Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1864-03-05
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MISS DIcKIysoy IN WAsuIycrox.-The follow

Miss DICKINSON IN WAsHISGToN.-The follow
ing article is cut from the editorial columns OF
the Washington Chronicle. 1t is entitled . Miss
Anna E. Dickinson in the House of Representa-
tives: :"
Corrinne of republican politics pushing back
with passionate gestures the thick tresses that
heated your temples, and with face OF beauty
npturned in gush of irrepressible alteration,
how thou shottest electric fires through thy
thrice ten hundred auditors with the words: - /
never met a private soldier without being filled
with feeling of profound respect Sister OF
the heroic-younger sister of the free and the
true-thou file du regiment Of this great war OF
freedom in America, let us humbly, very humby,
give you the hand of political brotherhood
That was wonderful night Saturday night
in the Capital. \ young girl but twenty-one
years old-dismissed scarcely eighteen months
ago from a bread-getting employment in the
Philadelphia Mint, for criticising, in woman 5
literary club, the policy and sodiership OF Gen
McClellan-conducted to the Speakers chair of
the House of Representatives by the Vice Presi-
dent of the United States followed there by the
Speaker of the House, and introduced by the
Vice President to an audience that crowded all
sitting and standing in the great hall,
among whom were the President of the United
States, the most distinguished of the Senators
and Representatives, the heads of departments
and bureaus, and the chief of the men Of talent
and devotion, who, at the capital Of the nation,
urge the great war for liberty girl of twenty
one, modest and beautiful powerful in her in
SEPARATIONS, yet chid-like a cotter's child :;
'queenly at times in her poses and her passion,
yet CARRIED like Quakeress at easement :;
wholly under the dominion of imperial truth and
duty, yet speaking without any authority; posi-
tive, yet modest uncompromising, yet modest !;
passonately radical, still modest and girl-like :;
scornful in just hates, the escape of the electric
child his medium bitter in sarcasm, which
fash off from her young soul without harm to it,,
as lightnings flash off from conducting points Of
gold full of rebuke which does but utter truth
and has accompaniment of conceit bound
less in her love of humanity. for which she
means, and prays, and demands, with inspir-
alton that only can be kindled from the altar
upon which Christ laid himself down for the
equality and fraternity of His race young, red
dipped, slm-waistcd girl with curs cut short,
as if for school, with eyes black with the mirth-
fulness of child, when they blaze with the
inspiration of a prophecies, holding spel-bound
in the Capitol of the nation for one hour and ten
minutes, three thousand politicians, statesmen
and soldiers, while she talked to them of poll
tics, craftsmanship and war It was wonder
full sight and it was a wonderful success.
Joan of Arc never grander, and could not
have been better in her mail of battle; than was
this Philadelphia maid in her satesmanlike de-
mand that the war do not cease till slavery lies
dead and buried under the feet of the North, and
its epitaph is traced with the point of the bayo
net dipped in the young blood of the nation.