The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-04-24
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
vssJ fmpfsssIss ssmerisl services
IsIa ~ Iiesisa Yesterday
Synopsis Of ~. Cafils Eiepusni aud
Able Address.
ma arsa, orator is Eu,osirsd.

msmorlsl services al fremont temple tnis
afternoon attracted = more notable sna,,
snos than any similar allan, ,eeA'' ~,
Sdmission was four times the seating ca
pactty OF tie hall The assembly vas COM
possd Of many iellow.woIkefu OF tne us'
cared orator, besides . distinguished sa,h'
ering OF ladies' and gentleman IN symps,ny
With his philanthropio acts, Among ,hyse
present were members OF tue Guy ooune,,,
heads of departments, several ex'msyois,
1sovernor M ,Inson aud staff, the governors
council, Judges OF the supreme ana
superior courts municipal courts
IA various Unitsd States GOV,
Hment officials and judges Of federal
=. The Old abolition party vas Isp.. .
sed BY EiT mI,s wHf ssna n " Loneisl.
4 low. 4. W. Hissinscr, Abbey, W
Nav, Rev. James freeman Clsfk'
Juli. w. Howe, William Lloyd Carlson,
~H Il. BLACKWELL and J. @. Whittier. oIher
fssenislive personages ,wera Ksy,
ward Everett Hale, Mrs ,5osspn
q hldrisS' ". D. Hosells L, p. whip'
., President Eliot, William Ead,sott, lL'
ri. Dana ami Robert j. Winthrop.
The exercises begap at 8 o'el' ~ .. M
Vim an organ voluntary, followed pv q
9usrtelte WITH "Loya. 10 The End" ihe
following is
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Mnssaohus,t,s Is always rich Ia fitting
voIces 10 commemorate the N,'Sues ara
services OF her illustFious citlssas, aHe .
every strain OF atisotlonn,e admiration ara
thoughtful dlscriainalion, the legislature,
the pulpit and the press; his cd associates,
who saw the glory OF h's print; me
Tradition OF his devoted re, have hpoken
the praise o, Wendell Phillips. But his
native al has justly thought that the
Preat work OF hrs lfe Yves not Local or
limited; That II was is la'g0 o.
liberty as brosd as humanity, anu that aus
name, therefore, Is not the uer rro OF
state only, but u nntionr. po est on. An
orator whose consce.ated eloquel I, i've
the music OF Am phit n rr'slng tha wall OF
Thebes, was the chief for: . in giving 70 the
American Union tho impregneo'e defense
ofireedom, IN >mmon benefaclo., the
west may well answer to the east, Il
south to the north, and Carclins 70 Caliior.
MIA. Minnesota and New York mipgle
their sorrow With that of New England
and ownin ais death acommon bereave.
the revolutionary tradition was the ma
tive air of WENDELL Phillips. When he was
born in this city, seventy thre, .yesrs ryo
last Noyersbef, gome of the Chief revo u.
was livius At Cznincy, aud Thomas Jeiierion
ct Monticello; Eibridge Ger. = YVES governor
Of the state, James Madison VIZ president,
and the second var with England was at
hand. Phillips was niue years cid when,
Do In 1920 the most important debate alter the
adoption OF the constitution. the debate
Of whose tumultuous elimination
and triumphant close he was TO be
the great orator, began, sud the &C md
ty)roic epoch of our history, " which he
Mas q master figure, opsnc in the long I'D
threatening contest over the ADMISSION OF
Missouri. Embedding the transactions
which were shaking the land and setting
the best New England linesoe and pros
pects. played upon Beacon Hi, and at the
a. of 10 entered Hai vs,d tollege. His
! classmates recall his manly pi.de and !.
Hesrve, with the charming manner, the de-
khtful conversation, and the efllnen,e
kindly humor, which YVES never
st He sauntered and gently studied;
|ot a d0koted student. not in the bent of his
wv nor in the special direction OF sympa-
brecasting the refol mer, but already
ltor and the essy mr ter OF the col.
l6gJ tatfcrm; and still, in the memoiy OF
his old companions. he we!ks thoEe D. ege
paths In unfading youth, fieure OF patri-
ci& port, OF sovereign grace-a prince COM
The tranquil years at the university
efded, and he graduated IN 1881,
4e year of Nat. Turner's in
surrect;on in Virginia, the year, s!so,
In which Mr.. Garrison issued the Liberia
tor" aud. for unequivocally proc'"'ming
the principle of the declaration OF indie
pendence, was denounced es public enc
my. Like other gently nurtured Boston
bows, Phillips began the study OF law, end,
as It proceeded, doubtless the sirens Gang
to him, as to the noble youth OF every
country and time.
The time during which Phillips YVES study.
ing law was the hour of the profoundest NOR
al apathy, in the history OF this country. The
fervor Of revolutionary feeling was l1ne
sinco spent, and that OF the final anti.slav-
cry contest was but just kindled. The ques'
ton of slavery indie; had never been quite
forgotten. There was always an anti slav'
also slavery interest, and the invention Of
the cotton gin in 1850 gave. slavery
the most powerful aud insidius i'm
pulse that it had ever received.
| When Wendell Phillips was admitted to
Y the bar in 1884, the slave interest in the
\ United States entrenched IN the copstitu'
tion, in trade, IN the church, in society, In
historic tradition, end in the prejudice OF
race, had already become, although uncon.
sciously to the country, one OF the most
powerful forces in the world. rhe Engllsh
throne in 1926, the old French monarchy in
hl78o, the English aristocracy at tho begin.
ling of the century, were not 30 strong as
rasp OF England upon the Americau coli
les before the revolution was not 30 sure,
md was never 80 menecing to liberty upon
This continent, as the grasp of tlevery upon
the Union in the pleasant days when the
Young lawyer sat IN tis Office careless Of the
bnti.slavery agitation, aud jesting with ais
old college comrades over the clients who
did not come. $50.
but on an October afternoon in 1885,
while he was still sitting expeCtant In his
bfice, the long awaited client came, but in
what an amazing form! The young law
Yer was especially a. Boston ;an boy boy;
loved MS , native ely With tina,
which 10 peculiar TO her citizens,
II was born in Boston, - he said, long az
terward, land the good name OF the old
town is bound up with every fibre of my
heart" In the mild eiternoon his window Wa
were open and the sound of unusual dis
hastened along the street, aud suddenly, a
stone o throw from the scene of the Boston
massacre, in the very shs low Of the old
Youth, he beheld in Boston spectacle which
Ust0n cannot now conceive. He saw Amer
ican women insulted for betriendipg their
innocent sisters, whose children were sold
from their arms. He saw an American CIT
Of James Otis for saying. with James Otis,
.fhst mans right to liberty is Inherent
"a inaNenaple. Himself q citizen
bldier, he looked ito see the
majesty of the people msintatriug
authority Of law l. but tS to t his
htfnl defenders Of law against the mob
b themselves the mob. The city, whose
ntless free speech had taught country
to be independent, he c w raising o
icidal hand against its emit Liberty.
vas enough. Az the jail doors closed