The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-04-22
Another Candidate for Fort
Lafayette. e

Miss ANNA DICKINSON, about whose ell
oquence, Loyalty &C., the Abolitionists nave
been playing the fool SO extensively for
several months past, delivered brand new
lecture in New York last Tuesday evening.
THEODORE TrLToN and other colored dig
nitaries occupied seats on the platform, and
applauded the sentiments of the high
uriestess of Abolition. In the course Of
her remarks she assaulted the reconstruction
scheme of "tbe Government" as follows.
"The loyal element of the South does
not represent the wealth, refinement, cul
ture. intellect or power of the South at all.
The masses Of the loyalists Of the South
are the poor whites, many of whom cannot
read nor write; men who know OF schools
ana printing presses only By name; men
who would rather s,tdown in rags sand starve
than work for the bread that they eat, or
the clothes they wear. True. there ere no
BILE and educated men among the loyallsts
of the South but the majority are poor
whites. If such men as these constitute
the requisite one tenth, are they able to
make state strong enough, to govern 1t;
are they wise and good enough for one vote
oftheirs TO balance ten cast by loyal Nor
them men ut the polls? She thought not.
Look at the reconstruction In Louisiana
The landowners and the slaveowners who
took the State out of the Union-they are
the men with whom General Banks is CO..
operating; they are the men who defeated
Flanders and liberty, and elected Michael
Hahn Governor of Louisiana. She would
venture to say, after reviewing Gen. Banks
regulations for labor, that the whole con-
duct of affairs in Louisiana has been dis
grace to our country and dishonor to our
flag.
Now, according to Abolition doctrine, all
this is rank disloyalty and she who uttered
it is worthy characterization in Fort Lafay
cite. The old proverb tells us that "what
is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gan
DER and certainly, if Democratic orators
and newspapers are guilty of treason, for
raising objections to the oae tenth recon
struction scheme, and pronouncing the con.
dillon of affairs in Louisiana "a disgrace to
our country and dishonor to our flag"
then Miss DICKINSON is also disloyal and
worthy of Punishment to the Dry Tortugas
or beyond the Federal lines.
But Miss DIS treason is more glaringly
apparent in her avowal of the heresy con-
tanned in the following sentences:
"When you say we should not criticise
the administration, she might say it will be
criticised, if not by its friends, then by its
foes, and it ought to be strong enough to
bear criticism, and wise enough to profit
by il. And when you say these things
should not be said till next June, she would
say that she was there to speak Gods truth,
and not to speak for any man."
The idea that the administration should
be criticised is preposterous The intima-
ton that it ought to be any stron ger or
wiser than il is, is an evidence Of lurking
sympathy with the rebellion. H I'VE not
the loyal leagues and the loyal ne Sspapers
all over the land insisted that the only true
loyalty consists in yielding "an unquestion-
ing support to all the measures If tie lad
,ninistration?" All! these are dangerous
times, when treason tlaunts itself in criuo.
line upon the platform, and "the modern
Joan of Arc" who according to Forney, 50
completely demolished the Supreme Court
Of the United States, intimates her read-
ness to likewise demolish "old ABE" Sec
rotary Stanton should look to the matter at
once.