The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-21
= wouAus PLnA ron Llnnnfr

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a woMAH's Plea ron LlDnAfr.
Iathsir ccnrening d Philadsaphia; IN their
prosrssa through the loyal States, the Scath-
oru loyAlists have Asard, viii her, many elo-
quent words Of greeting ard cheer and coun-
sel, but they have heard, viii hear, none
equaliing in glowing fsrvid eioqaence tie ad-
dress Of Misa ANA DlcxIssor y them when
they assembled in Convsntion = Philadel-
phia- True, 1t il vefy radical ANDREW
Jeaxsor would call her traitor for enter.
tsiniGe such asntiasats; aad probably Il she
were nan ~ would counsel Coppsrhead
mobs 70 hang her along With TnADssus SrEv-
EMS and WENDELL PHrLLirs.
That matters little to ANA DicxnssoS.
She is not politician, for she does not con-
slider expediency; and she is brave speaker.
She commences her address thus:
Said the great Emperor, IS be presentedfo
one of his marshals pair of pistols elahor.
|reely carved, AZ had intended to have the
names of your victories engraved upon them,
but there was not room for them Said the
great LOYAL heart of the North, beating here
in Philadelphia, II will give these men tit
welcome these men coming up from the
fiery furnace of Rebelion and Slavery shall
receive honor due at my hands, 30 We
strove. Bells rang; voices welcomed; crowds
shouted; cannon Numbered. Enthuslasm
went from point to point, from hight to hight,
tin it eliminated last night in the hundreds Of
thousands that crowded our streets: in the
darkness turned TO moonlight; in the cries
with which the very arches of heaven rang.
! So We strove-in vain There are depths 10
human nature which are unfathomable. Did
we give you much? All! my friends, thai
| which YOU saw and heard was but dim re-
| fex of that which was felt and uuseen.
| To-day, while conscious Of this, yet strive
to add one more voice to the peans of triumph
and Welcomes womsn'B voice-a voice thai
speaks for the millions of those whose besl
and dearest have fought for your homes and
died BY your side.
"For dearly must We prise you've who and
| In you buiwark for the cause Of men,"
To-day struggle to say to you what IS in
the hearts Of these northern women. l strug'
gle-I thought could cannot! For as
| look into your face and realize who you are
how you have held that profession of youl
faith without wavering--how you accounted
your lives of little worth-how, day after day
and year after year, you gazed down into yoal
graves, and saw no other prospect how
through these days and years you have gath
cred Truth to your hearts, looked death II
the eye, and scorned to finch say, looking
into your faces and recognizing all this,
realize how there are some things Of which i
| is better 10 be silent than to say too little
Let silence. then, convey the admiration. TIT
| Lave ~ tho htasainu whiph wnrda arp in adj y
quate to contain.
Then she argued eloquently for impartia
suffrage and in favor of that, closed her ad
dress as follows:
My friends, give up your citadel, you
strong tower of defense, your Castle OF Truth
and it is but destruction and death you will
receive in return. you go down INTO tn
South without this guarantee Of safety, 20
will go AS the State prisoners OF Louis NV.
into an iron chamber which, by some devil
ssh ingenuity of torture, contracted abou
them day by day, and hour by hour, till the
were crushed at last. So the iron walls Q
persecution and oppression will close 20
round, making you die every day youlliye
and annihilating you at last.
protest FOR your own sake; for the SAX
of the North, for the sake of the 1000, 900 o
uApieeB PCOpfG Wat u1V0 bsoOo yOut
and ours through Six years of blood and con
act. While watching this contest hav
been sorrowfully reminded of story told il
the early days Of the war, of battle feel
near the border line Of Kentucky, to which
through the shadows of night, came blac
man, q slave, In pursuit of some suffsrp
souls that might need his aid. He bandage
limb here, poured cooling water on fevere
limbs there. and at last found one of our me
wounded, bleeding, almost dying. who sal
to him: ~ avn from ONO | cannot walk
| cannot move; lift me up, and carry me
my camp 1t was near the border line, yo
will remember. This slave, still slave, wit
the marks of his servitude, lash and liro
upon him, placed this soldier upon hl
shoulders and carried him, reeling and a
most taiuting under the load, miles away /
the Northern line. The next day came
ter, saying: "Render me back my slave.
And the very regiment to which this soldie
belonged. the very regiment to which he wa
returned, drummed this black hero out c
tie camp, sent him down to his master i
Kentucky, To torture and death.
My friends of the South who have suffered
who have struggled for the right, my friends
to-day that slave stands as type of four mil
! lions, that slave stands as type of those VII
, have struggle for, suffered for you, as non
others could or would. Their rights are i
your hands their safety and their future ar
wrapped W in yours. To day Kentucky erie,
"Give me tais victim to destroyl' Oh gres
spirits oh teied and heroic souls. beseec
you that you cry aloud AZ with one vsice
Never while loyal heart beats in GU
nidstl" protest, too, for the future safety
well being !, nd peace Of the country. Thss
men, your opponents, will return to powe
!, not, - in the past, the colleagues ofmen VII
held them in check. They will come he
3pledged to maintain every abuse the penel
place and power upon the ruins of Lihert
: and the destruction OF the Republic. The
: shall We gather in the blighted harvest Of d
tbloodiest so~ingt the fields of the world eve
saw. Oppression everywhere, wrong every
where, outrage everywhere, what will the re
suit be? Says the Book of Books, 18th
sense Of oppression maketh . man mad.
The result will be to make every loyal ma
emong you o revolutionist. These four mi
lions OF blacks are helpless for opposition b,
cause they know not their own strength. b
cause they are blind to their power In sac
u future they will ind instructors snd sight i
j you. Let this "eyeless giant once lind
. guide to put his hand on The props OF th
o State, let him once bow binself to the pillars
and woe unto all those who have made hr
their laughing stock or have chained him
grind at their mill. l."
These men deprecate strife. argument, dis
, cass,on. NJ friends Of the border States,
belong to the border States Pennsylyani
and Maryland stand together in this maite
have right to speak what viii Of min
own. Ny friends ofthe border States and I
the North, when you deprecate discussion
!. opposition, argument, are you blind to Il
:. fact that there is no backward flow Of ide,
more than of rivers; that what you see hel
to-day is not the tossing up VI shallow wss,
on the coast, but the long surge sweepir
from continent to continent across the MAZE
:. tic sea Of opinion? You remember what |
Tocqneville says, IA new science of politi
!. is necessary to a new world" You ha'
!. done that which has changed the entire Pc
!, icy of our Government, modified its inatita
y tons, and altered the whole frame work
n society. You have taken . long step fol
Il ward you can take none in retreat Befe
& you is glory; behind you il defeat, disgrac
and infamy. And 30 implore you, the u
ton Of this Convention not being closed,
4 take counsel not Of paitering, not Of we'd
mess not Of policy, but Of stresgth, Of los
= atty. Of liberty, Of the wamisgs Of the pa
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