The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-05-19
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wHuDrIL PHILLIPS sCOLDlNG.
Wendell Phillips is terrible scold. dc
is the greatest master of the art since Kan
thippe. Take this specimen from his reee !. !.
speech before the An.i-slsvery sociss, = y
late session
And now | wish to say ss....h. that do
ence to Mr.. Higeinson snrid r,tker trust
not rove uiane el, no White House without
zen: u1a H. - chief Justice Chase VITA We
piauolm .nsa that could be adopted lgreat
/ pest pisu1ti that is il he goes there " conse'
Applause - This plot of Fessen.en and lrum
I n1Ins, 70 eheckmste the nation in order 70 pss
pm pa"' there. / like direct, above board, hons
est. respectable rognery. Applause and laugh
teri. better than virtue in the disguise OF enc
mics. have no original condolences N 1udge
Chase, and if he is TO become the tool Oh us
intrigue, he il untrustwortby. and our au'y IS
to choose between the candidates IN that l To-
spect. Dur duty is, take u, 10 e ., A
public mind up TO the reqnisite s'esa; !, : not
anr friend Higginsou nightly said' II = ~. ~
tho chessmen ut Washington, u y nv ~, IL
| INC ON he CAPITOL that settsliy dlfSs's .ne
!, ia the purpose. virtue, anu .isi
h A''pH -, eases. LOU know there Is q
islioe ~ YOU will find them often in
49, ;as y, sho mean To go, 10 Heaven, bn.
-, mean TO be one bit superiineusiy
'.s , uuI 10 get there. They don't mean TO
lie one ATOM of unnecessary virtue to se-
enre that result. That - the condi-
NON oil General Grants friends. They
mean that he shall be elected, asa
hey mean that on the lwenhetn
Of this month he shall be satisfactory to the
Radicals of the Onion. He is kept silent IN
order that he shall pipe the exact tune, and
tb,t tune will he dictated exactly by the lev
d thai we raise the vigia c., e the nationsto-
ward onfhst day. 1t. IN consequence oil our
.;delity. Il, in consequence of our demand,
we can make The nation claim OF that Com
yenlion universal suffrage and impartial lib
r.y, actual recognition OF the equality OF the
black race there won ! be q more wiling
man TO do II than Eiysses 5. Grant. Laugh
Ter and applause. they mean 10 go TO
heaven both Of thcm-ihe heaven OF the
With House laughter and they mean TO
70 there without wasting one atom OF hadi-
,alism in going there. II all depends on you
and me and our eontederates-i. all depends
on the Radical element of this country. 1t
has fought a good battle in the Senate cham
her. IL has crossed its sword braYely with
it's opponent on the floors Of Congress. 1t ia
recessery to the demands of the nation.
There has no, been day since Fremont issued
his magnificent proclamation in Missouri on
August 2lst, 1861, when the opinion CT the
nation was as unanimous as II IS to-day in The
demand torimpeacbment. In ordinary times it
. ouid have been obeyed. The only reason
| why it is not obeyed to-day is because strong
| current of opposing Presidential issues turn
| il away. We hasa to contend with disastrous
| influences. We are ia the maelstrom Of the
| d.. Il al ard kav m pap4c md
y itb disastrous Influences. All the more we
should do cur duty. The cause viii survive
this year. 1t IL rot az safe ms some Of ouI
friends think. Ii tx safe in the eternal future
because VIC have got ON 10 the track. and there
las no getting off OF il. We are shut up by
| Providence in one direction. We cannot &c
| anywhere eise any more than Niagara car
/ turn back Neither have we The least donb
| of lis future. Whether any eyes live 10 gel
IL or not. know not: yet, as surely as We si
| here 10 night, within fifty ears-probaby il
a third Of that time -thers will crowd upun
der those arches at Washington. black ant
white, foreign and native, man and voa3a n
looking IN TO banner that represents impair
siai law. fAppiause Bat how soon we arr
10 get ont of the desert --whe.her in fort,
years or four, depends upon the vigilance sne
tt.e activity al the public mind depends
| whether We let croehety lawyers aud envioul
Senators and intriguing President
hackers chea. Us cur Of the oppnr
tu,i,y. All ! say 10 you. as an inGi
yidual, il. speak yoar attermost thought.
you know TACT. aud il is fact, tell 1t. Th
difficulty with our leaders is that they DO no
believe. they do no. comprehend the theor
o. the Government under which they live
| Henry Wilson will always tell yan The trut
tel months after the truth arose. Laughter
Wien | was lectariug on The South ticto
rious,n in O.. and seying that Johnson ha
chosen his position, that 1t was antngonis,ic I
he North and the Republican party, he d.
nounced me as nuisance. Laughter an
cheers And in September, 1867, he sal
to an audience in bis own town that he kne
81 that very time that Johnson was traffic
Why didn be tell ~ Because, contrary |
The insti c, Of civilization. he thought thar i
had soul strong enough to knov the who
truth, and That hecould not afford to tell tt
people half the trnth-that ,ou and we,
too weak 10 l;ear it-and So he kept it froi
US for tw years until il Wac no use. He,
watchman set on The -ontermost barrier of-ih
Consultation, sealed his lips and hid his il
formation ian . POCKET until Johnso1 told U
by his outspoken treaehery And then, whe
The horse is al drawn and every man conl
iiesr him SNORT. Wilson wakes MP and Eri;e
~ horse. Laughter and cheers