Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-10-25
NrEECu OF Mrs. LII.EHuORR.

Mrs. Livermore's speech at the recent
"wumans meeting in Springfield, Mass,
is reported rs follows:
Mrs. Livermore commenced her speech
10y saying that among the ancient Eeyp-
tiAus no .pcrsOn could receive honorable
burial until after he had had a post-mor-
TEN trial This custom extended even to
the throne, and kings were tried after
death, and if their lives were declared to
be bad, honorable burial was refused them.
In our day we do things very differently.
We give honorable and costly burial to all
our great men, good or bad, and we are
glad to get rid of some Of them at any price.
Our custom is to have public trial every
four years. That is what you are here for
Tonight; that is why men and women are
assembled tonight in halls and wigwams
all over the country. Next November you,
the Judges, will give your decision. Not
one of the twenty presidential campaigns
which our country has had has been so be-
widering as this. Not only are political
landmarks removed but they are dancing
up and down. Men are turning from one
side to the other, and only by keeping your
tNt va Cdu YOU really lcll WucIt
you are. Even Charles Sumner Oet his
name be spoken with honor for what he
has dune) has vaullca over on TO what
seems to us the wrong side. First came
together the Cincinnati convention with n
great sound of re form. 1t made platform
and nominated a ticket, placing at its head
a man whose name was received with
laughter and derision the country over.
The platform was precisely the one which
il was expected would be adopted at Phila-
delphia. The democrats ratified it, and tn @
three platforms run nearly side by side,
except the small difference, as you may
think il, (but il is a tremendous difference
TO us, women,) that the Philadelphia plat
form recognized wcman's demand for i'm
partial suffrage.
Now with this state Of things, and with
men changing from one side to the other,
what are we 10 do? Which party can we
trust? When / see Horace Greeley at the
head of party, and behind him coalition
fraught with danger TO the republic, conn
posed on the one hand of democrats and
ex- rebels, aud on the other of discontentcd
republicans, including such men as Banks
and Farnswouh,-I do not hesitate long
before making up my mind. We have Il
right 10 judge Of men by what they have
done, and not by what they say. And, ex-
ercising this right, l cannot think it wise
to trust the government with the party
that is following after Horace Greeley. We
might just as well confess, first rs last, that
Gen. Grant is not saint or an angel. If
he were, | should look to see him travel
ing up to heaven, some fine morning, as
Elijah did. He isn'l by any manner i'm
maculate. Let us acknowledge that he la ,
made mistakes, and that the republican
party has made mistakes. But If this is so,
will you go over to Beelzebub? For the
democratic party is the one that is back of
Greeley, and the tone of that party has not
changed. The democratic party has taken
Horace Greeley and the liberals for its own
temporary purposes. 1t Is not Horace
Greeley that has taken Capt. Semmes of
the Alabama, but Capt. Semmes has taken
Horace Greeley. We do not overstep the
truth, when We say that back of the demo-
cratic party is an element of insecurity and
unrest, with which ii is dangerous TO trust
the government. Never is the South to be
fully settled till you get all these questions
of uflraPe, education, and civil rights set
tied. If Horace Greeley wins, you will
surely see the final settlement of these
questions postponed, and their agitation
20 on with renewed bitterness.
Now, believe in the republican party
If the republican party had not put that
plank in its platform which declares fol
Justice for women, and the Baltimore con-
vention had put it in the democratic plat,
form, would turn my back on Baltimore
and Greeley as squarely as do tonight
(Great applause.) Why? Because l have
more than one plank in my political creed
What has the republican party doneH II
the first place, it has emancipated the sa
YES we all know that. 1t has kept the
business of the country vigorous ant
thriving, until our valuation is thirteen
billions more than ii was In 1860 RICH
in the teeth of the war ii carried on tn,
great work of building the Pacific railroad
and thus saved California TO the Union. /
has established national banks, doing away
with notes whose value deprecated away
from home, and giving us notes good II
every state in the Union. Notwithstand-
ing the war, the republican party estab-
lished a department of education, although
il has not yet done very much but thu
United States will be compelled TO adop
the same measure of self-protecton tina
now prevails in Prussia-compulsory edp