The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-27
RADIcALIsM UNmAsKED.
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE
PRESIDENTS POLICY.
A Shameful Attack on President
johnson,

A Shameful Attack on President
johnson.
Negro Suffrage or White Mans
Blood.
BosroN, Oct. 18.-Wendell Phillips spoke
here last evening at Music Hall, on the subject
1.-THE South Victorious" The hall was
crowded to its utmost capacity, and the big
organ" was played for half an hour before the
commencement Of the lecture. The platform
was occupied by Ex-Governor Boutwell,, Hon.
Arson Burlingame, Minister to China; Hon.
A. II. Rice, Mayor Lincoln, Judge Russell,
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Rev. j. N. Manning, and many other promi-
nent Republicans, accompanied by ladies.
Mr.. Phillips was listened to by the very large
and respectable audience, comprising the elite
of the Boston Republicans, with great interest
from beginning to end, and his attacks upon
President johnson were enthusiastically an
plauded, without an expression of dissent. At
the conclusion of his lecture, which occu-
pied an hour and half in the delivery, he
was congratulated by many gentlemen upon
the stage.
The speech occupies nearly page of the
New York World, and therefore we can only
give few of its principal points .-Ep1roR
PIONEER.
MR.. PHILLIPS SITS In THE PORTICO OF THE
WHITE HOUSE AND OBSERVES.
Well, will come north of it. I will 90
anywhere you please. If you please, we win
go to Washington, We will place ourselves
on the portico of the White House. We win
listen to the official explanation of the present
speeches of the President himself the closest
witness we can get to what will be the proba-
BILE future OF the policy of the country.
HE SEES THE PRESIDENT SURROUNDED BY A
DELEGATION FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
Well, I find him surrounded by delegation
from South Carolina, almost every name of
them familiar to as for the last four years, in
defiant. unmistakable, unequivical opposition
to the Union. They are sheltering themselves
under his wing. They are thanking him for
his protection. They are drawing the line be-
tween him and the North. They say to him:
{" Sir, we look upon you as our protection from
the harsh spirit Of Congress and the Northern
States" What Is the answer of the President?
Does he say: have no voice but the voice
of the law" Does he say: Gentlemen. Won
have listened to me In the cannon shots at Pc
tersburg. You might have heard my voice in
the last echo of cannon that Grant fired before
Lee surrendered:' Does he say: "Gentlemen,
the North has fought her battle, and won it,
and stand as its representative" [Applause.
Oh, no, he accepts the compliment. He de-
fers to the insinuation. He ranges himself
with the Southern halfconverted rebel.
HE THINKS THE PRESIDENT IS rHRER-youRrHs
REBEL.
He makes himself three.fOurths rebel In or.
der that he may be one-fourth Union. Loud
and continued laughter and applause. And
this is the mouth-piece of the North. This is
the official voice of the nation. By what right
DO traitors, trembling for their status, hide
themselves in the garments of the United
States! By what right do they presume that
there fingers in the bosom of our chief an in
tention to baulk the purpose of the North,
which he has followed through four years of
battle and gained at last?
THE PRESIDENT AND THE coLoRED REGIMENT.
Well, turn from an interview with South.
erners, and I find the President advancing to
his portico to look down on q regiment of COL
ored men, here some members OF the audience
gave scornful snort SCARED with . dozen
battles, the relict of their banners hardly dis
tinguishable. They stand before him. With
what words does the President of the United
States receive them?
MIR. PHILLIPS WANTS TO KNOW HOW MUCH THE
PRESIDENT WEIGHS.
Now, I am not seeking to blame the Presi-
dent To me, he is only counter. I am
seeking to find its meaning. I want to know
how much he weighs. l want to know the
bias of his mind. He is not dead man. 1 am
not obliged to glean as we are two centuries
back, the scanty relics of his sayings and doings
and make out his character. Government is
not golden circle of midnight conspirators.
It acts in the broad day, twelve hours in the
day, and the President talks every day.
SOME THINGS WHICH HB CARES NOTHING ABOUT.
If one man tells me that he said to Governor
Fletcher, - This is white mans country, and
with an oath need not repeat) as long as I
live itshall be white mans government"
do not care. If another man tells me that he
said to him, 81 dread the New England radi.
Gals as much as do the South Carolina dis
unionists," no matter for that. If he sends
down, as he has to-day, and gives back to Joe.
Davis on the banks of the Mississippi his own
plantation, and that of his brother, Jefferson
Davis, l do not care. Go ask for sight of the
letter that communicates the fact of what Is
called the presidential clemency in that particu.
Lar. But those are for lower court.
THE PRESIDENTS HEsITANcY IN CALLING NE.
GROES COUNTRYMEN.
For one arraign the President of the United
States know him by his actions: I read
him by his speeches. Having quilted the COM
pany OF traitors, he goes into that of the scar
red and veteran negro soldiers He says:
''Liberty-may not call you my countrymen?"
Did he say to Governor Aiken and Yulee-dM
he say to the South Carolina traitors: 'May
venture to call you countrymen ?" No. they
were Southern white men. He was glad to
grant them all the conrtesies and facilities nat
ural to the occasion. But to the colored men
he says: MAY not call you my countrymen?"
Is there New Englander that would have
stood and looked in the faces of the Massachu-
sets Fifty-fourth and asked liberty to call them
his countrymen?
THE PRESIDENTS DEFINITION OF LIBERTY.
Well, he undertakes to define liberty to the
black man, and what is it? would not insist
upon it if it was the first definition he has
made. stood on this platform, 1 think, last
May. and criticised speech of the President
in which he made the same definition, and I
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