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Show Wen dell Phillips. SOl \iy idea is, pubh.c op.m .w n, litcrnturc, educat ion, as goYcrn-inrr ·l 'tncnls. 1 . 1· tl at our in tilntion ar neecs-o seem to l u n .... 1 l But ome men f l l , and chcnp book:.;, an< , we have rcc c IOO ~ • . • ~~uily afe, becn.u c 1 n t that is 110 CYldence ol · · tl at contro . u • . a public opmwn l, . 1 ,_ ols for iiftc·cn hunclreu1 l. u Cluna hat · CuO · 1 s·1fety. Int m an "S ell ·nr) in Ccutra · 't · aid were once ... ' Years. Aml book' l IS s, ' . N York. But they A . , s they arc ln ow .. antl Northern sw, .t t. llinrr rmblic opuuon to . _, l"bcrty nor a con 1 o o . . . haxc not ccu1 cu 1 ' .· , had municlpnhllt'::i . S in for three ccn t uucs • . either nation. pa . .l t and self-supportlllg, t~ a mdcp •nuen ' and town governmcn ::., ' 1 1 t "S New Enn·land or New t l· ·c ofllourr,, .. ~ o . and as r cprc en a~,t\ b • . De Tocquevdlc 1 1' l not aYC ~ JMII1. . York ha. l3ut t lat ~lt tl c rrrcat r evolution, public opm- 1 t ilfty years bc1orc 1 b • . 1 .. , . t says t Ul 1 .. . " 't · , to-day but Jt ( lu no · t t m ]! r 'U1CC a 1 1::> ' ion was as ommpo en , t e men by machinery. ., f·cc You can.no sav make ] ranee 1 • ,, S . . antctl was live men, d. d li'rn.ncc n.nu • p.un w' ' 1Vhat In w, an ' , ._ 1 . men who nrc willing to l 1 t . . wh'tt we want to-t ay ' . . tl anc t la IS ' • . d their own Tc. ponsibilitlc~, 111 lC look their own dcstmy, an 1 A' x '\ l·s no mor '," wa . the G . t to sec aiH Ja, • · '" . face. " ran me ' . to the lips of his h ero m the 1 ·eat poet put ll1 Prayer t 1e gr ~ G . camp All we want . , ·s wend the rccwn < • darknc s that ov ei "'I . f their own eye::;, and . 'tizens i ~ the opcmng o of Amcnc. an Cl they arc. rrl . ltellirrcnt thonghtful, and 10 11 b ' seeing .t hml gs as of twe,n ty mt'1 1'l Oll s of Cln·i lian pcopl ', there dctermme<. gaze . . . l· 1 and J10wcrful enough to be . 1. rr- no instJtutlOn wtc ... cc. ' . . f l S not ltnb f t• d · n rr a . . I Keats' bcaullf ul poem o rr~u n t 1 L. n • capabl·e o, an Jn rrb m'ba n h:.ul b ecn I e' U captive by a phantom "Lamta, a you b , • b t , ntil the old t acher d tb slave of her cau ) ' u . girl, an was e >.; <. l r 1 rc upon the flrrurc, and Jt came in and fixed Ius thoug lt u C) b vanished. ltl of Virrrinin. fitly rcpre- 1 ·eat commonwca 1 b • . You sec t \C gt (_ . . ~ r A ConnectiCUt scntcd by a pyramid tandmg upon lts apex.. . and Hx ·d . d t c corner of her domllnon ~, ._ . born man cntmc a on . ment of Virginia, and It his cold {iray eye upon the govcln W cndell Phillips. nlmo:=;t v:mishrd in l1is 1·ery gaze. For it ~ccms that Virginia, for a we 'k, a:.;kcd lenve "to be" of John Hro\\'n at ll<trp<'r':-; F ·ny. (Chc rs and applause.) Connccti ut 1ws S('nt out many a ~choollua ter to the other thirty State. ; but never before Ro grn1Hl a teacher as thnt Lit ·hfielu born choolma.. tcr at IIarpe r'o Ferry, writing ns it were upon tlJC Natural Bridge in the f~tec of nation ~ hi~ Rimplc copy:'' Rc istancc to tynmts is obetlienc to God." (Loud che 'rs.) I said that the lc. son of the hour was in ~ urrection. I ought not to apply that won.l to .John Brown of o~awatomic·, for th ·rc was no in LllTection in his cas'. It is a great mistake to call him an in ~ urgcnt. This principle that I haYc endeavored ·o briefly to open to yon, of absolute right and wrong, state what ? J u:::;t thi ' : '' Commonwealth of Virginia ! " Th re is no uch thing. Lawle ~s, brutal force i no basis of a government, in the true Rewc of that word. Qua est enim civitas? asks CICERO. Omnis nc conventus ett'rnnj(Jro' rum et inunaniwn ? Omuis ne etl'am fugitl'vorum ac latromun con,qregata unum in locum multitudo? CERTE NEGABis. No civil . ociety, no government, can cxi ·t except on the Lasi · of the willing ubmi~~ ion of all its citizens, and by the performnnce of the duty of r endering equal ju ticc between mau and man. 'Vlmtcvcr calls it. elf a government, and r efuses that c1uty, or has not that a ·cnt, i ~ no gov •rnmcnt. It i · only a pimtc hip. Virginia, the commonwealth of Virginift! She is only a chronic insurrection. I mean xactly what I say. I am weighing my word now. 'he i - a pirate hip, and .John Brown , ail , the ea a I_Jord High Admiral of the Almighty, with his commis ion to ink every pirate llC meets on God's ocean of the nineteenth ccntnry. (Cheer~ and applau. e.) I m an literally a.nu cxac11y what I say. In God'· world there arc no mnjoritic , no minoriliPs; one, on God'· t;idc, is a majority. Yoll have ofl<m heard here, <.loubtle ,, anu I lH'('Cl not tell you the ground of moral::;. The ri~hts of that Oll'..l |
