The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-25


From he TsTb,ne
Mr.. Wendell Phillips tells the public that he
don't agree with Mr.. Horace Greeley as to
Jefferson Davis. That is stale news. Had he
been able TO set forth some practical measure
or course of action as to which they two eyer
did agree, his card would have been more
instructive. Since our inability to agree is
evidently chronic, we can imagine no reason
for obtruding it upon public attention.
Messrs. Phillips and Greeley were alike
quiOkened into decided. aggressive hostility to
slavery by the murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy at
Alton, more than thirty years ago. From that
hour, Mr.. Greeley has steadfastly sought to
work with and through such powerful inte-
rests and influences as could be made to do
nt-slavery work; while Mr.. Phillips has en-
deavored to render the anti-slavery idea an
tagonistic and antipathetio to all others. As
the Yankee observed of his neighbor, "He has
winning ways to make people hate him." We
do not care to quarrel with this disposition.
We only insist on being allowed to go our own
way.
When the Texas conspiracy to "give a
Gibraltar to the South"-that is, to slavery
6sme to light, we felt it our duty to labor for
its defeat through the election of Henry Clay
over James X. Polk, the avowed annexation
candidate, Mr. Phillips took different course,
and thereby secured the triumph of Polk and
annexation. When the Nebraska scheme for
slavery extension was broached, we fought
that with the strongest weapons at hand; thus
helping to elect the House which chose N. p.
Banks its Speaker. So when we fought and
beat the atrocious Lecompton BILL Mr.. Phil
lips stood off throughout, insisting that Abo-
htionists should not vote. In 1860, we did
our best to elect Abraham Lincoln, whom Mr..
Phillips opposed and denounced as ''the slave
hound of Illinois," In 1864 we supported
and Mr.. Phillips opposed Mr.. Lincoln's re-
election.
At last, it seemed that we should be afforded
the pleasure Of agreeing with Mr.. Phillips.
He is a jealous adversary of capital punish
ment, as we are; and we mistakenly supposed
his opposition based on principle. The Rebel
lion being crushed, we understood Mr.. Phillips
to say that there was not virtue enough in
this people to hang jeff Davis and enfranchise
the blacks; and as he deemed the latter by far
the more important, he was opposed to exc
cutting Davis. Heartily concurring in his con-
clusion, If not in his premises, we really
fancied he might forego abusing us for several
weeks thereafter; but we were mistaken: he
ts consistent in opposing us at the expense of
all other consistency, and is not ashamed to
stultify his past teaching by such talk as the
IolloWlng:- T
"The fawning spaniel is no emblem or teacher
OF forgiveness The survivors in the Army OF
the Potomac-the men who remember McCook,
Memphis, Fort Pillow, and the murders OF
Belle Isle--will read this act In a different and
redder light. They will resolve to SETTLE their
own wrongs the next time, and prevent being
cheated by law When, daring the war, sol
diers found that guerillas and other Rebels,
their hands dripping blood. had only to take
the oath and get immediate liberty, they did
not learn the Greeley lesson to forgive MUIR
derers; they simply brought in no prisoners
NO arrests were reported at headquarters only
rumors reached IL of men shot in the attempt
to bring them in. We think our baffled boys
In blue Will lay up some such lesson fro N this
occurrence, in case they have another call TO
arms.
-'To beat down law does not always mean that
you set up Christianity; 1t sometimes makes
room for anarchy. Towards that gulf Mr.. Gree
ley calls the nation to take the first step, and
himself leads the way"
Such language from those who believe
and feel thus is rendered respectable by its
earnestness; from Wendell Phillips, it is hypo-
critical and infamous. He panders to mob
passions for the qualification of his own. We
leave him to that remorse which calm and
reflection must engender.