Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1887 — The Tables Turned. [ARTICLE]

The Tables Turned.

Wendell Phillips had one eminont quality as an orator—he was never flustered. During the delivery of his first public speech al I'aneuil Hall, in 1837, there was one moment when the whole audience, friends and foes, turned against him, and there was a universal roar of dissent. It was when he said that the cause for which Washington fought was far beneath that for which Mr. Lovejoy, the abolitionist, died. The young orator was by no means disconcerted. No opposition ever disconcerted him. He waited for a lull in the storm, and then resumed his address thus: “One word, gentlemen. As much ai thought is better than money, so much better is the cause for which J ,ovejoy died nobler than a mere question of taxes. .James Otis thundered in ibis hall when tho King did but touch his pocket. Imagi e, if you can his indignant eloquence had England offered to put a gag upon his lips.” This happy turn brought the assembly over to his side again, and the hall resounded with applause. There was. no more opposition, and he concluded his speech in triumph.— Youth's Companion.