The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-10
g 4FTER GRANT, WHAT:"
A Lecture by Wendell Phillips He Dis
trusts Grant and Considers Him Un-
sound on the Negro.


The great Abolitionist, Wendell Philips, last
week delivered lecture in Boston, entitled
a Aftur Grant, What ?" Here is the conclusion
Of this extraordinary discourse:
The North sits with heavy eyelids. looking
out confusedly, and cries, "Oh, God !" give US
a leader. and show us man that knows the
pilot that can mark out q leader" Inc ne
publican party points to the great soldier, who
sto he its leader. But. friends, We are about
to choose President. What does that mean
Presidentl Go oyer the water with me mo-
ment, and lcok at the English Government,
There has. not been King Id Engiano
for sixty years. In the last half century the
English Government has drifted entirely into
new form. The House Of Commons now creates
a King by It's voice, and by it's vote it unEngs
him. It is the most elastic, convement,
prompt, and ready government in the world,
and when louk at it seem to see grave rea-
SONS why wo may in time abolish the ONCE OF
President. II England floats into o new crls,s
and the man at the helm evinces either mis-
understanding Of it or an unwllllngness 10
execute the will Of the people, they turn hlm
ont in sixty minutes. Before Gladstone or
Disraei can get vote he must empty his
whole mind and tell ell he thinks on the stump.
But in the United States We elect President
for four long years. We have az Executive
that stands there, totally independent of each
other and able to checkmate each other, and
we have seen this state OF things the last four
wears. There has sat q muddled demagogue
In the White House for whom, the moment he
quits the mask Of the Presidency, there is
not man on the continent poor enough
to do him reverence [Applause.] Yet, Tor
four wears, the Congress OF the United States,
and almost the unanimous purpose OF trium-
phant Democracy, has stood at bay, while
shameless traitor has taken steps which can
never be undone. We are to choose Presi-
dent to take his place. It is no English Pre-
mier that can be displaced IN an hour, but one
who will hold power for four long years. Grant
was stout soldier, but the cannon are called
are not loaded; what We want more Is man OF
ideas. The Republican party never had
plan; it has always drifted. What / want now
ts a plan. And to-day, Americans, you are
to decide whether you will drift under
the next administration or have plan. NOW
you applaud Grant. What I say to you to-
night, this, twenty-seventh day OF October,
negro. You may think it vulgar, think
it fanaticism, think it w-mindedness,
but tell you this and mora. Every constitu-
tional epoch since 69 has turned on the negro.
We never have had a question under the con-
stitution since 89 which history will say any
thing about in the future, which will 30 far sur
round the next generation that they will waste
one page of history's print in preserving it,
EXCEPT the questions which concern the negro.
The great contest 10 making the constitution
was the negro. To-day the question all re-
wolves on the negro. 1t is not my fanaticism;
it is not my prejudice; it is nota loud conceit,
which causes me to say that this one
revolyes on the negro. Justice to him
saves the nation, ends the. strife and
gives us peace; injustice to him prolongs
the war. You can't help it. You may shut
your eyes to it, and say you don't want to
hear about it; but the thunders Of 8 thousand
cannon will ding it into your ears, and into the
ears of your children. The question is, what
does Grant think OF the negro? There is not
a man in this house that will maintain for a
moment that before the war, before 1861,
there is the slightest shred Of evidence that
Ulysses Grant ever had one single idea on
the negro, right or wrong: You will allow
that. Then the gun sounded at Sumter. Did
did Shepley, Dix and Butler? Certainly he did
not. Then came the questions, shall We
arm the negro? shall we free the negro
sfnll We recognize the citizenship OF the ne
gro? You ali know what killed Fremont
and what cashiered Hunter, and what made
the South hate Butler and Charles Sumner
It was the negro. Nobody ever felt To-
Grant-nobody ever found fault with him
You will all allow I am not exaggeratlns
or misstating. You never heard the first lis!
of word from General Grant during all thos'
wears. The great General marched right ~
To Appomattox, took the extended sword o
General Lee, and sheathed it. And every mai
in this audience will allow that up to that mo
ment the lips OF Ulysses Grant never hat
dropped one single word, and his most sanguin
friend has not presumed to hint at one, OF +