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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
ions and the Hampdens, the Jays and the Fayettes Thank God, then, we are not Massachusetts men! When I think of the long term and wide reach of his influence, and look at the subjects of his speeches,--the mere shells of history, drum-and-trumpet declamation, dry law, or selfish bickerings about trade,--when I think of his bartering the hopes of four million of bondmen for the chances of his private ambition, I recall the criticism on Lord Eldon,--No man ever did his race so much good as Eldon prevented. Again, when I remember the close of his life spent in ridiculing the antislavery movement as useless abstraction, moonshine, mere rub-a-dub agitation, because it did not minister to trade and gain, methinks I seem to see written all over his statue Tocqueville's conclusion from his survey of French and American Democracy,--The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self, is made to be a slave! Monuments, anniversaries, statues, are schools, Mr. Webster tells us, whos
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 21 (search)
hom he pleases. And you know that neither press nor lips may venture to arraign the government without being silenced. At this moment one thousand men, at least, are bastiled by an authority as despotic as that of Louis,--three times as many as Eldon and George III. seized when they trembled for his throne. Mark me, I am not complaining. I do not say it is not necessary. It is necessary to do anything to save the ship. [Applause.] It is necessary to throw everything overboard in order thout character or principle, that two angry parties, each hopeless of success, contemptuously tolerate them as neutrals. Now I am not exaggerating the moment. I can parallel it entirely. It is the same position that England held in the times of Eldon and Fox, when Holcroft and Montgomery, the poet, Horne Tooke and Frost and Hardy, went into dungeons, under laws which Pitt executed and Burke praised,--times when Fox said he despaired of English liberty but for the power of insurrection,--times