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Digital Commons @ George Fox University "The Crescent" Student Newspaper Archives and Museum 3-1-1901 The Crescent - March 1901 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "The Crescent - March 1901" (1901). "The Crescent" Student Newspaper. 49. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/49 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Museum at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in "The Crescent" Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1I 0 0 C) £1 I’ If’ I L i 0 (jIjf I 11. are you wait ói9 For? THE CRESCENT. VOL. XII. MARCH, ‘901. OUR STOCK IS LARGE. NO. 6. OUR GOODS NEW. ?bena’e// 9h///ips--&e OUR PRICES LOW. .‘(i/cuor. We make a btisi,ies in makirn Baraim; hi hi O,-ot/on .5?ankcd t,-’ in iw Oraorica/ Con/cst of Ofc9on Clothing, Hats &; hoes1 ORA’rn,—ET.woon T LATEST IN STYLI, S. M INCI-IIN, ‘o4. THE FINEST IN QUALITY. flHfi achievements of a great the dark cloud of slavery, as it rftere man are always inspiring, threatened the moral life of our is a limit below which Honest whether his genius lies in powers Nation. America then considered Goods cannot of government, in fields of litera slavery a commercial necessity. be sold. We plac ture, in flights of oratory, or in 1)riven on by the ever-potent desire our prices at Low Water !1ark for master-pieces of art. Every na for gain, men bartered away their Safe tion has her Gladstone, her Emer fellow—men; women and children and Reliable Goods. son, her Cicero, and her Apelles; were knocked down to the highest she holds them in grateful memory bidder; babies were torn from their and regards them with deepest love mothers’ arms and sold by the 1 and honor. America has produced Inspect Us1 Criticise Di, pound. Such were the conditions many men whose lives stand as last when William Lloyd Garrison Know Di, ing monuments before the eyes of fonncled the Anti-Slavery Society their countrymen. No one is more of Massachusetts. His followers, And you will find worthy of the honor and gratitude called Abolitionists, were despised we deal fair aud. of the American people than that as fanatics, were mobbed, stoned man who planted the flag of free and some even killed because they Save you Doiia:, dom on the ramparts of slaver, demanded j ustice for the black Wendell Phillips, the agitator. man. To be an Abolitionist in FKfl))N BJRO S. l3ack ward through the perspec America was almost as unsafe as to tive of 70 years, let us look and see he a Christian in the days of Nero. I ‘111 E J’sci’’ç’i’ THE cRESCENT. 3 Wendell Phillips, though always ninied to stand for right and j usticc, as Patrick Henry turned the Puri take them into the territories.’ il r. opposed to slavery, had not open lv even though he stood alone. Like tans against the tyranny of George Phillips said: ‘You shall hold slaves declared himself an abolitionist, Mr. Garrison, he said: ‘I will be iii. Though often in danger of nowhere.’ until aroused by the murder of P. as harsh as truth and as uncoin pro his life, vet fearless and brave, with It takes no particular shrewdness P. Lovejoy, an anti-slavers- editor, mising as justice. I will not equi a calm diignitv and matchless hear on our part to declare the solution who had been mobbed, and while vocate; I will not excuse; I will not ing, with that clear, ringing voice, of this problem after history has endeavoring to protect his property, retreat a single inch; and I will e lie would comma ad and quell the established its verity. But go back 1 shot down like a clog. After this heard.’ most determined riot. Like Sheri half a century and hear the threats cruel outrage, Phillips took up the Such a man as Wendell Phillips (1:111 at Winchester, he had the of nullification and disunion; read sword that ‘as destined to strike was an invaluable acquisition to the genius to turn defeat into victory. of the anarchy and bloodshed in the shackles from 3,000,000 hands Abolition party, whose friends were Wendell Phillips was a horn fighter, Kansas and Missouri; see Charles and feet, so few and enemies so strong and and he fought to win. He fought Sumner lie bleeding on the floor of We can scarcely corn prehend numerous. The Abolitionists could society; he fought the law; he the Senate chamber; follow the what this step meant to Mr. Phil hold no worldly considerations to fought the State of Massachusetts; broadcloth mob as it drags Garrison lips, when we remember his posi attract adherents; their case ‘as he fought the Southern States; he through the streets of Boston; tion. A man of noble Puritan cle similar’ to that of Garibaldi when fought the whole uiiited Govern stand thus in the turmoil of the scent, reared in luxury, surroti iided appealing for recruits to liberate ment—ancl lie won! ‘sos, facing the darkness of civil from his youth with all the advant Italy. ‘What are your induce After returning from a tour in strife, and then attempt the prob ages of wealth, culture and refine meats?’ t hey asked. Poverty, I’urope, where lie filled his master 1cm with the means at hand to solve ment; with his education complete, hardships, battles, wounds—ni id mind to over-flowing’ with classical it. And when you exclaim in be he became at 25 years of age one victory’ replied the hero. As the illustrations and comparisons from wilderment, ‘It is too great.’ let me of the most distinguished lawyers Italians enlisted, aroused 1w his en— Old World history, he gave a lec show you a man who rose in his in Boston. But all his brilliant th usiasm, so the Abolitionists, nii— ture in Boston which captivated the might and faced it; who led where prospects were to he sacrificed for (‘ler the leadership of Phillips, iii— entire audience. O’CoHnell, the great leaders sought for guidance; an unpopular cause. The cit’ was creased in i H months from 23 C1l Irish orator, pronounced it the most who stood like a gigantic rock horrified by his new move, and his to 30,000. classic short speech iii the I-nglish amidst the tempestuous surgings of family was considered disgraced. Having been made general language, and said, ‘I resign the criticism and ridicule; whose a Shunned by his friends, he became agent of the Anti-Slavery Society, en uvu. ‘l’h is voniig American is chievernents make all that had gone a social outcast. He was deeply he threw himself into the work with without an equal.’ His numerous before seeni tentative and prepar1- hurt by this ostracism, but did he the ardor of an enthusiast. He has lectures on slavery were now given tory, a series of events, to which his fail at duty’s call? Did he falter in been described as starting another with ii nconipromising’ boldness, ad success adds dramatic climax and Ins purpose? No; his was the cour Paul Revere’s ride, to warn the peo vocating’ the complete overthrow of conclusion. age that never wavers in the face of ple of a worse invasion thaji that of the tyrant. The south said: ‘We While devoting much of his opposition or persecution. He had the redcoats. He aroused the cit will carry our slaves everywhere.’ time to the anti-slavery movement, counted the cost, and was deter- izens against the curse of slavers-, Anti—slavery said: ‘You mast not Wendell Phillips began his wonder- 4 THE cREScEN’r. THE CRESCENT. ful career as a public lecturer, treat ment’? \Vendell Phillips was the pressed. His mighty heart of foundation of every progressive ing large variety of topics, all embodied genius of oratory, but his a purity and truth throbbed with the republic! with even excellence. Whether love for truth and justice surpassed noblest impulses and loftiest pur 0 great ivotid leaner of a mighty age supporting the cause of temperance, that genius. His words carried Prince unto thee, let all the people give; poses; by it he swayed the public By thy great Liberator, live the question of cap conviction, but only because they name of discoursing on mind and instituted the divine prin Iii golden let ters upon history’,’ page; ital and labor, or expounding the fell from lips that were true. The And this thy epitaph while time shall lie: ciple of freedem, which is the l-t fo,tn,1 his ennui tv ebaittiel. hi’ tier fret ethics of progress, he showed him world scoffed at his ideal, but only l,’fl self an able exponent of every re because it was high. Though form. The masses surged to bear overwhelmed with difficulties and him, whether interested in his theme dangers, he ran the gauntlet of or not, and often, predetermined to ridicule. ‘I,ove of justice’ was his he rSoc/a/ dislike him, they would sit, charm itspiration, noncompromise his ed by his eloquence, one, two, three watchword, and his reward was hours, unconscious of the lapse of victory. flHE word ‘social’ has an inter social evil effects only one man. time. Confronted by his splendid ‘Born in the purple, equipped esting 11 istory.