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Show 44 Wendell Phillips. I I t lmxr <lrawn from 1. 1· {'· 1 the inference whi('h wr oug' o uar '- I Oil . I' r "\V l' lla \'(' all the ·Hlmitt ctl principle~ which lltHll'rhe Ollr. ' <' •• '. . . i' 1 ll vorld wh .11 wt' t bud.:. of the peopl<•; the tllllldll)' 0 tIC 0 t \ ' . . . t ··we our:-;eiY<':-:l f'rom the JJH'V Jtablc we hrink ba('k, tr)' 111g 0 :--. · . . 1 1, (' the million The Hlca on the other mi rrht o{ the thong 1 s o <> , to be th·tt man i:-; crrat<'d to be ta 1~ en side of the water seem. ' • . , ·c ·tre o{ . l>y somc'u· otl y c· l ·e Cod di<l not l ·ave l11m ftt to go ti • ' ' . · . , ·!· ·t' 1rr ]HII>ilncr to the w<·altlly and the '1.1011 ' • he lS 111 e\ Cl ,\!'l II n l? ' ' ,1,1 .• 1. • , or tit, comfortable clas:-;(' · arc an cdu •at<•tJ. le 1 ( tgJOUS . . r , eY • 1. t, court to take enre of btlll. I he Old •r-prc~cnt p1oun e "\Y rld therefore, has alway:l di :-;tru ~t<'d tit av •rage cou- .o ' tl e common !:; n ' of the million . . SCICllCC - 1 ' • • ll It seem.; to me the idea of our civilizatiOn, un<k.rlymg a . 1' f' . , tl ·tt men do not n<'e<l any gu:ll'< hall. "\Vo Atn(' l'J Cflll I c, lS, ), f. . .1 Not only th inevitahh•, hut the bcsl, 11 •tl no sa <.:guaH · tl . . ]c o(' tlle o'·oan is the unf(•t tcred a v ·r:lge com-power 11s s1o " ' . . . . , . . . . mon ensc o f "'l le 111.". . e~· · In tltutwnH, a::; we ,u c .H t ustom. cd to call them, arc but pn ·tcl>onrd, and intc•mle(l .lo lJC ngam 't t 1t C t 1lO ll cr I I t 0 f. tltc ' trcct • ~l'' llut es' are mere mllc~ton es, tc·ll-inrr ltow f'ar yc. t<'rtlay's thou ght h:ul t raYclled; atHl the talk ot th , , 1<1 ·walk to-tlay is the law of' the lan.<l. Yo~t mny r gret this; but tho !'art . tancl~; and if our fath •rs for<':-;aw the full efl'cct of their prineiples, they must have plan11t'<~ an~ expected it. "\Vitlt u:;, J..~aw is nothing unless clo:-;~ l><·hllultt stands a warm living pul>lic opinion. L •t that <l1u or gr?w indifl'ercnt, n.nd . tatutes nrc \ra te paper -lack all executive force. You mny frame them ::;trong as langu:1gu enn make, but once chango public fe eling, aml through them or over them ride. the real wi ·h of th.c p ople. The good sense a.nu con;-;cicnce of the ma. se arc our only title-d 'l'ds nnd pollee force. The T >mpc·nuwe e:wsc, the Anti-, lavery mov<' JYH'l.lt, and yom· Bamuunwr part y pron~ t It i· s . y on 1 n•a y •~ i bo· h for a sti'OIIg g<)\' <.' 1'11111 •nt, :tttehOI'C(] 1·1 1 I1 1 e tOllV·l e t'l OllS 0 {' l)''\:~ l c. cn-turi c~, and able to protect th' minority :1gnin;-;t the nW.JOl'lty; able to defy the ignorance, the mistake, or tho pa '::;ion, as well Wendc11 Phillips. 4) a~ the ltigh pnrpo.· , or t11, prr;-;cnt hour. Yon m~y prc·fer the llll('ktllging terra .firma or ck:-:potism; but . till the fit('t r r main:-;, that we nrc hHIIICht><l on the ocean of nn unC'hain<·<l derno<'I'<H')', with no ~nfi.: ty but in tlw~e laws of gravity that uin<l tit<' ocean in it=-- lH'd-tltc instincti,·e lov \of' right in the popul:u· ltenrt-the divine 1-'hcct-an ·!tor, tklt tit ' race gr:n itates towanls ri rrl1t, and that til · right i:- nl wnys sn('' and lH'st. Som<·what IJric (Jy ~tntetl, ~ u ch is the itl •a of' American ci,·ili zation; uneornpromising faith - in tl1 avcmge t-;<· lfi ~·dtrws:-:;, if you C'l1oose- of all classc•!:;, neutralizing each ot IH•r, :tlltl tending townrds that f~tir play thnt Saxon.~ lo,·r. J3ut it. srcrns to me that, on all questions, we drc •acl thougl1t.; w • shrink b <.: lti11<l somPthing ; we n<'knowlc•clgr o ur~e lvcs un equ al to the . ublimo f:titlt of our fi1thcrs; and the ex hibition of the last tw ·nty Y<':l i'S an<l or th ) ]>1'('8 nt Rt:'tt' of' publie :tffaii'H is, that Am e rican ~ dr<'acl to look th •ir real po~iti on in the fa ·e. Th<'y say in Ireland tJtat c, ·ery lri:dtm:m thinks tlt:1 t he wns born ·ixty days too Jnt , (Inughtc•r,) and tlte world owes him r-;ixty clays. The con '<.'(]tl ·nee i!-1, wlt c·n a tracler s:1ys Fmch a thing i · . o muc·lt for ca~lt, tho lri-d1man tlliuk l'{ ca~h means to l1irn a bill of oixty day:-;. (Lnughter.) So it is with American~. They have no idea of ausolntc right. They w 'I'C born sin ·e ] 7'!37, an<l absolut' right mean. tl 1e tr11 th dilut c<1 by a slrong dc·eoc tion of' the Con. titution or 'RD. TIH•y breath' that atmosphere; tlH'Y (lo not w:wt to sa il ou t ~iclc· of it ; tlH'Y 1lo not att ·mpt to n·a~on OIJI~idt> of it. Po i ~on<•<l wiih print<•r's ink, or choked with <'O tt on dtJ st, they stare at ah~olutc right, as the dream of' mn<lnwn. For the last tw<'nty year~, thr re has b 'Cn f?;Oing on, more or less heeded nnd understoocl in ntrions t:ltcs an insnrTc•c·tion of ideas :1gainst the limit<·d, cribbed, cauincd, i.-;olat •d American civilization, int 'rfcrinp; to r c•sto re absolute ri:.rltL ]{' you . ai<l to an Am ri e:m, for instance, any thing in r ganl to tcmpc rane ·, shwcry, 0 1' any thing; <• lse, in th cour:-;c of' the lasL tw<•n ty yc·ar . ..;-nny thing alJout a principle, he ran back in~ tantly to lite ~afely or |