Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

CHAPTER XVII.--WENDELL PHILLIPS.

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Birth and Ancestry of Wendell Phillips--His Education and Social Advantage--The Lovejoy Murder--Speech in Faneuil Hall--The Murder Justified--Mr. Phillips' First Speech--He Defends the Liberty of the Press--His Ideality--He Joins the Garrisonian Abolitionists--Gives up the Law and Becomes a Reformer--His Method and Style of Oratory--Abolitionists Blamed for the Boston Mob--Heroism of the Early Abolitionists--His Position in Favor of "Woman's Rights"--Anecdote of His Lecturing--His Services in the Cause of Temperance--Extract from His Argument on Prohibition--His Severity towards Human Nature--His Course During and Since the War--A Change of Tone Recommended. 483