Showing posts with label Boston Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston Post. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2009

Wendell Phillips

Mr. Phillips has returned to Boston, and made a speech at Tremont Temple in that City. We quote a passage from the Boston Post’s report of his remarks:

Mr. Phillips said, the Democratic party rears its head. It gave me the benefit of an incessant advertisement. I owe audiences of thousands and ten of thousands to the fact that a fortnight before I approached a city, the Democratic press loaded its columns with advertisements for me. Cincinnati heralded me the most excellent advertisements, and sent me sealed as her apostle to the banks of the Mississippi. – {Laughter.} It was a Democratic endorsement that Cincinnati gave me. {Applause.} It opened my way to the hearts of the prairies so quickly that I was almost afraid men would suspect me of collusion.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 2