The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-11
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON GRANT.
The Latest Blast Against the South
No Schoolmarms, no Capitalism Ex-
aggerated Beast Butler Wanted-The
Cannon and the Sca1folt, for the Rebels.

Wendell Phillips delivered lecture at the
Tabernacle, Jersey City, last Saturday evening,
lecture was confined to retrospect Of the anti
slavery movement. He then struck Uhe key
significantly by saying that The first great
question of the times is, "Whlt is the will to
reign at Washington p
Men said that we would know everything
after the 9Th of March, but we are no wiser
now than we were on the Sd. The silent man
has spoken, but what does he say? That he
will carry out the will of the people. Then all
hail to the chief who will carry out the peoples
will. Yet /, for one, see no pretence Of states
mansbip either in the chief who takes the
helm or in the men he calls to his aid. Still 1
do not despair or dcspond because lie docs not
call to the government the great minds of the
nation; we have got enough Of great men-
Qaughtcr)- thank God, we have got rid of
the whole of them. (Renewed laughter.) When
men go to Washington to see the statesman
they 90 to the Navy Department. daughter }
The lecturer here related an incident OF the
war in connection with Secretary Welles and
the commander of one OF our war ves-
sells, and continued. The South, to-day, is !
lard of anarchy, Of blood and of insecurity Of
property, because the outgoing President call
trusted the element OF secession. Eight mil
lions of Southern RS, bred in secession for
thirty years, were not converted by Gettys-
burg. A mistaken idea incarnated in genera
tion never gets out of it. They adhere under
all circumstances, and both are buried in one
grave. There are certain steps which, once
taken, are irrevocable. The South stands to-
day having taken that step which cannot be
retraced. Andrew johnson has gone to Ten
nascae hut thorn S,to nds thn SOuth with oil thp
consequences OF that step staring her in the
face. The nation has to fight the battle over
again. The South wants capital. The North
offers money and schoolmarms, and the South
replies: ''Wc will have your money but not
your schoomarms." The long history of An
down South Grant, with that stalwart, rigor-
GUS, despotic right hand of his, means that
dollar shall 60 South in front, with Yankee
Oh tue one side and schoolmarm on the other.
The President tells US in his fine inaugural
that the Fifteenth amendment ought to become
law, that the debt OF the nation should be paid,
citizens protected, &C., and there he leaves US.
He leaves thirty millions Of people to shape
their own future. That future is easily shaped.
When Ben Butler was in New Orleans you
could travel down South with millions of dol
lars in your possession; you could stand in O
public square aud read the Declaration Of In
dependence; you might wave your hat in. sal1-
ly safe. Now # we could have Ben Butler large
enough to cover thirteen States the thing is
DONE What Grant listens for in the White
House is to know what twenty millions of peo-
pie want him 10 do. We hope he will go down
to Texas and make it safe to plant the flag
there-he has not done it yet-and it will add
laurel to his wreath even greater than he won
on the battlefield. There is one laurel, l re-
peat, which Grant has not earned yet. Oliver
Cromwell said that he would mako tho ranc
of EnglIshmen such power, such terror to
enemies, that an Englishmaa might feel per-
fectly safe even though be stood on the verge
OF the civilized world, and he did it. We want
Grant to initiate that example. We want him
to undo the history of five terrible years, to
employ that cannon now lying idle in Wash
ington to such purpose that man may travel
through any part Of the South and say, "Pm
Union man" without fear of molestation. The
Ku-Klux shall then fly away. I would have
scafolds erected in the South, and whenever
murder would bo committed, would bang
the pcrpetrator as high as Haman. TAP
plause.) The great shame OF the Plesi-
dent to-day is that he has not done
this. The moment he does it oil England and
the North will rush to the South in one great
crusade Of business. The Senates may then
dissolve and the armis be disbanded. Let the
Fifteenth amendment be made line in the
constitution. we have submitted in o coward
ly manner f0r f0ur years TO traitor PRESIDENT
for our own peace and if the work be not now
accomplished our children will have to fight the
battle over again. If another administration
like the one just ended had succeeded, the
crisis of war would come even sooner; we would
have the peril at our very doors. Only think
how narrowly we escaped. Seymour carried
New York by the help of q mob, made up of
rowdies and the lawless element, against Grant
with the brave soldiers who conquered the re-
belion. Only little more on that side and
we were doomed. The contest was 30 close
that there is nothing like it on record.
The times have also another meaning, name
ly-tnat the war has taught US that neither in
Congress, nor the Executive, nor In admins
tratious, can we trust for the success of re-
publican institutions. The great security and
stability of our government are founded on the
education of the masses. Aristocracy was
killed on the scaffold with Charles the First,
and to-day it holds the English people in
slavery. So with us. We have killed the root,
but the tree lives. One thing can be said of
Grant, that words from his lips mean more
than those uttered by other men. His mes
sage is promise, and it will be carried out to
the letter. l have no doubt he will vigorously
execute every law that Congress puts into his
hands. But Congress should cover the South
with cannon. banners and scatfoids till full
security OF person and property is enjoyed and
till it can be said with truth, "we will have
peace"