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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Irish sympathy with the abolition movement. (search)
spirits who lead the noble list. I must say that never have I stood in the presence of an audience with higher hopes of the rapid progress and success of our cause than now. I remember with what devoted earnestness, with what unfaltering zeal, Ireland has carried on so many years the struggle for her own freedom. It is from such men, whose hearts lost no jot of their faith in the grave of Emmett; over whose zeal the loss of Curran and Grattan could throw no damp; who are now turning the tropenounced the sin of making merchandise of men; that the voice of Rome was the first to be heard against the slave-trade; and that the bull of Gregory XVI., forbidding every true Catholic to touch the accursed thing, is yet hardly a year old. Ireland is the land of agitation and agitators. We may well learn a lesson from her in the battle for human rights. Her philosophy is no recluse; she doffs the cowl, and quits the cloister, to grasp in friendly effort the hands of the people. No puls
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Kossuth (1851). (search)
are for Ireland; I will never shut my mouth on the slave question to save her! [Loud cheers.] He stood with eight millions whom he loved; he stood with & peasantry at his back meted out and trodden under foot as cruelly as the Magyar; he stood with those behind him who had been trampled under the horses' feet of the British soldiery in 1782 and 1801; he knew the poverty and wretchedness, he knew the oppression under which the Irish groaned: but never for a moment, would he consent to lift Ireland,--whose woes, we may well suppose, rested heavily on the heart of her greatest son, --by the sacrifice of the interests or the freedom of any other portion of the race. When, said the friend who told me this anecdote, in conclusion,--when there were no more than two or three of us in the House of Commons, O'Connell would leave any court or any meeting to be present at the division, and vote on our side. That is the type of a man who tries by its proper standard the claims of all classes u
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The scholar in a republic (1881). (search)
my Crillon. But a second thought reminds me that what claims to be literature has been always present in that battlefield, and always in the ranks of the foe. Ireland is another touchstone which reveals to us how absurdly we masquerade in democratic trappings while we have gone to seed in Tory distrust of the people; false to e figure in the Parliamentary history of the last hundred years, greater than Cicero in the senate and almost Plato in the academy — Burke affirmed, a century ago, Ireland has learned at last that justice is to be had from England only when demanded at the sword's point. And a century later, only last year, Gladstone himself proclnt rests on consent,--if, as the French say, you can do almost anything with a bayonet except sit on it, --be at least consistent, and denounce the man who covers Ireland with regiments to hold up a despotism which, within twenty months, he has confessed rests wholly upon fear. Then note the scorn and disgust with which we gathe
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Daniel O'Connell (1875.) (search)
ritain was the leading State in Europe; while Ireland, a comparatively insignificant island, lay at Dean Swift, Molyneux, and Henry Flood thrust Ireland for a moment into the arena of British polition called a union of the shark with its prey, Ireland sank back, plundered and helpless. O'Connellthey know they have but to lift a finger, and Ireland stabs her in the back. Where was the statesm such an evil to grow so formidable? This is Ireland to-day. What was she when O'Connell undertoonce the days of Cromwell, gave them weapons. Ireland herself lay bound in the iron links of a codeher read nor write. Well, in order to lead Ireland in that day an Irishman must have four elemenbe now the dispute about methods,--which made Ireland a nation; he gave her British citizenship, anhat he never sacrificed any race to save even Ireland,--let me compare him with Kossuth, whose onlyhe roof of my mouth, if to save Ireland, even Ireland, I forget the negro one single hour! From th[5 more...]