The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-11-10
WENDELL PHfLLIPs hGAIN.
The Great Bo-tonian Tossing Posies 10 the
Women Of America.

Wendell Phillips lcotured in Association
Woman" lie spoke OF the abolition Of slavery
as tho most important achievement In the first
century OF the nations life. Twenty years
ngo, said he, tho slave power denied men the
right Of free speech In even Boston and New
York. Tho members Of the Abolition Society
were expelled from fremont Temple by mob.
aud when the Mayor Of Boston was asked to
protect citizens who had met to sneak a. free.
men. bis reply was that he had not the power |;
and when permission was asked to occupy the
senate chamber, a Governor OF Massachusetts
would not grant Il, fearing that tho mon. OF
which he stood In dread, might enter tho sacred
precincts and potlute the place with their pres-
ence.
Ignorant, drunken rabbo held full away. Here
In New York, twenty years ago, said Mr. Phil
lips, stood speaking to AN audience four times
talent, the rospectability OF the city were on the
noor; but the sovcreigns were In the gallery.
AT my right stood the Chief Of the police force,
and Il my lcf. was the leader Of the mob, Civ
ing orders to the representative OF the law and
the authority OF your city. Every hint, every
was obeycd without word OF protest.
The downfall Of slavery In the South
North but are VIC not still In danger4 The repub-
llc teRns To totter as soon as broad line -
dematcation n drawn between classes In the
community ind when wealth Is ranged on this
side and labor and poverty on that. our peril Is
greater than IL ever WIS before. he spe 4ker
traced the mischief that may be wrought by
great capital ia the hands of men of brains. In
stances have been multiplying OF late years,
sIid he. and there lives ia Pcnnsy yivania to-day
man who can reach out and grasp $jOOOOQ.O,O,
whose works reach from New York to san Fran
cisco and from tho great lakes to- the Gulf, aud
at whose nod the Lesisl ture Of Pennsl lvauii
bends the knee.
MIR. Phillips next touched upon intempcrancc.
He thought that New England prohibition was
right ana that the project, even II 1t had failed
once, twice, OF thrice. might be probably tried
again The Anglo-Saxon differed from all other
men, In that he was always and everywhere a
oonqueror, and In that, IS Macaulay says, he
celebrated lis yicinIts by intoxicatiOu. II Is
tho rum power that gives Is N.d rulers, and Il is
tie rum power that has prove d and VIII prove
the most dangerous Toe to tbe liberties OF the
people.
Mr.. Phillips would not demand the ballot for
women, but he thought that they should he re-.
quired TO share the burdens OF government with
men. We csnnOt hope for great things until
the sexes work iceetheri " the his,ory OF the
world nothing HIS been done to elevate tho
race, unless woman had a share In the work.
Literature has been one OF tue main strength.
c1ers, and to what does II owe its purity, but to
woman mi ides and Sophoclcs were M
pure men as th" best writers uf to-dav, hut who
WTotc for men, and SO did Cuauc,r and Shakes
n'nre; but Tcunvson aud Dickens aud Macau-
ley wrote for men and women.
The speaker concluded vita the eXurcssicn o
his hote and teller that ere long that half uf
mankind, whom ne considered not better tnan
thcir lords, hut fully their eq ais. should be4r
their snare Of the burdens of government.