Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1859 — Lecture by Wendell Phillips. [ARTICLE]

Lecture by Wendell Phillips.

New York, Nov. 2. Wendell I’hillips, of Boston, delivered a lecture last night in Brooklyn, fn which he argued that John Brown was theonly American who had acted boldly up to the true American idea, and cast aside those talse and fatal wrappings ot an effete conservatism and relused to regard anything as government or any statute as law except those which conformed to his own sense of justice and of right. Virginia was not a State nor Wise was not a Governor; the Union was not a Nation; all these so-called governments were organized piracies. John Brown was to-day the only real and true government oin the soil of Virginia, and had an infinitely better right to hang; Gov. Wise, than Gov.. Wise had to hang him He also said, “I think you can make a better use of iron, than forging it into chains, it you must have the metal put it into Sharp’s rifles. It is a. great deal better used in that way than in. fetters, a great deal better than a great clumsy statue of a false great man for men to kneel down and worship in a State house yard.