The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-29

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s.eseh o. WenAell RAiIlips-Hs De.
noune % tho President, General |
Grant, Congress, slae south, ara
lays Down the Radical Law.
At the Cooper Institute, New York, on
Thursday evening last, Wendell Phillips
made speech which Is worthy Of the at
tention Of the South. He said:
Ladies and Gentlemen Is the 18th
day of October, 1865. On the 25th day OF
October, 1866, standing on this platform, l
ventured to say that the President OF the
United States, instead of being the mis-
taken friend, was the determined enemy
of the Republican party; that instead OF
being a comrade to be conciliated, he was
foe to be opposed and that instead OF
bulwsrk to hide behind, he was an oDsta.
Gle to be removed. ventured to say that
the rebellion, defeated in Virginia, had
taken up its headquarters in the White
House. About one-tenth oFpy audience
accepted the statement, and nine-tenths
received il with Kisses or silent indigna-
ton. And, eventually, . year has rolled
over our heads since, and | think If the
proposition were made in any audience in
the land tonight the number that dissented
with me then would agree with me to-day.
Loud applause.l So much the events Of
this wear have taught US. Well, friends,
nv mission, as understand 1t tonight, Is to
warn you against that; the danger from
that quarter has not ceased, but the greater
danger that lowers ahead is that the rebel
lion chartered in the White House intends
| in its next move to encamp in the dome OF
the capitol, in the Senate chamber, and the
House of Representatives: 1t had then
taken possession of one section of the Co.
ycrnment; its present plan is to take pos
session of the whole. / did not utter my
conviction year ago because feared the
rebellion. Men said ! was afraid of the
South. A man does not exhibit any un-
due fear of starvation when he plants seed.
/ believed then, as believe now, that the
masses of the Republican party, duly
warned, would save it from any enemy in
side or out. But the difficulty is, there
never has been any enemy to be feared
outside Of our own line. No. Not in the
darkest hour of the civil war was there
any danger outside the line. Our only
danger has always been inside, in our own
forces, in the irresolutiOn, the haste, the
immaturity, the distrust in our own ranks.
One of the great evils of Democracy is that
it is too much in hurry. 1t would reap
almost before it has sown. 1t digs up its
seed every twelve hours to see how it has
progressed. The haste to-day is to recon-
struct the form of the republic. Now,
oliearchy has one great merit. Itnever
hastes. Without haste, without rest, the
far-seeing, patient dozen or hundred men
Law their plans for this generation and
, the next, watching, undeterred by tempo.
rary disaster, undismayed by any revolt
unforeseen, it steers and sounds it's steady
way onward until it reaps the full harvest
, of q complete success. What we want 70
engraft upon Democracy is the patient fore
sight and long waiting, the readiness to see
and hold themselves in natural proportions
and order. And every man who undertakes
to advise his fellow citizens to-day ought tt
advise them not to be in a hurry; to re-
member the epoch in which God has placed
: them, and struggle not for the form, but fol
I the ideas. What have we been doingH The
South, not geographical section, but al
: idea, represented by faith that repudiateo
, the Declaration of Independence, that be
lievcd that one-third Of the race were borl
9 booted and spurred, and the other two
> thirds saddled and bridled for that one
third to ride-that believed in gag ant
n lynch law, and bowie-knife and flame a
1 the best test Of public opinion-that sen
e women to Jail for teaching poverty to read
4 that made its streets unsafe for free speech t.
4 tread-that South rose in rebellion agalns
y the open Bible, the equality of MANHOOD
!. before the law, and the gagged laws and TIT
il Declaration of Independence-that Soutl
# was whipped. Now the question comes, wha
@ that victory means, and what rcconstruc
i ton after that victory means? If it mean
anything, 1t does not mean dragging Soutl
Carolina to the foot Of Massachusetts,, a.
/. claiming her with clamps of iron. times
Il that North making over that South Inv
Il own likeness, until Carolina gravitSow
n a natural tendency to New EnglanSn one
it that reconstruction can be had y to the
d way. The South must be ope, and 70
j. capital, to the energy, to the b,u,t bc az
l. the habits of the North. telinp-nIace
r free passage and as free arm canitai 40
It for northern brains and NOT maIes the
8 the West has been. New York and
: West in the likeness ,bev hold tho
t, New England? Becfmt of their ahund0
st rich material poureies, and made them
N ance upon the Peness, and constructed
r over in their owns That process is the
them as sister Indispensable process for
inevitable ano south of Mason and
of the terr!tofMen toss about the word
Is Dlxoh's ll4f as if it meant that Alex
8. recons,Tuccephens should be side by side
n amer les Sumner, as if it meant that
- with CRmpton and Judge Kelly should
at WAGER the roof of the House of Repre-
DC Yves. You may as well send puppets
seP the House Of Representatives and
l. gSenate. Reconstruction begins when
ell le South gives up her ideas of civiliza-
,aion and allows the North to permeate her
channels, and make her over with the
right which victory has given to the better
and the dominant idea. Until that pro-
cess commences, reconstruction has not
been commenced. No party, no sounding
name, no donning of official robes, makes
one hairs breadth step toward reconstruc-
ton. 1t is only rebellion in new form
1t is only the South assuming her
own power, undismayed and unweakened
by this effort and victory of her rival. Well,
now, it is as plain as the sun at MONDAY
that the South itself does not accept that
situation. From Wade Hampton to the
most silent member of our dominant race
there is not single intimation anywhere
that the South accepts that situation. But,
on the contrary, by every voice and by
every act that comes from the other side
of the line she repudiates it. She has CON-
n,ttfad M traason sha has fnrfaifad M