Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-10
WENDELL PHILLIPS.

That peerless scoundrel, Wendell
Phillips, in letter written on the ionrth'
uses this language:
But this fourth Of July will be re-
nowned above its fellows To-day as
sembles the Great Council of the Nation,
in extra session, to see that the hepuo-
lie receives noharm." Let us hope they
will inaugurate such policy as will re,
assure all men. Break 'Ap the landed
aristocracy of Rebellion, and create
millions of small holdings-the only
sufficient basis of the ballot.box. Ilmid
men fear this will exasperate the rebels.
They hate as as bitterly as they can al
ready. Nothing we do can increase
This hate. The mothers are teaching
their children to hate US. Nothing we
can do will give this hate longer lite than
such teachings insure. Conhscation
does not increase this hate. Conhsca-
tion only disarms it. Ifyou cannot con-
vert your enemy, it is wise to take away
his arms. This con6scation does.
Is not this thoroughly atrociousP Be
cause the people of the South have been
driven to the extreme of hate, and can
not detest the robbers of New England
any more bitterly than they do now, and
AZ that hate cannot wreak itself upon
action retaliatory and effective, 1t Is
highly proper to offer any other aggra-
walton that malice may suggest, or the
spirit of plumber demand. The Indian
first binds his captive, AID then with the
profoundest deliberation proceeds to
torture him. His groans, his agony,
and the bloody sweat that rolls from his
quivering flesh, afford the savage the
most delightful sensations. The victim
can hate his tormenter just so much and
no more. He can resist just so much
and no more; and because there is
limit to his hate and his resistance, the
executioner amuses himself by the in
vention and application of new engines
of torture. His impunity is complete,
and, being stranger to solitary senti-
ment of justice or pity, triumphs to the
content of his savage instints.
That great, God-forsaken white savage
of New England, WeRdell Phillips, is
not whit better than the red savage of
the forest. He is worse He is ten
fold more criminal He is cultivated,
and has enjoyed the advantage of all the
maxims of experience, the teachings of
philosophy, the best code of morals, the
association of just men, the suggestions
of an enlightened conscience, and, above
all, the word of God, that teaches peace
on earth and good will among men.
With all these lights before him, he
subsidies into heartless tyrant
and q constituencies brute. At
the bottom of his principles lies
and throbs the heart Of a coward.
For thirty years be has been an apostle
of strife, but has invariably shrunk from
the presence of physical danger. The
South he SO much hates, he never saw.
The people whose torture he delights so
much 10 witness, he never knew. Hating
them AID their institutions as he
did, he did not dare to face ole
of them in the field, but preferred
to I'll the Puritan quota from the
jails of Europe, Asia aud Africa So
mean a wretch was created, no doubt, for
some great end. In making go mean q
man, the Almighty displayed power no
less extraordinary than that which piled
ND The Alps, scooped out the seas. spread
the starry heavens, and constructed
flower
We meet extremes on every hand.
There is the highest type Of the race.
Though be lives on earth, he seems to
breathe an atmosphere that is al divine.
There is, also, the meanest type Of the
race. Though he inhabits the earth, he
seems TO draw his principles and bis in
.pirafions from hell Christ vept over
Jerusalem. Phillips storms and launches
nursss Al she Soath Bat fortunately Tor