Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15

rho loved and gone that 10 yon churchynrd lie,
Beneath the mound that kindly hands have made,
Shall 1.-Two aalu In realm beyond the sky
Where Frost md chill and deaths cold hand s stayed
The Inyectiyc Of Wendell Phillips
is sublime, aud he gave it free scope in his
Boston lecture on Tuesday night. II fell on
Presidents, past present and 20 come on
the Supreme court, the New York Tribune,
the trainers Of the constitution, the Southern
leaders, AMI the Southern people; indeed, il
fell pretty much everywhere, and was "lying
round loose" over the whole country, at the
close Of his speech He said that, save the
first Adams and jefferson, and perhaps jack
son, not a single President had had purpose
in his administration, except 10 elect himself
for second time Our fathers, he contin-
ued, had not a broad outlook. They worked
but for their time. The original States were
90 pounded into the Union by poverty Ad-
ans and Hamilton and the rest wanted
government that would pay" and as conse-
quence the constitution is full of provisions
for developing and protecting the financial
power and prosperity Of the nation. Ham
lton, one of the greatest, perhaps the great
est man that America has ever produced"
rests his reputation upon his essays on the
tariff and the revenue take those away, and
but little remains Of his fame. We were
sort Of " great commercial firm not gov
ernment, but a Yankee peddling concern, for
forty years" He was particularly hard on
Judge Chase and the Supreme court, which,
he said, the South has captured For
worse than fancy presides over and wields
the power of the court base man, the more
dangerous for his fair and specious outside
show a slave of Tanmany, corrupt and
yenal Judge, and bad to the last degree and
in almost every respect, if Mr.. Phillips may
be believed. Horace Greeley is as good
vane as any other to show which way the cor
rupt wind is blowing" And Mr.. Phillips
regards the issue Of the political contest of
1872 as doubtful; and if Chase and Wade
Hampton succeed to Johnsons treachery and
Grants abnegation," we shall be ruined in-
deed At one point he paused to pay his re-
spects to the Tribune, for its conciliatory
policy toward the South, and gave it a tire.
mendous setting down for its declaration that
We " need to use" Jefferson Davis and the
principal Southern men. "No man ever sur
rendered one-haf his rights and ever saw the
other-half." And as for the Tribune, he said
that we, meaning good abolitionists,-
had disowped" it long ago, for its manifold
offences against the truth, several of which he
rehearsed in his most caustic style, dwelling
with especial bitterness upon the Tribunes
course during the war. Mr. Phillips asked,
" What made the rebellion ?" and answered,
Eight millions of dunces-eight millions of
ounces led by a few hundred thousand knaves,
The masses of the South were all sunk in
british ignorance and fell an easy prey, as
ever before, to the designing men who wished
to use them, and the government, that al
lows so many ounces, deserves to be rebelled
against" Now the time has come to change
all that. "lf Alabama won't educate her
people, we must educate them for her, and
send the bill to her to pay" We cannot
trust her people with great questions until
they have been educated into intelligence.
When Alabama acknowledges the newspa-
per, will acknowledge Alabama"
| The question which lay at the bottom Of
the war, said Mr.. Phillips, was nationality; we
we're not to be partnership, but nation !;
not group Of states, but a state. Now, ma
tions are variously made--somctimes by uni
ty of race sometimes by the character Of
the soil sometimes by the fierce joys and
sorrows of thousand years" &" We find no
basis for nationality in race there is no
hope of unity in the diversified and varied
geography Of our land Nor have we, like the
old countries, the memories Of decade Of
centuries TO bind us together like France,
for example, " which is the slow deposit Of
thousand years upon the primal granite I;
nation which could not 90 to pieces if it
would" We have been thus far merely " a
herd Of states hunting food in company
The late struggle welded US together as much
as any one thing could. But no great in
ternal difference ever ends with one war; :
Witness England and Scotland, France and
Burgundy, and the Italian states. All we
have really learned by the war " is what's
the matter with u.s." And what we have
found is this-that the great, strong, ignorant,
bulldog element Of the South hates the Union.
The problem before us is how to conciliste
! that element and failing in that, how to
smother it. The war is not ended, it has
just begun, said Mr.. Phillips. The struggle
? of the revolution was not over when Corn
: wallis laid down his arms. Long after that,
1t was question whether we could be ma
tion and that question was not settled until
, Jefferson leaped into the saddle in 1901
So with us, the surrender Of Lee has not put
! an end to the rebellion. The state of socie-
ty from which the rebellion sprung is not yet
. annihilated for it is not yet replaced. And
1 until this is done-until we have " suppressed.
: ed, filled up, crowded it out" the spirit which
: made the war will live, and we shall fall short
e Of nationality. That we should reach that
/ point eventually, Mr.. Phillips said he believ-
ed and we should have done SO three years
ago if we had had great leader-some one
who would have helped US to mould the
South at the time when ii was as liquid lava
% for US to impress with the seal of our wis
DOM"