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Showing posts with label Wendell Phillips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wendell Phillips. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2026

Wendell Phillips on the Puritan Principle,* December 18, 1859

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I THANK GOD for John Calvin. To be sure, he burned Servetus; but the Puritans, or at least, their immediate descendants, hung the witches; G...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Wendell Phillips to Senator Charles Sumner, April 27, 1852

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I have never, my dear friend, ceased one moment to trust you. Passing over the whole State this winter, lecturing sometimes four nights in t...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Wendell Phillips to Senator Charles Sumner, 1852

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I congratulate you most sincerely on the happy issue or your efforts for Drayton and Sayres. You have earned your honors. SOURCE: Edward L...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

No Union With Slaveholders!

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KISSING THE CHAIN! Shall Massachusetts stand erect no longer, But stoop in chains upon her downward way, Thicker to gather on her limb...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Theodore Parker, December 24, 1859

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ROME, December 24, 1839. What a stormy time you are having in America! Your cradle was rocked in the Revolution, and now in your old age y...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Lecture of Wendell Phillips: “The Lesson of the Hour,” Delivered at Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday Evening, November 1, 1859

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Of course I do not expect—speaking from this platform, and to you— to say any thing on the vital question of the hour,...