PHILLIPS 



PHILLIPSBURG 



IAVID GRAHAM 

 1'IIILLIPS 



velopment when his tragic death cut short his 

 career, and his work showed abundant promise 

 of even better things to come. Philli; 

 born in Madison, Ind. He was graduated at 

 Princeton University in 1887, and began his lit- 



career as a 

 reporter and 

 newspaper corre- 

 spondent. For a 

 time hewasonthe 

 editorial staff of 

 the New York 

 In 1901 



he published his 

 novel, The 

 God Suc- 

 cess. In tl. 

 ten years he 

 wrote a long list 

 of novels, all of 

 which revealed a 

 gift for telling a 

 story in 

 i n i: 1 y : a t t h e 



time he introduced ethical and social 



questions that stimulated his readers to thought, 



without lessoning their interest. Among the 



best of tl Husband's Story, directed 



against the low ideals and artificiality of cert tin 



classes in hitrh society. Other titles are The 



. ()!<! H"/Vix jor \< (/. Tin 



Hnnt<r, "I // Hi art and The 



i of /)'{.<(. His last book Susan Lenox 



was in manuscript form at the time of his 



tfl first published in a magazine in 



1916. It is a realistic story of the struggles of a 



:1 in a great city, Phillips was shot to 



n insane person in January, 1911. 

 PHILLIPS, \Yi M.KII, (1811-1884), an Araeri- 

 orator and reformer, born at Boston. Ann 

 graduating at I he studied law for t 



is but became so interested in the slavery 

 that he neglected his profession. The 

 ' of William Lloyd Garrison dragged at a 

 s end by a Boston mob in 1835 determined 



I'lltlllV career, fjr eallv the Ile\t year lie 



the abolitionists and became a zealous 

 i tin- American Ann-Slavery Son- 

 In 1837 at a meeting called in Ball to 



protest against the murder of the II 



ocate at Alton. Ill . 

 red an address 



equal of Patrick Henry's William 

 ornt , approach clo>- -uMimity 



;g Address. Henceforth 

 A-JW looked upon as a leader in the i 



movement, but his extremely radical views fre- 

 quently repelled other leaders. He refused to 

 take the attorney's oath to the Constitution, 

 denounced Congressmen for swearing allegiance 

 to it, and declared the Church an accomplice 

 in crime for justi- 

 fying slavery by 

 the Bible. He 

 even refused to 

 vote, and de- 

 manded immedi- 

 ate abolition or 

 disunion. Even 

 when the War of 

 the Secession had 

 ended he refused 



to allow the 

 solution of 

 Anti-Slavery 

 ciety, until 



dis- 

 the 

 So- 



the 



\YKXOELL PHILLIPS 



negro had obtained suffrage, and did not cease 

 this agitation until the passage of the Fifteenth 

 Amendment in 1870. 



He had then been in reforming activities so 

 long that he could turn his mind to no oth-r 

 task, and therefore devoted his energies to a 

 multitude of public questions, such as prison 

 reform, the abolition of capital punishment, 

 prohibition, injustice to the Indian, etc. In the 

 use of wit, invective, epigram and apt illustra- 

 tion he had few equals among American ora 

 Aside from his tiny antislavery addresses the 

 oration most widely read to-day is the Scholar 

 in a If (public, delivered in 1881 before the Phi 

 Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. 



Consult Russell's The Story of Wendell Phillips, 



FuldiiT of the Cn.iii.ioji < 



PHILLIPSBURG, N. ,1.. an industrial 

 Warren County, opposite Kaston, Pa., on the 

 Delaware Hiver. which is part of the wi 

 state boundary line, and about sixty miles di- 

 rectly west of Newark It is on the Central of 

 New Jersey, the I. Inch ,v Hudson River, the 

 I.ackawanna. the I Mey and the Penn- 



sylvania railroads, and ha- electric mien 

 The population, which in 1910 wn> 

 903, was 15,605 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 



; the city is about three square miles. 

 IMullipsburg was settled in 1 749 and was char- 

 1 in isivj. The commission form of govern- 

 t was adopted in 1913. leases all 



of its utilities. Prom are the 



municipal buildings, a union 



churches. The chief industrial j rail- 



]"*. foundries and i: ]'-. iron 



furnaces, sheet-iron. l>o:l. T and drill works. 



