Show PHILLIPS the romantic Komant lc but happy marriage harriage of the great creat silver tongued orator A singular marriage ww was that of wendell wendall phillips who though known as a gifted orator was emlo antly a literary man as his printed speeches and numberless articles in periodicals and newspapers news benr bear testimony the lady who became wife had considerable property wag vehemently opposed to slavery shivery an invalid and interested in 1111 as a and ab able I 1 a A abolitionist oil she had a settled ft eling t that I 1 let she could not live Il long and wish lug ing to put her means in III phillips aniki i so as to benefit the cause she h had so much ut tit heart she thought that marriage raar ringo would be the best method of carrying out tho the purpose tho the couple had been friends and remained ma tried such bach after unlock which na natu rully included very little passion or romance roi nanco of the ordinary kind but in place of that was a tender regard an earnest admira adna lra tion an exalted made the best and truest com P ati lons the 8 sympathy between them was complete he pressed hours every day in her society and many of his ideas bod and inspirations tire said to have come coma from her A more devoted chivalrous husband has not lived I 1 have been told that he be often trimmed her bonnets because as tie he had bail 11 nice fee taste la in such things thine she ne to have him dIsplay it in her behalf to those who have never thought if wendell phillips Ihl except as the grout orator ora for it will appear strange that he ha could ever have been engaged la in au such feminine occupations buethe fact Is one of tho the strongest of his marital attachment As may be supposed the lae pair had no children but they adopted a daughter now the wife of geor george ge W smilley london correspondent of ille the tribune As the story goes I 1 the mother at mrs smalley lived to in martinique and was a slave owner she became interested in the cause of antislavery anti and slavery through wendell phillips speeches and freed her hei slaves at her death she lio left her only child then a small girl to phillips as his ward he be became her fier guardian fu ardlan and subsequently adopted her smalley nalley Sa being an earnest abo lit met her at PhIllips hou house where a mutual affection arose with the usual result chicago times |