Mr. Garrison's Lecture.

Mr. William Lloyd Garrison delivered a lecture last evening under the auspices of the Wendell Phillips Club on "Wendell Phillips and the Orators of His Time."

Mr. Garrison gave a brief sketch of the life of Mr. Phillips and told something of his character. He said that Mr. Phillips was a son of Harvard College and that her lustre would be greater on that account, yet the club bearing his name is the only evidence that he is remembered in the college.

Wendell Phillips was born in Boston in 1811. He studied at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1834. Events soon arose which changed the course of his life. Seeing a printer, who had come forward in favor of the abolition of slavery, in the hands of an angry mob, his sympathies were aroused in the cause of anti-slavery. Anne Green, who afterwards became his wife, had espoused the anti-slavery cause, and he was moved by her influence. With his marriage ended his law practice.

Mr. Phillips's maiden speech was at Lynn in 1837, but he first established his position as one of the foremost orators of his time in a speech delivered the same year in Faneuil Hall, at a meeting called to express indignation at the killing of Loverjoy. From that time on he was the champion of the anti-slavery movement, using his unequalled powers of oratory in its cause. The fight was over when Lincoln called for volunteers, and the abolitionists came into popular favor.

In 1879 Mr. Phillips delivered the funeral oration over the body of his friend Garrison. Five years later he laid down a life which had done for the cause of American liberty a deed which may not be forgotten by those who consider themselves true Americans. The eloquence, wit and sarcasm of Wendell Phillips were unequalled. His pity and sympathy, and his constant open-heartedness, were far-famed. His love for the city of his birth was intense, and he expressed it many times in his public speeches.

At the close of the lecture Mr. Garrison read an extract from an address delivered by Mr. Phillips before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard in 1881, on "The Scholar."