Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-30
The proceedings in the Senate were not
II general importance.
rRoaREss oF RADIcALlsM.
Kansas Women PetitIcnin= for Female
Suffrage

The Lawrence Tribune of the sixth
instant informs us that the following
petition for the extension of the right Of
suffrage to the women of Kansas is
being circulated throughout the State,
and is TO be presented TO the Legislature
at the approaching session
To the Senate and House Of ReDrsseil-
tdtires Of the State Of Kansas: We, the
undersigned, respectfully ask of your
honorable body TO 50 amend the consti-
tuition of this State as TO give the women
of Kansas the right of suffrage.
In presenting this petition, we call
your attention 10 the fact that We repre-
sent Une-half the entire population of the
State; that We possess, equally with the
other sex, those important qualifications
which alone give prosperity snd stability
10 republican institutiOns-intell
and virtue; that although BY the con-
siitutiOn we are counted as persons in
the basis OF representation, yet We are
governed without our consent, compelled
to pay taxes without appeal, and pun
ished for violation Of law, witkuaL Judge
or juror
And further, that the experience Of all
ages, the declarations of the fathers, the
statute laws Of our own day, and the fear
ful revolution through which We have
just passed, all prove the uncertain ten
ure of life, liberty and property, 81 long
as the ballot, the only weapon of self
protection, is not in the hands Of every
citizen,
We believe that all partial application
Of republican principles must ever breed
a complicated legislation, As well As q
disc0nJented people; and that IN order to
simplify the machinery Of government,
and insure domestic tranquility, that
your legislation In future should be for
persons, for tax payers, and not for class
or caste.
Aud in harmony with the advancing
civilization of our age, In harmony with
that spirit of progress which has ever
characterized our young and noble State,
and which has made her the pioneer of
liberty and Tepublicanism to the whole
country and further, in consideration of
all the self sacrificing laboFs, trials and
sutterings endured by the women, in
common with the men of our State, in
her early struggle for liberty and Justice,
and in recognition of the fact that the
ultimate triumph of those principles is
due, at least equal, 10 her efforts.
Therefore, that the grand principles of
republicanismi Justice and equality NAV
be fully appreciated by your honorable
body your petitioners win ever pray.
pSg- George Francis Train is erecting
cottages in Omaha, Nebraska, expecting
to sell them to emigrants and make his
fortune.
bEs- Mr.. VIM. Sprague, the Rhode
Island Senator, and his brother, Amaza
SpragUe, employ six thousand hands at
their manufacturing establishment.
ES~ Rev. Nose Chase dropped dead
after reaching his church at Pascoag, II.
l., on Sunday morning, the seventh in
slant, before ne had entered upon thedu-
ties Of the day.
So The nstIve races in Australia are
dying out through the destructive intiu-
ences Of drink. Two tribes are nearly
extinct. In one Of them there has been
but one child born in many years.
ES- ThefotaI losses BY FIRE throughout
the United State during the last year,
amounted 70 over foFty-three million
dollars, against about twenty-eight mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars in
eighteen hundred and sixty-four.s
nA-Between Cairo and Chicago, in
bitches alongside the railroad track, there
now lie eleven locomotives and one hum
dred and twenty freight cars, which have
got knocked off the track by collisions
and other mishaps.
"a A correspondent Of the Religious
Herald appeals % the Christian public
TO pray fol the New York andHaven Rail-
road, that its corporate heart may be
moved 10 compassion on the travelling
public, and its fares BE- no more raised.
RsE- In Philadelphis there are seven
thousand five hundred public street lamps.
Zach lamp consumes during the wear
twenty~siX thousand feet Of gas. II is
estimated that one hundred and ninety
i've million feet are consumed annually,
at a cost of two dollars Dar thousand