Speech Of Wendell Phillips

Mr. Phillips assisted nt thu : tion of emancipation d:iy at Abington, Massachnsetts. His address is thus reported : If thure is any chanoe of gotling out nf the war it avould be by ttumbüng ! out of it. The government fightB to I preserve slarerj', und theref'oro it fights in vain. Mr. Lincoln a waging a litical war. It s politics thut stand out I in every act fif Mr. Lincoln and his Generáis. The alavés who sought refnge in Gen. Butler'd unes, in Nuiv Orleans, woro givon up to eatisfy the deiiiands that this be mada a politica] war. The President is more fiiraid of Kontucky this day tban he is of the whole northorn portion oí the nation. Kentucky and the Boston Daily Advertiser are tho powers ho droads most - the one on his right and the olher on hia left. All civil vvar.s must be poütical wars. If Mr Lincoln believed in the North and liberty ha woiild let the army act upon the principio of and fight for liberty, but he evidently believes in the South. When the negroes lM asked on the southurn batlle-öelds, were Ibey not af raid of the ounnon balls and sliclls which had split the trees and toro up the earth around thein? they answrod ; "No, massa, we knowed they wasn't intonded for us." So the robels may sayof McClellan's balls. Tiiey know they are not intended to do much dumnge to thern. Tho fpeaker did not ay MeClellan was a traitor; but he did say that, so íar, ho pould not have done mero Lo hulp tors than he fiad dono. The peoplo need not fear for Iliuhmond. i lan would 'not tuku it, Ho (Mr. Phillij lookod upon the presont war conductod without a ronsonable object ns a total Ijss ol blood and treasure. Better the South shoüd go to-day than loso another lifa to proloog tho war upon the present detestable policy. - Onohundred and twenty-fíve thousand men a year, and a rnillion dollars a dav are requiredto prosecute the wur ib the rnannor it has been donr. This ealeulation is based upon thu experience of the past year. As JefFersui said of slavery, "Xhe Southern Siate havo the wolf by the ears, and Ihoy uan neither hold on nor let her ffo." Wü have the South by tho ears, nnd we cc.n neither hold on nor let her go. Let her go tornorrow, and you will havo ao peac.e. - tíhe has lived with us for eighty years, fearing us all that tune, hating us hall of it, and keeping us intnnrioil alivays. Qrown baughty by her suceess in acquiring hc-r demanda, she would not be content to retnain one year withiu nti imaginary liuo of boundury - ao, the moment we ask ior term sha counta it viotory. We eball r.ever buve peaco uulil slavcry is destroyefl. As long as you keep the present turtle at the head of the goveromeut, you inake a pit with odü hand and tíll it with the othr. Le.t the whola nation indors.p the resol ulions of the New York (Jhambar of Gom-merce, and Uien the army will have something to tight for. Je8. Davis, if he he has tho power, will never let his army tako Washington. Tho boom oí his cannon carrying destruction into that Sodorn, though it be, would wake the wholo North up and unite them. - He knows better than to bombard Washington. Did he do so ho knows well that the North would cry out, as with one voice, down vvjth slavery,, down with uvorythirjg, but save to us our Bepublic, He is perfectly satisfied with his succeases. They are greaterthan ho auticipnted-far gieater; and if he can possibly float ulong upon them and a few moie, thus holding his own to the 4th of March, 18C3, England will, as she onght to, recognizei,the Southern Contederacy. It will then have maintained its existence two full years, and that is all that England wants. If any man present beüeves ha has lightenough to allow him, let him pray that Davis may bu permitted to mako an attack on Washington city within a week. The only thing that seem to stir the national heait of the freo States is the expectation ol an attack on that city. Nothing ess thfiO that will wako up the people. Would that it be b astea ed ! The President has not fóllowed up the iet of confiscation. Ho may be honest, but who cared whether "ho be boneat or uot? - What has honesty to do with the matter ? lie evidentjy has neither insight nor previsión. WhtH n Wasbingtoq he (Mr. Phillips) had learned, on the most trusUvorihy authon'.y, that the President, three mont'na ago, had wntton a proclamation ol general omaneipation, and iloClallan bullied him out of it, and Kcntucky Represtíntaüvtja bullied l.iminto retaiuing McClelhui at the head ot tho army, wheu he (Lin coln) has no faith in JldcClellan as a General. A year ago he (Phillips) said he beüeved the President desiieü tho advice of prominent nnd leading bodjes of tho people. But even now, when the New Yoik Ohainber of ComiDfcroe, the most ïiispöctablü representatiou of the people ol a reut State, tidvises, he moves not. Itthpseten iabulousgunboats that re said to have arrived in Mobile Bay were roal, and likely to be there, and evorything elso that id not likely to come to pass took placo, we migtit have soma hopo of moving the turtle at tho head oi the nation. Wo would gut so lw vet in our ackiKAvlcdgment of the South that. not even tb BoBtod Cuuner will bo abie to invent terms of degradation uificiently espvessivo of our humbled condition. The South aro a tuiit in this war. But God has drivcn them raad, and they will accept nothing th:itcan be g:anted. In this is our hope. They won't eonsent to anything, and .we must whip them, or they will grind us to pouder. We refuse to recognize tho negi-o, but we will be soon glad to havo him fight with ns. But even thut w.qp't muka President Lincoln declaro fi envunoipation. No, wu wil! havo u wuit oi:o or iwa years Uüíure ho will seo his way quite cleir under the luw to get it from him. This ie Lorriblo espeBse of a dnnocratic loim oí goverDiuoiit and its fjreatest ovil. ' In Franco ono hundred men convincod of tho right would carrytho nation with them, bi:t when oijr govornment moves rnneteon millions must move with it. Miaistera have been preaohing up slavery nptB eve-y four ; fnei, rf :' f".1. ;1iava lh!l'" !t ls a , Goa ordftinedi i ■ ludtho. with tías drag upon fon, sr. hundí und henrta puraiyzed,you sk tho President lo savo yo'jlroin the negro. If sueh a theory is correct, a sleveholdiug despotUm alone will give yon temporaiy punco. It is tho lump of unbslfcd dough that si's in tbo editorial of ihe Boston Ceurter, that has no vitaüty exoepthaíe Charlea Sumner to aniinate him, that loads tilia erusada ngninst the rights of man. The speaker knew Mr. Lincoln. Ha had, whilo iu Washington, taken his mensure. Ha is a first rate secondrute man. That is olí, A mero convenionce. And he is honestly waiting, üke any othur broomstkík, íor tho peo' pía to taka hold of him and sweep aiavery out ot the nation. Dmnocracy is lifting up ita faogs, und another Congress will out have the Mtne omount of repubhoan and hont'st ientltrent in it tliut the last bad. Nothing Icss than a baptiera of blood to cry n cnguish for a eorporato dea at tho hend of the army can savo us. Lincoln ia rs good as the people ui the North want him. In yenrs gone by, in yon der grove, the whigs fired cannoti; to stnother the voices irom tho stand tbeo oecupied by the speaker, and vvhat is the retnlt ? - The sons of those whiga now fill graves in Chiokahoruioy svrarnps. Lat this Union be dissolved in öod'a name, and the corner-stono of o new ono ba laid, on which shell be engravecí forever : " Equality in a politicai sonso for every man who is born ia the vvoijd." Cease believing in the Oabioet. Thcre is nothing there ior you. Pray God to awaken your President to a eeose of his position and thu interesta at stake. Pray God to ïnduca him to ride of thu Capítol vvith a proclamation of uncon. ditional emancipation on tho banncr that floats frorn its cnpohi and you inight expect to see him returning vvith a inüliou of men made froe by that act to support him. "Napoleons are not made of mud." Sueh ia the opinión oí Wikes' Spirit - a paper tha: circula tes its thousands among those who mostly read the New York Hervid, tíuch á remsrk írotn tuich a sourco argües much for the re ttirning sense ot the northern people. Washington policy ia the donothing policy, and waita for events. Wben ia Chicago, I Btked Illinois lawyers, among whom President Lincoln had praoticed, what kind of aman he was? Could he say Noï They repliod; "Ha has no bnokbone. Had the Americau people asked for the man ot all othera litted to lead, they could not have got a man better suited than Abraham Lincoln. No man ever heard Lim say No." I uked, "Is McOlellan a mag that can say No ?" Tho management of the Illinois Central replied : "Ha never decides. Ask him a quostion; you may not expect to get "a direct an.swerin less than an hour. He has not been knonn to decide a single queslion that ever camj up in the management while he was connectöd ith the Illinois OeotralRailroad." And yet thesa two men are the twn men above all othets who hold the destinies of the ReI public of North America in their hands. N. P. Banks may not know how to handle an army, but, if permitted, ha would certainly presa that army into and against Bometbiog. Men well acquainted,fíOm positiva experionce, wilh the army of the Potomac, afiinn that Iïichini)nd could hüve 'been taken five diffsreot timea, had the" donothing at tbc hend of i permitted; bul hepruferred to dig dirt ia Ciiiciuhominy swainps, and then leave that locality and his dirt heaps ignominiously. President Lincoln, thro coward fear of thu border States, keeps this man in the position he iiolns. But the day will come - and it is that that hurts us all - hen he (Lincoln) will eonfess he never liad any eonfidence in McClellan. That is tifo sore spot of an otherwise honest officer. Wickliflo and Davis, ot Keotucky, ctin put his toot down and say to the President, do this, or tha border ritatea vvill leava you; but no repubücac can pet his foot down and say do this, or tho North will leave you. No public opinión -AÜl support Charles Sumner, ihough a loyal commonweaUh stands behind him. Uut the public opinión of a disloyal commonwealth - a commonwt-'alth that is only kept in lbo Union by the bayoneta af its army - will fretly support Davis and Wiekhöe and ether supporters of slavery. We, as a j peoplo. ure divided in sentiment and servile in purpose, and our soldiers this day are the servants of rebels. Oür iifficors on sycophantic than was Daniel Webster in thu Sonate, when Henry Clay threatened him witb tho lash of southern insclence filteen yeai'i ago. But let usi hoj e that the war may be coutinued long enough to make qa ni,n, ftiid then we will uasily conquep. God has placed in the liands of President Lincoln tho thunderbolt of slavury to crush this rebellion, but he wi]) tot use it. In all time there nevel1 was a rebellion eo endowed with ir.eaiiö on (he part ol light and justice to erush it. Were the President ths most gr)ora)t of men, ho could nnt eir iü layiog his band at once on the instrument, and smite the robellion inRtanter. Mr. Cunway bas just said : 'Let the Englinh come on. Wo will meet thein." This was a fearful taiint, When the Englishint-n of the other side meet their descendants on this, the eurth wül shake to the center. Fifty years of HDtramm#ld i n teil tgi-nce have made the intel'ect-s of both feaffully acute, and the war waged betvveen such ntetlects and arms wi!l ba suoh as the wovld oever vet Iras secn. Filtv tnitliuns of men fightth? :it tho samo timo would revolutionizu and drag into its vortox tho whole earth, inr leed a mael.-trom awful to contémplate, Let us rat her hope that such a result inav not occur. Let us rather lielieva 1 1 , at nineteen millioni", pouring fnurth une after another, as has been the oase fince this war wun tlirust upon i:s, rnay keep the cnemy in check ui.t'.l tho wholo people of the North may l'.nye të scales of interest and servile disj.onusty remove fiWH their eyes, und arrive ot B just decisión as to the cause of tho war. Let us hopo in God that this, i r.iiher than n general war, mny be thië issue.