Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-24
WENDELL PHILLIPs, TIrus


WENDELL PHILLIPS VIEWS
Grants Patriotism and statssman-
ship ReVieFed-The Southern Tsaua
Ghe Only One That Keeps the Party
AliVe-H His View Of the south and Its
Expectations.
The following we take from the Boston
Herald.
Il advise no one who is interested in the
Presidential election" said Wendell Phil
lips the other night, to an audience Of
about 1,0O0 in Parker Memorial Hall, ''to
feel certain who is to be the next President
OF the United States until we reach the 4th
day of March. do not think that there
Is any certainty whatever who will sue
eeed Grant in that seat until the 1st day Of
March. No matter what the papers NAV
say TINS month or next month, a descision
VIII not be reached certainly before the
middle OF FEBRUARY with anything of a
character man can trust,
THANKS TO GRANT.
''The first word, it seems to me. that Is
to be uttered to-day, when we NAV INDULGE
some hope that the Ohio Governor will sue
eeed General Grant, the first words to be
uttered to-day are the thanks of the nation
to General Grant. If the Republic is safe,
so that loyal hand holds the helm for the
next four years, we shall owe it to the far
sighted craftsmanship and fearless patriot
ism of the present President-[spplausel-
fearless in facing popular mis4nderstand-
ing and miscOnstruction as he was In facing
the enemy's cannon; cautious in never
oversteppilg the law, and prompt to the
extreme Yergs Of his constitutional author
ity when it was necessary to save the Unit
ed States, there has been no man in that
chair who has been so willing to take res
possibility as Grant since Andrew Jackson
quilted it in taking responsibility promptly
and initiating measures that were neces=
sary to the salvation Of the Republic. In
war his name will stand side by side with
that of Andrew Jackson; every year has
added to his lsurels, and this year, if he
succeeds in what he has undertaken, viii
shroud his memory with the greenest laurel
that any year Of his life has Watered.
think he has risen to the level of his duty
on every occasion. He has never been
found wanting when the hour called, and
from the time he took ths responsibility in
Louisiana to the time he takes it to-day,
his has been one unfaltering course Of fear
less, patriotic willingness, no matter what
was the Judgment Of his fellOw-citizens,
to do his duty l take great pleasure in
saving that maintain that the man among
| ali other public men who best understands
| the significance Of the present is the Presi-
dent Of the United States. Every one Of
| his acts which people have misrepresented
will shine in history, and he will have full
credit for his craftsmanship and cOmpre-
helsiOn."
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.
Speaking further of the Southern ques-
ton, Mr.. Phillips argued that it would not
have been possible to Rally the North for
Hayes but for this vital issueJ the party
had worn itself out in interest to Us, but
1 this question touched the chords in The
hearts of the people1of the North. Allud-
/ ing to the various political mistakes the Re
1 publican party tolerated, he said one was
| the universal right of boiling when any
man had an attack Of indigestion. But for
the single issue that held the party togeth-
er it would have been in this contest little
better than mob undertaking to meet reg
ular troops-oR the one nand, the disor-
ganized, disiRtegrsted, demoralized element
of the Republican training school; on the
other, the determined, well-drilled, well-fed
and Well-offlcsFed troops that signify the
] Democratic party. The Republican party
! just touches success and nothing more.
| The leaders deserve none; they never laid
down method or a corner stone that had
| in it any power to carry the country.
Among these leaders he excepted Blaine,
Butler, Boutwell, and Morton. They, he
claimed, were always in the front rank Of
the party.
They saw the dangers menacing it. They
! knew what was needed to bolster it up. but
4 1fcl,
my mind, continued Mr.. Phillips. the Doint.
Of departure in the Republican rank is verY
evident, The same issue is going on To-
day that went on in 1850 and 1854 in the
Wing ranks. 1t is the same method by
which Providence always replaces one par
ty with another. Describing the fall Of the
Wing party, and the causes that led to II,
I he proceeded to draw parellel between il
| snd the Republican party. It has put slave
~ under, he said; if has disintegrated the
South it has given you the nation as it
stands to-day, to great extent, and in a
large measure its work is done. Repre-
senting the untsmable spirit of the South.
despite its thrsshing and the impossibility
Of compelling it to change its ideas, he
compared its growth to our own, and show
ed our necessarily similar material eharac-
teristies. As a nation we are firm and un-
yielding. We pride ourselves upon our
stEspgth of will and tenaeity Of conviction
The South has, in measure, developed in
this respect the same ideas that we have.
Do you suppose, he asked, the Saxon blood
Of the South had It's notions beaten out OF
it by Gettysburg and Appomottox? Sup
pose Lee hsd. pressed Grant back to the
lakes, and instead of Appommstox the final
defeat had been at Cleveland, and our boys
in blue had been parolled in Columbus, and
the Confederate flag hOated over Washing
ton, would we have taken down the Bun
ker Hill MOnument7 Would Massachusetts,
have acknowledged slavery and a graded
eivilizatiQp2 No! True is the spirit Of
our emblem
; The nag shall mark where'er 1t floats
An island Of the nee.
Just as they are We should have been.
South Carolina is Just as determined, Just
as aggressive, as we could hsYe been,
kvIEw or THE SOUTH.
The South has no business; the people
have been bred up to nothing but idleneSs.
y They have but one trade, one profession,
oSs1 that is politics. In this they are ex-
- - Teen, adroit, as we know from OuI
Soai;;1-S Si; - >--ith them. From politics the
So,,.bernsr Se1ii, hes TO receive his fortune.
b. Ill so;ts,a fh; question. We are agi
tating it. Few of you ~ YIN ever i've 70 - =.
it settled. 1t may not be ~, = prominen
hereafter as it is now, but it viii S;I :. =
the Cavalier and Roundhesd isspa ~, - y
England, as the different parties 5id -
France; it viii remain with more or lsss sss
strength, to trouble every other issue tiIl
after the present generation is In its crave
It is the first element that presents itself to
the Republican party standing whers tbs
Whig party did in 1880. There have been
no calculations for Mr.. Tilden's success ex-
eept As beginning at q Solid South; that L
the cornerstone Of the Constitution always,
We consider there Is no calculation in favor
OF Governor Hayes success except
DIsINTEeRATINs rHE SOUTH.
A divided South, mean a healthy indi-
viduality Of States, such as we are broken
II into naturally, is a necessary fact in his
election. What did the war break upg A
Solid South. What did Democratic suO-
oess bring up from the ehasm Of the warf
a Solid South. WHIST viii preserve Us the
victories OF the waF9 The Republican par
ty. One OF the grayest mistakes, Mr.. Phil
lips claimed, that the journals Of the North
are making to-day, is in ignoring this ones.
tion Of the South. Reading an extract
from q Republican paper charging the loss
Of the Government upon certain OF its
statesmen, he asked: Does the party that
throws mud at the candidates expect sue