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Wendell Phillips At Cincinnati

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
March
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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üinoinoati, March 24. "Wendel! Phillips atterapted to lecture at the Opera IIouso to-night. He eommc.nccd by avowing bimeelf an ubolitionist, and a disunionist. Persona in tho gallones theu hissed, yelled, thn.-w cggs and stones, somo oí them hitting nm. The hissSf was kept up for sume time, hen Phillips finallv mado himself licard, and proceeded until'sornethingagain objectionable was said, and ngain oggs wero throwD,8cme hitting him. Phillips perseverad a fchird time, was henrd, and a tbil'd timo crg-H and stones wero thrown, and the ciowd moved clown stairs, crying " Put him out." ''Tarand featber him." - G i ving groansfor the niggerand VVcntj _■ 1 1 Philüps, und procoeding down the niiddle aislo to.vard the stage, wero tnet by soine ol Philüpa' lriends. - Here a íight ensued, amidst t!ie greatest confusión. Ladies scroamin, crying, jumping over chairs, and falling in all directions. During the fight, Phillfps was taken o(i irom the stage by liis íriends, :ud the audienoe moved out. It is now ten o'clock and the streeta in the vicipity of the Opnra Houso are crowded witli excited people, unablo to find Phillips. No one was seriously hurt as far as we can learn.

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Old News
Michigan Argus