Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-02-15
Wendell Phillips Ticket.

The following is the per-oration OF the speech
lately delivered 10 Philadelphia by Wendell
Phillips, the distinguished Radical orator, a
notice Of which has heretofore been publish ed
in the Gazette. 1t was received with rounds
OF applause, and will serve as specimen of the
whole. Is it strange that there should be a
solid Democratic South Z?
Now propose Presidential candidate that
shall be notification to the world that the
North is color blind, blind as the words OF cur
constitution, blind as God Himself. | will
have for President whom you choose. Public
opinion shall name him. only want, in ac-
cordance with my experience which gathered
from the little Latin know, ab posdes docle,
to learn from the enemy, that 1t shall be
name whose election shall make every white
knee in New Orleans tremble. lwant name
that if he sees the condition of Louisiana will
be willing to describe it. 1t has never been
described in Congress. 1t is nothing but an
insolest white minority endeavorlng to put the
white and black industries, lawabldlng and
peaceful majority, under its feet. That Is
louisiana. | do not care for Maine, nor law,
nor parliamentary strugglers, nor the passion
of legislative halls. That is play, child's play,
ard the only man whose word bas ever lndloat-
ed that he understood it is the President OF
the United States. Applause.1 l have no
such dread of the American people, as that
they have any superstition of third term
Iapplausr; but the man who ls to preside over
the Seuate must be a nngrol lSeusatlou.l The
Vice President of the United States, IN order
that the North, restating with an upright
faith, may make the South down TO Mobile,
understand her, must be Frederick Doug lass.
Tho II shp rps h =
baule, tt at is as yet on the very edge OF the
contest, to be unmi>takably understood must
nut down mile stone that knows no difference
of color. She must remove from the principle
and method of the American people the dis
tipction between white and black. 1t may be
that this may have surprised some of you, that
| shall be called fanatic, that it would be
thought presumptuous to name a black for the
Vice President of the Uuited States, but /; may
save perhaps labor of-a generatlo3, and 1t may
carry forward the time aud the conviction into
inc Southern white, in this battle, Il have
not only been defeated iu the battle field, but
have been defeated in the conscience OF the
North" There is actually on the other side OF
Masoo and D'xon's line purpose which these
seeming hestations has not reached. w hat
was to be done to the man who was proved to
be man of truth2 Proclamation was made
in the streets Of the Eastern capital that he
shall be attired 10 the royal purpI. and gol-
deu crown shall be put on his head aud be shall
be carried through the streets OF the klng 8
city and the herald shall proclaim: "Here is
to him whom the King delighteth to honor"
and when black face is set 10 the Vice Presl-
dental chair Of the Senate, and when the Uni
ted States records it's verdict that the Constltu-
ton knows neither color nor coud ton, then
- /, am
that there is something deep down in the intel
lcctua recognition and the moral purpose OF
$4,000 600 of people, which no Struggling OF
reluctant shoulders, no breaking up of pecu-
mary relations, 10 boodshed in the streets OF
Southern cities, 10 indifference 10 reference to
the struggles of race, Gao effect; and that the
United States 10 the next halt century together
is to 90 on iD one uufaltering, unbrokcn progress
as between North aud South black man and
ludan, aud of all the races gathered uoder the
shelter Of its flag.