Year: 1867

historian moulded his record the churchman inter
No matter where the ithuriel spear Of the anti
slavery movement touched the American people,
masks that played all the several parts around us
bsWSork king ang ,IS heGat4re and now relgoa' now
iashon-tear of the mask, the same hdeous fea-
the spectators This was America Ten twenty.
thirty h years in the thick Of the fight revealing
cancer; We were called rash agitaors; we only told
the TRUTH We were called unchartable speakers; we
only quoted what man was proud to say. We put
on record, without word or comment, the pledge of
cool light Of his own retirement or through the eyes
S 6r ms Ipen1s ne Sn1an back and said that Is n9t


history after this long battle, after this dread expert
real and thusISsiie believer in American % State
and American Church. When we were brought face
ing aside all DISCUSSES, trampling under foot all plea
under which timid poiitics ' and eXpedient Church
had hidden themselves, slavery revealed itself
at last a gigantic Rebel. Now, with such climate
Of the nineteenth century have made the wages Of
that for days WORK a man can be drunk week.
opportunity, the man who does not see IN the
movement 10 put the American people mass
security of republican Institutions is as blind to the


on Wis wa m a d uTS IE of sne e o Which @ 'e he
most sangune man would not have dared to prophecy
should take this city and the Empire state OF the
North into the Coniederacy. And you know. every
York under the banner of JelIenson Days, IL would
because the JDlS CITY fuleu
Empire state. 1t is not amiss u touch question
like this, when dozen times within three years the
in the world-have been closed under a pretense of
executive sess on only in order TO shield the drunken
ness OF its me beTs from the criticism of the public
II is not amlss n moment like this when the gale
Til midnight by the wives of members who were
afIaid to trust their husbands alone drunken and be-
ing over the future question Of the sobriey
o. the people SIDE by SIDE with y stands another or
position IN the political arena, the great unique,
the last protest against the injustice of onehalf of
the human race, woman's position politically.
trous moment, stands the relation of capital and
them, the putting OF the American laborer where
he belongs, IN condition and on level OF substau-
time is only capital to be sold in The best under
the best relations OF political economy, cooperating
and Goth moving haImoniousy togetherin develop
perty Of his country, and far above and beyond it;
the laborer lifted up to be man, with the necessary
and Intellectual. Now, for one, see ample toll tor


the rest years. % saS or oS He3 %
brains alwa!s rule In The long rum to the credit Of
You cannot bully this cOmmunity II any power had
been able to bully L into silence the slave power would
have done II. The American people cannot be
oOerced either into silence or subm,ssl9n-they must
Of intellectual lite which must have argument and
fact, which must have reasons furnished for every
eed PHrsa sn PSass w ~ o n ss
Salance wseel the Safety valve the great CHECK of
republican iEstitutons-this outside virtue should
ali be left free and disengaged for these great ques-
tons The danger to-day is that for the simple pre-
can sell US out for the nominal triumph party
The political chiefs have but one anxletv That
that one man shall be this and another that but it


hS the S great IN OF Se
not be divorced from It: Now. | have the
through the war it should hold on TO the Govern.
ment we have saved And when tn&y er rs M
float. Put unredeemed Democrat at the helm OF
the war Put aIfand-haif man, with no ideas, like
%FeT GaaH an bsses we Put saG M
sherman, and shall lose seventy per cent (Hisse


mertof this platform in times past was to call every
thing by us right name; II called SPADE As spade;
undertake kindly efforts to wrap up truths, but IL
merit and strength OF the American abolition move
ment that II gave things their true names; II had
the lever was the conscience of the American people
We said to them that sim no matter now u may oe
the parchment of the Constitution And when Web
sbTaSR s[9T from On the ccnc the people at eysbGrE and
and out from m the wagT5 q od 6e


had i %oa9 se E Ees opRaG GgeS Sa
known It before his father had left hm UNPROTECTED
in this world. Now to-day the same responsibility
T does ES so Ga peed that he ad6ees to a5so
lutte usce he coniesses that he trims down rights in
the rule of his life. Why should not say u? II is
no ascISG TO sPauTT Tbe ne most poca3
as far as office is concerned. that breathes to-day
the American continent, said 20 friend lately, II
was twenty-five years old. Personally am an Epls-
copaan, but politically am Methodist" do not
libel him and is not my fault he saw hmselfs he
really was He was politician, and the world IS
full of them The Republican party today-and l
say it not TO their dscredit, but 70 their vindca-
dental election that levels every American 10 lhe
one great consideration of what Is to carry his party
at the polls, no matter how m9ch trntR ne o99eeais
acknowledge that necessity. / know just as well as
Henry Wilson does to-day that there is no nope,
the triumph of the Republican party. You might as
well set to work build another Noah's ark as 10
until November, 1868, 1 will labor upon mems con-
sciences and when can get mans ear for an hour
will endeavor to impress the truEh on MIN II ne ne
of lis future We leave that cradle hard tasks
enough debt of three hundred millions Of
million of patriotie lives hidden in early graves.
are enough TO give for one political step God grant
that every political step we make make may yn not pR9e %
should we not take an evil our right hands and
correct without going through the dread ordeal OF
win life? If republicanism means anything IL
means people adequate to take up an eYll aud
deal win it Gonscientiousy When the ne Empepor o.
century, broke millions of chains, ana when the
Emperor of Brazil followed his iliustrious example,
blood of hundreds of thousands their subjects was
not spilled, but in the quiet councils OF imperial VIII
they struck off these shackles' ShalI not TINS De
EITope and the decrepitude of Brazil have virtue
To- attain that which the American people only
achieve by war


SPEECH OF MISS DICKINSON


Miss Anna Z. Dickinson was then introduced
and received with hearty applause by the large
audience. When silence was restored she pro