The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-12
BEECHER ON PHILLIPA
"He Was Gods Trumpet" and Pro
claimed q Jubilee.

claimed Jubilee.
NKw YORK, Feb. H.-Mr. Beecher
spoke on Wendell Phillips In Plymouth
Church. He prefaced his remarks with q
short account Of the anti.slavsry exotic
nsnt. and then spoke As follows: ut was
In the midst Of all this that young aristo.
crat Of Boston appeared. He was an aristo-
crat by birth and by nature; 9 noble msa,
but thorough sristocrat. All bis life and
power assumed that guise. He was noble,
and full of kindness to interiors, was will
Ing to suffer for them. but he was never Of
them nor allied himself TO them. He was
always above them; his gifts of life were
always gifts for principle. All his life
long he resented every attack on his person
and on his honor as noble aristocrat
would. When they poured the filth of
their imaginations upon him, he Jared no
more for it than an eagle might care for a
fly. He was called of God as much as
Moses and the prophets were-not exactly
for the great ends, but In accordance with
those ends. You remember when Lovejoy
was slaughtered in the streets. His blood
NOS ouOh sho nOOA Va hUCAty uVCl tuc
world. 1t was at this time that Claiming
asked for Faneuil Hall.and 1t was refused.
He had interest enough to get 1t after all,
and a meeting was called to give expression
to the feelings OF the public on this MUIR
der. The meeting was made up largely Of
rowdies, and they meant to put down free
expression Of opinion. District Attorney
Austin made truculent speech.
JUsTIFYING THE MOB,
and he ran the whole career of the Sewer
Of those days, justifying the interference Of
the mob and the murder Of Lovejoy.
Young Phillips, feeling the call Of God In
bis soul, went upon the platform, and his
FIRST utterance was drowned BY the hsssss
Of the mob, but he was not a man very
easily subdued by any such demonstration,
and he poured upon that man Austin the
full how of the lava Of bis eloquence.
Practically unknown when the sun went
down, when 1t next rose all Boston was
saying: who Is this felIowf' The ques.
ton has never been known since.
Thenceforth lie was flaming adj.
vocats Of liberty, with singular ad.
vantages over all others. Gorrison's
tongue was his pen, Phillips pen was his
tongue. Another and like speaker has
never graced our history. do not under.
take to say that he surpassed all others, but
he had an intense individuality. and that
ranked him among the best orators that
ever graced our land. The ground which
Garrison took was that tho conscience Of
the North was sympathetic, and he deciar.
cd that the compromises of the constitution
were covenants with hell, and that no man
was bound to observe them. This extreme
ground Phillips also took. Immediate and
universal emancipation at any cost whatso.
sver-that was Garrisonism; that was Phil.
lipism. 1t Is . remarkable thing that,
though Mr.. Garrison and Mr.. Phillips both
denounced the Union and renouuced the
Union In the hopes Of destroying slavery,
the providence Of God made the love Of the
Union the 6nal
MEANS OF ITS DESTRUCTION.
Like John Brown, Mr.. Garrison; like John
Brown, Mr.. Phillips, they sought the righ,
end, but BY measure not we'll adopted to 80.
cure that end" Mr.. Beecher then told
how Phillips had been refused permission
- speak In the Broadway Tabernacle, aad