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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 53

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    ing and with 1 prosperity the ability seceding that of such the states free a course to states go in was peace But consisten . it is Mr t . lain Philli with all ps the throug argues peace h

    these speeches , that the abolitionists . regarded p this , as only the best time bargain at the North they would a irit be lik of el compromise y to secure . which There would was at have that

    re-constructed the Union sp over the crushed , form of the slave . There is little doubt that the North would have aid any price

    to abolitionists bring back who the had South iven . Under the toil such of circumstances p to , free the many years

    . themselves from , complicity g with the crime of slavery , felt that for in in the . sufficient success further departur ; guarantees and e earnest of th the eir , but South greatest to was slavery was onl fear the y making was But . culmination , that when a the desperate the of South South their demand was efforts made not

    . an armed attack upon the United States' flag , they saw that a to power the utmost was unsealed ive them —the a war boon power far — beyond which what could , their if pressed most

    sanguine expectations , g had looked for . When the government rose took up en the masse gauntl with et the thrown hihest down enthusiasm at Sumter , and to sustain the peop the le

    governmentthe phantom of g a re-construction on the basis of ring slavery thirt faded y-four , from states before for liberty them , and instead the of radiant fifteen hope arose of b secu efore

    them . , , an On oration the twentieth on disunion of , January in the Boston , 1861 , Music Mr . Philli Hall ps , with concluded these

    words—Him " All that hail bringeth , then , good Disunion tidings ! * that Beauti publisheth ful on the mountain that saith s are unto the feet Zion of

    thy God reigneth ! ' The sods of , Bunker Hill shall peace be greener , , now that their , .. great life purpose not is accomp iven in lished -vain . Rejoice Sleep in peace irits , of ma Fayette , rtyr of Plarper and Koseiusko ' s Ferry ! !

    the _your only was stain upon g your swords . is passing , sp away . Soon , throughout all Americathere shall be neither wish nor power to hold a slave !"

    , stood On the on the twenty same -first latform of April ( of long the - the sam pul e year it of Mr . Theodore Phillips

    Parker ) , now profusel p y decorated with the stars p and stripes , and delivered a powerful discourse , which is entitled " Under

    the Flag from / ' quoting Jeremiah *—for — it was Therefore Sunday thus morning saith — the the Lord following : Ye

    passage to have his not brother hearkened and unto me man in to proclaiming his neihbour liberty : behold every one I

    pestilen proclaim ce a , and liberty , to the for every famine you , saith . " Mr the . Philli Lord , ps to g began the sword as follows , to the , :

    _airged " Many as well times as this I knew winter how , here the and expediency elsewhere of , acknowledg I have counselled ing a Southern peace _;

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    Notices Of Books. 53

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 53

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/53/