Excerpt from Wendell Phillips Orator and Agitator
Wendell Phillips was so closely identified with the most important episode of American history in the last century that his life must be considered largely in connection with it and its consequences. Known as the anti-slavery agitation, it assumed as one of its early phases the demand for immediate and unconditional abolition. To this cause Phillips gave his best years as the preacher of a crusade against an institution, at first national and later sectional, which finally came to be regarded as bad anywhere. Agitation of a disputed question was the method, untrammeled speech before the people the means, and superlative eloquence the manner of his warfare. In his later years he became the champion of other causes.
To do him and his work justice, both should be contemplated from the present as the day of an accomplished purpose which was not generally approved in his own time nor correctly estimated. Yet, to be just to his contemporaries, it should be borne in mind that the progress of reforms is slow and the appreciation of them a gradual growth. The difference between him and most men of his generation was in his early apprehension of justice, humanity, and national consistency in a country calling itself free.
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