The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-05
ANNA DICKINSON TALKS

an interview with the above lady IN the
CITY. The past, present and future OF
the Republican party was the subject
that most interested Miss Dickinson.
She said:
With the Red Sea before and the pur,
suing Egyptians behind, Moses said to
the children of Israel: Fear ye not;
stand still; the Lord shall fight for you,
and We shall hold your peace.
And the Lord said unto Moses:
Wherefore criest thou unto MEp speak
unto the children Of Israel that they go
FORWARD.
The Republican party was born of a
protest of the human conscience. Ger
tainly it had material body seeking
material ends, but moral idea was its
soul and its impelling force. Without
it impulse fails and force GIBBS idly
away. What it needs today is a cry
that will rouse It's soul; and that once
alert the body will move forward fast
enough to o triumph that will mean
alike prosperity and Justice,
Imean that however other parties
may be able to win and hold power, the
way to success for this party is by an
aggressive fight on the line of a combine
Gods truth aud this worlds expedi-
ENJOY, justice for the black man being
his right and our salvation.
The negro dead issuel He is the
only really live factor in American poll
tics today. IT'S the blood sucked from
his bo1y polltic that has given life to
that vampire, the Democratic party, and
even destroyed, in the judgement of
multitudes, the CHASTITY character of
that organization that has only lived by
feeding on the lives of men. We of the
North learned to know its action and to
loathe it when it grew fat on feast OF
slaves, Now that it is growing all pow
erful on a diet of citzens-the rights,
the liberties the vital essence of free
men-we say tits lawful prey and we
have no right to interfere with the ban
quet,
1t is a good thing for people to mete
out Justice in q just cause before they
are 'magnanimously' generous to an evil
one. The fashion of the day has been
and is, to talk of the love feast that is
spread between old foes, till at last we
Of the North and they Of the South are
doing what our forefathers did thirty
years ago-grasping hands across the
PROSTATE body Of the negro-and our
pride of race and insolent disdain of the
'darkey' have brought us to embrace as
men and brethren, well beloved and
honorable those whom elsewhere and
under other conditions we would de-
nounoe as robbers and murderers-rob-
bers of the rights of their fellows and
murderers of the real life of their gov
eminent and motherland.
Unjust OverdrawnF No. The States
Of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Miss
issippi, and North Carolina have hardly
$500, 900 people, yet the sum of their
Congressional delegation-37-was elect
ed by 900 votes. Enough to return
north of the line dozen members Of
Congress!-Georgia sends ten members
to Congress-Democratic members-and
and its aggregate vote for these ten
Democratic members was % OSLO 900
less than were cast in one Congressional
district in the Northern State Of Michi-
gan.
Reverse the case. Does anyone sup
pose for an instant that the South would
submit to that sort Of power welded by
the North? No! What would she do?
Have the matter rectfied at the polls,
failing that, would appeal to the arbi-
tration of the sword,
Do mean that is what the North
the Republican party ought to doI Yes.
There is no use in putting the hand to
the plowshare and looking back, The
furrow is to be run to the end. The
Republican party has had to drive its
steel through graves and mounds of
men and the old men who are tired say
let us rest, and the young fellows say
the work is done, Lucky we who were
born when the burden and heat of the
day were over have got to understand
on penalty of death that the mornings
work 10 not the evenings and that yes.
terday is not today.
Have done with the foolery of 80
much as listening to the answer of
bloody shirt and 'defunct issues of the
war; when one cries for justice NOW.
We are not speaking of the repeal of
the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the treachery
of slavery, the broken pledges Of the
Slave Power, the greedy grasp at the
broad prairies they would have prosti-
tuted to slavery. and SO to barren life
and hideous death, the gift Of virgin
soil that nature held for the embrace of
manly mentor none of the issues that
made the Republican party and its fight
of '56-no, nor for the 'doctored returns
that gave Pennsylvania to the Democ-
racy, and so cheated John Fremont of
the White House, and put minority in
power.
Nor of the firing on Sumpter, nor the
butchery of four years of war, nor of
the toll and sweat and blood, the tears
and prayers and anguish, the emptied
homes, the broken hearts, the lives left
on the field, in camp in hospital, and
the lives left desolate at home, the debt,
&c Ill . hoo
ed on those who Won Nor of slavery s
whips and gives. Nor of things done
and left undone that have been the envy
of devils and the wonder of angels and
men,
The war was fought; the war is
done. The other and newer war is
based upon the straight division of the
Constitution that declares Congress
shall guarantee to every State Repub.
lican form of government There is
not the semblance of such a thing in q
solitary Gulf State, There is no need
to argue that point. The North knows
it. The South without effort at con.
cealment or denial, acknowledges it anG
glories in its shame, and the result i:
that today the 100000 of whites in the
South govern the 40,000,00O whites Of
the North to the destruction of all just
forms of government in the nation, a:
well as in the States, A few thousand:
of manufactured votes in the South are
more than an Offset 10 all the million:
that live or die, by such toll, here in thu
East. If it is an old issue-old foe;
with new facets not a dead one
History is not turned backward. I'll
repeating itself. Justice to the negro
this day means the life of the nation a!
truly as it meant it in '63.
The South has shown herself, as il
the past, to be wiser than we, hel
statesmen keener, her. politicians
shrewder than the shrewdest Yankees
Beaten on the field, she has won all fol
which she fought, by our weapons anC
at home. Because Democrat is in the
White House and ex-rebel brigadierl
control legislation at the nations CAPT
talP No. If they were legally and hon
estly there, one would have right t
marvel at the monstrous ingratitude 0
people who would relegate its defend
ers to obscurity, and put its life in thu
keeping of those who yesterday held thu
knife to its throat-but marvel would
end there.
To save the nations existence tn,
slave was emancipated. To keep life
when it had been thus hardly wrunl
from the grasp Of death, the black maj
was enfranchised. A nation that thu
had a new birth in freedom govern
ment that was to.be thus truly made %
the people, by the people and for tn
people'-and we have stood by and seel