Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-07-16
The Cleveland COnventfon-W cn.
dell Phillips vs.. the independents.

The Independent of this week contain
another letter from Mr.. Wendell Phillips.
He says, by way of Introduction:
II have no wish to answer your extended
criticism on my letter. If you are content
with your position, am more than satisfied
with mine, and stand checriully, indeed
proudly, on the ground of my lcttcr-not
that the Cleveland platform is fautlcss
creed or an inspired Bible, but that it was
the work of Aboltionists. and is the high
est ant-slavery idea yet reached in Ameri-
can politics..
II write mainly to protest (and an Aboli-
zionist writing to an Aboitonist, you must
allow me to do SO with some little indigna-
tom against your special pleading in the
matter of Robert Small His absence or
presence at Baltimore does not affect the
argument. l supposed him there so did
and still does the country and the Bati-
more Convention acted on the question Of
rejecting him and his fellow black delegates
as i he Were present. Neither does the size
of the islands VIC hold in South Carolina
affect the argument. There are several
thousand Northerners living there, owning
plantation and raising crops-perhaps a
million of Northern money invested there
by private citizens alone. Irdeed, Yankee
town has existed there more than two years
The delegates thence were summarily turn
ed out OF the Baltimore house. But Florida,
without a quarter of the claim-whcre, in
deed we have nothing deserving the name
of settlement, nothing but name and its
appcndage lis admitted to seat. Florida
where, when Mr.. Lincoln tried to set up
Government, he exported shiplOad of
Northerners, and they could not get foot
hold! Don't try, then, to throw dust IN
our eyes by talking about small Islands,
Every sane man knows that South Caro-
lima was rejected because she sent black
delegates. No evasion can rub that spot
out of Baltimore garments, and it is of too
much significance to be omitted or confused
in an anti-slavery record"
Mr. Phillips concludes as follows:
Remember, am not politician, but
mainly an agitator-iny special work beng
to make party acor& possible. | shall never
succeed by doing, as you are now doing,
filling down my protest against their short
comings, and joining in their support
II Lincoln is reelected, and repeats for
another four years the indecision, heartful-
ness and infamous pondering to negro
phobia and the slave power which have
marked his last four no adherant of Balti-
more can rebuke him, for Baltimore has
renominated him with fulsome and unmixed
appreciation of his course, am glad to
see your protest, however slight. After
another such four years, he will fairly turn
to any of them now silent who shall then
blame him, and say, Have | not gone on to
90 during my second term just what you
praised me for in my first
(Which party is best serving the country,
that which says just uhat it Minhs-'Idler,
sluggard, open your eyes, wake up and
work while it is day or the men of Balti-
more, who, kneeling to a man whom half of
them believe to be idler, sluggarG, and
laundering, cry, How admirable your cner-
gy how taultless your policy! Please go
on, and be hereafter just what you have
BEEN
Heaven will not hold such guiltless of
the evils unnecessarily brought on this
bleeding land"