The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-15
HIS MISSION ENDED.
Death, at Boston, of Wendell Phiilips. tns
Noted Anti-Slavery Aeitator "a Dr'0
Sketch Of His Life.

Death. at Boston, Of Wende PhiiliPss ths
Noted A~nti-Siavery AeitatOr- "A Brio
Sketch Of His Life.
BosroS. Mass, Feb. 4-Wendell Phil
lips, the great orator. died peacefully afo:la
| O'Clock Saturday evening. For the pas
week he had been suffering from angina
| pectoris, of which he had had one or I'VE
premonitory attacks. Soon after foui
O'Clock Saturday, feeling somewhat
easier, he attempted to raise him
self in bed. This effort brought on
severe paroxysm which utterly pros
trated him, and it became evident that the
end was near. He himself knew it, and
said so. The pain was partially relieved
but he had not the strength to rally, anc
gradually sank. He was cons ious to the
last, and evidently knew all that went or
about him until he seemed to drop quietly
TO sleep. His invalid wife and other MEM
bers of his family were present during his
last hours.
The funeral will be conducted by Rev.
DIR. Bartol and Rev. James Freeman Clarke,
and will take place in Boston Tomorrow OF
Wednesday. MI. Phillips last public act
was the writing Of a letter last Monday &c
Rev. Dr.. Miner. urging that a light sentence
be secured for Burnham Wardwell, indicted
for libeling a sheriff. When married, thirty
years ago, Mrs. Phillips was regarded as o
hopeless invalid, and the fact that she still
lives excites surprise.
Wendell Phillips was born in Boston No
vember 20, 1911. He graduated at Harvard
i'm 1881, passed through the law school, and
was admitted to the bar in 1854. Three
years later he became known to the public
as an eloquent advocate of anti-slavery,
Temperance, and woman'S rights reform.
His first notable speech, made III FaheuD
Hall i'm December, 1887, was a glowing lie
Tense of f. I. LOvejOy, who Was murdered
by a mob at Alton. ILL.,. for publishing a
radical anttslavery paper. HIS burnlne
words were called forth by a speech oil
James I. Austin. AttOrney-Generalof Massa-
chusetts, apOlogizing for the mob's bloody
deed. As the leading and fearless orator of
the Anti Slavery Society, he was prosecuted
and on one occasion was almost mOobed.
During the early part of the war, ut a meet
ing in Cincinnati, he spoke for an hour amid
jeers and Kisses and a continuous lombard
ment of eggs and other missiles. He sue
seeded William Lloyd Garrison as President
Of the Anti-Slayery Society. In 1870 Mir.
Phillips was the Temperance and Labor Re
form candidate for the &c! erporship, and re-
ceived nearly 30, 900 votes. At a meeting in
Faneuil Hall in 1875 he made a powerful
speech in favor of the Louisiana policy OF
General Grant. The subjects of his adj
dresses nave also included earnest appeals
on behalf of liquor prohibition, prison re-
forms, and Ireland. While no complete
edition of his speeches exists, many of them
have been published as pamphlets and
widely circulated in both the United States
and Great Britain. Mr.. Phillips was
master of the most graceful ~elOcution, and
this. added to a brave and fiery spirit,
his oratOry almost reSiStleSS.
His actions in public life were always ag.
g~reSsive and directed, without sparing, to
any one whose thoughts did not incline to-
ward his own. In person he was tall and
symmetrical, while his face showed earnest
ness and culture. Before an audience he
had the self-pOiSe and steadiness of nerve
which arose from calm courage and long
experience as a public speaker, and from a
thorough knowledge of his side of the QueS-
ton.