The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-02-01
lFEMALE SUFFRAGE.

NeW Orh, lnlrOuuCeu Il PeJitiOH III
favor of extending the privilege of
voting to women. Whereupon,
THADDEUs STEVENS, ofPennsylyania,
the grey-headed KdboliS Of the Alb
clifton radicals, enquired of Mr.,
Brooks if he was in favor Of woman
suffrage, to which Mr.. Brooks re-
piled, that if we were to have the
right of suffrage extended to the
negro, he was for the women first
So say we. If the basis Of suffrage
is. to be extended at all, we know
Of no class entitled to be admitted
into the charmed circle Of white
mems special privileges so much as
white women. "Charity begins at
homeland so does justice and
truth, and the whole catalogue of
virtues. We are getting to be re-
public of Mrs. JELLABY's, more anx-
ious to provide red flannel shirts for
unborn niger babies, than to pro-
vide for our own households; not
withstanding the Scripture says,
the man who neglects the latter
dnty is worse than an infidel, and
your philanthropic abolitionist pro-
fesses to bea christian of the first
water. Now, If there is one single
principle Of justice, right, truth,
liberty, and the like (about which
the friends of negro-suifrage are
continually prating) which de-
mands the extention of the right to
vote to negroes that does not apply
equally 10 women, I'VE confess our
inability to conceive what it is.
The women, lin esse or in posse }
constitute one-half of the race.
How much of public morality, vir-
tue, refinement, culture, health,
hope, and happiness dependupon
the female sex, it is unnecessary to
enquire. That they control a large
proportion of each it were folly to
dispute. They are the producers,
We, the consumers. They give US
life, and we seize its ripe fruits, and
reap its rich ,harvests, leaving her
to follow as Ruth followed Boaz
and gather up the gleanings. She
is the abetter half" but the worse
half contains the stomach and gets
all the good things. She pays taxes
if she owns property, like "any
other man." Husbands die and
leave her with young children
whose education and interests she
must guard. Husbands dissipate
md become burdens, and wives
nust take care of them and child
On. Husbands frequently are
wanting altogether, and the woman
's obliged to "go it alone" with a
,oor hand against the world. Yet
.;oman with all the liabilities has
ut few of those boasted rights and
privileges, which we are told are so
natural, inherent, and inalienable,
that it is the highest of injustice to
detain them from the negro. In
the struggle for reform, in the con-
test for new grants and greater ex-
tension of privileges, we claim a
preference for women. If any
class is to be taken by the hand and
told to "come up higher" we prefer
to give our wives and sisters seats
on the platform, before we intro
duce "brudder" Sambo.
To be sure tastes differ, and while
we express our own, we do it with
out intending to interfere with the
preferences of others.
,, -&--<ses~------
The Widow of Stonewall jackson.
Mr.. Meade has introduced into
the Senate of Virginia the follow
ing resolution: .....
q Resolred, That as it has been re,
ported to the members of this body
that the widow of the immortal
patriot and hero, Stonewall Jack
son. has been left in indignant cir
cumstances, the Committee Of Fl
nance be instructed to inquire into
the zexpediency of appropriating
$4,000 or such other amount as, il
their wisdom. NAV annear best fOl