The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-04-09
Female Political Orators.

Abolition Of slavery. and indeed any leaning
to snii-slsvery feeling has been foe years the
bette noir Of the Democrats but the logic 81
events is forcing them to adopt policy some
what in accordance with the spi il OF the aSe.
aad so we ind the World announcing the
downfall OF slavery and Mr.. Brooks 70 schoins
the cry in >Snnsress, while the Boston Post
observes TINT the procamations of the Presl-
dent have only declared the work that
Mcclellan was dsing" We hear too that Rev
erdy johnson and Sunset Cox are preparing
speeches on the suhssct, in which they w,ti
define the new position OF the democrSuS
party, AMI indicate its probable policy NO
immediate determination with Philips and
Garrison nay be expected, but none can now
tsll how desperate = throw these leaders. hun
cry Cor spoils may be induced to make.
We have indicated ono change in Demo
cratic sentiment Another is At hand. FOR
about year and half Democratic presses and
orators have INDUCED in every variety o! abuse
AID ridlcule because the pretty Miss Anna
Dicseason has been tolerated IS . Republican
speaker Can any one forget the indignation OF
the Express made doubly emphatic by sentences
in which every word began with staring
capital, and when every other word Vas OF
direct French extraction. or . poor EngIna
word bent forward into italics in its Gag or haste
Of utterancs? Caa ons forget the polished
rAillery Of the World or the vulgar snesrs OF
the Herald to say nothing o! the indecenc'es
Of some writers aud papers who owed some
what at least of respect to the mothers that
bore them. in their general treatment OF one
who = was . Politician
But oil these things arc changed now. and
the Democrats have taken to orators in crino-
line ~ if they had held the Adjsctives and
nouns Of tho Express ut their real value.
simulatiens only Of anger and - really intended
''bosh." On Friday night in Brooklyn these
dreadful Jacobinical Democrats placed woman
h. ID Lat Al N hse aS
their predecessors in the French Revolution did
to the goodness OF reason and unreAeon whom
they promted to the chsif places IN their
Walhala. Its we'll to observe that the French
Revolution is the fountain never failing from
which the critics OF Miss Dickinson have drawn
all their illustrations The world describes this
new oratrix, Miss Webb, with an effusion Of
millinery almost equal to that OF the
Washington Chronicle in its famous sensation nal
painting Of tho Republican Joan dare,
though it has no space for the speech which ii
declares was eloquent convincing and perfectly
explosive Of Miss Dicksnson's "sophistries. =
When Miss Webb closed, who should appea n
but Hon. S. S. Cox. NJ. G He made speech
commendAtory Of Miss Webb. whose 'rhousht
Of gold in syllables Of silver" had won upon
his Democrats affections, and were worth just
617s per cent. moro than the greenb ack
issue Of the Republican lady. 1t was repugn ami
TO his feelings when Miss Dickinson spoke
but in the speech OF Miss Webb. Mr.. Cox saw
hope for tho county,
Man is an initiative animal. So is . Demo
crat II these political mines arc allowed &
have their way, before the Fourth Of July
Mozart and Tammany will send a colored regi
ment to the field, smarshaled BY Rynders
welcomed by Ben Wood, and escorted to nj
the Democratic headq uarters, and thence sen
forth to their Southern brethern" by all thu
Sachems and braves Of the affiliated section
of the party.