The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-10-17
BUTLER's BATTLE.
Wendell PhiIlIPs's Letter to BastOn's Great
Democratic Meeting

| Wendell PhIllipss Letter to BastOn's Great
Democratic Meeting
The feature of the great Democratic
meeting in Boston on Wednesday, next
to Buffers speeches. was the following
| letter from Wendell Phillips:
BOSTON, Oct. S.-GENTLEMEN-I am
sorry cannot be with you at the ratifi-
cation meeting on Wednesday evening.
At present / am not able to take part in
public meetings, and | must therefore
decline your invitation. As some of the
journals pretend to find my late letter
10 the Advertiser equivOcal, will take
the opportunity to make it, if possible,
more explicit. My vote for Governor
will be thrown for the man who, years
ago, urged Congress to declare that by
the Constitution of the United States,
women have the same right to vote for
members of Congress that men have,
aud who, as Governor of this state, has
appointed woman to a judicial office
for the first time in the history of Mas
sachusetts. The Republican party has
ruled Massachusetts every year but two
of the thirty years that party has exist
ed. Never, during that time, has col
Ored man been appointed to any office of
honor in civil life. | shall vote for the
man who. added 'cOntTaband' to our pO-
litical vocabulary, and who as Cover
nor, tr'Ie to his record, has nominated a
cOlOred man to a judicial Office for the
first time in the history of the state.
remember that the Republican party, in
it's hot yOuth-when it had a conscience
did much toward freeing the cOlOred
man. But see that party now the will
ing tool of capital and the banks, and
with thimblerig system of national
bonds, 1t Is doing far more to undermine
our institutions and enslaVe the white
man. Enthusiastic young men may be
hoodwinked and worked in harness,
blind to what they are really doing, and
ignorant who moves them, like pawns
on the chess board. But in fact, the
battle today Is between man and money,
and the real, unseen leaders of the Re-
publican party are the shylOcks. Priv
LEGGED aud incorporated wealth is one of
the two great dangers that here threat
EN- popular institutions, and the Repub-
llcan party is its servant and organ.
Every lover of liberty should, therefore,
toll and pray for its destruction; cOnse-
quently shall vote for the man who,
) ears ago, advocated system of finance
that would have saved us from this bon
dage to the shylOcks, and would now go
far to avert our danger. The clamOr of |
the press does not alright me; my only |
surprise is that respectable men, some |
of them in private station, and hitherto |
supposed to be gentlemen, should lend |
themselves to such ISLANDERS. But party |
spite stops at no falsehOOds, and angry |
words belong naturally to the losers. / |
also, the howl of rebuke and |
shout of derisIOn with which large |
share Of the Boston press received the |
of John A. Drew for Cover
nor; but now, all the pOpes who ever |
reigned in Rome could not make him |
more of saint than every Boston Jour
nal affects to believe him. Our fathers |
rounded their fourth of July periods
with the names of Hancock and Adams. |
/ have no doubt the boys of the next |
generation will shout with equal en-
thuSiasm for Sumner and Wilson, for |
Andrew and Butler, for Massachusetts
loves cOurage-that courage which, in
defiance of an angry and reYengeful
press, uncovered the infamy of Tewks-
bury, the same that once led the Massa-
9Th round Baltimore and in
sured the safety Of the Capital.
When next Gen. Butler, with Massa-
at his back, moves on Washing
ton, trust he will be equally success
full in reaching the Capitol.
Respectfully, WENDELL PHILLIPS.