The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-04-24

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peri. The sualfy has ilit be, sslilsd
IL the isfllsls riot 81 Olnflnnail. shith
sbsane frnm The public en- Fousaess ihsl
by ffsiiy lsasi quihhllrf o. me had become
- oufe. Hat the 0uibfi Al uass, onrs and
universally condennfi, bs ne, ~ lh''
form by riot IL slways 40, 40 ihsa the
wrongs. Tbs Alton lloi, however, had no
rsdssmine Impulse. Twas the WfE ifsnHy oi
l,wlsssness, q sudden and ghAstly glimpse
| IA the unauenohable fires ~ pfssi0n that
eers burninR under the seeming peace and
pTDspefity OF the union.
"Tnere ae n, siOn sud Concord, aud Lex.
ington and Dunkes Hill. and there they will
remain forever" Had they aiready van.
ished2 IVES the spirit of the revolution
quite sxtinolf In the very efad'a OF liberty
| did no son survive TO awake ils slumOeflng
echoesf By this graCs OF God such q son
there was. He had come with the multi.
tude, and he had heard with sympathy and
approval the speeches that condemned tue
wrong; but when the cruel voice Justified
| the muTdereFs of Low Joy, the hear OF the
young mAu burned within him. This
speech. he said TO himself, must DO an
swered. As the malign strain proceeded.
the Boston boy, all ON fire,
with Concord and Lexington tug
cling at his hear, uneonseiously murmured,
Such a speech in Faneu'i Hall must be
answered Ia Fanenil Halt" "Why not an
swar IL youraeliy" whispered u neighbO.,
who overheard him, Help me the plat
form tnd wilp-and pushing ana ttrug
Cling through the dense ana threatening
ernwd, the Young man Tesehed the plat
form, was hued upon u, and, advancing e.
speak, ives x, ,e'ed With a rose OF hos,.ls
cries. But riding the whiIlwind undis-
reoled the sms Wild Storm, DO stood upon
the pl. ia Ia ell the beauty
and gfaes OF imperial youlh--lhs
Greek would have said God ended
and ia words that touched the ~ nd, and
, hesTt, and c,nscipn OF that ytss multi
tude. rs with FIRE from heaven, Tecsillng
Boston 10 heIssf, he saved bis native 4, "
end her cradle OF hbtI,y ,fom tue dAmninH
diegEg OF stOning the hist martyr ~ tho
great struggle Tor personal freedom. "Nr.
Chairman" he asid, "when l heard i'e
gentleman lay down principles VII ch
ola Il Inc o.ers, 10 sndip lies, and ~
derers OF Alton, side by side with Ois lt
Hancock. aud Qainoy aud Adens,
thought those pictured lip1 weu'd nsye
broken into yo'' 70 reb9ke lhe Tsfre1 "
American, tha slAndererof the derl."
In the annals OF AmeI eau So IA, there
had been 40 such ,ne since Patrick Hen
rvs electrical warning 20 George lpe
Third. IL was that greatest OF orAVo'i,
triumphs when supreme emotion, q )nu-
ment which IS 10 mould people anew,
lifted tho orator TO adeqr.to expire Ion.
Three such scenes are II isiiious IA opr
history. That of the speTc Oh OF Pah ok
Henry q. Williamsburg, OF Wendell Phil.
lbs at Faneuil hall, OF Abraham Lincoln IN
Gettysburg--tbree, and there is no fourth.
But suprems ws1 the e!oquen, OF Ph =
| lips, as over the harmonious tumrl. oil a
vast orchestra, one clear voice, like lark
high poised in heaven, stead ly oHrftes the
melody. AS Derosthenes was the orator
of Greece against Philip, end Ci no OF
Rome against Cat,line, and John Pym. Of
England against the Stuert despotism, wen.
deli Phillips was distidctly the orator, as
others were the statesmen, OF the sns..sis-
very cause.
When he first spoke at Fanesil b I'll some
| of the most renowned American orators
| were still in the'- prime. Webster aud Gay
were in the senate, Cholte AZ the Der, RI.
ward Everett upon the academic platform.
From all these oIasoI3 Phillips d'Lered
moro than they differed from each other,
Behind Webster and Everett and Cl3y
there was always great orgapiz;i pc Y
or an entrencned conservatism OF irg
aud opinion, They spoke ,csptcd views
They moved with masses OF men, aud we
euro of the applause of psssy sp'rit, Of pr'
litical condition aud es ablished ins''tutions.
Phillips stood clone. He was not whig
nor democrat, nor the graceful panegyI.st
| of an indisputed situation. Both perties
denounc-i him. He must recruit new
pprty. Public opinion condemned him.
He must win pubic opinion to achieve his
purpose. The tone, The meth OF the new
orator, announced raw spit.
1 uo faoa1 hia ouliancA Niih 1rS1Or'
| nien, end abeaming pect that We never
| dimmr :. He spo, ., end in the measured
cadence Of his quiet voice there VIZ intense
| feeling, but no defamation, no passionate
appel, no superficial end feigned emo ton.
Il YVES simply colloluy-a gentleman con-
yersiug. ENTHUSIASTICALLY and surely the Ger
and heart were charmed.
How terribly earnest was the suti.slavery
contest this generation little knows. But 70
understand Phillips we must recet tue
| situation of the county, When he Joined the
| abolitionists. and for more than TWEEN z
years afierward, slavery sat supreme ~ { 10
white house, and made lave in the capt. H..
Courts of Justice were IL ministers and
Legislatures its leckeys. 1t s'lenc,d the
prea -her in the pulpit, 1t muzzlc t9e edi-
tor at his deck, and the professor in his
lecture room. 1t set price upon the heed
of peaceful citizens, robbed the me 's, e1d
denounced the v.tsi principle OF the dec.or-
alton Of Independence as treason. In states
whose laws did not tolerate slavery, slavery
factory and the office, staggered at the
dinner table, and scop-ged, with
sco,n a cowardiy society. 1t tore the
golden rule from school.books, and from
the prayer book, the pictured be1ignity OF
CHI .sc. 1t prohibited n the free state
schools for the hat RI J, aud hunted wo-
men who taught children to read. 1t TOR
| {,Aa 10 4 m M n
| their representa- es, seized territory to
extend It's area e1u confirm lis sovereignty
and plotted , steel more to me ke the en-
pire impregnable, and the free republic on
| the United States impossible. Scholars,
| div ines, men end women IN every church,
in every I irty, raised iTdiy dual voices in
earnest protest. They sighed against
| hut Iicaue.
If. then, the work OF the revolution wRs
to be raved, aud independent America was
| : become iree Amorica, the first aud para
mount necessity was to arouse the county.
Agitation ives tho duty OF the hour. Cur
rjson was csrte'uly not the first abolition
ist; no, nor was Luther the first protestant.
| But Luther brought all the wandering and
separate rays OF protest to focus, and
kindled the contest for religious freedom.
So when Garrison flung full in the fee OF
slavery the defiance of immediate and COM
plete abolition, slavery, instinctive'y fore
seeing ito doom, spreng TO- It's feet, and
Joining with the heroism OF despair in
1.-THE death graphic with liberty, from
which, after a generation, liberty arose
upbruised and victorious. 1t is hard for
the survivors of generation, 20 which alb
olitionist was word suggesting the most
odious fauaticism, furious defamation at
once nonscnsicsl ard dangerous, gro
tesque and sanctim onious playing with
fire in powder maes line, to believe that
the names Of the two representative ADOLF.
| tioni.ts will be written with a sunbeam, a5
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