New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-25
POLITICAL.
MAssACHIsRTTs.
WENDELL PHILLIPS FOR CONGRESS.


From Our Special Correspondent.
Boston, Thursday Aug. %. lscd
| am happy 10 inform Won that we are hkely 20
have q real meeting Of Massaehnse'" ~' ~,
foot 20 nominate Wendell Phillips for Congress,
in place of Mr.. Rice, retiring member " II well
known that Mr. Phillips is 20 entering Congress-
he would prefer the young whom lac had edu
Gated 60 there represent his ideas but now mat INC
Constitution presents none OF the obnoxious leaie'
which once prevented him from swearing aHcgahce 20 H.
he can have no conscientious scrupes against accepting
nomination The matter has been narrowed down 10
more nueston OF expedieucy. IL understood that ne De-
E that he could not be elected and that be would not
on anv account consent 10 enlaugr the Republican cause
IN hs district BIT the young men are beginning 70 gst
tired OF permitting the two gOd Of Massaehusstts-'u
ture and Prese4tlbiity-o dictate IL our polii's w
longer They believe that they can elect nm hd ieiuse
10 accent Mr.. Phillips refusal 10 be a candidate
The working men who favor the EishtHour movement,
bayelong sought 10 obtain Mr. Phps consent to be her
candidate but he has never gwen the eas encouragement
10 an independent movement. At The same time ne ma,
never declared that he would object 70 accept regular
Oh from the Republican party. lLeTe u no one
in Massachusetts, who Is more enhlslas'lcaiy auIeu
nv the Young men who represent the future politics II our
state Not that his ideas accepted ~ orcuar utter
apces nor his policy invariably approved but because they
svnpatbize very heartily with hs spirit and hayea loylns
reverence for the man himself lAe{ reeosHIc W. III
of such pan make ereeds instead 81 sPl! eAPolhu
inc the ideas of others They would gladly see INTRODUCED
mo our Congress the great feature when ehhoDrs INC
EncIsb palament-a class OF men Of INDEPENDENT VIEWS
too honest and OF too loiy character 10 interpret al!
mere party shibhOleth -
III.
et vnes Of the American chaTacter-as standing ~
noitie where Emerson stands in philosophy-repesent
bo-s hnt What u higher and better still, the most eX
alted products OF our Republican civilization also NJ
phillips j. loved by those VINO have little sympathy WIN
ms news For be il one Of the few distinguished Amer
cans who greater in social life than IN his public eapac
~ Mos, OF our great men. when one mees men, feea
Pope lines on the flies found IN amber-the tlhes mem
selves neither rich nor there, we o.y ~onu' p,ns -
tbe mischief they got there. On the platform fhls -
r creat hut always less than we who are honored Oy
his friendship, know him 10 be. III peDiJ Nc 80
,,es almost uercess ID his criticisms, ana nc rarely IL
dicts the minimum Of the Laws sentence IN ms JHug
ments: but in private he is genial and generous 20 su
Violating mems ofenses b. strong statement oi lhe
elpctonqI defects and empremenal bases ihelr sooa
sarroundlngs AID their political temptations; II were
lament Republican and sinner ! would fear no more
IDI5 s,oy,, nudge than Wendell Philips the orator.
for more gentle and mercful judge than Wendell
phillips the citizen Now OF never is Nc g loL f mas
th,or 60 heavy purse into the scale Of casso"e ha'
we can offset it only by genius