Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-02-13

Anna E. Dickinson In the House of
Representatives. tIl
Corinne Of Republican Politicsl-Pash.
ing beck the thick tresses that
bea ed your temples, aud with face of beau.
ty up turped in gusb Of irrepressible ador.
atiUn, how thou shottest electric fires
through thy thrice ten houdred auditors
with the simple words: never meet a
private solder vi houL being filled with q
feeling of profound respect. Sister Of the
heroic, youug sister OF the Free and True,
thou File du Regiment of this great waro
Freedom in America, let US humoly, very
humoly, give you the hand of political
brother uoVd.
That was a wonderful sight on Saturday
night in the Capital A young girl but
twenty Que years old, dismissed scarcely
eigh n months ago from bread getting
employ meut in the Philadelphia Mint for
cllticlzing 10 woman's literary club the
soldlershIp aud policy of General Nc Clel.
au-couducted 10 the Speakers hair of
the House OF Representatives by the Vice
President OF The Uuited States, followed
there by the Speaker of The Ii House, aud
introduced by The Vice President to an au.
dlence that c.owded all sitting and stand.
lug room in the great ball, among whom
was the President of the United States,
the most distinguished Of the Senators and
the X presen atives, the Heads of De.
partmenis aud Bureaus, and the chief of
the men of taleut aud devotion who at
the capital OF the nation urge the great
war tor liberty; girl ot twenty-one, mod
est aud beautiful; powerful in her inspira-
tions, yet cnlldhke as cotter's child;
queenly at times in her poses and her pas.
sion, yet garoed like Quakeress at case
meni; wholly under the dominion Of i'm
peral truth and duly, yet speaking without
any show OF authority; positive. yet mod
est; uncompromlsing, yet modest; passion.
atey radical, still modest aud girl like;
scoruful in juet hates, the electric feryor
against wrong. of which God makes O
cnIld his medium; bitter in sarcasms, which
fash off from her young soul without harm
TO it, as lightning fash of from conducting
points Of god; full of rebuke, which does
but utter truth aud has no accompaniment
of conceil; bouudIess in her love Of hu-
mauity, tor which she means, aud prays
an demands, with an inspiration that only
iSt laid himself down for the equality
aud fraternity of his race; young red.
Ipped, sim wasted gl, with curls cut
short, as II for school, with eyes black
with the mlrthtuluess OF child, save when
lbey Oiazs with the prssious OF prophet
eSs, holding spell bound III the capitol of
he nation for one hour and ten minutes,
three thousand politicians, statesmen and
soldiers, while she talked To them Ut poll
lies, craftsmanship aud warl lt was a
wonderful sight, ami II was wonderful
success. f3ti
Joan of Arc never was grander, and
could not have been Letter, than was this
Pniadelphia maid lu her s,atesmanlke do.
maud that this war do HoL cease TILL slavery
lies dead aud builed under the feet of tho
North, aud It's epItaph Is traced with the
point OF a bayouet dipped in the young
Ulood OF the nation;- ~ ~
Could not have been better for Farnce
than Was this gIrl for America, in her de-
mand that The territory wrenched back
from the rebellion Le used to underlay the
developemeut Of the blacks in America until
full cltiz ,nshlp, with The ownership in fee
Of agricultural land;- gai
Could never have been wiser and better
than was this gil when she showed to
with her little white bands the doors Of the
Supreme court of the United States as at
present constituted, and forbade the adju-
dicatiou therein Of the Proclamation Of
Freedom TO the slaves of rebels;-
Could not have been grander than was
this girl in her de6catIoa Of the courage
that marches upon death at the double
qaick. for Country, for Freedom. and for
Truth. 4.
Gould not have been grander than was
this gir.'s moisleniug with her tears the
lips ol the wounded men of the people,
aud wiping as with her very hair the
damps ot agony from the brows of braves
lying on battle fields aud lingering 10 hos
pilals-grander than her worshipful love of
men made beautiful by war wounds 10 the
face e ander than the sweep of arm aud
the call of the voice With which she de-
manded place aud reverence for the heroes
who already in phalanx march one armed,
aud on cSutches aud canes go slowly past
US to the fual epeampment of the grave.
Washington Chronicle.