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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The right of petition. (search)
heard in old Faneuil, and from the lips of those whose very names should have been a guaranty of their attachment to freedom, principles which would have blotted out every page of our past history. Borne down, but not dismayed,--confident that the hearts of the people, could the truth but reach them, were sound at the core,--we sought out the weapon which our fathers wielded; we besieged the doors of our State legislatures with petitions and remonstrances. I need not tell the county of Essex how that appeal was answered. Of that answer they have already taken note. There was one refuge left,--the government which our fathers established, to promote justice, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity. There, at least, we might hope to find men able to look behind circumstances to principles. Who does not recollect the astonishment — for the first feeling was rather astonishment than indignation -with which we heard that the door of the capitol was