Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-12-22
DEM0CR ATTIC NOMINATION
For Representatives,
Adm G.. HIBBS.
Wendell Phillips ON thc Situation
sOf the Country. e-frr-

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full report OF the Lecture delivered on the
preceding Saturday evening in the city OF
Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, by
WENDELL PHILLIPs. This man has been
consistent and unflaggiug laborer, fJr thir-
ty years, in the van of the Abolition move
ment. He is animated by one idea alone
iand for the triumph of that idea his labors
have been and now aredirectcd-thati is the
putting of the negro in this country on a
political and social equality with the white
man. If the War shall be brought to ter
mination before this shall have beenaccom-
plished. he processes to believe that it will
have failed to have accomplished any mate
rial good. There is that in the lecture
touching the duration of the War that will
undoubtedly be verified.
In his lecture, Mr.. PHILLIPS starts out by
saying, that he looks ''upon the Sth of No
yember, as every American does, as new
starting point--as something that launches
us on new career" and further on he says:
sNow, Iknow 10 man either for praise or
for blame. God has given-us, and He has
made it our duty to save, democratic insti-
tutions. Whether 1t rebound to the fame or
to the discredit of leaders, You and are
bound to watch day and night in season
and out of season, TO- omit no labor, to give
up no vigilance that will secure the safety
aud perpetuity of democratic institutions
on this continent. interpret that canvass
OF 1864 as meaning this: The loyal millions
of the North have decided that they viii
save at any cost and peril the nation. That
is the meaning OF the canvass. 1t does not
enumerate means, this, that, and the other;
it neither eontemplates distinctly force nor
freedo.I. The great primary, crOwning
enclosing object of all loyal workers for
the last three months is expressed in one
word-nationality, the Hay from the
lakes down to the GUS and both
oceans for a boundary.
Europe looks upon lis as weak, broken,
childish, despicable nationality-aS some
thing in babyjumpers and .ading-strings.
Now you may be content with that am
not. mean, before die. il God grants me
the ability, to have nation on this conti-
nent able to give tone to tie politics of this
continent, and to make the other respect it.
Now, theu. wnat have to say TO yOu to-
night, whatever side turn to- has but one
object--the securing to thirty millions OF
people what think the last CANVASS die
tates, a nationality, strong, prosperous, and
just. And 1 mean to be satisfied with moth
ing short of it. Now. allow me to remind
you of the two great principles which, II
they are not incoinpatibly essential. are, at
any rate, indissolubly allied with all great
nations. 1t they are not essential, they
have always attended all great nations.-
The first is this: There never was Il great
nation-there does not exist one to-day
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directed by one idea. You mght as well
put two brains into one body and expect
health. They tried to put two engines into
the Great Eastern, with two engineers try
ing to sail it, but failed, and put both en-
gines under one engineer. You might as
well try to make great nation with two
ideas. Man is never successful unless one
idea dominates all his other powers.
SWELL then, the second prin- |
ciple which has attended all nations is this. !
No nation was founded on single race.
We have been accustomed to be proud of |
our Saxon blood, though largely of the An |
glo-Saxon element; to the right of the Sax |
on blood to govern. All good, very good.
have no doubt, as no white man'has, that
the Saxon blood is number one in the cate
CORY; and there is not the slightest
self-eonceit in that, and no possibility of
doubling it. But that is not the question.
No nation was eyer made of one race, how
ever good. Whatever nation has tried it
has fallen to the rear. Whatever race has
tried to struggle forward alone has been
submerged. The proudest one in the his
tory of races the Sclavonic. is nowhere to-
day, because it was isolated. England, that
so long led the nations, and but for internal
division still leads, is a mosaic of races.
France, that does lead both continents, has
melted q thousand races into her veins; and,
to-day, you might rs well disrupt the
granite that holds up France as separate
the constituent elementsthat 90 TO make up
the French nation. We are treading in the
same steps You may see it illustrated in
our material prosperity. Take the Yankee
Il mean by the Yankee the white man,
wherever he goes. Take him. tits great
race. As Emerson gays, hehas more brains
in his right hand than other races have in
their skulls. No doubt OF it. He is always
planning. He wants to make the elements
drudge for him. His brain is TO supersede
his hand, and he has advanced far in that
direction"
Mr.. PHILLIPS does not state that the negro
race isaconstituent Of the .smosaic of racesn
out of which England is made up, nor does
he tell us that the negro race forms one of
the s.tbousand races" that have been
emeltedr into the 'veins' of the French
nation, and that in consideration of the in
termixture of negro blood with the blood
that runs through the veins of Englishmen
and Frenchmen it is that England and
France occupy the position of first class
nationalities. Ifhe could do thistruthfully,