The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-11-11

WAsalscIos, D. c. Nov. 5. 1871.
Miss Al ma Dickinson delivered
her latest lecture Friday evening
at LincolnHall. before a very large
and brilliant audience. Els subject
"Dema goeues and Wo,kiLgmen"
certainly did not elicit applause.
however, it might provoke thought
fnl discussion. Miss Dickinson's |
talk was of i 2 bard and brilliant
charac.er,-seareeiy touched by that
warm and glowing fire and heat
which was once go manifest III all
she said and advocated. Brilliant
it was undoubtedly but unmis-
takably shallow and sophistical.
Its attacks or labor agitations and
Trades Unions, was based on a
series Of isolated ard salient half
truths, SO handled as to make
whole falsehoods. As illustration
of this, was an attack on Union
for requiring four years continuous
service in one shop as an appren-
tice, and then q continuous plea
for better apprenticeship system.
She aseailed the agitation against
convict labor because she said 1t
was based On resistance to other
persons becoming skilled wcrkmen,
when the truth is, that it is entirly
based on the fact that prison labor
is so used as to undersell honest
labor in the outside market. She
declared that the average wages
: of ANTHRACITE mines was about
$500 per annum. Omitting, in
|, tertionally too, it must have been,
]. to state out of it the miner has to,
pay for tools, drills. gunpowder,
oil, &c, which greatly reduce what
is required as wages. In this sort
Of way the lecturer proceeded to
assail tho skilled wOrkmen Of
America and to deuounce them as
monop lists and demagogues. II
she was lawyer, making paid
plea in court in behalf Of capital,
Miss Dickinson could not have
been more onesided or partizan.
1t is amusing TO look over the
editorials OF the Democratic pa.
| pers in Pennsylvania since the Oc-
tober election.
A majority Of their State Con-
vention, by a vote CT Is, adopted
the s'New Departure" doctrine and
placed their State ticket squarely
upon it. The party Throughout,
the State swallowed the dose, with
here and there slight grunt. and
tho vote shows no uncommon vari
alton from what might, with rea-
son, have been expected from the
espousal of . dogma 80 utterly a
variance with former opinions
They swallowed the sbeast will
seven heads and ten horns" ant
kept it down with amazing forti.
tude until their signal defeat, il
October, when, by some convulsiv
energy of the BRUTE" they wer
seized with the most copious vom
iting, 1t proves to be the mos
powerful eme!ic known to th
MateIia Medica.
) Down, they say; with the lat
and 18th Amendments. Dow
with that infamous, naked an
!, brazen lie embodied in the 9,
!, resolution Of ihe platform. U
with the Constitution as it WI
= before tie war. Which LITERAL
means. down with the "Stars an
! Stripes" and up with the "Bai
and Stars"
y They have shown to the wor
= that a rogue is just as good
;" candidate for them as an hone
10 man. That an infamous platfor
5: subserves their purposes just
g well as righteous one, and tn
q their appetite for Office is so vor'
ia cious that they can withstand al
ID amount of nausea in order to g.
cure it. They admit that the pl,
r form was q cheat, and havil
!, failed in the imposture, they adu
r. the cheat and failure, and fall ba
ID again ON the old and bloody do
g. t1ine of secession.
- And this is the sum of the WHIT
OF case:-As the Rebels, who, havi
l. clothed themselves in Unionist N
~ form. captured from our soldier
st stole upon our troops and fir
,e upon them in that diegu sc,
se Dem ocraoy, like them, fought
III In Unionist disguise, have be
~ beaten, end dispersed-they p,
NJ pose TO rally in the butiernut q
On gray-They have been tn, ashed
g. the open field and in ambush.
- They have tried every expedite