The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-10
PHILLIPS.


Concert Hall was well filled last evening on
the occasion OF the lecture by Wendell Phti'ips,
of Ma sachuseus. The subject was "Danlel
OConneI.n On beng introduced to the audi
ence by Robert }. Purvis, Esq, the lecturer re-
ceived considerable applause. he started oIt
by saying that he was TO speak of Daniel
OCounel the great Iflsn agtatOr, and had been
induced TO get n sketch OF his career for the pur-
pose OF doing little, which sucn an opportunity
allowed to wear out the prejudice o. race, and
II possible to lit public opIuion to a just aDpre-
ciatiOn OF agitation aud aeI al ors Toe prejudice
OF race IS the most difficult to eradicate in
Saxon community; for II there be any Other cnar-
acterisllc more prominent than another in tue
race to which we belong, it is race price. We are
the most arrogant The most unjust, aud the
most lmperious and overbearmg OF auy race
known iu history. The one great danger OF our
constitutional existence as q nation has sprung
out OF race hate. Men have been accustomed
to look upon the negro question as the one mar
low and Insignificant emauatlon OF few men
and women, but the hist ran viii find no
debate worth preserving, no epoch worth noting,
no great danger worth remembering, that does
not grow Out OF tn danger. After spending
some time in fec Jmmend'ng the adoption OF the
negro suffrage question, the speaker said that
he had singled O'Cor ornell out of the great
aei at rs becauset he wasl q narvelously aoove
all toe others, aud was distinguished by tue
fact that he did the most with the least
means. He then dwelC loag time upon
the many cases OF injustice which had been
heaped upon the lrsn poole In order to
abolish and debase the nationality OF Ireland,
nCnt lrshmen who had attempted 10 break the
yoke OF English oppression. In l79l the
English oppressors began trelaXlng th elr cruel
ties, and UConnell stood be ore the Umnlpotence
OF Great Britain pledged by the motives and
habits of three hundred years of oppression.
His means were five millions of the most
ignorant, dsheartened, and poverty stricken
Ieasantry in the world, but he maae use of the
great idea of Samuel Adams-tbat OF agitation.
So great did he prove that his oppressors tried
every means to get rid OF him, and even
went so far as to get him into duel
The speaker then related tue manner in
which UConnell, after making up his
quarrel with Shields, commenced his idea
OF agitation, OF bis soliciting a tribute of one
penny week ircm every lrishmen the world
. over, with which he estaDl he'd journals,
IRISH people, OF his proceeding from Town to
town addressing the pyope, until he was
stopped by an edict pronlb biting any political
meetings in Ireland. This OConnell eVaued by
talking with his friends over the dinlng-table.
He was so persistent that, with his rent OF f20 600
year, he threatened the laudholders that ii
they turned out the peasautry from their
and drive them from their palaces. Europe
and America had eloquent men, but none so
wonderful as OCcEnel. With this eloquence
he had agnIhcent physique, coDsummate
grace, and his audiences were provoked that he
made no effort. The speaker gave u review OF
his life as member of the House of Commons,
and spoke of the wonderful command ne had
over his followers, none of whom had ever
committed An ofeDse to drag them before a
court. He alluC ed to the ab llltou sentiments
OF OConnell, and instaDced the occasion when
Mr.. Purvis was introduced to hun as an aboli-
tiohist. He said no man ought to be an
American except he be an aboliu onist.