New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-21
Wendell Phillips-snundcrs-The Herald.

Wendell Phillips -snundcrs-The Herald
We copy the subjoined special to the St
Louis Republican:
New YORK, August 1.-THE diGgraceful
rowdvism of the negroes in New 0rk at
the Cooper Institute Thursday right, IN
connection with Wendell Phillips Incen
diary appeal, Just published, are very gen,
eraI TOPICS of conversation and editorial
treatment. The Tribune says: I'm reading
tbe second column Of Wendell Phillips
nreDOsterous letter we have experienced TO
emotions but Of amaZement and pity TO SEE
a man of genius and of the antecedene OF
Mr.. Phillips SO helplessly under the coltfOI
of blind personal animOsity. But 'etore
he closes lie allows himself to utter word
which ceased to be merely absurd thd ne
comes criminak He attempts to SE up an
ignorant and excitable people aGts OF
violence at moment when puDAc UIH0i -
already menaced in the SOutboy the ma
cbinations of sOrdid demaggues. Mr.
Phillips screams his wild cry 1 alarm INTO
fine ears of the nervous AID frightened
blacks: Vote, every one Ofjou, IOr GEant
as YOU value property, liz, VIE OF chIiu.
IF Greeley IA elected arm, Concentrate, con
coal vour DrOpertv-but organize tor de-
Tense You will need it Don, and sadly
'Wr Saunders. the cOOred orator from
MARYLAND, who was h.Oteu anu grOaheG
down at the Cooper INSTITUTE, prints caro-
in which he charges hisreVerehd opponent
in debate with inCitin( an already dISOr-
Jeriv audience TO riot y his many personal
sarc9sms in lieu of ,peaking on the ques-
tions for discussion IS agreed upon. Mr..
saunders further SIS: "My opponents APP
,,ooI 70 tho lowest ASSIGNS of his friends,
lis efforts to widsrthe breach between the
races clearly ten, toward the destruction
and extinction oPur people. II he courts
this ouestionabl position, am satlslcd ne
will have but fW contestants. L warn the
rasnectable coored citizens OF our country
anainst reDtitiOn of this outrage inaugu-
rated nv Mr. darnett; and which he designs
shall be attributed to them
The Held which otherwise has been
foT-oriDg Grant, for the last few days has
had seyepl long editorials pointing out the
dangpror5 meaning OF the Cooper Institute
inst9ncs of gag laws among cOlOred voters.
II saws. o-day: THE scene at the Cooper
Instit5e was disgrace to civilized city,
and AS calculated to shake the conYlc-
+ionsof these who have hitherto been the
most earnest in their advocacy OF negro
e1fage. Throughout the proceedings
+6pe was a display of ignorance bigOtry
am ruffianism revolving to those who have
hen taught to believe the ballot as the
Ytlladium of our liberties. Yet, deplOrable
was the exhibition as Cooper Institute,
t was orderly, compared with the scenes
enacted in some Of the Southern States.
The fault does not lie with the ne
gro, but with those who strive to bind
them together as a distinctive political
power by imposing upon their creduLty
and infaming their passions. The incen-
diary speeches of Secretary Boutwell, call
ing for ceaseless enmity between the ne
~Toes and whites, the dangerous and IN
Christian letter Of Garrit Smith, in which
the hatred engendered ~ slavery is invoked
to make the South, in his own words, hell
of horrors These are influences calculated
to turn the negro into a demon, and to
make suffrage extended to the black race a
curse to the nation
The HeraH concludes by saying: eve
warn the men who are striving to excite
the fears and passions Of the negro race, tol
their own political ends, that they are play
ing with fire, and the disgraceful scene en-
acted in the heart Of the metropolis on
Thursday evening is only slight toresha
downing Of the evils they are bringing upon
the country"