The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-05-05
speech of Miss Anna Il. DicIkin.
son at the COODer Institute.

] II
, son at the Cooper Institute.
In tho days Of the last fall election, whe1
political excitement ran high, and when th,
supporters OF Seymour or of Wadswortl
: focked in crowds to the Cooper Institute 4
hurrah for the candidate Of their choice, there
was no such popular demonstration, no such
pressure to get to the inside Of that building
as there was last evening on the occasion O
the first public appearance in this city of Mis-,
Anna E. Dickinson. who has recently dis
tinguished herself in the New England States
on the political platform. After the large
hall was crowded, there were still hundreds
OF people outside besieging the doors, but
unable to gain an entrance.
The sexes were about equally represented
in the audience, but the political elements
were not so evenly balanced. The abolition
sts prevailed very largely. Henry Ward
Beecher and other prominent anti slavery
men and women were on the platform, where
Ex-Governor Morgan also had the honor OF
having a seat
Miss Dickinson, the magnet with such a
power Of attraction, Is young Philadelphia
in the progressive movements of the day
Recently she has turned her attention to war
politics, and has been speaking with great
effect in Connecticut and some other of tho
New England States. With youth and good
looks on her side, great fuency of language,
poetry and force of expression, and rich and
powerful voice that masculine stump speakers
might envy, it is not to be wondered at chat
Miss Dickinson awakens such an interest 10
her audiences. She has a full, gracefully
rounded figure, is of the medium size of wo.
men, has well balanced, firmly set head /,
round oval face, fresh, healthy complexion,
inclining to the hue Of the brunette, and
wears her dark hair in full, heavy clusters a.
bout her neck. She wore heavy drab col
cred silk dress, with dark faciugs, and dis.
played on her hair or person no jewery. In
manner of delivery she is cool and selfpo
sessed, but occasionally warns up to heat
and rapidity of expression that carries all be.
fore it. Such is the young lady who present
ed herself last evening before the immense
assemblage at Cooper Institute.
Af.a- eloquent oKordum Miss Dickin
son defined the fight which the country wao
engaged in as contest between intelligence
and gnorance-between cultivation and bru-
tshness-between the niceness and refine
ment Of civilization and the uncouthness of
barbarism--between liberality of sentiment
and the suppression of opinion-between ar
ristocray and democracy: in word, between
liberty aud slavery. (Applause.) Whatever
reasons wight be given-whatever causes as
signed by many in the North, sympathizers
with Southern treason traitors infinitely
meaner than any gethered together on the
battle field against the government, for they
meanly stay at home to stab the government
in the back-whatever cause might be as
signed by these meD, the men now in arms
against the government, had acknowledged
for years, yes, generation after generation, that
it was for slavery, and for slavery alone, that
they were endeavoring to gain the strength
and power of the government. She briefly
sketched the political events of the country
from the Kansas troubles to the opening of
the rebellion. She contracted the inyariabe
loyalty of Republicans with the disloyalty of
many Democrats. What generals, she asked,
had the democrats given to the country 2
They gave US, said she, Robert Patterson, of
Philadelphia, who refsued to put out the Stars
and Strips till he was compelled to. He had
bis seventeen thousand men in reserve, and
sent swift courier across TO bis brother-in.
law, General Johnson, saying, Go that way
to Bull Run and you will find no obstruction
They gave US General Pleasanton. who speed
lily discovered when the war broke out that
he was disabled, and who stayed at home to
command the Home Guard. (Laughter.)-
They gave US General Buel, whom every loy.
al newspaper in the West denounced and eve.
ry Southern paper praised. They gave us a
man who set down for six weeks in front of
Corinth to give Beauregard time to escape to
Richmond and who, in the East has driven
out every decent General we bad. They gave
us General Franklin, who never went who're
be sent, and always got there too late.
They gave us that renegade son of New
Hampshire, whose record may be traced in
the word arch-traitor," with the signature
of Fitz John Porter. Finally they gave us
the map, who il not traitor, is certainly un-
fortunate in his friends. (Appause.) Called
to command on the reputation Of Benbam
and Rosecrans' fighting at Rich Mountain and
Western Virginia, he gave US for the first bat.
tie of his first campaign Balls Blutf-Baker
and the hundred slaughtered there; for, at
least, time has proven that there was one
martyr in Fort Lafayctte-Charles Stone. -
But tonight he walks the streets of Wash
ington with his Mjor- Generals uniform un-
questioned. Waiting month after month,
with the army dying at the rate Of four thons-
and monthly by disease When he was final
ly driven out by the owyal sentiment Of the
country down to Manassas, ii was to find
wonderful closing for the first campaign Of the
second Napoleou-iutrenchme6ts guarded
with wooden guns. His plan was never to
attack. He did what was pre- eminently fit
for such brain and heart as his. For six
weeks in front Of Yorktown, he got down and
burowed in the mud. (Appause.) Refer.
ring to the battle at Williamsburg, she said
He sent in report Of the battle which he
never witnessed, and which he was compelled
to alter three times, aud in which he lied
then. General applause.) He waited in
the swsmps Of Chickshominy till Beauregard
had time to come from Corinth, and Jackson
from Strasburg. What did he do theni He
gave to the country that new name for shame
ful defeat and unmtigated disaster-a master
ly change Of base OF operations. (Applause)
He came up to Alexandra to sit in front Of
bis army, and sulked there, and strove to
create mutiny in the ranks. Did this man