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HIS MISSION ENDED.

Death, 1t Boston. OF Wendell Phf.isps. the
Noted zArti-sisvery Asitator "A Brief
sketch or His Life.
Bosrox, Mass, Feb. 4.-wendell 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 or two
premonitpry attacks. Soon after four
o'clock Saturday, feeling somewhat
easier, he = attempted to raise him
self in bed. This effort brought on
severe paroxysm which utterly pros
strated him, and it became evident that the
said so. The pain was partially relieved,
but he had not the strength TO rally, and
gradually sank. Ne was cons cious 70 the
last and evidently knew all that went on
about him until he seemed to drop quietly
to Sleep His invalid wife and other mem
bers OF hts 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 letter last Monday to
Rev. Dr.. Miner, urging that light sentence
be secured for Burnham Wardwell, indicted
for iibeling a sheriff. When married, thirty
years ago, Mrs. Phillips was regarded as a
hopeless invalid, and the fact that she still
lives excites surprise. SIS 5&~
Wendell Phillips was born in. Boston No
vember 20, 1911. He graduated at Harvard
in 1881, 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-slsvery,
temperance, and woman's rights reform.
His first notable speech, made in Faneuil
Han in December. 1897, was-a glowing de-
tense of f. =. Lovejoy, who was murdered
by a mob at Alton, H., for publishing a
radical antislavery paper. HIS burning
words were called forth by a speech of
JamesT Austin, Attomey-G General of Massa-
chusetts, apologiZing for the mobs bloody
deed. As the leading and fearless orator of
the Anti-Siayery Society, he was prosecuted,
and on one occasion was almost smobbed.
During the early part OF the war, at a meet
ing in Cincinnati, he spoke for an hour amid
ieers and Kisses and continuous lombard
I ment OF eggs'and other missiles. He sue
ceeded William Lloyd Garrison as President
of the Anti-Slavery Society. In 1870 Mr..
Phillips was the Temperance and Labor Re-
form candidate for the Goyernorship, and re-
ceived nearly 20, 600 votes. At meeting in
Faneuil Hall in 1875 he made powerful
speech in favor of the Louisiana policy OF
General Grant. The subjects of his ad-
dresses have also included earnest appeals
on behalf of liquor prohibition, prison re-
forms, and Ireland. While no 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 elocutiop and
this, added to brave and fiery spirit,
rendered his oratory almost resistless.
His actions in public life were always ag
gressive and directed, without sparing,S To
any one whose thoughts did not incline to
ward his own. In person he was tall and
symmetrical, while his face showed earnest
ness and culture. Before an audience he
had the salf-poise and steadiness of nerve
which arose from calm courage and long
experience as public speaker, and from q
thorough knowledge of his side of the ques-
ion,