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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
Harper's Ferry. a lecture delivered at Brooklyn, N. Y., Tuesday evening, November 1, 1859. Mr.a week, asked leave to be of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. [Cheers and applause.] Connecticut has ser as that Litchfield-born schoolmaster at Harper's Ferry, writing as it were upon the Natural Bridgton and sells slaves. What I say is this: Harper's Ferry was the only government in that vicinity. was only the echo of that Lexington gun. Harper's Ferry is the Lexington of to-day. Up to this mohad in behalf of the wronged, goes down to Harper's Ferry to follow up his work. Well, men say he fd not tremble at an old gray-headed man at Harper's Ferry; they trembled at a John Brown in every maown and Plymouth, and then thirty States. Harper's Ferry is perhaps one of Raleigh's or Gosnold's cmed Maryland and Virginia troops rushed to Harper's Ferry, and-went away! You shot him Sixteen marif it everywhere. When the first news from Harper's Ferry came to Massachusetts, if you were riding[2 more...]
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
Great Britain. That night George III. ceased to rule in New England. History will date Virginia Emancipation from Harper's Ferry. True, the slave is still there. So, when the tempest uproots a pine on your hills, it looks green for months,--a y-four hours, and carry away all the slaves who wish to escape. Did he not do it? On Monday night he stood master of Harper's Ferry, --could have left unchecked with a score or a hundred slaves. The wide sympathy and secret approval are shown by thword to the slave my fathers forgot. If any swords ever reflected the smile of Heaven, surely it was those drawn at Harper's Ferry. If our God is ever the Lord of Hosts, making one man chase a thousand, surely that little band might claim him for their captain. Harper's Ferry was no single hour, standing alone,--taken out from a common life,--it was the flowering out of fifty years of single-hearted devotion. He must have lived wholly for one great idea, when these who owe their being to hi
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
r fathers saw a man in the box. There was great noise at Chicago, much pulling of wires and creaking of wheels, then forth steps Abraham Lincoln. But John Brown was behind the curtain, and the cannon of March 4th will only echo the rifles at Harper's Ferry. Last year, we stood looking sadly at that gibbet against the Virginia sky. One turn of the kaleidoscope,--it is Lincoln in the balcony of the Capitol, and a million of hearts beating welcome below. [Cheers.] Mr. Seward said, in 1850: Ymake, he goes on to pledge himself to use only constitutional and peaceful means to resist slavery, all about the paternal gods to the contrary notwithstanding! You need not summon him, Mr. Mason! He won't do any harm! In 1860, just after Harper's Ferry, he tells the South, that, if their sovereignty is assailed, within or without, no matter on what pretext, or who the foe, he will defend it as he would his own! You see, peaceful measures against slavery; guns and bayonets for it! Do the
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 18 (search)
eenth century. That is what we mean by Disunion! That is my coercion! Northern pulpits cannonading the Southern conscience; Northern competition emptying its pockets; educated slaves awaking its fears; civilization and Christianity beckoning the South into their sisterhood. Soon every breeze that sweeps over Carolina will bring to our ears the music of repentance, and even she will carve on her Palmetto, We hold this truth to be self-evident, -that all men are created equal. All hail, then, Disunion! Beautiful on the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth. The sods of Bunker Hill shall be greener, now that their great purpose is accomplished. Sleep in peace, martyr of Harper's Ferry!--your life was not given in vain. Rejoice: spirits of Fayette and Kosciusko!--the only stain upon your swords is passing away. Soon, throughout all America. there shall be neither power nor wish to hold a slave