The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-10-17
MAeRE IS anna plekINsoN,
a TersaaEant In Indiana FaiseIy Pers
atfrr That Refined LADY,

a TermaEant In Indiana Falsely Pcrson-
atfng That Reflned Lady.
The many admirers of Anna Dickinson
in the east have been astonished. and oc.
casionaily horrihed. by published reports
of speeches in Indiana in which that lady
Is charged with language dangerously
near ynlgarity and profanity As the first
reports were IN Democratic and independ=
ent papers. they were promptly denounced
as Campaign lies. but now come the
Republican papers with reports, much
milder ii is true. but containing snch ex-
/ pressions us Buffalo hangmall. filthy
/ tool, dirty wretch. ''vile emissary of
damn ,ble treason, :, etc.
Tht reis not a line In any of thespeecheS
that reads the least bit like the former
productions of the refined and scholarly
/ Anna One explanation offered Is that
the real Anna Dickinson was murdered
on the way and her belongings stolen by
q notorious adventures who resembles
I her in person. a sort of western Ann
/ OrDelia Diss Debar. who is trying to per-
1 senate the, neal lady. Keeping this cxpla,
| nation In mind the reader may be able to
bear the following extracts from her tn-
/ dianapolis address They were published
which of course expurgated the worst
] parts of the speech. so what we have
4 Is only tho most decent residuum. The
woman personating Anna Dickinson be-
gan thus: I'VE have had tho issue marked
! out and the battle formed for US by the
/ president of the United States. or tho
hangnan of Buffalo. lApplnuse. The
sole issue on which, the tight Is TO be
made he and his party have proclaimed
shall be- the tariff. There Is no other issue
in this contest save that of tariff, so says
this tool of aristocracy, ignorance and
stupid domination &latsoeycr mat
ter has. .beer. .trS 6Iyed touching not
only the health. the good condi-
tion, but the very lifo of the repub-
lie IN The last twenty-five years. this day
| the rebels of the south, uprepentant and
unrcconstfucted. through the mouth Of
their filthy tool ut the north, announce
the sole issue which tho old soldiers and
free men and their sons are TO decide on
the 9th of next November. We assert IL
and you are to accept It., they proclaim.
| Applause. So be it. We are strong
enough to take up any gauge of battle
| flung down. let IL be by the deyilin he'll
or his present emissary IN power IN this
land. [Great applause st.Y st,.,.
Six sentences and seven vulgar epithetsl
Abuse of tho president of these United
States far worse than any the Republicans,
called treason In 1S60-'10. But Us the
police did not interfere. and tho audience
seemed TO like it. the woman went ;e6
SIEipg this startling bit of history. -: The,
men who founded this republic believed in
| Washington never owned a slave, though
they have belied his memory by the other
assertion" -, .,.a,.i 4
Then followed a sketch. Of the aaequisi-,
tion of Louisiana. Texas, ETC., which is too
crazy to be printed-sounds like 1t came
| straight from bedlam-when u cannon
was fred IN tho street, and she broke out.
"Is that a Democratic cannon2 "A voice,
'.Yes."T Well, all the noise of hell cannot
silence the voice of liberty and truth.
Tremendous applause. %a% The
soil that the Union stole-for 1t Rmounted
to that-froin Mexico at this demand of the
slave power is the soil over which we have
the contention today of the Chinaman on
one hand, and the damnnble curse Of Nor,
monisrn on the other. And II, serves US
right. We used to talk hi, flIg
old times about fhe north aud the SOUTH,
and we talk nbout the north and the sqnth
today. Some people innocently Imagine
that the phrase means q geographical sec
ton, one side or the other, IL means 20
/ What does the south meant
1t means three hundred and fifty
to four hundred thousand aristo-
Gratis shareholders - who dominated
generation after generation. until
finally in 1860 they brought the national
! government in the United States to it's in
fanny in the face of the whole world,
| - 40 uOI DelleNe Ilhb even IN
those days the labor of the north fairly
understood the issue Mt stake: but This
much, at least, is true. that you In lndi-
ana, and over. in 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 70 us we will
| keep in spiteof jefferson Davis. the south,
and the devil" lApplause. 49,.
Judging from her frequent references
to him the woman seems to be n mcDomA-,
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 Hereis one passage
| .'Thc people know that the. fight was,
simply part and parcel of the tight of fivo,
and seventy years, and might last for
scycnty-fiye years more, and In the heat
and flame of that, strife they stood ready
to say, so be Il: let us fight. f0r,
seventy five years. 1t is twenty years
only. Don't let the rifle grow. dip;.
! don't lot the cartridge box rust; stand
to your guns. knowing the same Gght is
to be settled OH the 9th of November. II.
is not downod yet. [Applause. These
few slnvemasters of the south dominate
not simply the south. not merely sec
ttOn, but the whole country through the
plant and subtle service of this dirty
IOol, inc Irlenu OF Lnq t2porlnR. Infi1 u.
day as he was then. e cannon and APP
plause. Again It sounds amen to the
sentiment. Applause. Oh. they are such
/ fools one has scarce patience to argue
1 with them. 1Applansc and laughter. 1t
Is pity that these dastdfdiy white slaves
of the north cannot have tho change In
Whips of slavery on their backs, for twelve
4ontls, that they might sing amen, un-
derstanding their tFilmph."
The conclusion OF her address was 50
] frantic that one cannot pick her meaning
from the lines, as III this passage:
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. mnrtyred.
| souls that went down to the battlefeld
and the prison pen from 1851 10 1865 did
not go 20 save tho Union. Applausc
The Union that meant degradation Of
| labor, that meant siIenced speeclg. diat
meant the pollution of tho eerf1tories .
That Union could have been preserved
and saved In peace and qniet at home
They went to the front TO die for Union
that allows you this day 10 spit upon
their graves. s-,.t
This probably means that the old Onion
Is destroyed. and we 6lusf have a new one
| in which the states viii be nero districts
or provinces. The Journal says Indian
apolis was delighted with the speech. but
| this Is probably a libel ON the HoOsier
capital