The Portland daily press., 1872-03-11
A Woman on the Stump.

CONCORD. sul- .aa.
Eagle Hall was packed to its utmost capac-
ity Thursday night to listen to Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore, of Boston, who was announced to
speak in behalf of Republican principles. Mrs.
Livermore being introduced she began by say
ing that it is no new thing for women to be in
terested in politics, and spoke of Deborah as
proof of this. Nor was there any reason why
they Should not be, as they are equally interest
ed in government which is the secret of politics.
Carthagenian women, cutting off their hair for
bow-strings, Joan of Arc, Nine. Rowland and
Harriet Beecher Stowe were mentioned as wo-
men who had exercised controlling influence in
politics. How women pledged themselves to
do all that was possible to aid the country DUR
ing the great war of the rebellion, was quoted
as proof of how useful they can be to their
country. During that struggle she had been
with the armies, chiefly in the hospitals, but
often at the headquarters of him who is now
President, whom she then learned to honor and
respect, although he was slandered then as
now. Applause After the war she expected
to go back to her old home life, but had been
forced by circumstances into public AFFAIRS
Her election to the Republican Convention of
Massachusetts, was referred to, and the fruit
less search for woman to go to the Democrat
c Convention was cited to show that women
know how to choose in politics
The pending election was referred to as
matter of national Importance. The debates
in the Senate had not been held with view to
the publication of the Republican Party but
were the wrangles of chiefs striving for the
mastery. The party is not entirely pure, but it
is purer than any other political organization.
The Democratic opposition this winter in the
House of Representatives to- the Education
bill, was mentioned as proof that it has not
been cured of its evils. Democrats pretend to
be converted, and talk OF taking Presidential
candidate from the Republican ranks but they
might as well come over and vote for the Re-
publican nominee and end the trouble There
are charges of corruption against the Admins
tration, but no one knows anything of the cor
ruption in national affairs, except what the Adj
ADMINISTRATION has itself made known. On the
other hand the Democrats denied and derided
the Tammany frauds until the New York
Times made them so plain they could not be
denied whereupon the Democrats elected the
chief thief to the New York Senate. In con-
trast to this, Gen. Grant sends all the thieves
exposed in the Republican Party to prison. 1t
was not claimed she said that Grant was per-
sonally dishonest, but that he was in the hands
OF dishonest men, whereupon she mentioned
Henry Wilson, Geo. s. Boutwell, Geo. VIM
Curtis, and others, asking if they were dshon-
est.
She had lately seen it stated that she had said
she found Gen. Grant drunk at his head-quar-
tiers during the war, and she took this occasion
to say 1t was falsehood, as she had never seen
Gen. Grant drunk, and she had never said SO.
She then related her first interview with Grant
before Vicksburg, when he promptly did what
she desired for the comfort of some sick sol
diers. Nor did she ever ask anything of him
in the name of humanity which he did not con-
cede. She referred to the rapid payment of
the public debt during Grants administration,
as proof of honesty and capacity in the man
agement of the finances. 1t had been said
Democrats are passive, and well they may be
when looking on the debates in the Senate
where Republicans are arrayed against each
other, making brilliant speeches about nothing.
There was Carl Schurz, made power in the
land by the Republican party, now insisting on
showing that the Administration had sold arms
to France. Not that he cared ANYTHING about
it, except that by showing it he would ALLEVIATE
the German vote of the Northwest from the
Republican party. She knew of no reason why
Grant should be nominated for a second term,
other than the simple one that he can command
more votes than any one else She proceeded
to deliver a strong argument in favor of the
Republican party, of which Gen. Grant was
the fitteSt exponent. ".tlr
Her speech was quite long, and was deliver
ed with much force, and was as powerful in ev-
cry way as any address delivered during the
campaign.
WHAT Mrs. WooDHULL's SISTER SAYS
Mrs. Ute BROKER, the sister of Victoria c.
Woodruff, lectured Thursday evening at the
Cooper Institute, in opposition to the doctrine
of free love advocated by her sister. The
hall was but partially filled, by an audience
drawn together out of curiosity to hear what
would be said in opposition to the free-love
doctrines by the sister of tho women who is
looked upon as its most advanced and out
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medium height, with dark hair and eyes, and
withal very pretty looking. She was intro
duced to the audience by Mr. Ray, and in open
ing her lecture, said that when virtue honor
and decency were outraged, as they were upon
the night of her sisters lecture she claimed
the right of speech, which she then carried
out. But one of the many issues of the day,
she declared, had any hold upon her affections
In referring to the lecture delivered by her sis
ter, the speaker declared that she did not think
that Mrs. Woodruff believed what she then
said. She did not think that her sister wrote
the lecture, or read it Understandings, but
charged the whole affair upon ''his imperial
littleness of the Golden Age," as she termed
Theodore Tilton.
Mrs. BROKER was very severe upon Mr.. Titon
andi in referring to him, denounced him in the
most unmeasured terms, and applied to him
epithets of most uncomplimentary nature.
The speaker declared that she did not believe
that in her heart her sister really believed in
the doctrines which she advocates, but she is
surrounded by and under the influence of bad
and designing men and women. The law,
Mrs. BROKER said, Furnishes the thief who
steals diamond, and why should not the same
rule apply to person who stole husband or
wife. The preachers of free love say that
when husband and wife grow weary of each
other, let them separate; but she said, "Stay,
and sin no more" The very veness of the
doctrine, the speaker thought, would be
its death-warant Its advocates were men of
low tastes, and mean and contemplate in spir-
t. Mrs. BROKER only spoke for about fifteen
minutes, and then retired, but was again called
out by the audience, who testified by their fire.
quent and hearty applause their concurrence
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