Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-06-10
How Providence is Teaching the
Nation.
Another Eloquent Lecture by Miss
Dickinson.

The eloquent Miss Dickenson spoke 8
second time at the Academy of Music
Philadelphia, on Friday evening last, tc
an immense audience The subject oi
| her lecture was, How Providence is
Teaching the Nation" We make the
| following brief extracts from report in
! the Inquirer of that city:
One of Americas most eloquent orators
has said, Every step of the worlds on
ward progress has been from scaffold to
scaffold and from stake to stake" 1t
needs no proof Reading down the page
of history, we find the record of brave
lives sacrificed by lingering dungeon, by
wearing famine and disease, by the sharp,
short agony of rope or scaffold or stake,
living true to liberty, suffering willingly
IN its behalf, dying sealing their testimo-
ny with their blood. We see, cut clearly
against the wall of the past, the figures
Of contending armies, of standards high
advanced, ON one side of wrong and OF
despotism, on the other of justice and OF
| truth.
Step by step the world has advanced,
centuries have waded through seas of blood
! to come up with garments washed of
manifold stains, and slowly approaching g
whiteness. The good cause has had no
heralds to cry its victories, no trumpets
to blaze its triumphs. When the battle
has been fought, and the little band col
lected, there have been too many vacant
places to be filled, too many gaps to be
supplied, to do aught save thank God for
the victorygained-thank God that their
comrades dying, died martyrs for liberty.
Looking down the long vista of the fu-
ture, and seeing brave men struggling on
other and better fields to be fought and
won, they have girded on their arms,
rushed forward to the contest, and died
as the Apostle Paul said all true men
died-''in hope, not yet having received
the promise; but with their works follow
ing them here in the world, they died to
save"
So in this age good men have learned
lessons of truth and justice, and the
North, only half awake, seeing men as
trees walking, has shaken from the chains
which the South, for a half century,
imposed, and slowly rose to recount its
grievances.
When the North waited patiently until
it had elected its own President to en-
force its own principles, the South REBEL
ed and went out of the Union because
liberty was in the Union. They officially
declared it to be so. If this, then is a
war for ideas, what is left US but to mar
shal democracy against their serried hosts
and fight, for the freedom of the world is
at stake? Cheers. We must fight for
the freedom of the world. Men on one
side belle the contest, and cry out that it
is a war for the niger, and men, on the
other hand belle 1t an that 1t is a war
simply for the black man. 1t is the peo-
Piles war for free government. Loud ap-
plause. In the North all freedom and
free ideas have been massed, all the free
dom of the world has been massed here.
while opposed 10 this is all the despotism
of the world massed at the South. Be-
tween them is the black man. This it is
wei TO understand. Europe sneers at US,
men in the South cry out against us, and
things at the North cry out their amen to
them Applause that the free institu-
tions of the North have failed. 1t will
be time enough to say they have failed
when America is properly represented
/ Applause.
We have fought with the South and
have not been successful. We have coped
with them and failed. Why ?
The South, weaker than we in educa-
ton, refinement wealth, in talent and
I puflrpriea hos rarovoa Sla--