Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — The Tables Turned. [ARTICLE]

The Tables Turned.

Wendell Phillips 1 /ad one eminent quality as an orator—be was never flue* tered. During the delivery of his firat public speech at Fanemi Hall, in 1837, there was one moment when the whole audience, friends and fqes, turned 1 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 ora* * tor was by no means disconcerted. Ne opposition ever disconcerted him. He waited for a lull in the storm, and thus resumed his address thus: “One word, gentlemen. As much as thought is better than money, so muck better is the cause for which Lovejoy died acbler than a mere question of taxes. .Tames Otis thundered in this hail when the King did but touch his pocket. Imagi e, if you can, his indig* nant eloquence had England offered to put a gag upon his lips.* This happy turn brongb.t the assem* bly over to his side again, and the hall resounded with applause. There was no more opposition, and he concluded bis sp. eech in t T-iDph. Youth's CoMl* ponton.