Wendell Phillips in Faneuil Hall Speech on Louisiana Difficulties (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Wendell Phillips in Faneuil Hall: Speech on Louisiana Difficulties Now, gentlemen (a voice, Give us your opinion, Please be silent, while I try to make what reply I can to the statements of these eloquent gentlemen who have preceded me. And you will allow me to say, first, that the term citizen of the United States is not mere verbiage; it has a meaning, a substantial meaning. To be a citizen of the United States is a great privilege; it carries with it in violable rights. Every man, rightfully claiming that character, is entitled to the efficient protection of the National Govern ment, is he not? Yes, Very well; no man doubts that when the United States citizen in question is in a foreign land - When Algiers trampled on a citizen of the United States (a voice, Dr. Commodore Decatur, with guns shotted to the lips, taught the Dey his lesson. Ingra ham taught Austria the same lesson, and we have had some thing of that kind to do in Cuba. N ow, gentlemen, what I say is that a citizen of the United States in Massachusetts, or Louisiana, is as much entitled to the protection of the nation, as is a citizen of the United States in Japan. Is he not? (cries of Yes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.