New-York tribune., 1869-01-13
FAIR PLAY, BY MISS ANNA E. DICKINSON.


FAIR PLAY, BY MISS ANNA Z. DICKINSON.
Miss Anna +. Dickinson lectured on "Fair
Play" at Cooper Institute last evening. The Hall
packed fully onehalf Of the audience composed
Of ladies' During the entire lecture almost breahess
silence observed by the interested listeners except
when they gave uteranee to their feelings by loud ap
battle said Get the enemy you can and then
hresway To-day the united states mas an enemy more
orrblo to be dreaded than the French the enemy OF
caste America may well inquire, has she slain the lion
OF Southern slavery to foster tho wolf OF preudce IL y
possible for the people of the nation TO rise In the f
dignity OF their being free Christ made them But
few rise into the higher spherethe region of justice
There pre- udice existing against African blood Uttered
through centuries Of time This predjudico is so cruel
that many out where are the thunderbots OF Godf
wrung dOae republic Is infinitely worse than wrong
done In an empire The greater people are advanced
civilization the more they are accountable TOT can IL
be less than farce to call any nation democrauc pa
ton when the rights OF oneeghth OF its citizens are de-
med thomi APpaInse journal published shed Sastss state
that the negro would be wronged II white woman
refn sed TO marry MN what sne protested % asans, was
lovers while 1t allows them to live together in sim What
she asked was that the woman loves TINS man ana
promises to be faithful to the end she should be allowed
the privilege OF marrying him. IL nature draws people
together It an s to fsp sS ss% 6ssvssp sspas
tho soul has q right TO choose for itself
The sage tho philosopher and God make the solemn
ers aud the only answer is that he Is black The Amer
can nation has slept 1ng mot N ss blazing sn 81
Whatever prejudice existed before 1868 was owing
20 institutions and the laws. What can be said
now, when the way is lighted by the lnrid
fires OF Port Hudson and Petersburg, where
the black man fell grasplng the same flag, died In
the same ditch, and was buried In one common grave,
that the nation might be free. As the bodies OF the
Angosaxon aud the African moder to dust In the same
grave may the wrongs OF the one and the preJudces
OF the other crumblc away, aud may their spirits
brotherhood, and Of peace. Loud applause.l
Let Congress pass law in favor Of universal suffrage,
and put away this vexed question OF suffrage forever IL
not the statute Of the Constitution that men want but
the spirit Of the Constitution which guarantees lfe ND
erty aud the pursuit OF happiness TO all suppose the
state OF South Carolina should nc To dsfranohse all
the htes and blacks within her border would not THE
Every paper IN the North would demand that the people
interfere there every why the white women
and the blacks should not cry out also lAppause.l
An old lady In asked IL she had lawyer
and replied NO. God Is my lawyer" The judge
answered saying He GOD does not practice III this
court" That fair specimen OF the courts In the
South and outrage against decency To expect the
mercy pressed down and running over was extended 70
the SOUTH and what justice did they give In returni Inc
Georgia Legislature drove out 80 colored memperS anu
this Is a fair specimen OF the way In whlch they
repay tho merces shown them by the North.
one OF these said You iaugn ~
me. Would you have been any more inteLitgenns tn
than l. had the laws deprived You OF the spelling book
for over so years" Ignorant and conding the psohs
the South will trust the men for whom they nave and
until 10 will DO too late for the North TO do Justce ~
and by the chains will be rivetted more niinv nn mora
fore Let us not deceive ourselves God 20 ha saiS -
nocked NV nations than individuals LethnVt oo saiu VI
the American people Ye did well for .v III vi
that rung out the old year ring ~ '"o now "'u ap
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