The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-08
HIS MISSION ENDED.
Death, at Boston, of Wendell Phillips. thu
Noted Anti-Slavery Agitator A Brief
Sketch of His Life.

Death, at Boston, of Wendell Phillips. tha
Noted Anti-Slavery Agitator A Briel
Sketch of His Life.
BosToN, Mass, Feb. 4.-WendelI Phil.
lips, the great orator, died peacefully at6:15
O'Clock Saturday evening. For the past
week he had been suffering from angina
pectoris, of which he had had one OF two
premonitory attacks. Soon after four
O'Clock Saturday, feeling somewhat
easier, he attempted to raise HIM
self in bed. This effort brought on
a 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, and
gradually sank He was cons cious to the
last, and evidently knew all that went on
about him until he seemed to drop quietly
to sleep. His invalid wife and other merii-
bers of his family were present during his
last hours.
The funeral will be conducted BY Rev.
DR.. Bartol and Rev. James Freeman Clarke,
and will take place in Boston tomorrow or
Wednesday. Mr.. Phillips last public act
was the writing of a letter last Monday to
Rev. DR.. Miner, urging that light sentence
be secured for Burnham Wardwell, indicted
for libeling sheriff When married, thirty
years ago, Mrs. Phillips was regarded as a
hopeless invalid, and the fact that she still
lives exciteS surprise
Wendell Phillips was born in Boston No
vembes 20, 1911. He graduated at Harvard
in'1831, passed through the law school, and
was admitted to the bar in 1884. 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 in Faneuil
Hall in December, 1887, was a glowing de-
tense Of e. P. Lovejoy who was murdered
by a Mob at Alton, ILL.,, for publishing o
radical anti-slavery paper. His burning
words were called forth by speech OF
James 7. Austin, Attorney General of 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 mobbed.
During the early part of the war, at a meet
ing in Cincinnati, he spoke for an hour amid
jeers and Kisses and continuous lombard
ment of eggs and other missiles. He sue
ceeded William Lloyd Garrison as President
of the Anti-Slayery Society In 1870 Mr..
Phillips was the Temperance and Labor Re-
form candidate for the Governorship, and re-
ceived nearly 20, 900 votes. At meeting i'll
FaneuiI Hall in 1875 he made powerful
speech in favor of the Louisiana policy of
General Grant. The subjects of his adj
dresses have also included earnest appeals
on behalf Of liquor prohibition, prison re-
forms, and Ireland While ne 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 eiocution, and
this, added to brave and fiery spirit,
rendered his oratory almost resstless.
His actions in public life were always ag,
gressive and directed, without sparlng, to
any one whose thoughts did not incline ~
ward his own. Inperson 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 public speaker, and from a
thorough knowledge of his side of the ques-
ton.