The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-12-22
Female suffrage i'm the Senate.

Pennsylvania, was the champion OF
the strong minded spinsters OF New
England. He wanted to put the ''el-
ement of crinoline against that OF
color-waterfalls against wooP'-the
woman and sister" alongside the
oman and brother" The Senator |
says: Il want to put along with that
element NEGRO sufrage) that igno-
rant element, that debased element,
just emerged from slavery-want you
to put along with it into the ballot
box, to neutralize its poison, if poison
there be; to correct its dangers, II
danger there be-the female element
of the country AS he progressed
and warmed up on the subject he
became quite facetious and punched
his fellow-Senators with some finely
pointed sentences.
He did not intend to let the jugger-
naut of progress run over him; when
the time arrived he could be as radical
as any of them. Here is short ex-
tract from his speech:
He had as many reasons as Mr.. Anthony,
and one more, for being in favor OF this bill,
, for he had wife, whereas Mr.. Anthony was
a widower He hoped, therefore, that Mr..
Anthony would make an abject apology to
him for having expressed a doubt of his
sincerity Laughter.) He would appeal
to the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr.
Wilson, to express his opinion on this SUBJ
iect, and he felt assured that he would be
firm on the side of humanity on this question
= He could almost see from where he stood
the bosom of his friend from Massachusetts
heave in sympathy with this new issue
Qaughter) and now that they had two ne
= groes in the Massachusetts, Legislature he
could not doubt that Mr.. Wilson would come
, to his (Mr. COwan's) position. lie hoped
t also that his other friend from Massachu-
setts (Mr. Sumner) would vote right on this
subject now that a change had come over
s his domestic relations. CLaughter) He
. would not have alluded to this delicate sub
. iect but he found some remarks from Mrs.
o Gage in relation to Mr.. Summers great
=, speech of last winter to which he was COM
, PEELED to assent Mrs Gage had discovered
Il that Mr.. Summers speech protested against
), taxation, and male representation, and not
Il a word was said by that gentleman against
s the tyranny of taxing women, without Civ
ing them the right of representation. If his
> amendment was adopted, he, COwan, would
e vote for the bill He would not be afraid OF
negro suffrage, if female suffrage went with
| it. He was in good earnest in offering this
: amendment he was not so blind as not to
7 see the signs of the coming times
. Senators Wade of Ohio, Wilson OF
:, Massachusetts,, and Yates of illinois,
g took up the cause of the women. Wade
i thought that the arguments used fol
4 giving impartial suffrage to men apply
20 with equal force to women, and be
= adds that if he were a citizen of Mrs
I Anthony's State, he would labor t
# engraft impartial suffrage, without re
6 gard to color or sex, upon the COnsti
n tuition of that state--thus clearly
&c admitting that the matter of suffrag
o is question for State jurisdiction
# and not to be acted upon by Congress
~ A Senator from Oregon, Henry Cor
&c bett, probably, was unable to discove
y whether the ladies' clamoriny
" for suffrage, meaning Lucy Stanton
g. Susan Anthony, Anna Dickinson anC
70 Mrs. Blackwell, belonged to any Sc,
20 at all. Other Senators thought TIL
ladies had better let suffrage alone, I'm
less they were prepared to do militar.
le duty, and go in half-petticoat, half
K pantaloon costume; while the marrie'
le Senators argued that the ladies o
"l America do not want and would no
e exercise the right of suffrage, if it wa
IL given to them. Finally vote wa
le taken, and Mr.. Cowan's motion wen
" under the table by vote of thirty
u seven to nine! So far as the abstrac
IL question is concerned, we agree wit
OIL the Philadelphia Ledger, that there ca
- be no doubt there are women VIII
le have fully as much right to vote a
~ men. These are heads Of families
10 which families they support and raise
u and in this respect are obliged to pa
all the taxes, NaCIOHdl, claCo anu 1oCd
&C. direct and indirect, just as men ar
H. obliged to do. Women as a genera
III rule, however, have abstained frof
III agitating this question, upon the prin
~ ciple that the rights of women, in tn
" United States at least, are in safe Gus
'lS tody when committed to their NAL
10 relatives and friends.
Sensible women down this way ar
wv satisfied with the rights they now enjoy
At and have no ballot-bOx ambition; an
It's we think the decisive vote of the Ser
pc ate on Cowan's resolution will have
en- tendency to retard the efforts of tn
nor Puritan SninSterS for manV wears +