Richard Hofstadter called this non-President man "The Patrician as Agitator" in The American Political Tradition.
This man was allegedly told by his wife not to "shilly-shally," leading him to move to seat female delegates. In one speech, this man pointed to "pictured lips" on portraits of notable men and imagined them lambasting his state's Attorney General James Austin as a "slanderer of the dead." Richard Hofstadter called this non-President man "The Patrician as Agitator" in The American Political Tradition. Andrew Johnson asked a heckler to hang Thaddeus Stevens and this man in a drunken outburst from the Swing Around the Circle. This man became an activist after seeing an attempted lynching outside his Court Street legal office. After a preface, a letter from this man precedes the original Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. He rejected a comparison to the Boston Tea Party and harshly critiqued a press- burning mob in Alton, Illinois in an unplanned speech at Faneuil Hall that lifted him to fame. For 10 points, name this American abolitionist orator who delivered a stirring eulogy for Elijah Lovejoy.
This man was allegedly told by his wife not to "shilly-shally," leading him to move to seat female delegates.
Wendell Phillips