A Memorial of Wendell Phillips From the City of Boston
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It was enough. As the jail doors closed upon Garrison to save his life, Grarrison and his cause had won their most powerful and renowned ally. With the setting of that October sun vanished forever the career of prosperous ease, the gratification of ordinary ambition, which the genius and the accomplishment of Wendell Phillips had seemed to foretell. Yes, the long- awaited client had come at last. Scarred, scorned, and forsaken, that cowering and friendless client was wronged and degraded humani...ty. The great soul saw and under- stood. "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must. The youth replies, I can." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterwards said: " I love inexpressibly these streets of Boston, over which my mother led my baby feet; and if God grants me time enough I will make them too pure for the footsteps of a slave." And we, fellow-citizens, who recall the life and the man, the untiring sacrifice, the complete surrender, do we not hear in the soft air of that long-vanished October day, far above the riot of the stormy street, the benedic- tion that he could not hear, but whose influence breathed always from the ineffable sweetness of his smile and the gracious courtesy of his manner, " Inasmuch as thou hast done it to the least of these my brethren, thou hast done it unto me"?
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