Wendell Phillips
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217419680
Paperback|9780217419680
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: scattered along the hard coast of the North Sea, came the genius of liberty to rescue modern Europe from hopeless despotism. Nay, with his own eyes, saddened and surprised, Phillips saw that, in the immediate presence of a monstrous and perilous wrong to human nature, prosperous and comfortable America angrily refused to hear; and that while humanity lay bruised and bleeding by the way, the polished society of the most enlightened city in the Union passed by disdainful on the other side. WIELDING THE SCOURGE OF INVECTIVE. But while he cherished this profound faith in the people, and because he cherished it, he never flattered the mob, nor hung upon its neck, nor pandered to its passion, nor suffered its foaming hate, or its exulting enthusiasm, to touch the calm poise of his regnant soul. Those who were eager to insult, and deride, and silence him, when he pleaded for the negro, wept, and shouted, and rapturously crowned him. when he paid homage to O'Con- nell, and made O'Connell's cause his own. But the crowd did not follow him with huzzas. He moved in solitary majesty, and if from his smooth speech a lightning flash of satire or of scorn struck a cherished lie, or an honored character, or a dogma of the party creed and the crowd burst into a furious tempest of dissent, he beat it into silence with uncompromising iteration. If it tried to drown his voice, heturned to the reporters, and over the raging tumult calmly said, Howl on, I speak to thirty millions here. There was another power in his speech sharper than in the speech of any other American orator, an unsparing invective. The abolition appeal was essentially iconoclastic, and the method of a reformer at close quarters with a mighty system of wrong cannot he measured by the standards of cool and polite debate. Ph...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217419680 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217419682 |
| Weight | 0.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.12 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 52 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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