Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1888-10-12
WHERE IS ANNA DICKINSON,
a Termagant In lndiaua Falsely Person
ntius That Refined Lady.

In the east have been astonishcd. and oc-
casionally Mortified by published reports
, of speeches in Indiana in which that lady
is charged with language dangerously
! near vullarity and profanity As the first
reports we're in Democratic and independ
ent papers, they were promptly denounced
as campaign lies, but now come the
Republican papers with reports. much
miidcr il IL true, but containing such ex
prcssons IS Buffalo hangman, filthy
tool. dirt wretch" "vile emissary of
dannable eason, etc.
THERE'S OF line In any of the speeches
. 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
notorious adventures who resembles
her In person. sort OF western Ann
O'Deia Diss Debar. who is trying to per.
senate the real lady Keeping this expla
nation in mind the reader may be able to
bear the following extracts from her In.
in the Republican Journal Of that city,
which of course expurgated the worst
parts of the speech. so Whist we have
Is only the most decent residuum. The
woman personating Anna Dickinson be.
h gan thus. 1--WE have had the issue marked
out and the battle formed for us by the
president Of the United States, or the
hang,ran of Buffalo Applause The
sole issue OH which the fight is TO be
made Inc and his party have proclaimed
shall he the tariff. There is no other issue
In this contest save that Of tariff SO says
this tool Of aristocracy, ignorance and
stupid domination. Whatsoever mat
ter has been involved touching not
L.. In
ton. bat the very life Of the repub
lie in the last twenty FIVE years, this day
the rebels Of the south, unrepentant and
unreconstructed. through the mouth Of
their filthy tool at the north. announce
the sole issue which the old soldiers and
free men and their sons are to decide on
the 9th of next November. I'VE assert IL
and you are to accept II, they proclaim.
lApplause So be 1t. We are strong
enough to take up any gauge of battle
flung down, let it be by the devil In bell
or his present emissary In power in this
land" Great applause.
Six sentences and seven vulgar epithets,
Abuse of the president of these United
States far worse than any the Republicans
called treason" in 1860 20 But as the
I police did not interfere. and the audience
seemed 20 like IL, the woman went on
giving this startling bit of history: The
men who founded this republic believed In
the principles of justice for all mon.
Washington never owned u 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 20 be printcd-sounds like IL came
straight from bedlam--when a cannon
was fired in the street, and she broke out.
us that IA Democratic cannon A voice.
"Ycs."l 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
10 that-frpm Mexico at this demand of the
slave power is the soil over which we have
the contention today of the Chinanau on
ono hand. and the damnable curse Of Nor
monism on the other. And it serves us
| right We used TO talk in the
old fines about the north and the SOUTH
and we talk about the north aud the south
Today. Some people innOcently imagine
That the phrase means a geographical sec
ton, one side or the other 1t means 10
day what il has meant for century.
I# What does the south mean;
1t means three hundred and fifty
to four hundred thousand aristo.
Gratis - shareholders = who dominated
EeneFtllOu uulb
finally in 1860 they brought the national
government in the United States to it's in
fanny IN the face of the whole world.
| do not believe that oven in
, those days the labor Of the north fairly
understood the issue at stake, but this
much, at least, is true. that YOU in ltdi
ana, and over in Illinois. aud 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
keep in spite of jefferson Davis, the south,
! and the devil. -" Applause.
Judging from her frequent references
to him the woman seems to be monoma-
MAC Oh 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:
1.-The people knew that the fght was
simply part and parcel of the fight of five
Nad seventy years, and might last for
seventy,iive years more, and In Il Q heat
and flame of that strife they stood ready
To say. so he it;~ let MS fight for
seventy five years. II Is twenty years
only. Don't lot the rifle grow dim;
don't let the cartridge box rust stand
to your guns. knowing the same fight is
to he settled on the 9th November. II
is not downed yet. Applause. These
row slavemasters Of thosouth dominate
mot simply the south not merely q sec
tion. but the whole country through the
plant and subtle service Of this dirty
tool the friend of the laboring man to-
day as lac was then. cannon and ap-
plaiise, Again it sounds amen to the
sentiment. Applause. Oh they are such
fools one has scarce patience to argue
with them. Applause and laughter: 1t
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
derstanding their triumph"
\ The, conclusion Of her address was so
frantic that one cannot pick her meaning
from the lines. as in this passage;
Don't forget that, you who have lived
through those days, and you, young men,
If you lid not know it, know it this night,
that tho brave, splendid heroic, martyred
souls that went down to the battlefield
and the prison pen from 1851 TO 1865 did
not 90 TO save the Union. Applause
The Union that meant degradation of
Labor that meant Silencpd Snppch that