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spaniel, a beggar, and a panderer to the worst pas
sions of mobs ?
Perhaps Carlyle might have called him "
ticulate man
"
; for he never got on platforms
an inar
to tell
how good he was, or how bad others were. He was
one of those whose right hand did much, and the
left knew it not; one who never turned the poor
from his door ;
one who was a leader in many move
ments for the improvement of mankind. Even Mr.
Phillips, tingling though he was under the public
exposure of a base calumny, was forced to say of
"
him, His services to the cause of education are an
honor to his memory."
Such actions go to make a good citizen. He,
however, did something more. First in this country
he established the principle that young culprits are
not to be cast, like lost felons, into a common prison,
but are to have a chance for better lives. He
founded the State Reform School, and endowed it
with seventy thousand dollars of his money. Only
after his death was it known who had conferred this
benefit on the Commonwealth.
The Rebellion was Mr. Phillips s
opportunity.
Here was the harvest-time of the seed he had sown
for many seasons. How feebly did he put in the
sickle !
Yet he had good models to follow. If Thucydides
writes true history, Mr. Phillips has copied closely
the oratory of a demagogue who lived more than
two thousand years ago. Cleon, the Athenian
leather-dresser, had that very way of saying what