Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-05-24
The gepnbliean.
Wendell Phillips as n Re-
farm

ocratic party for the sake Of some suppo
sed political and personal advantage h,
calculated would result from the restora
ton to power of that perfidious, unjnst ant
tyranical organization. The fact that he
is never satisfied with and always denOun
ces the measures of the Republican party
in the severest terms, demonstrates that hC
either really desires the success Of the Cop
perhcad party or is silly old scold, anC
in either case should be permitted to glide
into obscurity, so far as the Republican
party and press is concerned. We became
heartily disgusted with him in 1864, on ac
count of his efforts to SOW discord and di-
vision in the Republican party, for the
sake, as we verify believe, OF the advan
tage that would inevitably have resulted
to the Democratic party Had his scheme
not been frustrated by the withdrawal OF
Fremont as candidate for President, there
is reason to believe even yet that the Cop
lperhead party would have been restored to
power. What would have been the cOnsc-
quences Of such result9 They are almost
too appalling to contemplate. The South
would have triumplied and dictated terms
Of peace, and would, of course, have de-
manded indemnity for all her losses of ev-
cry kind and payment of her war debt.
The Union would either have been perma-
nently dissolved or the North annexed to
the South and slavery established by law
( in every State, and = law enacted by Con
gress making it felony to write, speak or
print any thing calling in question the JUS
/ tice or prOpricfy OF slavery. These are
only a few Of the evils that would have fol-
lowed the success of the Copperhcad party
in 1861, yet Wendell Phillips, the great
reforncr, seemed anxious to entail them
on the country for some object or ether.
But read the Journals excoriatiOn Of the
pretcnder.-wolf in Sleeps clothing, as
many regard him,-at any rate, very un-
safe leader of the friends of freedom:
"Wcndell Phillips is considered by ma
Aly as a great reformcr, and considers him
self. as shown bv his speeches. TIE great
reformer OF the age. lie made speech oil
Tuesday, the 7ih inst. in New York. ON
the occasion of the anniversary of the
american Anti Slavery Society, in which
he treated himself and The members of that
Society as the apostles of liberty, the pre-
servers of the Republic. and the desiroyers
of slavery. The Perusai of his speech in
duces US to review his course for the past
thirty years and to compute, if possible,
his actual value TO the cause of freedom.
For more than twenty years before the
breaking out of the rebellion, he had been
/ the open and ZealOus advocate of the disso-
lution o. tho Union. His violent. disloyal
speeches. while they offended the sense of
the Northern people. were accepted by the
idemagogues of the South as expressive of
Northern sentiment and purpose, and we're
gladly welcomed as deceptive preteXt for
Southern treason While always hating
and denouncing the Republican party, he
was quoted both North and South as an
exponent of Republican sentiment, and
that party were obliged to carry his heavy
weight. When the war begsn, he affected
to espOuse the cause of the Government.
but devoted himself almost exclusively to
finding fault with all its measures. con-
demning its policy, and from the hour oi
Mr. Lincoln's first election until his death.
always spoke OF him in terms so atrocious
as to scarcely be riyaled by Brick Pom
.eroy. He did all in his power to make the
rebellion success, by disheartening the
Union party and producing dissensiUns in
lis ranks. and by the same means sought
the election of Mcclellan in 1854. In his
speech on Tuesday, we find him plying his
old vocation, and engaged with his usual
appetite in the work of calumny. OF
Grant. Fessenden and Sherman, he spoke
as follows:
. Put an unredeemed Democrat at the
head of the Government. and we have lost
sixty per cent. Of the war. Put half and
half man with no ideas, like General Grant
and we shall lose fifty per cent. Kisses
and applause. Put huckstering trader
like Fessenden and Sherman, and we shal
lose seventy per cent
r "Grant did some service in putting dowr
the rebellion. The whole country ac
knowledges it, and Phillips can not deny it
''Of Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, Ii,
spoke as follows:
: "'Henry Wilson and the set of trimmer
e of which he leads the advance guard, hav'
no hatred for the negro, no desire to com
promise, no absolute desire or wish TO ball
US. If we can only really marshal ant
count up public opinion that will de
mand all that the hour requires, they vii
obey They only say as William III. Sew
D ard once said when introduced to me il
). this very city in your Supreme Court
alluding to some remarks | had made In
day before on this omnipOtence of publi
opinion: That is good speech; you so o.
and manufacture opinion, and / will use
4, II Th< rrb
lican party stands Just there to-day. The
!, will use public opinion just as fast as W
4 will manufacture it. They do not wan
lie any thing better. Manufacture publ
:. opinion enough so that Henry Wilso
would not dare to return to Massachuseti
: with his present record, and the Who'll
Senate would mount up like balloons e,
; cry one of them to the level of Charlie
, Sumner. Laughter But the Republ
can party sends down Henry Wilson I
n the House with a sugary message tbs
means nothing. or milk and water me:
sage that amounts to nothing, and the
!. sends Judge Kelley to correct it.
IS 'sMr. Wilson is an earnest, practical NAL
h. who has rendered great service to h
:. country, and has, of course, incurred I'll
hatred of Phillips, and as he speaks {
: Wilson so he sseaks of the great body
the Union party, excepting Mr.. Sumne
Judge Kelley and few others.
!, "In this speech he declared he woul
have nothing to do with the approachin
!. Presidential election, and would not tai
- sides. No, he will stand neutral betwee
; rebels and Union men, just as he did dl
=, ring the war, but his talk will be all again
III the Union men just as it was during Il
war. He says:
".At such time, then, there is especi
need for a body of men that have no Pre-
ident to elect, no candidate to carry, ]
IN party to watch, no personal affairs to
= Ijeoparded; but whose total and on
va anxiety, is that the institutions OF the n
n ton shall really cover the principle ind
= pensable to itsl life. [Applause.] That