Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-19

Applause So bc it We are strong
enough to take mp any gauge Of battle
flung down. let Il I've by the devil In hell /
or his present emissary in power in this
land" IGrcst applause
Six sentences and seven vulgar epithetsl /
Abuse OF the president Of these United |
States far worse than any the Republicans |
called treason in lS60.70 But as the |
police did not interfere, and the audience
seemed TO like It, the woman went on
giving this startling bit of history: The
mon who founded this republic believed in
the principles of Justice for all men.
Washington never owned a slave though
they have belied his memory by the other
assertion.
Then followed sketch of the acquisi-
ton of Louisiana, Texas, etc, which Is too
crazy to be printed-sounds like it came
straight from bedlam--when a cannon
was fired in the street, and she broke out
us that Democratic cannon? A voice,
"Yes. " Well, all the noise of hell cannot
silence the voice of liberty and truth.
Tremendous applause The
soil that the Union stole-for it amounted
to that-fom Mexico at this demand of the
slave power is the soil over which we have
VIC NbhNOAlibA LOQdN VI lllt Nullldluuu Ou
one hand and the damnable curse of Nor
monism on the other. And it serves us
right We used to talk in the
old times about the north and the south,
and we talk about the north and the south
today. Some people innocently imagine
| that the phrase means geographical Sec
| ton, one side or the other. 1t means to-
| day what it has meant for a century
What does the south mean?
1t means three hundred and fifty
to four hundred thousand aristo-
Gratis shareholders - who dominated
generation after generation, until
finally i'll 1860 they brought the national
government in the United States to its in
fanny n the face of the whole world
| do not believe that even in
| those days the labor of the north fairly
understood the issue at stake; but this
much, at least, is true, that you in Indi-
ana, and over III Illinois, and beyond in
Iowa, You in the great basin of the Mis-
sissippi, understood that the Mississippi
was yours and BY the God of Justice, ;
said the west, what belongs to us we will
kee" in spiteef jefferson Davis, the SOUTH
and the devil" Applause
Judging from her frequent references
to him the woman seems to be monoma-
MAC on the subject of the devil Her
next declaration was that the war was to be
fought again, but her language leaves it
uncertain whether she meant with guns
or ballots. Here is one passage:
The people knew that the fight was
simply part and parcel of the fight of five
and seventy years, and might last for
seventy-five years more, and in the heat
and fame of that strife they stood ready
to say, so be it; let US fight for
seventy-fve years 1t is twenty years
only. Don't let the rife grow dim;
don't let the cartridge box rust; stand
to your guns, knowing the same fight is
to be settled on the 9th of November. 1t
is not downed yet. Applause These
few slavemasters Of the south dominate
not simply the south, not merely Sec
ton, but the whole country through the
plant and subtle service of this dirty
tool the friend of the laboring man to-
day as he was then. A cannon and ap,
plause. Again it sounds amen to the
sentiment Applause. Oh, they are such
fools one has scarce patience to argue
with them. Applause and laughter. II
Is pity that these dastardly white slaves
of the north cannot have the change in
whips of slavery on their backs for twelve
months, that they might sing amen, I'm.
Outstanding their triumph"
The conclusion of her address was sc
frantic that enc cannot pick her meaning
from the lines, as in this passage:
J Don't forget that, you who have lived
through those days, and you, young men,
if you did not know it. know it this night
that the brave, splendid, heroic, msrtyred
souls that went down to the battlefield
and the prison pen from 1851 to 1865 die
not go to save the Union. Applause.
J The Union that meant degradation Of
labor, that meant silenced speech. thai
meant the pollution of the territories
That Union could have been preserved
and saved in peace and quiet at home
They went to the front to die for a Uniol
that allows you this day to spit upoI
j their graves.
, This probably means that the old Uniol
. is destroyed, and we must have new on
in which the states will be mere district
r or provinces. The journal says Indian
apolis was delighted with the speech, bu
this is probably libel on the Hoosie
capital,