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"is The War Ended."

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1
Month
November
Year
1872
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Frank the Wv Yoik World, Oct. 26. Tho larjre hall of the Cooper Instituto v:i- vreÜ fillcd last evenir;; in appreoiation of tlii! naino of Ann.i Dickinson, who ftppeared thora on the Democratie and Liberal sido o( the prtweHit cause, in opposition to her sisten of tho suffïage seoking organiaatibns, who held a meeting at the samo place a short time ipro To hear, and no doubt to criticiso hor Bhsrply when opportunity offered. Mrs. Cady St.inton nnd Mrs. Sallie Devereaux Klaku. two well-known advocates of the O'rant cause, were present, but occupied n verv cclnded spot on tho outskirts of the audienoe. The fair lecturess was receivod with groat applause, and Bpoko substantially as follows : Strippcd of nll sophistry, of all oxtranoous personal mattere, and brought down to the naked fuct, tho quostion whieh tho people aro to answor on the öth of next November is, Is the war endedy Mr. Morton told us at Philadelphia that so far from the war boing endeu the old battlo is going on botweeu the boys in gray and the boys in blue. Gerrit Smith tel Is us that there is au absolute nccessity for tho re-elfiction of General Grant, sincc the anti-sliivery con test is not ended. Mr. Morton might have told us that tho Bepublioan Admiiiistration had no nfcw policy. It has not. The polioy that it wishes to carry out is a war policy stil), based on tho neoessities of war, growing out of the needs of war, else why continue the methods of war in time of poaco ? (Applause.) TIIE GKANT C0XV1CTS. Surely tho pooplo beliüvo this if thoy are to sustain the men who make theso declarations and those that snstain them. Twenty-two prominent delinquents in the Rfcvenue Department, thirty-nino post-oflico culprits, and thirty others marked thievos in other departmonts of the governinent; two milliohs and a half of tho people's money stolen. Shall such men as Morton n Indiana, Camerort in Ponnsylvania, Carpenter in Wisconsin, and Conkling in New York be nonunued and supported in the country ? (" No ! ") The most ardent supporters of the Republican party only say that thoy must be sustained because they sustain Gen. Grar.t - (applause) - that these must be sunported because they supported and sustained the pTesent Administration.and becauso the continuance of tho President in office and the carrying out of tho present poliey of the Aduiinistration is essential to the preservation of the republio. What else but absolute faith in such assertions as these could induce men of interest, men of honor, and mun of integrity to sustain aud support this same Administration, with p;irt, at least, of its policy? Tho troe is kuowu by its fruit, and what fruits has this Administration borne, and what does it bear to-day ? A man. says the old proverb, is known by the company ho keeps. And what company does our honorable Pesident keep? 1 come from Pennsylvania, and I aiu sorry for it just now - (applauso) - assho bas just electod a certain Govornor by 35,000 inajority. Who and what is this Governor? A man who, as Auditor of the State, connived at, if ho was not actually eugaged in tho robbinsr of the State's trust, and tho using of the bonds of tho sinking fund fox purposes of gambling. And how was he elected? He was hand-in-glove and arm-in-arm with men serving out their time in the State Prison : they are taken out, they indorse him, and before the words are cold on his lips the President coraos and says I desiro tho eloction of this man - tho two pillars to support and boar up tho Governor of Pennsylvania boing a States convict and President Grant. (Applause.) One niay well say in all humility and with his mouth in the dust, GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC ! I knowsome Republicans aro here who are sitting in that most uncomfortable position commonly known as astrido the fence. I know there are plenty of men thus hesitating about and pottering with the supremo interests of tho hour. I want them to listen to ono word I have to say to tbem. It is puro cowardico to seek safety in negations. Tho American man, the citizen who does not cast his vote on tho öth of November next ought to be branded soul-deep with tho word coward. Many say, I do not belicye in Grant ; but then they will not vote for Greeley. Their neighbors, on tho contrary, go and vote for Grant ; whereas, if they should cast their votes in equal numbers against him, both sides would be equal. But if your neighbor casta his vote for Grant and you keep yours at home, you give two votes to tho man you denounco. (Applause.) Somo have said to me, why do you, a woman, tand up and defend a man who has used his paper and his power so pcrsistently to tramplo down your rights and scoff at your desires and domands? And the administration papers havo said for months past that no woman has yet been found to lift up her voico in behalf of this man who constantly spit upon thoir womanhood ; the women who have aught to say, say it for the other man. What is this man V A man whoso interest was first in his shop and hides, secondly, in. the blood and stuoke of the battle-field, and third, in his cigars and the White Houso and the power it gives him. What has this man done by action or by word to uplift tho dignity of Au?orican womanhood? - (Great applauso.) IMPERTIXENT QUESTIO'S AND BHARP REPLIES. [A voice in the audience - Who saved the country ?] Who saved the country ? Thopeoplo of tho United States saved the country. (Loud and long-continuod cheering.) Who saved tho country ! [A voice - Tho soldiers.] Yos, the men who fought under General Grant, and who had learned their lessons of loyalty for twenty-fivo years in the columns of the New York Tribune. (Renewed applause, men standing up and waving thoir hats and the ladies their handkerchiefs.) But Horaco Greeley - (applause) - bas said that when the women demand the ballot they shall have it, and I say that until the women are ready to exercise it they should not be granted it. (Applauso.) Why ? Because we havo enough indifferent, and enough supine, and enough lazy, and enough careless voters already. (Great laughter and applause.) Now, tho question is - and you are to pass upon it next November - shall tho resulfs of the war be dragged on and dragged on and dragged on tbrough bitterness and sarrow for personal and politieal ends for years. or shall they bo closed up really, broadly, humanely and at once ? (Applause.) On this the world will question us, and history will write its record conoerning us. Nay, the last sentenco of the war record has not been put down yot ; history waits for it. Tho sontinel waits in silence and in darkuess at the castle door. He hears a tread - "Who comes there, nud have you tho countersign? The man advances and whispers the magie word, and tho sentinel stands aside and says : " The countersign is correct ; pass on." So with tlin final sentenee of tho war record to be writteüi ; histoiy will challenge tho American Nivtion. As it advancHS on tho 5th of November it says, " Friend with tho countersign." History will say, "Advance, friend, with the countersia;n." America then advances and responds, " Liberty for all and justiof for every man." (Great applause.) History then drops her pen, writcs in characters of everl.isting light and glory and mnfees answer, "The countersign is correct ; pass on." And soundinir' on through tho centuries, eehoing and ro-ochoing, goos the cry " Pass on " Pass on, then, O grandest and best of Nations; pasa on, Ameriea, to the throno ;mrl empire of tl. o world. (Great checrs aud appluuse )

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