Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-20
ARAnICAL ROAR.


BosToN, October IS.
The second lecture of the "Old Bay
Staten course was delivered to n crowded
audience In fremont Temple, this evening,
by Wendell Phillips, upon "The Peril OF
d tho Hour" The appearance Of Mr.. Phil
lips was the signal for prolonged applause.
Zone year ago." he said, "when he told
an audience, In that hall, that the South
meant to accomplish by diplomacy what
she had failed to do by arms, and that the
Executive was nota power to be concillat-
ed, but an enemy to be watched, there were
as many there who thought him unquly
suspicious as there weae few now to deny
IL. t y -
government" he continued, "was, that the
masses are impatient to succeed, and 1t was
the duty of all leaders to engraft into the
body polite the virtue of It's opponents.
, He said that year ago he expressed 1t as
his belief that Jefferson Davis never in
tended to rebel; never intended to fight the
flag or to desert Washington; that the fatal
!, mistake of the Southern movement was
that it lost the sure-anchored element of
, neutrality. Fifty years hence, he believed,
the evidence would be ample that that was
true. They meant that the North should
be the rebels, while they held the Govern
ment. f. ..
'..rne great danger Of the present day
was the same as during the war. Then the
power of the South was bughear. There
was no strength outside the national lines
| to be feared like 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 1851. She
/ has not given up the intention yet. Fifty
/ years hence he believed there would be no
doubt of that.
L 'Mr. johnson may surrender point,
but the great purpose behind him lives,
/ and what had the North with which to
| meet it? 1t was said the unanimity dis
| played in the recent elections was an ev-
| idence of their power to oppose the danger;
| the unanimity also of the leading Republi-
cans OF the day, who to man, are pledg-
| ing themselves as convinced of the neces-
sity of impartial suffrage. .iI
| "All these men were speaking In favor OF
impartial suffrage, but why, he asked, did
they not enact their belief into a fact? The
remedy for that was to send those back to
Congress, and tell them to enact their en-
tire belief into statute.
"He would say to the Ne,o York Tribune,
the National Repuhlican Committee, and
to Congress itself, Go back and sit down In
the House of Representatives and govern
the Republic, and for the first act iu that
government, impedch the President PRO-
longed applause.] He would have the
House of Representatives impeach the
President, place the President of the SEN
ate in his office, and then the people would
: run the machine. Applause.
| "The great trouble OF our Government
was that the pivotal man of the Republic
can have his policy unchanged for foul
L years. In this connection, he stated tha
/ Henry Wilson said he knew, in January
last, that the President meant to betray
them. If he knew it," said Mr.. Phillips,
''why did you allow the storm to beat upor
/ q few men who were standing on the out
posts, and pcoclaiming what he already
knew? That was not service to the Re
public. A great fault 10 the party had beer
the foolish fear of letting the people know
the real fact. He believed the people coult
govern themselves.
"The reconstruction which he wanted to
have was to begin Immediately. 1t woulC
begin when it was safe for Massachusetts
man to walk the streets of New Orleans
They might fill the House of Represents
tives with men like Alexander III. Stephens
and reconstruction would not commence
He would have the South and Southwes
made like the victorious North. There
was no hurry; the South would wait"
Speaking of the Constitutional amend
ment, he denounced the Insertion OF the
word ''male" as a libel on the Nineteenth
Century. The desertion of the negro made
| it not only an unjust but Infamous propo-
sition.
He asked whose fault it was that there
had been such bloodshed and persecution in
the streets of Memphis and New Orleans
He asserted that the policy of the President
| had something to do with it. but that was
not all. Itwas General Grant. Applause
| and hisses.l The most humiliatiag position
occupied on this Continent, he said, was
occupied by U. S. Grant.
If they had conquered, why were not the
streets Of New Orleans safe? If the Presi-
dent would not let General Grant protect
| life aud liberty there, then General Grant
should resign. Henry Wilson knew the
/ President was false and hid it. General
Grant knew the South was not safe, and
allowed it to be.
| sit" said Mr.. Phillips, "General Grant
does not mean to make the South safe for q
Northern men, he is not fit to hold his office
If he has not the means to do, then he
should ask for them; and If the President
will not permit him to do it, then he should
Immediately resign his position as General
| If he does not want to do his duty. Why
| denounce them as traitors? What is the use
of our national flag, If it means nothing ex'
cept in the streets of Boston; if it does mo-
mean protection; if Northern life ant
Northern capital is not safe in the South p
"His theory" Mr.. Phillips said, "was tha
there Is no President. He is a deserteT. The
legislative power is the only power LETT
Our James III has abdicated, and Parlia-
ment rules the nation. .
HE wanted Congress to commence 1T
next session as a perpetual one. Every
moment that it was not in session, the
South was ruling the Government, and ht
would have the next Congress enact tina
they should reassemble in March, 1867. ant
be themselves the Government"
In conclusion he said: "Five years agt
we had man in the White House who call
| ed himself public functlonary,' who ha'
been engaged in the last year in explain
ing to the world why treason did not sue
| ceed. Do your duty. We have got traitor
| in the White House who calls himself al
| humble indiyidual.' Do your duty, and ht
will be explaining, five years hence, why
| he did not succeed" u...
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