war, nor credit, nor mo-
ney-anj SO utterly unable to overcome
them, as to be obliged to incite their slaves
10 instruction, aud beg them to help them
ight! All history fails to present specta
clc OF parallel degradation; and what makes
It worse is that this nation, thus humilia.ed,
was and is the most boastlul, lying, pre-
,umptuous nation that ever existed. Their
newspapers constantly talk about "whipping
al reation," and the belief is general among
The masses that they can defy the world in
10 arms. Were they even numerically infe
rior to us it wonld be most atrociOns crime
10 arm the slave against his master tor the
purposc of etiecting the destruction Of that
masters life or liberty. A such, if we are
not mistaken, it is denounced by all writer's
upon international law. Rlt can anything
Ds more shameful, as we'll as wicked, the
relations between the parties being such AZ
they are?
When Napoleon had reached wilma, in his
Invasion of Russia ia 1872, deputation OF
serls from one Of the most pOpulous dis
tricts of the country waited upon him and
him that If he would issue yrocla-
nation emancipaiing the seIls they would
join him to man. But he declined their
overtures for the reason that it would give a
ierocious turn to the war, causing horrible
devastation aud unheard Of murders. He
should. he said, be espousing the cause of
agaiust civilization. He could not
for moment entertain the proposition. lie
it remembered that the Russian serf was a
white man, Of the same race with his mas
Ter, and fully AS capable Of Improvement;
whereas the negro is of African descent,
lnd has never been left to himself in any
,art Of the world without degenerating into
! barbarian. BY the employment Of the ne-
.rO The Yankee is actually warning against
civilization. Bat leaving that fact out OF
he question, can anything he more pitiful
han the position of the Yankee, calling up
IN the negro to assist him in subduing PEG
lie whom he boasted of his ability to de-
nolish in binety dayes What il II but con.
ession that We are his snperiors in tho pro-
portion Of twenty to i've