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 PHILLIPS

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fifty was appointed to protect the colored people from the new danger. In 1853 lie addressed the antislavery woman's rights and temperance conventions held in New York city. Upon the election of President Lincoln and the outhreak of the civil war, Phillips favored the commence- ment of hostilities and delivered an address to that end in Boston Music Hall. On Sept. 22,

1862. the President issued his proclamation of freedom to the slaves, to take efifect Jan. 1. 1863, and the Negro was allowed to enlist as a soldier. Phillips was one of the first to favor the enlist- ment of colored regiments in Massachusetts, and autliority was obtained, Jan. 20, 1863. On Mart-h 11-12, 1863, Phillips delivered his panegyric on Tuussaiut L'Ouvertnre in New York and Brooklyn, and on July 4, 1863, he delivered an address at the mass- meeting of the Friends of Freedom at Framingham, Mass., which was perhaps the most remarkable speech delivered by him during the war. He also spoke on " The Amnesty "' at the Cooper Institute, N.Y., Dec. 22,

1863. Upon the re-nomination of President Lin- coln in 1864, Mr. Phillips opposed, while William Lloyd Garrison favored, his election. This led to a controversy, as Garrison held that as slavery had been abolished, the Antislavery society should be abolished. Phillips, however, contended that it should not be discontinued until the Negro had gained his ballot. He succeeded Garrison as president of the society in 1865, and continued in office until 1870. He was an advocate of tem- perance, an upholder of trades unions, and was in favor of a greenback system of finance. He was nominated for governor of Massachusetts by the Labor Reform convention held at Worces- ter, Sept. 8, 1870. He supported General Butler for governor on a joint Republican and Labor plat- form, and in the presidential canvass of 1872 he supported General Grant and his southern policy. In 1878 an unsuccessful effort was made to induce Pliillips to accept the nomination for governor on the Republican ticket. He delivered addresses on: " Capital Punishment,"' April 29, 1866; " The Meaning of the War," July 4, 1866; " The Perils of the Hour," 1866; "The New Constitutional Amendment," Jan. 24, 1807; " General Grant," Nov. 18, 1867; " The Political Situation," Jan.

29, 1869; "Sir Henry Vane" in May, 1877; " Trades Unions" in April. 1809; " A Review of Dr. Howard Crosby's Anti-total-abstinence dis- course," Jan. 24,1881; "The Crisis in Irish Affairs," in February, 1881, and " The Scholar in a Repub- lic," delivered at the centennial anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard college, June

30, 1881. His last address was delivered on the unveiling exerci.ses of the statue of Harriet Martineau, at the Old South Meeting House, Dec. 26,1883. He is the author of: The Constitution,

a Pro-Slavery Contract (1840); Revieio of Daniel Webster's 7th of March Speech (1850), and a col- lection of speeches, letters and lectures, revised by himself (1803). By vote of the legislature and city government his body was laid in state at Faneuil Hall, where it was viewed by a large number of citizens. His name in "Class A, Authors and Editors,'' received nineteen votes for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Amer- ican, New Y^'ork university, October, 1900. He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 2, 1884.

PHILLIPS, Willard, editor and author, was born in Bridgewater, Mass., Dec. 19, 1784; son of Joseph Phillips, grandson of Thomas and Mary (Hatch) PhiUips, and a descendant of the Rev, George Phillips, first minister of Water- town, Mass. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1810, A.M., 1813; was tutor there, 1811-15; prac- tised law in Boston, Mass., 1818-45; was a repre- sentative in the general court, 1825-26; judge of probate for Suffolk county, 1839-47, and president of the New England Mutual life insurance com- pany, 1843-73. He received the degree LL.D. from Harvard in 1853, and was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was connected editorially with the General Re- positoi'y and Review; the North American Re- vieiv; the American Jurist; the first and second American editions of Collyer's Laiv of Partner- ship (1834:-'9), and the first eight volumes of Pickering's Reports (1824); and is the author of: Treatise on the Law of Insurance (1823); Manual of Political Economy (1828); The Law of Patents for Inventions, including the Remedies and Legal Proceedings in Relation to Patent Rights (1837): The Inventors Guide (1831), and Protection and Free Trade (1850). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 9, 1873.

PHILLIPS, William Addison, representative, was born in Paisley, Scotland, Jan. 14, 1824. He was educated in the schools of Paisley, and in 1839 came to the United States with his parents and settled in Randolph county. 111. He engaged in farming, 1839-45, edited the Herald at Cliester, 111., and also acted as a correspondent of the New Y'ork Tribune, 1845-55. He was admitted to the bar in 1855, and settled in practice in Kansas, where he continued his contributions to the Tribune, and became active in the history of the free state movement. He was first justice of the supreme court under the Leavenworth constitution, and in 1858 founded the city of Salina, Kan. He raised some of the first troops in Kansas in 1861, and entered the army as major of volunteers. He was afterward pro- moted colonel, and served as commander of the famous Clierokee Indian regiment; organized the Indian brigade, and commanded a division made up of Indians from Kansas, Arkansas, Illi-