A Memorial of Wendell Phillips from the City of Bostonorder of the City council, 1884 - 70 páginas |
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18th inst abolition abolitionists agita agitation Alderman HALL anti-slavery contest appeal applause aroused attend the funeral Board of Aldermen Boston boy cause Chairman City Council CITY OF BOSTON committee Common Council conservatism Constitution Council be ex Daniel Webster death of WENDELL defend Delenda Carthago denounced duty eloquence emancipation England eulogy Faneuil Hall fellow-citizens forever freedom friends Garrison genius gentleman from Ward GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Glory goes marching heroes honor of WENDELL humanity illustrious James Otis John Adams knew liberty Loyal manhood Massachusetts MEMORIAL OF WENDELL memorial services moral native city never official orator PARKMAN party leaders pleaded political public enemy question recall Resolved Revolution Samuel Adams scene scorn services in honor slave Union slavery society Sons of Liberty soul speak speech spoke sympathy Thee Thomas Jefferson Thou hast tion to-day Truth voice vote Ward 9 Webster WENDELL PHILLIPS words wrong
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Página 11 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 39 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 39 - Verily I say unto thee, Inasmuch as thou hast done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, thou hast done it unto me.
Página 44 - ... eloquence. What was heard, what was seen, was the form of noble manhood, the courteous and self-possessed tone, the flow of modulated speech, sparkling with matchless richness of illustration, with apt allusion and happy anecdote and historic parallel, with wit and pitiless invective, with melodious pathos, with stinging satire, with crackling epigram and limpid humor, like the bright ripples that play around the sure and steady prow of the resistless ship. Like an illuminated vase of odors,...
Página 62 - American patriots — and their fellow-citizens of every party bowed their heads and said amen. I am not here to declare that the judgment of Wendell Phillips was always sound, nor his estimate of men always just, nor his policy always approved by the event. He would have scorned such praise. I am not here to eulogize the mortal, but the immortal. He, too, was a great American patriot ; and no American life — no, not one — offers to future generations of his countrymen a more priceless example...
Página 34 - As we recall the story of that life, the spectacle of to-day is one of the most significant in our history. This memorial rite is not a tribute to official service, to literary genius, to scientific distinction ; it is homage to personal character. It is the solemn public declaration that a life of transcendent purity of purpose, blended with commanding powers, devoted with absolute unselfishness, and with amazing results, to the welfare of the country and of humanity, is, in the American republic,...
Página 38 - Boston," he said long afterward, " and the good name of the old town is bound up with every fibre of my heart." In the mild afternoon his windows were open, and the sound of unusual disturbance drew him from his office. He hastened along the street, and suddenly, a...
Página 45 - How terribly earnest was the anti-slavery contest this generation little knows. But to understand Phillips we must recall the situation of the country. When he joined the 'Abolitionists, and for more than twenty years afterward, slavery sat supreme in the White House and made laws in the capitol. Courts of justice were its ministers and legislatures its lackeys. It silenced the preacher in the pulpit, it muzzled the editor at his desk, and the professor in his lecture-room. It set a price upon the...
Página 59 - ... service which he had long performed, and this he would still perform, and in the familiar way. His comprehensive philanthropy had made him, even during the antislavery contest, the untiring advocate of other great reforms. His powerful presentation of the justice and reason of the political equality of women, at Worcester in 1857, more than any other single impulse, launched that question upon the sea of popular controversy. In the general statement of principle, nothing has been added to that...
Página 42 - It was that greatest of oratorical triumphs, when a supreme emotion, a sentiment which is to mould a people anew, lifted the orator to adequate expression. Three such scenes are illustrious in our history. That of the speech of Patrick Henry at Williamsburg, of Wendell Phillips in Faneuil Hall, of Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg — three, and there is no fourth. They transmit, unextinguished, the torch of an eloquence which has aroused nations and changed the course of history, and which Webster called...