The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-19
From the Boston Posi-.
The Blacks Before the Women.

As usual, the equality men flash In
the pan when put under actual fire.
Senator Cowan brought their profes.
sions of equal rights to downright
test, when the District suffrage bill
came up, by moving that tho word
"male" be stricken from the bill. Mr.
Anthony felt his gallantry challenged
by the Pennsylvania Senator's PROPOSE,
ton, and rushed to the vindication OF
the amendment with the ardor of an en-
thusiastic nature. Senator M0rrill
however, was cross and refused to allow
any amendment which, by endorsing
Radicalism, was intended "to make il
odious." The ladies at the next Equal
Rights Convention will remember this
of Mr.. Morrill,, and "put him over the
road" in wonderful time, to pay for IT.
The telegraph operators blundered as
usual. however, in saying that Senator
Morrill, replied to Mr.. COwan, by assum'
ing that while u majority OF the House
was radical, it was rd tiOndl. A non sc,
guitur of the most exaggerated dlmen'
sions.
As for Senator Wilson, he stumbled
and fell on his crock of ages" just as he
always does. He of course commended
equal rights, but he refused to connect
the two branches of the subject-negro
suffrage and female suffrage. We name
the former branch first only because he
did. He said that before the 4th OF
March next "all negroes would be
clothed with the right of suffrage:'
which we regret to have to say, is an
assumption that at present they do not
possess any such "right." But we find
no trace of a wish, in his remarks, that
women may vote by next March, al
though ''he had no doubt OF their
right to vote, and thought "the time
was approaching when it would be
acknowledged"
Oh. YES: but the Senator will find that
approaching" is not the word which
the fair sex are going to take up with.
They want the ballot now, right of
they are dying for the ballot, and rather
think it ought to come as n Christmas
present but Senator Wilson thinks he
can put them off with general profes-
sion of profoundly empty respect for
their claims, and crowd the black men
in before them. Probably when he is
all ready to let black romen vote, he
will consent to connect the two ques,
tions" of colored ladies and white ones.
1t is a pity that Senator Wade per
mitted his amiability to be ruffied by
the kind production of a precious me-
mento by Mr.. Cowan, in the shape OF
an early letter from the Ohio Senator to
Miss Susan b. Anthony, in favor of fe,
male suffrage. That lady has the pri-
vilege of taking umbrage at such dis,
play of infirmity on his part, and he
will do we'll to give an attentive peru
sal to the reported proceedings of the
very next Woman's Convention. On
the whole, these Radicals, in their love
for everything and everybody save the
Constitution and Democrats, discover
that they have Inadvertently supplied
their party with a scourge aud cor,
rector, in the female sex, by lavishly
promising them what they never meant
to perform. We can honestly think OF
nothing better for them just now, than
a full course of female lectures, given,
~ old Jeffreys used to say, with "the
rough side of the tongue" if such side
there is in the mellifiuous mouths ofour
irresistible lady orators.