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Show Wendell Phillips. wiser than hi ~ gmnclf~1.th e r; where men prctemlctl to be alive, though swaddled in the grave clo.thc.~ o(: crcctl and c.u ·t.om as clo:;c as their mnmmic · in lin n, I::i lml m the tomb 1t mhabitcc1; and the intellect which Athen has crcatPd for u digs to-day tho ·e ashes to finJ. out what..hnnk~ri:~l J~n w. and di<!· (Cheers.) Now my id0a of American CIVIliz~:ti on Is, that 1t is a ~econcl part, a repetition of that . ~nne sub! 1mc confidence in the public con,·cicncc and the public thought that made the groundwork of Grecian D('mocraey. \V c have been can·ying on thi~ insurrection of thought for thirty year . There have be n variou evidence of growth in education; I will tell yon of on . Tile first evidence that n . inner, conYicted of in, and too lJlind or too lazy to r<'fonn, the fir~t evidence he give· that his nature has been touched, is, tllat he become a hypocrite ; he has the grace to pretcnu to be som 'thing. Now, the first evid ' llC' that the American people gave of that com men ·ing grace of hypocrisy was thi · : in 1 31 when we commenced the Anti- laYcry agitation, the ' papers talked about SbYery, Bondage, American Slavery, boldly, frankly, and bluntly. In a few year it sounded hard; it had a grating ·m.~et; the toughest throat of the har<le"t Democrat felt it a~ it came out. So they ~po k e of the "patriarchal in titution," (laughter,) then oC the "domestic institution ," (continued !aught •r,) and th n of the "peculiar in titution," (laughter,) and in a year or two it got bC'yond that. 1\Iississippi published a report from her Senate, in wl1ich she went a tridc further, and de crib<•d it a" " economic ~nbordination." (Renewed laughter.) A Southern 1\Ict hodist bi ~hop wa: taken to task for holding .lave~ in rrality, bnt hi 1\Iethoclist brethren were not cou rageous enough to say " .1aYC'" ricrht out in me •tinrr anu ~0 th C)' advised the bi:-.l10p b Ol to gc•t rid of his "impediment," (loncl lnllghtcr ;) and the late J\h. Rufu~ ChonJc, in the la~t Dcmocrntic cam·a-;R in my own State•, undertakinn· and oblirr(•(l to r •f'l'r to the in :-: tillJliOJI :O: of n h the South, and unwilling that hi~ old New Engla11d lip~, tlJC.Lt Wendell Phillips. 49 hncl .c:;poken ~o many glorious free truths, shonld foul th it last days witl1 t!Jc llatcJ. word, pl1ra::;c<l it'' a dim•r 'nt type of indu:-~ try." Now, l1ypocri~y- why, "it is the homage that Vice r eJH:cr::; to Virtue." \Vhcn men begin to weary of capital punJslllncnt, they bani. h the gallows in iuc the jail-yard, and let nobody cc it without a special card of invitation from the sheriff. And so they have bani ·hcd Slavery into pet phrases and fancy fla ·b-word~. If one llUndr~d Y"'"'l' 1 e . . ' ~ ' <" . 1 nee, ?'OU sh~uld .d'.g our E::ryptian IIunkerism up from th0 grave 1nto wlll cli 1t IS rapidly "· inking, we fiho uld need a commentator or the true German ulood to iincl out what all these qt~rer, odd, peruliar, irnaginati\·e paraphra cs mean in this mJdcllc of the Nineteenth Century. T'his is one evidence of progre. ~ . I uelic\·c in moral sua ion. ThP age of bullets is over. The age of idea. is rome. I t l1illk. tl1at is the rule of our a~e. T'he old IIintloo d rea mea, you know, that he saw the human race led out to j( · varied fin·tunc F 1 ' 1·st 1 . · , 1c aw men U1ttcd .and curuetl, and the rein: went back to an iron hand. J~ut lu: dream cltanrred on and on until ot la t 1 o , .. c 1e aw men led by reins that came from the 1Jr·1in and ,vent b I · t ' ' ac { m o an UJJSCCJ~ llaJH.l. It ~v;v the type of governments; the fir·st de. pot1sm, palpable, iron· and the Ia -1 ou ' < < " r government a go\'crnmcnt of urains, a brrovernmcnt 0 r 1·dcas I ,, 1· '· I• t- • • .1. " • uc rcve In 111 publtc opinion. Ycl,.lct me. ay, in pa. sing, I think you can make a bciter u ~c of Iron. tl~an forging it into chains. If you mu t have the metal, put It mto Sharl>e' , rifle It is a y. t 1 l b · , brca c ea citcr used that way than in fetters; types arc better than bullets but bullets a thou and times rathcl' than a clumsy statue of ~ mock great man, fol' hypocrite. to kneel down and wor hip in a. ~t~lte-house yard. (Loud and renewed cheers, and great lJIS ' Jng.) I am . o unused to ltisscs lately, that I have forgotten what I had to . ay. (Laughter and 11isses.) I only know I meant what I diu say. ~ |