Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-20
A VERY COMMON sCOLD.

From the New York Evening POST
Mr.. Lloyd Garrison, who has had something TO do
with the anti-slavery cause has incurred Mr.. " en-
dell Phillips displeasure Mr. Garrison, with prac-
teal common that only echoes that OF the ma
ton. says that when a man has his battle he
ought to cease fighting. The anti-savery battle has
been won, and Mr. Garrison proposes to throw aSlue
all distinctive anti-Slavery cweapons-ant
tracts and what not. But no, says Mr. Philips let
us go on with the batle our enemy Is dead, 1t Is true
but his ghost lives: the people have driven the nail
into his coffin by the Great Amendment, but we
rattle his bones; we can put candle IN his sconce;
and keep our trade OF agitation. The fools are
not NIL dead. Mr.. Garrison objects to this kind
Of pertunctory abolitonism, and straightway Phil
lips acaecuses him: tho veteran ,war-horsc of
anti-slavery, of infidelity to the cause of
the slave and classes him with those indif-
ferent and corrupt conservative Republicans
gTei95 mans mgnSy to 4SS9g 9f dH
personal antagonism and egotistical ASSUMPTION,
rs he calls IT, he characterizes Phillips as the subject
of swollen Self-cOmplacency, and after a hall
century of peril, ostracism and almost universal
Tebrobation spent in behalf If the blacks, he cyl
misrepresentation, he says, OF his former friend
But Garrison ought not to be surprised. lie has
known Phips's pecuharitieS long while, and that
Philips treats him only as he mas treated nearly
everybody who has made himself conspicuous or
useful in the slavery work. His Unsuitable and
reinorselesS vanity will allow OF no ryal IN That
walk: it
Bears like the Turk, no brother near the throne
Antislavery, he fances, ishis own peculiar bantling
he both begot il and has brought it forth; he nurses
IT, fondes it. feeds it. clothes it. controls 1t, and he
will not so much tolerate either wet nurse, dry
nurse physician near his darling. II anybody ap-
proacles it. even to do il good he will scream and
Shrek and gnash his teeth, like any mad female
Garrison has himself often encouraged this shrewish
propensity, and must not complain II in the end 1t Is
turned against him. lie ought. indeed, as we have
said to expect it. for Phillips differs from the msphiis
sLingo in this that the animal reserves his peculiar
powers of offence for those who disturb him, while
Phillips keeps his for those who most nearly
with him. We remember, when Casslus M Clay,
Champion Vaughan and handtu! of others were
lighting all Kentucky IN behalf OF emancipation de-
Tending their houses with swvels and night watches,
Mr. Phillips, in his elegant parlor at Boston, was very
much dispeased with the conduct of Clay and his
friends. Their offence was that they acknowledged
their Duties to their country rs well as to the black
man: ,-
and stores of the Tappans and others for their anti
slavery zeal the little Boston clique was fercely de-
nouncing them at the same time. They had the mis-
fortune to think that emancipation ought to be grad
Jlal rather that the public mind ought to be grad
ually educated up to IT. Ihls Philips thought
treachery the cause; he wanted emancipation any
how and at once, and the public opinion that alone
would render it effective, he deSpised. We do not
know that he denounced LovejOy, who killed
at Alton; but so prominent and disnterosted mar
tyr to his own ideas must in some way, suspect,
have challenged his dislike So signal q service Ia
rhe c0ored ralo could scarcely have been rendered
without his rebuEo. Lovejoy, too, was an lndepen-
dent man, he had opinions Of his own ana dld things
in his own way: and doubt whether the little CON
claive or c0nsstOry at Boston ever allowed that sort
of thing.
Beecher know, mas uOne something iTcctloll
his sister, Mrs. Stowe has done more than ilty Fhli-
lipsea could do rolled into one, with the conJolnt
life times prolonged yet The Beechers WoHd seem
rit Smith, GyQdel and even Fred Doug las, because
they thought the Constitution of the United States
charter Of liberty and not slavery have All teit th'
stroke of his fangs Every one of our readers vii
recall, without suggestion IRON US. the manner II
which Phillips bullied and abused tho late gentle
sweet-tempereG, cautious, but conscientious PresI
dent Lincoln At time when, CHANGED t
know personally, that great and good man carrie
the outlines of his immortal proc amation in h!
pOcket-eght months before 1t was IsSued.and "
utterance Of which he only delayed until public
opinion should reach his own until 1t had galneC
such point that the utteranco Of it would be, not
Ji.dun faeR, not bull shot at comets tail, in b
own comely figure. but real, living. efficient tres
19rng anu gSFSpS . gtS secret and
Tbofy, ed convicfons Of all men Of all LiEcs-tlli
rimacing at m S ' and ns gihP WA filth he could
H1gh me form our noble lcaaor, bowed and almost
Of course he EgeI5,S PoM has always provoked
more or les the discharges of Mr. Phillips rhetoric
HaVlng torory years insiSe upon the rights of the
RlaGk mar, not on sentimental grounds OF philan-
py' put on solid grounds of political truth and
und ncb Harns been the first the loudest and most
claim H. va me ne war tor freedom; having hcen We
nin he earliest to suggest the great Constitutional
farn winch twentyeght States, six of them
last Save states, approve; having been the ear
igSo 70 suggest the appropriation Of The land and
;I !a1ctcal means for securing and defending the
AZ n islS OF the freedmen, since Incorporated in
Mr.. IrumoqllS bi urging as we do with ali onr
heart ana all our might absolute usfice as tba only
rule and end of all government. we have entitIn1i
oIp5selves Pecu1ariy to Mr. Phllips's vituperatiOn
oI,Dosa I we tnlhk and may say indeed that we
Wy VI PIoIt1yts"- the Political ~i''rN-e ~ ~
mu5v - but but by by toFcng i uRQH 2 free osene
and influences which will be as inevitable in the
South as they are now in u-e North, because these
views, this monOpOls 1f al truth virtue ana
goodness holds that the tOOsJf the slave mas
Ter. (Nho are they BY the way y We are not whit
better, in fact. than the ifarrsOnS the Gisys the
Tappans, the BeecheYs, the Lincolns and Others IL
whom he has never ceased to utter his spitefu and
petulant bark. 1t would seem to be crly necessary
to perform some effective common sense service tor
the black race, to arouse the ire of this theoretical
guardian of their rights. President johnson did q
very lmrrudcnt thing when he said that he meant t.
be the Moses of the black children of Israel he star
tied every Quill on Phiipss back, and stirred every
duet in in his gall bladder.
johnson has lived at the South it is true: he has
suffered in person and property for freedom and the
Union; man of rare practical insight and long eX-
perience he knows the bearings of the question: he
desiresAeartily the political enfranchsement of the
negro, but would hot have it than it was safe
than his experience Of freedom would fit him
for the grand trust of government; that s, he is IN
willing the negro should try - govern others until
be has had some trial in governing himself in other
words, he would not impose political changes upon
the Southern communities, rs the Duke Of AiVa i'm
posed Catholicism on the Netherlands, Cromwell
imposed Puritanism upon Ireland; that is at the end
of the bnyOnet; and because such is his honest faith
Phillips COMPARES him to Arnold, and Burr, and
Davis, and Wade Hampton and Ice. What is still
more strange-tor we may expect any sort Of crazy
extravaganza from Phllips-that is the way he pro-
duces his efects-S that there people in Brook
Ign capable Of applauding this nonsense.