The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

NEW IDEAS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

The monthly meeting of the New York County Woman
Suffrage Association was held, ou the 7th May, in the read-
ing room of the St. Denis Hotel. The usual number of
ladies, elderly gentlemen, and reporters was present. Mrs.
Blake opened the meeting, and introduced Miss Anthony as
having just returned from her Western trip. In reference
to the resolution of sympathy with the non-tax paying lady
doctor of Philadelphia passed at the last meeting, Miss
Anthony observed that she hadn't rendered her tax-account,
and didn't propose to do so, "If they want to put me in
jail, I'll go. I haven't any property to attach except the
dress Anna Dickinson gave me on my birthday." She
desired the women to protest against this taxation. The
question of woman's right to vote, she th. ught, was to be
settled through the Courts ; proceedings to that effect had
been begun in St. Louis. She bad been convinced by her
Western travels that women did desire suffrage. She
furthermore remarked 'that the franters of the Constitution
had " no right " to ordain in that, document that only men
should vote.
Mrs. Blake said that she wished women could be em-
ployed as census-takers. A strong argument, she thought,
lay in the fact that women might more readily confess thei
real ages to a woman tha to a man. She introduced the
following resolution, which was passed:—
" Whereas, by the recent action of the Superintendent of
the Census, it becomes evident that according to the Act of
May 23, 1850, women are not eligible to offices of takers of
the Oensus ;" therefore,
R solved—" That the Association protest against this
enactment as unjust and oppressive, aad earnestly calls for
its repeal."
Miss Antho y observed that women are going to play the
Ego now. She regretted that the whole twenty millions
have got to prove, oue by one, by success :n some special
work, that they are competent to vote. She meant to have
that vote by 1872 ; and more than that, an equal share of
the offices, with easy work and good pay. She felt quite
certain that the Democrats of Illinois will put the Women
'Suffrage plank in their platform at their next Convention.
IWhile the Republicans don't dare to do it, they are trembling
in their shoes for fear the Democrats will. Prominent
;members of the Illinois Democracy had invited her to their
homes, and she had told them how to get ahead of the
Republicans!
Mrs. Sutnmerby (gracefully brandishing her umbrella)
You show your colours too much for a politician, Miss
Anthony !
Miss Leggett spoke of the three casses of women lately
mentioned by the Tribune—the women who want to vote,
the women who don't want to vote, and the woman who don't
care a pin whether they vote or pot, She thought that the
woma of brains and intellect wants to vete, and as all women
have common sense— fM iss Anthony -«' That's awful !" '—
those who don't want to vote must stifle that useful quality.
Some of these undesirous women were intellectual, but they
had all the luxuries they wanted, and were, in short, of "no
account." She didn't believe there were any women who
"don't care a pin whether they vote or not," because she never
knew a woman without a mind of her own. ". Some don't
care to vote, because ,hey think it ispretty not to know any-
thing about politics, and because men make fun of strong-
minded women. She thought that the woman who stands
up to assert herself has more strength of mind than man
ever had or ever will have. She wished men.to understand
that one great cause Qf wotnants not wanting to vote is that
she has an innate desire to study the likings of others. She
was glad that men had tyrants of wives, glad that they had
to pay milliners' bills, and she hoped that they might not
have any beefstakes fit to eat for the space of three years.
She thought that suffering women, working women, &c.,
would especially likeito vote. Mrs Blake said that it was'nt
unhap y women who most wished to vote. The members
of the association were a happy band of women.
Mr Beecher didn't desire that the slave should be freed
because he had never been a slave himself. Miss Anthony
though there was "philosophy in all these things." She didn't
absolutely wish that the women who werekepi like canary
birds in gilt-wire cages should have a taste of the world's
hardships, but she kew if they should they would speedily
demand to vote.

The only child of Baron Alguier, a member. of the
Corps Ldgislatif, was, by a mistake of an apothecary,
poisoned on Thursday evening at Paris. The poor victim
was a girl only twelve years old.

NEW AMERICAN WORDS.—Not content with a .Id-
ing to the dictionary the word " Interviewed,': the
Americans now speak of those who have received a
testimonial as having been " Testimonitilised."
LIFE IN TROPICAL AFRICA —The daily life of a
" black fellow " has been very graphically described in a
few words. He gets a large melon, cuts it in two, and
scoops out the inside ; one half he ptits on his head, he sits
on the other half, and eats the middle. ,