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ardor With which he flung himself into the
movement against slavery. are commonly
ascribed TO the shook Of Indignation with
which no Witnessed tho attempt to mob
William Lloyd Garrison In October. 1885. But
the truth 10 that for more than two years
after that event Wendell Phillips remained
silent. nor did he avow himself An alb
olitionist until his new convictions broke
forth In the impromptu speech at tho
great meeting in Faneuii Hall on Dec. 8. 1887.
called for the purpose Of denouncing the muir.
der Of tho Rev. Elijah Loveioy at Alton.
Illinois. We owe 1t TO tho present biog-
rapher that we are able to divine the in.
nuenco which during the two preceding years
had won over to the littlo band OF liberia
tors one who was destined to prove their
mightiest protagonlst In October. 1887. Mr..
Phillips married Miss Anne Terry Greene. and
without In any way invading the sanctities OF
private life We may aflirm that with her he
married tho cause OF emancipation. We learn
from this biography the story Of his first ac-
auaintance with this lady in her own words:
1T was in old staGe-coach days. I. with
other girls. was booked for Green
field. Mass. Wendell Phillips and Charles
Sumner had intended. 1t seems. to 70
also. Mr.. Sumner broke his engagement.
Mr.. Phillips went. talked abolition to him
all the way up-all the time there. He listened.
came again. and II sealed his fate" Mr.. Austin
adds that Mr.. Philllpss marriage to Miss
Greene did not take place until she had sue.
ceeded In fully converting him to anti-slavery
opinions. My wife made me an abolitionist"
said Mr.. Phillips over and over again to those
who had his confidence. For this reason"
adds the biographer. II for no other her name
should always DO spoken with his."
1t was. rs Mr.. Austin says. at the Lovcjoy
meeting In Faneuil Hall that Wendell Phil
lips. tho orator. was BORN" and for the sue
ceedinR quarter OF century he was the most
| conspicuous figure and tho most potent force
In the anti-slavery agitation. We shall not
follow the blographer through his account OF
| What he terms the martyr period. though We
do not think no exaggerates the peril to which
the subject OF this memoir was repeatedly ex.
posed. When we recall the attack on Garrison.
the assassination OF Lovejoy. and the riots
frequently excited In the Northern cities BY
the opponents OF abolition. We cannot doubt
that Wendell PHILIPPE often spoke when he was
conscious that his life hung on thread. But
with this part OF his life the public Is familiar.
and 1t Is universally admitted that but for the
| extreme lengths to which men Ike Phillips
carried their demands. the Free Soil party. and
Its offspring. the Republican party-both OF
which wore essentially overtures to compro-
mise-could not have been induced to come
half way. The work. however. OF the
abolitionists was very far from being
completed with Mr.. Lncolns election to
the Presidency and no one understood
better than Phillips that II he fatered then. or
In anywise relaxed his Efforts. all that he had
striven for was lost. Had the Crittenden Com
promise been accepted by tho slsveholding
States. or had the Union forces been over
whelmingy successful In the hrst battle OF
Bull Run. the Constitution would have been
reesta6iished on the old corner stone OF slave
~. IIn,on wh,oh ia haan 90 nsr,ow,v AZ. y.
c.ned might hnva irronsrablv vsakanad the
rodico, w,no -, tha ponvbi,con rortv Tn mos,
a, the ,eadera ~ That marty and osnacis,lv in
tho rocsnt recrnits from tho n.mocra,ic
r.nL. ph,,,ns ,a,, m oon0d.noo. ho wo ,ohod
thom shnrnlv ha ninnad than N THAR nrose.-
siona and nushad thom FORWARD with relant-
Ie.s energy II Was IaroaIv dua IN him And
those vho had lono b.an bis ~. vork ara that IN
assachusetts and throughout a large section
of tho North that fraction OF tho people which
was really fighting to liberate the slave grsdu-
ally acquired ascendancy over the more apa-
thetic element, which would have been satisfied
with restoration Of the Union on the old basis.
It was. In truth. his mandate which Gov. An
drew delivered TO President Lincoln, and
which committed the national Govern
ment to an irrevocabe rupture with the past
by the issuance Of the emancipation proclama-
ton. To Phillips also must be In great part at
tributed tho vehement uprising against the
scheme Of reconstruction which President
johnson seems to have inherited from his
predecessor. To Phillips out OF Congress, and
to Thaddeus Stevens In Congress, belongs the
credit Of exacting for the freedman those in
destructibe guarantees Of liberty embodied In
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments oil
the Federal Constitution.
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States for the losses suffered through the con.
flscatlon OF their property, The State OF Della.
ware. for instance had never Withdrawn from
the Union. and some OF its slave owners at ali
events coujd individually have nroved thai
they had navsr given Aid to the Confederatea