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Show 6o Wendell Phillips. crushed out onr manhood so thoroughly that we hntl not Yigor enourrh l >ft to redeem onrselvcs. N(·ither Franc<' nor ' pain, b ... ,. 1' neither the Northern nor the Southern race:-; Ot ~. . urope ln\\·e that bright spot on their csentehcon, that they put an ('IHl to their own lascry. Blue-eyed, ltaugltty, ·ontemptuou · An;:;loSaxon ·, it wa the l>la<.:k- the only race in tit • n•con1 of hi,tory that ever, after a century of oppression, l'<'tainc•d the virror to write the eharter of its emancipation with itA 0\\'11 h~1u in the l>lood. of the dotninant race. D ·:-;pi:-:etl, e:-tlumniatcd, Janderecl ,'an Domingo is the only instanc · in hi:;tory where a race, with indestructible loYe or I ilwrty, after ora ring a hundred year of opprcs ion, ro. e up uml<·r their own leader, and with their own hands wrest ed clwins from their own limbs. "\Vait: garrulous, ignorant, l>oa:-;ting Saxon, till you have done half a ' much, before you talk or the cowanlice of the l>lack race ! The .lave' of our country haYe not risen, hnt, ns in mo::;t other ca='es, redemption \\'ill eonw from the int<·rf(:r 'nee of a wi:;er, higher, more advanced ei\'iliz:1tion on 1ts ext('rior. It i;:, the almost univc r~al rceord of hi~to ry, and ours i:-; a n'pctition of tlle ~nmc drama. "\Vt' hnse awak<·ne<l at la.~t the entbusia~ m of both cla::-::-e~- tho:-:e that aet from impul~c, and tho ·e that act from cnleulatio11. It i:-; a li bel on the Ynnkcc to think that it include:; the whole rnrc, wh<'ll you ~ny that if you pnt a dollar on the other si<le of h ·II, the Yankee ~vill spring for it at any risk, (laughter ; ) for t hero is an clement eYen in the Yankee bloo<l that obeys idea:.:.; there i ~ Hn impul:.:. in', enthusiastic a:=:piration, ~om ·tlting ll'f't to u · f'rom the ol<l Puritan ... tack; tl1nt whieh ma<lc Englan(l what :-he was t ... ·o centuries ago; th:1t 'rhich is fat<.:d to give the elo~cst grr~pplc with the t;lave Power to-cby. Thi · is an inYasion by outsiue power. Ci\'iliz:llion in lGOO erept along out' shore~, now planting her foot, an<l then rctrenting; now gainin~ n {ootholtl, and then receding l>cl'ore barbarism, till at lust came Jamestown and Plymouth, aml then thirty States. Wendell Phillips. 61 Harper's Ferry is perl1aps one of Ralf'igh':; or Go~nold's colonic, Ynni ·bing and to be ' wept away; by ancl by will come the immortnl one hundred, and Plymouth Rock, with ":iUANIFEST DE. TINY" written l>y God'.· hand on their Launer, and the right of unlimi ted" AN~EXATION" grantc<1 by !leaven itself: It i' the le.-~on of the ngr . The fir:;t cropping out of it i~ in such a man a~ .John Brown. Grant tl1at he did not m c a~ure l1is mean:; ; that l1c wa ~ not thrif'ty as to his m<.'lhocl; he did not ralculatc closely eno ugh, ancl h<' was def't':ll<'tl. \Ylmt is dc·feat ?. Nothing but educ·ation- nothing but the fir:--t ~t<·p to .~~nwtlnng better. All that j~ want<'d i~, that our public O~llllJOn ha~l not creep around like a servile coward, eorrup t, d1~orderecl, 111~ane public opin ion, nntl proc-laim that Go,·<·rnor \Vise, beeau~e he SO.'JS he i:; a Governor, 'lS a Gon:rnor · that VirginiH i a Stat<·, becau:-;e site say~ ~IH' is so. ' Tkwk God, I am not a citizen. You will r em(·ml><.>r all of yon, citizen1) of the Unit<·<l ,"tatc·s, th~1t there wa:-; n~t a Virginia gun fired nt .John Brown. Hundred." or W<·ll-arnwd 1\fa ry land and Yirrrinia troo1)s I'll'lt c·cl to II · ' ]' n · ' HI }><'I':' ~ •rry aud- went awn~! Yon :-.l:ot him! t->ixtc•en m ~trinP~, to \Vh.om you pny e1ght .doll,tr~ n, month- your own l'C'JH'<>:'<' ntattVl':-<. \Vhen the dJ:-;turh ~;d St:~te cou ld not sUHHl 011 her C~\'\' 11 l<·g:;; for tre111bling;, you went there :~ 11 d ~trength<·lwd the feeble knees, a11d ht>ltl UJ) the J>'d..:.ied lt'lllcl L'. • t . ' ' ' • •-, I X (' ( 'll Ill (• n wtth the Vulture of th e Union '• 1bo\·"'"' tltt•111 - (.-.. .<'nsat·i on ) - ' you r repn~::-en.tative;-;! Jt \\'a.:; the covenant witll d{·:tth and :tgrePmenl w1th hell, whi l'h y ou c·tll tile U · L' 1 · • • ' 111011 Ot t 11rty S.t att'~, ,tllat . to~~< the old 1.11<111 l>y tht:' thro;lt with a pirclt<' IJ.tlld., ,lJHllt \\Ill be the c] 1·, 0"'J''. l('P of' Oll l, (, ·l VI. 1.IZ <lt .iO n I.f , a rraJ-low:-; lti eYer ereetcd in Yirginia that bc<tr~ lti~ body. "l'he mo~t n•solute man I ever ~aw, '\Y' G . \\. . , , ' ' ' :-; OvC!'IIOI' ' 1:-;e ''the mo~t .c lann~,,, th e .r oole:;t. I wollld tI.l l ..·. t Il.l.t -it.l uIt t:tbo,u tany ([IH' .-'lJQ11 . . li.t e .S lllCl'l'l'." t .I " s·l ll<.'C'I'.If _r, <.'OUI'Clgc•, I'( '~O IIIt<' dar-lllg, l><.:aLJng m a lt<.:art th·tt fe·lred G 1 l l < < oc' anc l ared all to help 6 |