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RosroS, October ls.-The second lecture
81 The old bay State co,irss was delivered
:. crowded audience In fremont Tenn
=. w This evening, by Wendell Phillips, upon
iI"o "p,ril OF the Hour" The appearance
W " Mr.. Phillips was the signal for prolong-
~ snplause; and being introduced, he
eaon,cnced his address by saying: :
e' II he had consulted his health, he would
,.re sent an excuse. He preferred, how.
ever. TO bring his own excuse in the shape
- on unfinished performance. One year
wa he said, no tod an audience In
,s hall tha, the South meant to accom-
,Ii,h BY diplomacy what she had failed to
40 by arms, and that the Executive was
M, A power to be conciliated but an en-
envy TO he watched.
There were as many there who thought
him unduly suspicious as there were few
now to deny II. The great weakness Of
democratic government, he continued, was
that the masses are impatient to succeed !;
and il was the duty Of oil leaders to en-
rrai, into the body-politic the virtue Of its
opponents. He said that one year ago he
cxprcsscd it as his belief that Jefferson
Davis never meant TO rebel, never intended
70 fight the flag, or to desert Washington !;
that the fatal mistake Of the southern move
ment was that il lost the sure. anchored
element of neutrality. Fifty years hence
he believed the evidence would be ample
hat that was true. They meant that the
North should be rebels while they held the
government. The great danger ofthe pre-
sent day was the same as during the war,
when the power Of the South was bug
hear. There was no thought outside the ma
.;oual lines TO be feared like the cowardly
rnreadiness Of the northern masses to ac-
cept 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 fail
cd TO place her in 1861. She has not given
m the intention yet. Fifty years hence
he believed there would be no doubt Of
that. Mr.. johnson may surrender point,
but the great purpose behind him lives,
and what had the North with which to
meet it /! Alt was said the unanimity dis
PLAYED in the recent elections was an evil
dcuce of their power to oppose the danger.
The unanimity, also, Of the leading Re-
publcaus of the day, who to man are
Hedging themselves as thoroughly con-
yinced of the necessity Of impartial suf-
frage. All those men were speaking in
favor Of impartial suffrage; but why, he
asked did they not enact their belief into
a laithi The remedy for that was to send
those back to Congress, and tell them to
enact their belief into statute. He would
say to the New York Tribune, the National
Republican Committee, and Congress
itself: Go back and sit down in the House
Of Representatives, and govern the
Republic; and for the first act in that
government, impeach the President. Pro-
ionged applause.l He would have the
House of Representatives impeach the
President, place the president of the
Senate in his office, and then the people
would run the machine. [Applause.l The
greatest trouble of our Government 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 it, said Mr.. Phillips, why did he
allow the storm to beat upon few men,
who were standing on the outposts and pro-
claiming what he already knew. That was
not service OF the Republic. A great fault
in the past had been the foolish fear of let
ting the people know the real fact. He
believed the people could govern them
selves. The reconstruction which he
lial Ia
1t would begin when it was safe for Mas
sachusetts man to walk the streets OF New
Orleans. They might fill the House of
representatives with men like Alexander
II. Stephens, and reconstruction would not
commence. He would have the South and
Southwest made like the victorious North.
There was no hurry; the South would
wait. Speaking OF the constitutional
amendment, he denounced the inser-
ton of the word "males" as libel
on the nineteenth century. The desertion
Of the negro made it not only an unjust,
but infamous proposition. He asked whose
fault it was that there had been such
hloodshed and persecution in the streets OF
Memphis and New Orleans. He asserted
that the policy of the President had some
thing to do with it. But that was not all.
1t was General Grant. Applause and
hissesl The most humiliating position
occupied on this continent, he said, was by
Ulysses S. Grant. If they had conquered,
why were not the streets OF New Orleans
safe If the President would not let
General Grant protect life and 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.
If, said Mr.. Phillips, General Grant does
not mean to make the South safe for
northern man, he is not fit TO hold his office.
If he has not the means to do so, then he
should ask for them, and if the President
did not permit him to do it, then he should
Immediately resign his position as General.
II he does not want to do his duty, then
denouDce him as traitor.
What is the use of our national flag If 1t
means nothing except in the streets of Bos-
tOn-if it does not mean protection Of
northern life and northern capital in the
South! His theory, Mr.. Phillips said, was
that there is no President. He is a deserter.
The Legislative power is the only power
lett. Our James III. has abdicated, and
Parliament rules the nation. He wanted
Congress 10 commence its next session as Q
perpetual one. Every moment that it was
not in session the South was ruling the
Government, and he would have the next
Congress enact that they should reiissemble
In March, 1867, and be themselves the Go
'ernment. In conclusion, he said: Five
years ago we had q man in the White
House, who called himself q "public func-
lionar!y," who has been engaged in the last
wear In nNnln;n;nn ~ 4hn mnrld ,uhy his