Chapter XVII: �wendell Phillips

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