The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-19
A REPUBLICAN LEADER.


report of d speech recently nude w nm
audience In that city by old Wendell
Phillips. an extract from which we re-
! publish This vile, incendiary creature.
A. IL we'll to remember, WINS regarded. In
1.-The most lunatical days Of the so-called
Republican organization. as the wisest
and most inspired statesman OF the con-
cernl He has been. however, for years
an smissary in the employment OF the
secret service department OF the
British Government. was mn abolition
agent while England was fomenting tho
war between the North aud South: and
sincc that time has devoted himself to
the abuse Of everything worthy of re-
spect In this country. He tried with Ben.
Butler to arouse Communist insurrec-
ton in Massachusetts. while now he IL
for Grant and the third term. because he
wishes TO destroy the Republic. and
sees a chance to stir u new con-
migration in tho South. One might
excuse tho wretch aB being q
confessed mailman. II not assured
by minute knowledge OF own base
history. that no Is merely doing the
work of u traitor to American Institu-
tons, for 80 much money received Tor
tho Infamous work done. He In do
scribed, IN his late harrangue. as having
denounced tho South In unlneasurod
terms" Ho said. r mEo'l
The spirit existed to-day which, II left
to itself, would again rise against the
Government. Tho only change Is from
ts6i-th want or the. power. AS long
na cruelty controls tho South, II can
never gain the civilization Of the nine-
teenth century. Behind Is q bloody
spectacle, u hideous ghost. The hor-
rors Of San Domingo were not the resis-
lance Of slaves TO u master, but OF freed,
men 10 be- again enslnved. they ktHcd
cpc,'y ,ptite man. iDO0,dn and child. dnd
fhev deserve credit for II. If this ciyiliza-
ton Of tho South continues ~ 1t now is.
its history may yet be checkered with u
Christopho or Touisaant L'Overtuer.
Mr. Phillips. after continuing Tor y
while in this same strain, spoke OF
tho reconstruction Of tho South,
and said. In this m''sh
of concession. this gush OF
sentiment, we can do nothing. Tho
North should do something. 1t should
proclaim TO tho world, IL have incon-
i
and pardoned that insolent rebel. and
how shall ! remedy itP" We must
reap where we have sown. The next
thing is San Domingo and national
bankruptcy. Tho North should put It's
foot down in u manner that could not
be misunderstood, and that was to
show tho world that tho North ID as
color.blind Ms God himself. You eau
nominate for President who you please
Public opinion should name him /,
such man az should make cucvy tChit6
The only man who ever showed he I'M
derstood, this liz tho President Of the
| United States, u. =. Grant, and have
no turning OF stomach ut u third term.
The man To preside over the Senate
must be negro, Fred Douglass. Mr..
Philips continued ut great length his
denunciation OF the South, In terms
liercer and moro bitter than In his best
anti.slavery days. He continued elo-
quent to the last, but with the most MS
tonIshed Philadelphia audience that
ever listened to him. s ne
or course no true American citizen
could over have uttered such sentiments.
We will do our fellow-c citizens Of the
North tho justice to say, that with the
exception Of u few insane fanatics. no
ono now sympathizes with this rabid dog.
They have had the sense to cast him Off
at last. and he is no longer nm inspired
counselor, even considered "the brains
Of the Republican party" and an
influential leader md philosopher.
The Philadelphia journals, which
some years ago would either have can
onind the eloquonce and wisdom Of
this polluted beast, or abstained from
the open pronunciation that his un-
christian. unnatural and atrocious sen
timcnts should inspire with all, now de-
nounce him. In his published TRADE he
Is represented rs advising the midnight
assassination by the negroes Of white
men, women and children, with the GER
tain destruction Immediately after
wards, by way Of most proper
and bloody retaliation, OF every
person with dingy skin in
the South. We quote his horrible sen
tcnce In the DEMOCRAT to show to South
ern readers and the people GENERALLY,
one of the phases OF the God and
morality" party, whose unprincipled
and hateful domination has already cost
this country so much, and must finally
ruin 1t IL continued on the line apparent
ly marked out, and which now threatens
the very death Of the Republic itself In
effect, il not in name.
The leading journals Of the city OF
Philadelphia do not hesitate to denounce
this proclamation by Phillips, in an ex-
aggerated form Of Morton's, "bloody
shirt programme.
The Euening Telegraph thus speaks Of
it:
ct Is not putting the matter too
strongly to say that the lecture was q
gross violation OF public decency and an
insult to public intelligence. No spirit
Of true patriotism could animate the
preparation OF such diatribe, and to
have man OF Mr.. Phillips culture and
attainments indulge in such, would be
disgusting were it not ridiculous"
The Times asserts that the address
was shocking to the audience, and then
adds:
His bald agrarianism, his frantic
financial theories, his running scold
against all corporate progress, and his
sweeping denunciation Of all Legisla-
lures, State and National, did not excite
surprise, for they were but Wendell