Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-02-21
Wendell Philips. I

sWendell Phillips, who died on the
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was one of the greatest orators ard
masters of the English tongue, in
1.-The tide of time. He was born agi
.thtor and to him perhaps more than
any other man the anti-slavery cause
was indebted for its impetuous prog
ress and vital enthusiasm. lie was
its prophet and oracle for many years
and the e'Southi had no bitterer or more
unrelentiug foe. He was bold and
arrogant and full of venom: but hon
est and sincere, according to his light.
He had no taint Of hypocrisy about
him., The Union and Constitution
were as s nothing compared with the
freedom of the negro. and his mos
biting invectives were | tteriy hurled
at the Republican partys-because Of
its presumed treacberyeto itsfmlssion.
He waaaccnstomcd to compare tie
Constitution to an acorn planted IN
.Aoxar.pat. --H,.-.he said,"-the. acorn
does not grow the flower pot will sur
vive. II it germinates aud takes
mighty root, the flower pot will be
broken into fragments. There are
many persons who believe that the
Aower-pot has been indeed smashed.
John Randolph had expressed the
same idea in different language anu
with a more powerful figure of rheto
ric. "a fig for your. Constitution" ,"
exclaimed the orator of Roanoke,
"ihe sword will find lis way to the
bowels of the Constitution J. In
some respects, the Virginian and
the Massachusetts man were strange
ly alike. -
OF late, Mr.. Phillips, has irritated
his old Northern friends by Jeering
them, in his matchless style, with
having allowed the South to conquer
the whole country in the forum Of
reason, and hespoured galland worm
wood into:the wound thus created by
declaring that the seat Of future en-
pirs was to be in the land of cotton
and not in that of corn and buck
wheat. For these and similar utter
ances directed at,the! selflove: Of the
East and West he was tartly rebuked
bipartisan newspapers, out his apollo
gy was alwsSss worse than the origi,
nal cffense. And now, because OF
these last words, heyi said by latter.
day Rspublisaa saints to have "iiyed
atleasstwehty~Searstao at long >Jdag-
ed by such standard, he did In
deed, like only too many other il.
lustrious rpereons, survive himself.
.Gauged by. such narrow human mea
sursment, Napoleon should have died
lat the Kremiin, instead of on "a
lone barren isle in the waste of the
ocean," But He who permits men to
become famous does not hesitate also,
at tines 10 feserve the mightiest les
son.fsr the 4ast.aThe Svoiee from St
Helena is more Instructive than the
rear IoE astlleIy at Austerhtz. Wen
Dell Philips preaching the woe ol
Radicalism and the moral triumph OIL
the South is US at least as porten'
tous ;a.huulan figure as Wendell Phil
lips the fiery orator of Abohtioa, who
put the torch in the hands of Sher
man and the sword inthe grippe o.
Grant.-Aggusta Ghqoelclc. -. y g.
M fttle girl nine months old, in
thelower part Of Spartanburg county,
actually swallowed'latel twenty-five
pantaloon buttons and four shirt but
tons. She was not hurt by this castro
snomic fsatsss;; g So. :. -,
sGDlsJas@Bs Mihs,' Saltmarsh, Ala.
aEsysa Sessral Of my patients hav'
fused Browns Iron Bitters for chronic