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Wendell Phillips' speech in Brooklyn... The South refuses a union with the North...
Wendell Phillips' speech in Brooklyn... The South refuses a union with the North...
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February 04, 1863
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Feb. 4, 1863
* American abolitionist Wendell Phillips
* Speech at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn
* re. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
* End of slavery - anti slaves advocate
The backpage has "MR. PHILLIPS IN PLYMOUTH CHURCH", with subhead: "Our Future". The speech and additional commentary take over four columns.
Among the ftpg. column heads on the Civil War are: "From the Vicksburg Expedition" "Position of Our Army & Fleet" "Gen. Grant to Take Command" "The South Refuse a Union with the Free North" "The White River Expedition & more inside as well.
Eight pages; overall, in nice condition.
AI notes: On February 3, 1863, at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, abolitionist Wendell Phillips delivered a powerful and urgent speech following President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Speaking at a church renowned for its anti-slavery activism under Henry Ward Beecher, Phillips praised the proclamation as a moral milestone but emphasized that it must be only the beginning of a larger transformation. He argued that true freedom required not just the legal end of slavery but full equality and citizenship for Black Americans. Phillips warned that without the North’s unwavering moral and political commitment, the Union risked reverting to systemic racial injustice. Framing the Civil War as a moral revolution, he urged his audience to see emancipation as the foundation for a new, more just America—one that fully embraced human rights and integrated formerly enslaved people into the nation’s civic life. His speech was a clarion call for enduring change, pushing the North to fulfill the deeper promises of the war through decisive and lasting action.
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