The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-19

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BosToN, October ls.-The second lecture OF
the old Bay State course was delivered to a
crowded audience in fremont Temple this even
ing, by Wendell Phillips, upon the ''Peril of the
Hour" The appearance of Mr.. Phillips was the
signal for prolonged applause. and beng intro
duced, he commenced his address by saying:-
MR.. PHILLIPS SPEECH.
II he had consulted his health, he would have
seht an excuse. He preferred, however, to bring
his own excuse in the shape of an unfinished
performance. One year ago, he said, when he
told an audience IN that hall that the South
meant TO accomplish by diplomacy what she
had failed 10 do by arms, and that the executive
wasnot power TO be conciliated, but an enemy
10 be watched, there were as many there who
thought HIM unduly suspicious as there were
few now 10 deny it. The great weakness of
democratic government, he continued, was that
the masses are impatient to succeed, and
II was the duty of all leaders to engratt into
the body polite the virtue of IFS oppo-
nents He said that one year ago he ex-
pressed 1t as his belief that jefferson Davis
never meant to rebel, never intended to
nght the flag or to desert Washington;
that the fatal mistake of the Southern move
ment was that 1t lost the sure, anchored ele.
ment of neutrality. Fifty years hence he
believed the evidence would be ample that that
i was true; They meant that the North should
be rebels while they held the Government.
The great danger of the present day was the
same as during the war, when the power of the
4<HSOuth was bugbeBr. There was no thought
outside the national lines to be feared ike
the cowardly unreadiness of the Northern
masses to accept their proper stand As
long ago as last June the South planned
with the aid of the Executive to place
herself just where the retreat from Washington
Failed to place her in 1861. She has not given
9p the intention yet. Fifty years hence he be-
g1eved there would be no doubt of that. Mr.
Y johnson may surrender a point, but the great
purpose behind him lives; and what had the
North with which to meet it? 1t was said the
unanimity displayed in the recent elections was
an evidence OF their power to oppose the danger
the unanimi'y, also, OF the leading Republicans
OF the Gay, who to a man are pledglng them
selves as thoroughly convinced of the necessity
OF impartial suffrage. All those men were
speaking in favor of impartial suffrage but
why, he asked, did they not enact their belief
inIo laltnY me remedy for that was to
to enact their belief into statute. He would
say to the New York Tribune, the National Re-
pupncah committee, and Congress itsef:-Go
pack and sit down in the House of Representa-
AlVes, and govern the republic; and for the first
act in that Government. impeach the President
prolonged applause He would have the House
OF Representatives lmpeach the President, place
the President OF the Senate in his office, and
Then the people would run the machine. Gap
plause.) The greatest trouble of our Govern
ment was that no private man of the republic
can have his policy unchanged for four years.
In this connection he stated that Henry Wilson
said he knew in January last that the President
meant to betray them. If he knew 1T, said
Mr.. Phillips, why did he allow the storm to beat
upon a few men, who were standing on the out
Eposts and proclalming what he already knew?
RThat was not service of the republic. great
fault in the past had been the foolish fear of
letting the people know the real facts. He be-
leved the people could govern themselves The
a. reconsseRctlon which he wanted to have
was to begin Immediately. 1t would begin
when 1t was sale for a Massachusetts man to
walk the streets of New Orleans. They might
fill the House OF Representatives with men IKE
Alexander H. Stephens, and reconstruction
would not commence He would have the
South and Southwest made like the victorious
North. Speaking of the Constitutional amend.
ment, he denounced the insertion of the word
males" as as "a libel on the nineteenth
century. The desert1on of the negro
lmade it not onlv an unjust, but nfa-
nous proposition. He asked whose fault it was
that there had been such bloodshed and perse.
cution in the streets of Memphis and New Or.
leans. He asserted that the policy of the Pres
jen& bad something to do with it. But that was
hot all. y was General Grant. applause and
hisses.) The most humil;ating position occu-
pied on this continent, he said, was by Ulysses
r. Grant. II they had conquered, why were
enot the streets of New Orleans safe? If
protect life and liberty there, then General
Grant should resign. Henry Wilson knew
he President was false and hid it. Gene
ral Grant knew the South was not safe
hpd allowed it to be. If, said Mr.. Phillips,
General Grant does not mean to make the South
ade for Northern man, he is not ft to hold his
ptfice. II he has not the means TO do so, then he
hould ask for them, and if the President did not
hermit him to do it, then he should immed atey
esign his position as General. II he does not
+ PANT to do his duty then denounce him as
aitor. What is the use of our national flag if it
beans nothing except in the streets OF Boston; If
does not mean protection of Northern life and
orthern capital IN the South? His theory, Mr.
|2 llllips said, was that there is no President He
x. deserter. The legislative power is the only
sower felt. Our James ii has abdicated, and Par
r. lament rules the nation. He wanted Congress to
4 commence its next session as a perpetual one
i5yery moment that it was not in session the
south was ruling the Governments; and he
you'd have the next Congress enact that they
hould reassemble in March, 1867, and be them
* elves the Government In conclusion, he
ald:-klve years ago, we bad a man 10 the
fhite House who called himself a ''public
unctionary," who has been engaged in the last
ear in explaining to the world why his treason
ID not succeed. Do your duty. We have got
traitor in theiWhite House who calls himself
81 an humble individual" Do your duty, and he
K. w De explaining five years hence why he did
@ OF succced-N. Y. Word.
Gambling. "A match at bacearet recently took
lace at Baden, between an English duke and
RUSSIAN prince both good players, and enor-
aQhsiy Tlch. The former is said to have left off
o0Oger OF SSO, 900 francs