The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-11


ming and progress of even the most liberal and
enlightened nations, the constant and crushing
taxauon ard every form of oppression are
strong reasons for DEMONSTRATION of the causes
OF these evils, and the application of the most
radical and extraordinary remedies for their
removal.
HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
Mr.. Pllisbury commenced his lecture in the
same manner that Irving does Knickeroocker's
History OF New York-by giving history of
the world. He, however, seemed to be using
ms II history ior the purpose of pointing moral
ie t9eh 9eI read from manuscript the passage
rom Sidney Smiths works in relation to the
taxes imposed on everything In his time.
THE UNITED STATES A FAILURE
He continued if seventy years be the life of
man, what should be the age of q nation. No
nation has ever reached manhood. Our own
nation is not hundred years old, but it had
Dehlnd 1t the chronicles of many centuries.
We commenced with a Washington for Presi-
dent and John Jay in the Supreme Court. We
closed that dispensation with James Buchanan
instead OF Washington and judge Taney instead
OF John Jay, with "A war to open treason and
rebellion before US. We have now six thou
sand millions Of dollars of debt a President
whose weakness and wickedness finds no paral-
| lei, a Secretary of State who has become mis-
| ull counterpart in both, with senate too
| coWardly or too corrupt to impeach the one or
| seek the removal OF the other.
For more than two years we have been
attempting to restore the broken fragments of
our Union. With the history and experience
OF four thousand years shining back upon us,
so far we have failed, and under any proposed
| policy we shall tall By all the claims OF justice
and righteousness we deserve to fail for we
are still behind those claims. The United States
youngest among the nations, wetnursed by
torty centuries of history, and scheoled by all
the experience OF the age, with half the globe
Tor their inheritance, with Christianity their
faith, and republicaDism their form of govern.
ment surveyed precocious childhood, and
then fell a victim OF their own vices. To-day
they are in the hands of many physicians, but
of very doubtful reputation, physicians who
seem far less desirous of curing the patient
| than OF dividing and sharing the estate.
THE SEX OF THE DEITY.
Theodore Parker, when he prayed one morn
ing "Our Father and Our Mothern struck the
keynote OF great idea. Women might not
vote as well as intelligent men at the first
attempt. The first attempt is not always sue
cess. Even nature, if we believe the Scottish
poet, improved in a second attempt:-
Her prentice hand she tried on man,
And then she made the lasses, ohr
She might at first elect John Morrlssey, even
though Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Horace
| Greeley were in the field.
THE FIRST BATTLEFIELD.
Miss Susan B. Anthony said the Finance Com
mltiee would 60 through the audience to get
| funds. She said that funds were primarily to
| be used in Kansas. That State had passed
| through trials, and come out OF them triumph
antly, for the right; and it Is now proposed tnat
that State set the nation this grand example of
reconstruction on the basis OF universal suf-
| irage. She asks US to help her, and 1t is more
| important to do that, that We should send the
| agencies she demands
PmLsBURY GETS PILL.
Lucretia Mott stated that she feared that
| dlscoulaglng inference would be drawn from the
! views Just presented. She thought we were not
| so near the destruction of the republic as it
might seem from Mr.. Pillsbury's speech. She
glnA 30 hanr
| 1t IN a sick room. (Great uehter.) she hoped
that some other friends would view the favor
able side of the picture. Even Nineveh re-
peDted, and was not destroyed and, after all,
it might be that we could muster energy and
labor enough to pay Off all these thousand mil
ions. (Applause.O Sne introduced Mrs
Ernestine l.. Rose, with the wish that her
address would be a little more hopeful than that
OF MIR. Pillsbury.
ERNBsTINE L. ROSE SPEAKS.
Mrs Rose said the fact that the ladies can be
sick a. well as the gentlemen was another proof
| that they were very much alike. Mr. Pillsbury
| had alluded to the rise, progress, and destruC-
ton OF nations; but, after all, we have to come
| down to dollars and cents. (Applause) We
| live entirely in a practical age. She could
| show them in few minutes that If they had
| sufficient of the
ROOT OF ALL EVIL
| in their hands, there would be no need Of their
| meeting. They could obtain the elective fran.
! chse without making a single speech. CAP.
! plauSe.) Give Jnem DuJ mllllOn OF dollars,
| ana they would have the elective franchise from
! the next Legislature. (Great laughter and APP
! plause.) But, as they had not million dollars,
! they wanted million voices. There are always
two ways to obtain an object. If they had the
means they could have
BOUGHT THE LEGISLATURE
! long ago. Lauehter.) But having no money,
| they must create public opinion. 1t friends
| think they have heard speeches enough, they
must remember that these speeches are neces-
| sary to create public opinion. Look at mem
| beTs of Congress running all over the South to
| address crowds Of freedmen. Why Because
years ago? Because there " as no political end
! TO be served.
| CHICKEN HEARTS.
| She presumed that there were present, as
! there always have been, some timld individuals
| called chicken hearted Qaughterl, who were
! mehuully afraid that women would be de-
GRADED AT the ballot box. There could be no
oanger of that, for Congress would pass
| Freeuman's Bureau bill Qaughter) to protect
women at the ballot-boX at the same time
| There was no fear that woman would be dis
| turbGd. But, it was said that woman would
| nix with rude men at the ballot box. Not so
| any more than at church. Should not the
| baIlut.bOX be as saCTeu as the church? Infinite
| ly more 80, because We can pray in secret, but
| young must be done in public. (Appause)
NovLL BIBLICAL CONSTRUCTION.
They had been told this evening that it was
not good Tor man to be alone. Now, if it was
not Wen for him 70 be alone in the Garden of
| Eden, it was not well for him to be alone at the
balot.boX. (Great laughter.) What would man
! have been II woman had not given him to taste
OF the tree of knowledge? She believed the
| republic was already destroyed, else there could
| be no need of reconstruction. This reconstruc-
| Ill TO-, ,1oNfr