The one did most
to render our American journals great vehicles of news, the other to
make them controlling organs of opinion. Their survivors in the
profession have much to learn from both.--_New York World_.
Knight of the ready pen,
Soldier without a sword,
Such eyes hadst thou for other men,
So true and grand a word!
As Caesar led his legions
Triumphant over Gaul,
And through still wilder, darker regions,
So thou didst lead us all!
Until we saw the chains
Which bound our brothers' lives,
And heard the groans and felt the pains,
Which come from wearing gyves.
To brave heroic men
The false no more was true;
And what the Nation needed then
Could any soldier do.
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VII.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
(BORN 1811--DIED 1884.)
THE TIMES WHEN HE APPEARED--"WHO IS THIS FELLOW?"--A FLAMING ADVOCATE OF
LIBERTY--LIBERTY OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT--POWER TO DISCERN THE RIGHT--THE
MOB-BEATEN HERO TRIUMPHANT.
Long chapters of history are illumined as by as electric light in the
following characteristic address from his pulpit by Henry Ward Beecher,
at the time the name of the great philanthropist was added to the roll
of American heroes.
THE TIMES WHEN HE APPEARED.
The condition of the public mind throughout the North at the time I came
to the consciousness of public affairs and was studying my profession
may be described, in one word, as the condition of imprisoned moral
sense.
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