The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-05
Lecture by Miss Anna e. Dickinson
at the Academy Of Music
Last Evening.
my Policy" Rebuked in
Scathing Terms.
Equality and Justice the Corner
Stone of the New Republic.

Last evening every available seat in the
spacious Academy of Music was occupied by
those who assembled to hear Miss Dickinson's
new lecture on "The Rejected Stone" The
audience was not a whit behind the others
which have crowded the Academy this week,
in point of numbers and enthusiasm, and Miss
Dickinson may well regard the occasion as one
of the triumphs of her triumphant career.
During the delivery OF her lecture she was
frequently interrupted By applause, which at
times was longconiinued and almost deaening.
At a quarter-past eight the fair orator appeared.
and was introduced by Rev. r. Purvls in some
appropriate remarks.
At the close of these, Miss Dickinson APP
peared and spoke as tollows:-
My Friends:-It is not the President who can
make or mar the destinies of America, but
Americans themselves. | recognize that we
owe to the generalship OF Sherman, to the dash
ing brillIancy of Sheridan, to the heroic deter.
mination and prowess OF Farragut. | say, | re-
CognIze to the full what we owe 10 these men
and others for the victory they won; and re-
CoCnize what the nation owes TO those who
were rot generals. Yet 1t was not one or two
not the leaders, but Americans themselves who
saved America. 1t is not statue of the par
tisaD, but the statue OF the people, that must be
elevated III commemoration oil this great deed.
Since one man, however great and command
Ing, could not save us, one man cannot destroy
ms, however infamous or humble he may be.
(Applause.) The power that crowns or dethrones
ne, mat honors or debases us, that saves Ameri-
can liberty or DESTROYS the American republic
lies not in the hands OF an assassln-made Pres-
dent, but in the hearts and consciences Of the
men and women before me. (AppIduSe.) Place
my Policyo in the scales, and justice VIII weigh
them down until 1t is hurled like feather TO the
clouds.
Does he attemp. t. clog the wheels OF the
great engine of progress? 1t presses forward
until he is crushed beneath them. The victims
Oftyranny cry aloud for freedom and the world
rc.echoes with the sound, until its accompani-
ment ls lost IN the magnificent refrain.
tAppause)
SAID great general upon one occasion:-
''Tne business of battle is victory" Bat to-day
the matter at issue, the subecU OF the strife
is not mere present triumph not a mere
success. To-day the loyal millions are battling
tor very life, for their own existence.
desire to extenuate nothing, to set down
naugbt 10 malice: and So intending, believe
will state plain matter OF truth when say
that this peoples position is not lowered one
whit or atom within the last eighteen months.
American liberty is now, as then, at stake;
Northern traitors are as numerous now as then,
perchance more dangerous and loyal men,
North and South, are now as bitter foes of Re-
belllon and slavery as they then were. Indeed,
the only change has been in commanders on the
paIt OF our opponents, in substituting Andrew
johnson for Jefferson Davis the White House at
Washington being better headquarters than
the prison cell OF Fortress Monroe. (Applause.)
transferred from the field to the polls, that
ballots have been substituted tor bullets. my
Policy" still has its triumphs in blood. GAO
Dlause.) The idea that was defeated in Maine
was triumphant in the streets OF New Orleans.
On the one hand stands the President, with
party OF traitors and officeholders; the other,
he great and loyal Masses with their represen-
tatlves in Congress. Said the Richmond EI
aminer-I believe 1t was in May last-"Will
Sumner and Stevens dare go before the supreme
forum OF the people, where the contest must at
last be decidedly" Will they dare go to the
supreme forum OF the people? They have SO
dared; they have so appealed.
The contest has been decided in Vermont, in
Maine, will be decided in Pennsylvania within
the next Ten days. lApplause.) Shall Rebels,
defeated in battle, dictate terms to their loyal
conquerors? Shall the cause that was seem
mgly defeated ON the field dictate terms in the
Legislature Of the nation it failed to destroy?
Shall slavery, crushed in war, revive iu peace?
Shall loyalty yet be made odious and treason
respectable in America! Snail the true and
tired and long-suffering servants of the republic
be destroyed, while traitors are again elevated
to power?
This is the difference between the President
and Congress. This is the question which the
people are called upon to decide
Pennsylvania has more than once-ay, more
than thousand times-Deen declared TO be the
keystone on which hangs the safety of the re-
public. Never before did the keystone bear
burden OF such weight as to-day; and to-day
she recognizes this weight this great RESPONSE
To-day our great need, our pressing neces-
sity, is to elect to Congress, the Forteth Con-
gress, men who know the right, and knowing
it, dare maintain it-a Congress so overwhelming
in its majority against the President, that 1t
may laugh to scorn his threat at st. Louis ''to
veto every one of its measures that may brought
before him"-a Congress so overwhelming in its
devotion 10 the people that the paltry minority
will not dare enter into a coalition with the
President-a CONGRESS so surprisingly strong
that it can impeach Andrew Johnson, and try
1anVN aWan at hn hn nk no nInI.
has betrayed, whose liberty and authority he
has tramped under foot. (Applause.)
Consider, my friends, what may be the result
if the party of this Congress is defeated at the
constitute this party? What representatives
did it send to the Convention which polluted
our city on the l4th of August last? 1t sent
Rives Pollard, and John Forsyth, who did
more through their respective papers TO uphold
and sustain the Rebellion than an army in the
field and who now mourn over it as their "lost
cause" Things lost my friends, are often found
again.
Georgia. there were but three who had not
served as volunteer officers in the Rebel army
From North Carolina 1t sent eighteen men, but
three of whom were not active ana open seces
slonists during the war. trom Arkansas u
sent the man who drew q revolver on the heroic
old man who is now the loyal Governor OF tina
State when he refused in the Convention u
sign the ordinance OF secession.
From Ar kansas it sent Albert Pike, who PLACED
hlmsen at the head of the Indian regimen
which outraged, murdered. and scalped ou
heroic blue coated boys. From South Carollni
times refused to repudate its Rebel war debt
1t sent +. W. Hughes, who declared that tn
heart of Pennsylvania was with the South.
sent the Recorder OF Memphis, who in the mids
Of the flame and carnage urged on the Rebe
mob to deeds of violence.
II sent Vallandighaml The Convention re
ceived Dick Taylor, JEFF. Davis bro.her.in-laW