New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-02
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by Jealous, eloquent, untiring opposition to
American Slavery. He is on admirable public
speaker-he inherited fortune and social posi-
tion-and he has turned his back on all the
alluremeDts of Office and ambition in order
that he might cOnsecrate his every energy to
Universal Emancipation. In this, he has hon.
ored Human Nature, aud we very gladly accord
him the praise of eminent wel-doing. But for
his misfortune in having received his moral
and religious training from Bible wherelrom
the xiiith chapter of /. Corinthians was unae'
countably omitted, he might have taken rank
among the very foremost men of our age.
But Mr. Phillips is not content with believ'
ing and proclaimng his own way OF serving
the Anti Slavery cause the very best way
which every one may properly do-he persist
emily, and we judge constitutionally, acts as
though incapable of seeing or realizing that
there is any other way. 1t does not suffice HIN
to account all who pursue different course
! from that he chalks out either short-slghled or
chicken-hearted-he insists that they are hypo-
critics and swindlers. Herein we submit that
he betrays a lack of charity which argues
limited comprehension or deficit OF sense
Salmon p. Chase has been an avowcd Abolition
list nearly as long as Wendell Phillips; but Mr..
Chase has seen fit to act upon and through
existing political parties, while Mr. Philips has
been impeled to eschew and vehementiy de-
nounce them all. We judge that Mr.. Chase
has contributed more eflectually to the over
throw of Slavery than Mr.. Phillips has; at all
events, each has done what he could. Yet, last
year, when there was prospect OF Mr. Chase 5
nomination for President, Mr.. Phillips publicly
denounced him (apropos to nothing) in public
meeting in this City, proclaiming him truck
ler trimmer and time-server, merely because
he did not Oh certain occasion, precipitate his
State of Ohio into a forcible collision with the
authorities of the United States. And this was
but one of many like escapades wherein he has
seen fit to indulge his humor at the expense OF
our present Chief Justice.
|, President Lincoln had rough experience OF
. Mr.. PhillipsS prominence in the invention OF
execrabe motives for other mems acts and in
: the discharge of opprobrious epitbets "The
slave.hound Of Illinois was one Of his less
chaste than vigorous characterizations of oui
martyred President when the latter was first q
candidate for President. His copious objurga
tons during the last canvass were usually still
less polite That Mr.. Lincoln was not pledged
t to Emancipation--did not mean emancipation
had no heart i'll his great work-that his rcelec
ton would rivet the manacles Of the bondmen
&C., &c, such was the staple, as we recOllec'
it, of his fnlmnati0ns. He did not man to be
unjust, but he is liable TO error-nOt on the side
of generosity or mercy. President Lincoln be-
ing dead, Mr.. Phillips turns to bestow like deli
cate attentions on his successor. Mr.. johnson
believes in and favors the extension Of the Elec-
tive Franchise to Blacks; but, as he holds that
no State has gone out, or could 60 out, of the
State Constitutions stand as before their alleged
Secession, and that the Right OF Suffrage inheres
in those entitled to vote by those Constitutions
respectively, until legally extended through con-
stitutional amendment by them.
Now we do not insist that this is the true
doctrine-we do not admit AL unqualified right
in the enfranchised people OF any State to do as
they will with the residue. Yet we insist that
President JOhnsOn's view is one that true
man may honestly, conscentiously hold -
may hold it without being a hypocrite, Il
demogogue, or tool Of the Slave
Power. And we think few considerate persons
will deny that it is greatly desirable i the de-
sired reparatiOns in the status OF the Freedmen
can be achieved through the several States rather
than orer them-that it would be more stable,
less grudging, more real, if thus accomplished
In fact, we should prefer waiting year or two,
or accepting limited enfranchisement, to full
recognition of the Equal Rights of Man by vir-
tue only Of Presidential edict, an order from
the War Department, or even al act Of Con-
gress.
Mr.. Phillips has, of course very different
conception. He denounces any reconstruction
of the revoted States which does not accord the
Right Of Suffrage to the Freedmen as "a practi-
cal surrender to the Coniederacy," :" practical
fraud on the North" whereby all the blood and
treasure lavished to uphold the Union will have
been squandered-nay "stolen." And he sug-
gests reputation Of our National Debt as a
legitimate and justifable countcraction Of the
policy to which he stands opposed.
That Mr.. Phillips is sincere in all this, We
will not doubt. That he is lot considerate nor
wise, we are confident. lie is not considerable,
because, had he been offered, five years ago,
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