Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-19

to save us lltt, 0atiiaoh nv .'o ''N'7'
had won their most powerlui ana 10,
ally, With The setting OF that
October sun vanished forever the Gu
reer of prosperous ease, the grati nca-
ton Of ordinary ambition when the
genius aud the accompaniment OF
Wendell Phillips had seemed TO lore.
tell. Yes, the long awaited client had
come Mt last. Scared, scorned ana
forsaken, that covering and iriendless
client was wronged aud degraded hu-
mauity. The great soul saw and un-
derstoOd.
When the secmly protest against the
nonstTous crime had been spoken and
the proper duty of the day was done, a
voice was heard, the voice of the high
officer solemnly sworn To prosecute IN
the name of Massachusetts, evlry VIC.
la,ion of law, declaring. In Faneull
hall. sixty years after the battle OF
Bunker Hill aud amid u fowling storm
of applause, that an American citizen
who was nut Ia death by mad crowd
of his fellow.citizens for defending his
right of free speech, died as the fool
dielh. Boston has seen dark days, but
never n moment 80 dark as that. Sew
en- years before, Webster had said in the
famous words that Massachusetts,
binds as frontlets between her eyes
"There are Boston and Concord, Lex
ington and Bunker Hill, and there
they will remain forever.n Had they
already vanished? Was the spirit OF
the revolution quite extinct: In the
very cradle of liberty did no son sur
vive TO awake It's slumbering
echoes? BY the grace of God
such son there was. He had come
with the multitude, and he had heard
with sympathy aud approval the
speeches that condemned the wrong;
but when the cruel voice justified the
murderers Of Loveloy, the heart OF the
young man burned within him. This
speech, he said to himself, must be an.
swered. AS the malign strain pro-
ceedcd the Boston boy, all on fire
with Concord and Lexington tugginp
at bis heart, uncons ciously murmured
"Such speech in Faneuil hall must
be answered in Faneuil hall" ''Why
not answer 1t yoursell?n whispered u
neighbor, who overheard him. Hell
me TO the platform and | will;"-anG
pushing aud struggling through The
dense and threatening crowd, tht
young man reached the platform, wa,
lifted upon 1t, and, advancing to speak
was greeted with "A roar of hos
tile cries. But riding tn,
whirlwind undsmayed, as for many
IA year afterwards he directed the sam,
wild storm, he stood upon the plat
form in all the beauty and grace o
imperial youth-thc Greeks woult
have said God descended--and IL
words that touched the mind an,
heart and conscience of that vast mul
titude, us
WITH FIRE FROM HEAVEN,
recalling Boston to herself, he save,
his native city and her cradle flibert,
from the damning disgrace of stoniu.
the first martyr in the great strugg
for personal freedom. "Mr. Chain
man. he said, when / heard tn
gentleman lay down principles whicl
placed the rioters, incendiaries an'
murderers of Alton side by side will
Otis and Hancock and Quincy ant
Adams, | thought those pictured lip
would have broken into voice /,
| rebuke the recresnt American, tn
slandcrer of the dead.u An,
even as he spoke the vision was full
iilled. Once more its native musi
rang through Faneuii hall. la the Oh
ator's own burning words, those pic
tured lips did break into immortal re
buke. In Wendell Phillips, CLOWN
with holy indignation at the insult t
America and to man, John Adams an
James Otis, Josiah Quincy and San
uel Adamsf,hough dead, yet spake.
In the annals Of American speech
there had been no such scene sine
Patrick ttenry's electrical warning I
George the Third. 1t was that grea
est OF oratorical triumphs when "A 3,
: preiue emotion, ~ sentiment which
= to mould people anew, lifted the O
: ator to adequate expression. Thr,
= such scenes are illustrious in our hi
4 tory. That of the speech of Patric
Henry at Williamsburg, of WEI
:, dell Phillips in Faueu
;, hall, of Abraham Lincol
> in Gettysburg three, and there is n
! fourth. They transmit, unexti,
+ guished, the torch of an eloquen,
u which has aroused nations an
Q changed the course of history. nm
/ which Webster called "noble, sublime
god-like action" The trement o,
9 controversy indeed inspired univers
u eloquence. As the cause passed fro,
Q the moral appeal of the abolitionlsls
l. the political action of the Libert
Z party, of the conscious Wings and II
Z Free soil Democrats, and finally ,
i the Republican party, the sound ,
9 speech. which In It's variety and @,
!, cellence had never been heard upo
u the continent, filled the air. Bat =,
u nreme over IL all was the eloquence {
II Phillips, as over the harmonio,
u tumult of u vast orchestra, one cles
l. voice, like lark high poised
D. heaven, STEADILY carries the melod,
~ As Demosthenes was the orator ;
u Greece against Philip, and Cice,
!, of Rome against Catalina, and Joh
n Ppm of England against the siua,
y despotism, Wendell Phillips was di
a tinctlvely the orator, rs othe,
II Were the statesmen, of the anti.slaye,
W cause.
y How terribly earnest was the am,
" slavery contest this generation lit
knows. But to understand philli,
" We must recall the situation of nj
~ country. When he Joined the abnl
tionists, and for more than tweni
years af,erward, ~
" SLAVERY SAT SUPREME
is in the White House and made laws
T. the capitol. Courts OF Justice were 4
20 ministers aud legislatures its lac.ay
Ut IL silenced the preacher In the nnl,,i
II muzzled the editor ut his desk ~
o, the professor la his lecture-room
n set price upon the head of peacef
Q, citizens, robbed the mails mud Il
he nounced tho vital principle OF the ns
u laratlon OF Independence ms tleason- I
"a states whose laws did not toleral
n slavery, slavery ruled the club and III Il,