, 1877-06-10
BOSTON.
A Great Orator at a Woman's
Meeting.
What 1Ie Doesn't Say and What
lie Does.


tIIcHa uniHleEeAtlnH. anu fng nna*et WIS.,
Frankly. do, as a matter Of correspondence.
There is never anything ncw torcport, a. a mat
ter Of co.rse. Tho line 1T argument has been
repeated many times, and the ablcst speakers
nHon1st them cnn IN the nnturc Of things hare
nothing fresh to eay. With other meetings It
Is quite different, Ther are not devoted 10 one
special subject Of reform. but embrace the vari-
GUS themes al tIfo and the world. But there
was ono nf tho suffrage meetings Of which
have proposed 10 speak oil along. wht:h eas
especially Interesting because one Of the speak
ers. who ls the greatest Of all spcakcre.
ran clean of the track and entered his
favorttc arena Of "wAr and hsms.n
Il Is needless to say that this SPEAKER was
l1oason's iaYuritc orator, Wendell Phillips. le
followed Mrs ttycFmore, nntt OF course there
was nothing to say In the line Of suffrage. All
that could be said had been uttered BY that
QUEEN OF THE MOVEMENT
aud tho platform, With that inEmitab1c cio-
quencc Which Is 90 familar to lcctuTe-gocrs.
And evidently Mr. Phillips felt that there was
nothing left for lin to do, md showed It bv q
manner that in nnybodr tlsc would have beer
pronounced "dull." 11c frankly stated that
there was Nothing to lie said after Mrs. Liver.
moro, AMI tlits '*nothing" he disposed Of Us
gracefully as possible and Us quickly, getting
rouni upon his fayorito topic, tho abuse Of the
Government and Charles Francis Adams, by an
nlro1t pcroration which left him master OF The
situation al last. It Was funny u hear some Of
the comment. 49,.
Br,lnctta, VINO is d fierce little partisan, re.
marked TO Dlondina:
allow well hlr. Phillips spoke upon womau-
sutfragc.n
D1undina, who rather prides herself upon
nrrer being apartisan, laughed.
s'now WELL lie pIDS'r SPEAK
Upon wornau-sufIrasc, you mean. How well he
skirtct tho subject and compltmcnted all its
feminine !eatlcrs, anu pattrd everybody on the
back, and prophcsted good tlmo coming fol
tlcn,."
"skirtcd the subject! III like to know Il you
mean to Say that Mr. Phillips was not in car
nest; tlat ho was trying TO get rid Of RESPONSE
hiiityw
"No, don't mean to say anYthlng Of tho
kind. think Mr. Phillips was entirely IN cur
nest In his sympathy with tho movement, aud
perfectly willing to say 10. But be Is not at
white heat about It, as 3fr. Blackwell and Lucy
/. stonc arc oil tho time and every time. Ilo
suffrage. llo, know, 1t is good and set,sibo
reform, and ia on tho road to SUCCESS in the
best of handsi and 20 It ts little tame fun for
Gen. Wendell, vino likes tho Thick OF tho fight,
u
to folfow TO applaud merely.
oHE or THE CUNNING THINGS THAT TIE SAID,
however. when he ssus on the subject, WAS when,
In reference to somo past time which was
but n,ost Of you arc too youugto remember
that uo was talking tr0ng-minlctluuss to
tho stfong.tnln1el, but hc was talking to
women, and he didn't forget IT,
How mean Of you. Ul0ndlnA. As Il Mpss
wo.ncn carcd,-as if'hc thought"
"Urunetta, don't b M idiot As II thcy, " #
any woman doesn't care to look fresh apd
young. 50 thnt she cannot, N view of ehat fresh
t'lan tho actual sumS ii her yeass. And 10 il il
r1sErrT AND 4 GRACIOUS Tn!H0 Ton 4 MAN
70 ACKNOWLEDGE THIS.
But, however gracious aud graceful that was, 1t
wasn't the best Of his speech. That came when
he really walked up, when he degan to cd,o
round towards politics. md shifted Ills uostrlfs
at tho liquor trafflc. with q sort Of preliminary
lsnscli tho odious odor Of rum.
And when he tuld tho atory uf
TttE MAYOR or CHICAGO.
who met the baud of ladies' who went to him in
Of The week for the law to work OIL their side,
with tlle reinark that tho brewers and dtsti1lcrs
@ weEe vossrs' @ he began to atne IN thu old Phil
"All of Which was directly in reference to apa
involved In the woman's cause, ind moant wou-
an'aufiragc every tine,H sctorted Urt1uetta
"Ali Of which was Indirectly and adroit1y
upon bis uatise neath-the war.path." replies
ai Aal tius tho partisan and non.par.tsan t.ko
y ont Of each Other: But beyond gil this thero
the Brunettaa and Hlontlinas make common
cause, ard that Is tho steady WORK, which docs
not Gas, Of saving tho Old South. The workers
hste believe, aro having the tolicss good time
And the oussidcrs-tte crowlwho tncrclygo tor
the fun Of thu thtng-4lo not lessen as tIipe time
goes On. Last Friday ! went Ia at 1 o'clock,
tho hour advertised for the AFTERNOON entertain.
mcnt, aud tllcre on tue platform was
EMERSON. AND noLMEs,
md Edward Everett Hale, aud James Freeman
Clarke, aud tho gentleman of whom certain Of
hla contcmporarlcs speak as ''Jmmy Flclds.''
uatt lie looked like 4 farmer With Ills sun-
burnt lace and rather rocky aud Yankee aspcct.
Certainly Ike anything but pocl. Yet that
was tho mau who wrote "Amcslca,"
sTeft 81 thse sseq t e s[uE. !!eSf'''
Most Of us had a vague idea TINT hAmerca,,, =,
II not written ut soma remote Revolutionary
sec the nan suddenly seated before US, hale
and hearty, who wrote tho Immortal ttue4, and
presently 70 iIear AtEn secits them and 10 tell
ow l.e lad heard ' q sae!t being sung IL Rus
II.
Has certainly auetr feeling Of experience,
HOLMES WA8 At Ills BEST.
1ie said lie was going To read 4 poem that he
wrote forty years ag0, and that lc should try to
rcal It t!tst a. he would have read II at that
time, Whc1eupon ho commenced. a funny.
looking little fellow anyway, with the boy
expresstan IN ha faee and r. q biz motions, ii
little distance u wasn't difficult to faacy that
3 gay yvung boy;, 1he subject of the poem va
"Otl lsons{des.n II was full Of glurY, aud ,ly-
ing Tag, and light tous:ng, atirrln9 thing, IL
all Of 1lolnca' ballads ate, and It va read With
such rousiug, stirEtng oiiect ~ couldn't hare
tho readrr's shoulders. | thought, y / looked
g the reader. Of what Henry James, sr., said Vi
lto!tncs two. of three, Or four ycaia ago;
!" meaning Holmes -"ls tin0t}ug
With Vitality to hu fuQur tips.
He Is the altvcst man l know"
thought, too, ~ ! looked at the gay
otd fellow caperins about the stage, putting Oh
thosv extraordinary expresslons,-th gttiu4-
ccs-that tho dramatic profession had lot
CAPITAL COMEDIAN
In hlmi Tor he Ia not an orator, be u not 4
apes ker shs in 4 comedian Tfa ID foHrr1. |