New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-10-16

create divisions in his own ranks. choosin.
rather to turn all his weapons against tn,
common enemy, aud notwiths landing all thu
blows he has received from Phillips, he ha.
never given blow in return.
l am told that Mr.. Phillips disposition t,
upbraid and domineer seems to grow with hi
years, and that he has lately alienated seve
raj Of his former warmest friends;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness on the brain.
| In taking note Of this trait in Mr.. Phillips
character it should be mentioned that, in one
instance, he RETAINED from personal attach
upon a certain one of his associates, although
the latter assailed him in most yindictivt
and outrageous manner. | refer to the diff
ference which sprung up between Phillips
and Garrison at the close of the war, over
the proposition to discontinue the anti-slav.
cry organization. | myself heard Garrison
make most ill-tempercd and even brutal
| assault upon Phillips, which the latter not
only did not resent, but he treated the for
mer as tcndcrly as a son ever treated a father,
displaying an almost divine courtesy and for
bearance. Ii, as l have said, Mr.. Phillips
knows better than any man how to give an
insult, no one knows better, also, how to be
amiable and how to euoGize. Several times
after attacks upon Mr.. Sumner, he has ad
dressed the Senator letters in terms of the
heartiest goodwill and the highest esteem.
do not recall any anecdotes of Mr. Phil.
lips which the public has not already heard
and his thousand brilliant sallies of wit are
familiar TO the many who have listened to
his lectures and speeches. But there is one
anecdote which, will J., perhaps, bear repeating
although it, some years ago, went the rounds
Of the press. During the sitting of Meth
NJ ist in, Mr. lima
tered horse-car in which there was num-
Der of clergymen. Immediately he was
pointed out to them as the great agitator,
and one, holder than the rest, who did not
sympathize with the anti-slavery movement,
addressed him, asking if he was Wendell
Phillips, and upon receiving an affirmative
reply, he said, "You preach up the doing
away with slavery in the South, don't you:''
Yes" answered Phillips, 81 preach in
favor of the abolition of Southern slavery"
"Well," said the minister, with a critical
accent, don't you think you had better 60
down South and preach ito" NO" replied
Phillips, 81 think it is well to preach my
doctrine in the North" and then surveying
the clergyman's person, he said, "You are
minister, | presume, from your appear
ance?" Yes, l am a minister" said the
other. "Well, you preach for the salvation
Of souls from hell, 1 presume" said Phillips.
~ do" answered the clergyman. "Well,"'
retorted Phillips, "don't you think you had
better 60 to hell and preach t?"
Mr.. Phillips is at present at his seaside
residence at SwampscOtt. He has given no
public utterances for some months, except
upon certain local Improvements about Bos-
ton. Two years ago he was a warm sup.
porter of Butler for the governorship, but
some of his friends are inferring from his re.
cent silence that he does not intend to come
to the generals assistance in the present
canvass, thinking, perhaps, that Buffers
| praises for his vigorous action in New Orleans
have been sufficiently sounded, and that the
North has at length fully paid him the debt
| it owed him for it. The fact that the general
has taken to sounding his own praises fol
that affair would seem to confirm the opinion
that he did not count on its being done by
others.
1t is just possible, moreover, that Mr.. Phil
| lips is not SO good Grant man to-day as he
for reelection "until every Southerner forty
years old was in his grave" There are
| even those among Mr.. Summers friends
who believe Mr.. Phillips is preparing to come
| to the Senator's support, in Massachusetts:
and in the nation, and to stand by him in his
majestic attitude of enmity to corruption, ant
in his demand for civil rights for the blacks,
and for reconcilitlon between North and
South. No one supposes that William Lloyd
Garrison will ever entertain other than bitter
hatred toward every man born south of Masor
and Dixon's line; but Wendell Phillips is too
young man to cherish through all his re
manning years the animosities kindled in the
combat against slavery. If he had a portion
Of his life breathed in SUMMER cline than thi:
bleak New England, he would have been les:
embittered; but with all his passion he is a maj
pure and sound of heart, and it is to be HOPED
that even here he will yet do somewhat to
ward reconciliation, and to sound his fame b.
showing the world that he is statesman, a
well as the first of advocates and orators
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