The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-29
Wendell Phillips.


lAppeal.
Wendell Phillips is one eff the
greatest American orators. His
character is strange compound
of fanaticism, philanthropy, sym.
pathy, cruelty aud malignity. He
was an original Abolltionist, and
the prejudices he imbibed against
slavery when he and other Aboli.
tionists were mobbed in Boston
filed his heart with hatred for
Southern people which was cruel
in its malignity. He seemed to
think that the South was respon-
sible for the institution of slavery;
that it had its origin among our
people just as polygamy had its
source among the Mormons. He
was perfectly oblivious to the fact
that Massachusetts, was once a
slave State, practieed slavery in a
form that was shocking to human
ity; that at the time of the adop.
tion of the constitution all the
States tolerated slavery except
one or two, and that the Northern
people got rid of their slaves by
exporting them to the Sonth and
selling them into perpetual bond.
age. In his war upon the South
all these things were blotted out
of his memory. Sumner and
Greeley forgot the past, extended
their hands across the bloody
chasm and announced their readi-
ness to treat the Southern people
with kindness and our section as
an integral part of a restored and
indissoluble Union. But Wendell
Phillips could not eradicate the
hatreds which permeated every
fiber and ligament of an ardent
and enthusiastic nature. He led
the Abolition crusade against the
South, and the war so intensified
his hatred that for the past eight.
cen years he has pursued our peo
pie with q beastly ferocity. He
could see no future for the South,
no good in q people guilty of the
crime of purchasing negroes from
Northern people who wanted to
sell them. But time cures the
widows bleeding heart. and it
seems time will sooner or later
eradicate the most bitter and
malignant hatreds. 1t has taken
many long years for time to exter-
inmate Wendell Phillips's hatred
of the South and southern pco.
pie; but q radical change has at
last taken place, aud as he is All
extremist in all things, his friend
ship in the future will be as en-
thusiastic as his malignity has
been bitter. The Appeal has al.
ready alluded to Mr.. Phillips's re-
cent utterances, in which he said
"The handwriting is SO plain on
the wall that none but a fool need
mistake ii. New England is doom
ed just as sure as natural laws
will produce fixed results. New
England has no soil worth men
tioning, and her wealth has all
been derived from her manufact
ures. These are gradually leav
ing her and eventually they will
all go-some to the West, the
most to the South, where the ad
vantages for profitable mapufact
uring are located. The coal and
iron in the South are easily got
ten at, and inexhaustable il
amount, and the iron-mills, the
foundries and machine-shops car
90 to them better than they cal
20 to the shops. Then cotton ant
woolen.mills must go there, fol
the raw materials are, and are tt
be. produced there most cheaply
uniformly and better. Then lool
at ths advantages of the extr;
hours of daylight in years run
This, of itself, is no small matter
As the South grows stronger an'
stronger, the wealth culture ant
power of the country will be cen
tered there until she will become
not alone the mistress of America
but the central empire of th'
world.
The Horns Take Them Who Can