The New York herald., 1867-01-31

Lecture BY Miss Augusta St. Cialr-y.etteries
and Politics Csmbined-A Now Way 20 Raise
The Wind.
AZ washington Hall. Williamsburg last evening, Miss
August4 81 Clair delivered lecture on the subject
"Our Noses" Ths audience quite large.
Before the hour apart for the lecture 70 begin
Sleek fluent s.ubbe haired individual dressed in black
mounted the stage and startled such hsdnot the
full advertisement by simple story which ran "a fol-
lows
LADIES AND GESnMES-I have been spoken to BY
several persons TO whether the ticket for admission
say that 1t does. tApplause.l Every ticket draws
prize and there blanks-iappause) - but-tsen-
shss u natural vo Fnov .n.d ncs.r rdcsors from
the audience.l However. all we want is fair profit
goods and will that the prizes disribu
ted fairly as you know they always have been with Us
thousand and one questions have been asked me- or
nS have besn s give out
goods by numbers At the close OF the lecture, your
tickets on being presented at the box ONCE will be re-
placed by card in envelope which will be written
article Of merchandise which Is the prize to be OBJ
taned. Uabored breathngs in the audience.) That is
this that you draw prize it will be WORTH at the
tail price. at least all you gave for It, though indeed
gentlemen and 10 few minutes will introduce you
the lady who will lecture this evening lrregnar aP.
plause The lecture is on political subject because It
The lecturer was soon afterwards introduced and dis
courssd with eloquence the subject named say
ing that President johnson had betrayed his trust and
degraded his oce, giving return for his moral and
political degeneracy but new spirit to treason and
sorrow 10 his friends. He was the greatest
enemy Of the country. By restoring their prop
erty to rebei owners he bad placed premium
treason and rebellion The pardonng power should
have been used sparng because clemency to the
citizen s often cruelty to the State The consequence
that great outrages were committed on loyal whites
and blacks in the South The Civil Rights bill then
introduced and was vetoed-a bill that had no more to
do with clevang the black man TO an equality with the
white man. than his veoes have with the OF
Richmond EMqwiysv both gave expression 20 the 10y
that prevailed IN the South whom tho Freed
mems Bureau bill vetoed, and suggested that all
that remained then was to reduce the negro into slavery
again. The massacres Of Memphis and New Orleans
attributable 70 the panderng Of President johnson
to Southern ratofa For these crimes the only p0nsh
nesua Of securing fut1ss vsars The sesTo ought Is
have the right 70 vote There should be "a equality be-
fore tAsIaw Dc Tocquevle had said ~ know q only
twn ne,hods q sstabiis9ng equality 10 the po,i.
l possessen OF his rights, w rights must BE-
1 granted 70 noue.n Tho negro I, had voted
under the arcles OF confederation, and had exercised
this right in Maryland until 1885, In North Carolina
until 1889, in Pennsyvana until 1888, and in Maine.
New Hampshire Vermont, Massachusetts, and some OF
the Western States, they voted to-day There NO
allowed to enter the halls Of Congress- pnd to make
again the basis Of Johnson's policy the war would
l have been fought in vain-i,s millions Of treasure
and s hundreds OF Thousands Of patriotic hearts sacr
feed without avail Suitable guarantees ought 70 be d.
/ fined and demanded BY Congress OF the Southern
States before they readmitted 10 the fun benss o
III. lecture coppassd tho auaiencs rushed an,icaly
FOR the box once where they received their cards with
tan article OF merchandise" marked them Whether
the prizes received and found Satisfactory or not
genius Of the enterprise has forgotten his
tcrestS