Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-06-07

The Tribune has been hunting up Wen
dell Philips record on the hanging Oh 'ti'
Davis, being provoked to this by Philips at
tack on Greeley for signing Davis bond. Inc
following is the result of the 1'ribane's search
ing
MIR. PuIIIIpS's RECORD = Mr. wendell
Phillips lauds .thc Platform y As th' foremost
fundamentally in promoting the inici'cc'o"''
moral and political education of our lcop'P'
1t is unlucstionably IL great power, NANNY
through the aid of the Press Mr.. Phillips mas
cNcrted wide influence, not merely over t'''
thousands who listen to his haranG''cs. pnt
over the hundred, of thousands who read the'r
substance As reported in :hc Journals. How
wisely, bumancly. consistently. that influence
has been cxcrtcd, will be better understood
when his recent fulminations respecting 'ne
b,ilinp of jefferson Davis are contrastcd Win
the following from his earlier yet still recent
orations. In his speech ut the meeting oil the
American Anti-Savery Society, held ut Coop
cr Institute May Il, 1865. Mr.. Phillips SAID
.The idea of Il jury impanneled TO try JEFF
crson Davis rs Il traitor would he TO me, III the
! language of the age OF Shnkcspcar a mosL III
t mrut,bc and tragica comedy ] should aS
soon try ladders by Il jury, and claim the benefit
of hGjeds cJrpHs for rattIcsnakcS. ..
.IStuN mercer consent to the dG0h II j|f-
erSpn Daris UntH / fear MS iHc, lie Is weak,
or alive. n ridiculous fugitive, than dead ana
buried in the sympathics of millions. Lct hth
fire, then. | once said of John Brown: Nir-
gnia cared not let him live. No man. with my
consent, shall have |, to say OF this strong, sc'
rcnely-sectlrc nation, II dared MT let Ddtts
| Ire"
In hi, speech at Cooper Institute, Oct. %
1865, Mr. Phillips said:
Il do no; want any man hanged. JEFF. Davis
will never get hi, deserts this side of CalNin>
or Dante, hell But ID, not rant hin' 10 get
his deserts here. The President may give him
back his plantation for all me. do not believe
our people are capable of the double virtue OF
furnishing traitors and enfrtnchi>ing the Black
man. 50 will compromise: they may set att
the FUH rs free. II they ,1W only. eHtfUAchtSe
The Bucks. iApplause.l
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music Feb. IS
1866, Mr.. Phillips said:
"Wcll our President said once that traitors
were TO be punished. lie has not punished ;
traitor. iIenrver will. l. t5f one d not ash
IAN t.. The hour has gone. Eight months o
life such as we have been living. which is eight
and eighty of common national existence, have
iloated by since it was ,slblc. Uheh Jdme'
colder horror hrough a large pDrt IF the cir
Hi=ed eroHd than in imerjca ,could be SttfFet
tD-Tdy. II after dh Imprisonment o. Il d1.eh
months. jefferson Darts tcaS sent u the
scofold. The action of Government has clo,
ed the door of the scatfold. y
At an annual meeting of the American Anti
Slavery Society, held in this City, May 8, 1866
Mr.. Phillips said:
''If 2O.0000oo of loyal people have not lie arm
ed enough from this war To bear Jefferson l 81
is then nationality i, failure. Adjourn the
dispute. and wait for better generation. But
we have elements, we have sufficient strength
to ignore Jefferson Davis and athousaud like
him. if they still live; and that strength is jus
tee APPLAUSE 3"
In hic speech at Cooper Institute, Oct. -
1866, he said:
what demand of senators i, when they
see traitor III the White House. to spread il
to the wings of the wind until the people re-
bukc it out of existence. ['Good ! And what
| demand of the army of the United States
from LieutenantGeneral down. is that they
make the streets of the cities of the conquered
| Republic safe for every man to tread -
/ Cheers. listen to no talk of constitutions
amendments. want 10 hcaI nothing of recon
struc,ion. | d. MT care ,rhdt becomes o.
,!cdersoa Ddris. IL is older than he. ark
Laughter9 lie question q. his punishment
is one M0t iuhded on Mount .tr0rdt.'
l. the man honest who thus talked a few
months ago, and who nlw talk, as Wendell
! Phillips does: