Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-13
WENDELL PHILLIPS FOR GRANT.
4 Radical Speech on the Political Situation
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a Radical Speech on the Political Situation
-Butler Contrasted With Fade Hamp-
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Philadelphia Times, November sth.i
Wendell Phillips new lecture-"The Yard
Stick; Who Shall Make Twas listened to
by large audience at the Academy of Music
last evening. The applause that greeted its
delivery had leayen of disapproyal brought
ont by the warmth of the orators panegyric
on Ben Butler, and the vigor with which Mr..
Phillips spoke of South Cardinals governor.
Wade Hampton. The applause followed
the manner and the Kisses, of which
there were not few, the matter
OF the speakers discourse, although
when Mr.. Phillips said "there was onlv
one man who could safely ride the raging
elements of national discord and bring our
country safely away from the danger that i'm
pends-Gen. Grant," the applause was
voclferous and enthusiastic. The title of the
lecture led many to suppose that Mr.. Phil
lips would expound at length the doctrine of
soft money, of which he is one of the great
apostles in New England, but they were dis
appointed, for, although he touched on
finance, he did not follow up that limo of
argument, but inclined toward the discussion
OF the relations of capital and labor, desig-
mating the representatives of the first as
those men who trade in money, and as labor
representatives all the rest. The following
is the substance of the more striking points
of Mr.. Phillips remarks:
Ii were in Massachusetts should begin
my lecture tonight by stating the great
question of to-day to be whether the Union
should succumb to the opposing forces ar
rayed against it. In the famous orations of
a great man of the past the closing sentence
always was: "Nevertheless, Carthage should
be overthrown." So would have it known
that pass away believing in the existence
OF a plot in the South to rule or ruin our
government. The political campaign in
pennsylvania has been based upon finance.
In Massachusetts the issue has been between
capital and labor. In Maine the issue was
also between capital and labor. The result
in my own State is that General Butler an
initiated the Democracy. The people
rose in their might and gave to q favorite
son of the commonwealth 10000
votes. Had the campaign been based on
finance General Butler would have been the
Governor. To-day the dividing line, and
General Butler stands fairly upon it, is capt.
tai and labor in the commonwealth, capital
dreadlng invasion and protesting to dread
reputation. Labor hoping for more hon
est money than the country has known for
many long year. There is danger to-day
for our land, and the danger exists in the
likelihood of our DESERVING the fundamental
principle OF our natlon-universal suffrage.
When speak of labor do not use the word
in the sense that you have often heard it in
political speeches. Capital / speak of as all
that trades in wealth, that deals in the ex-
change of money. A few hundred men
in Chestnut street, 500 in Wall street.
and few hundred in State
street. It was the money changers that the
Son of God scourged from the temple. This
was what the campaign rested upon in Mas
sachusetts, and over 100000 men, holding up
General Butler against capital, made the
| grandest day Massachusetts ever knew. Such
voice, although not recognized this year.
will be heard and heard again until recogni-
ton follows its tones. It is the guarantee of
the perpetuity of the Republic. But the
tide of capital acts strong, and it leads to
ruin. If Blaine or the distinguished Ssna-
tor from New York shall attempt to block
the way with his single strength the onward
march of Grant to third term of Office, the
solid South coqueting with the soft money
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is but one man who can safely ride raging
elements Of national discord and bring our
country safely away from the danger that
lmpends-General Grant. It is mistake to
suppose there are such cohesive clements in
this country that will not, under any other
leader, break to pieces.
Continuing to speak OF national affairs,
Mr.. Phillips came to South Carolina a dan
| gerous State, he said, led by that vagabond
Govern who calls himself Hampton, liar
without Character, morally bankrupt, pen
nlless III tie street, who holds the hand of
the traitor in the White House to betray a
million of people of their votes. Misses
and cheers. am glad, continued Mr.. Phil
lips, without raising his voice, to see that on
this question there is energy of feeling
enough to awaken even Kisses. It is not SO
in Massachusetts. The commonwealth Of
Massachusetts does not exist as it did
less than couple of years ago. The New
York Tribune said the other day that per
haps General Butler and myself would be
willing to retract what we have SO often said,
that the people can never be wrong, and
that the late election in the commonwealth
shows ito us. Is this the case? Oh, no.
The 10000 men who stood up against the
tremendous influence of money and a pur-
chased press present change IN the affairs
of the State-a change, indeed, from 1874
when the vote on the same issue was only
5000. And what change to US, who had
watched the swinging pendulum of popular
opinion of choice, with its 20, O00votes increas.
ing to 10000, to 10000, through various cleo
tions, till the first shot at Sumpter struck high
noon and the people sprang together to meet
and oppose common enemy. When our
great statesmen, Wilson and Sumner, passed
away, our commonwealth had no other
statesman left within its limits except But
Ter. If there was ever State bulIdozed in
this country in election it was Massachu-
sets, and if it had not been SO General But
Ter would have been the honored Governor
of that great commonwealth. Kisses anG
cheers.
ALL AROUND TIE GLOBE.