OF

WENDELL PHILLIPS

BY

GEORGE LOWELL AUSTIN

AUTHOR OF A "HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS,' ""LONGFELLOW: HIS
LIFE, WORKS, AND FRIENDSHIPS," ETC.

"A public man is often under the necessity of consenting to measures
he dislikes, to save others he thinks important. But the historian is under
no such necessity."- LORD MACAULAY.

"In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's
side, is a majority."-WENDELL PHILLIPS.

BOSTON

B. B. RUSSELL & COMPANY

57 CORNHILL

1884

BY GEORGE LOWELL AUSTIN.

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THE COLORED CITIZENS OF THIS LAND,

TO WHOM WENDELL PHILLIPS WAS ALWAYS A FRIEND;

TO WIVES AND DAUGHTERS,

OF WHOSE NATURAL RIGHTS HE WAS ALWAYS A FEARLESS

ADVOCATE;

TO YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN,

TO WHOM HIS UNSTAINED LIFE WAS ALWAYS AN EXAMPLE,

HIS WORDS AN ADMONITION FOR GOOD AND RIGHT,

THESE PAGES

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY THE AUTHOR.