New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-24

for the moral darkness that seems TO have settled
down upon that unhappy STATE during Ine uyhsSy %
ntou peculiar 20 that perodt Because women HOteu
there the Institution OF Daarrf1ge ainueu inc sane
titv u home invaded cradles mnilated ana he st0ck
ugs, like Gov. Marcys pantalOJps, mendeu py he o,S
Did the men of that period become nero satelne5 VI to
dinncrpot The wa-h-tub, the spinning Wn'eIl ~.
Life went on smoothly in EewJersey a. IN any oth.i
state IN the Union. And the fact that women ara vote
there created so slight ripple the popular wave
and made SO ordinary - page IN hiio O y,on r,y
never heard ~ it, existence until recent DISCUSSIONS III tc
United states Senate brought ont the facts or tue cee
Ia Kansas, women vote for sch0ooiecr ana are thl u
selves eligible 10 the office of trustee. Tlcrc n Sou
ton now before the Legislature o ONO 10 sirhc tho
words white male" from che constitution or that STATE
Tho Hon VT NOEL OF Missouri has presented "a blh IN
the House az representative a. extend suffrage
70 tho women OF the District Of Columbia
As r. properly and education, tcre are some pa'l-
sbic arguments In favor Of such qualifications Dul tney
aic ail alike unsatisfactory. ogcaand unjust iimuu
suffrage creates privileged class. and is based on ne
false idea that government Is the natural afDlt OF rs
cuzens while ~ fact II is the creature OF lleI Will ia
the Oid days Of the Colouie- when tine property qhac
hon was a. that being just the price OF JAG tas' lean
ia oIdcr o vote who docs the voting, the nan or the
dnIke! o. II reading and money making were q
sure guagc OF character, II intelligence ana
virtue were twin sisters these qualifications
our late wor black men were loyal generous ana heroic
without The alphabet OF multiplication table, whhe inel.
OF NtMlh e0u,ated nv thc nation sfiutiIes % H.
Iolht Were Ialse 10 thoir country ana r9Ois 70 tig
flag There was a time In highlands history when thc
House Of Lords, even, could neither read or write Be
lolo VI w OF pruning were an l!'h a, 70 GO
me apostles and martyrs worth s2Oi II a
o schoolmaster II he does not own dollar. give
him the ballot, IL Is the key 10 wealth and power
flaws in your Constitution that YOU may that there Is
more important work to Dc done ia the coming Consttu
uona Convention than any TO which GOV Fenton mas re-
ferred iu his message would also call your attention 10
the fact that while His Exeenency suggests the number
Of delegates al large 10 be chosen by the two political
parties he makes no provision the representation OF
women and "men OF color" not worth S25Q. would
therefore suggest your honorable body that you pro
vide for the election of an equal number egates at
large from the disfruncsed classes But response 10
our present demand does not legitimately thrust
on you the final consideration OF the Whole pIoad
question OF suffrage, which many Ol You may
Dc unpIcparcd 10 give an opinion The simple point We
now press Is this That Ia revision OF our Constitution
when The State Is, az were, resolved into it9 ognM
elements, all the people should be represented IN the ION
vcntiOu which % enact the fundamental laws Dy Wcn
they ate 20 Do governed thc next ~ years women nu
negroes beng uve-elghs OF the people ale h8olSi
and, according 20 our Republican theory, are the Hghu
ulct7ot the nation In this view OF the ease hohoOe
gentlemen, is II not very unprctehuiHB uenlnuu We
make that we may vote once in - year, m anehhg o
State constitution Bat, say yOu, the majority on women
do uol make Tie demand. Grant IT, NIdl thtul wien
YOU established free schools did You first nsk ne urcns
Of the state whether they were ~ favor 81 ~lDg trans
planted from the street the school house When YOU
to run-scer3 and druukards and ask II majority OF theh
were I'm favor of the Excise laWq When sou proclaimed
emancipation, did you go To Shareholders ana ask II ma
iOrfv Oi them were lu FAVOR OF ueclhg luci shft1i
When Won ring the changes on NEGRO tniraGe ron
Maine Io California. have proof positive thhJ ma
forty 81 the freedmen demand the ballot On the con
trar knowing that the very existence Of republican in
f.aopr did 6lise statesmen, satc IN All
these for Tho highest good % the individual aud the
uati0uf We ask that the same far--eeing wisdom hhy
guide yolir decision ON tRc question D,,oIe ~" ~.
aud fashionable trOuS who whisper IN lAe
all me rights rDU are but tht inuiole, Oh ClNtIa
ton 90 b. galvanized into e only by earthquakes ana
revolutions. Would you know what Is IL te lou OF
woman AK not the wives and daughters of merchant
rIure- hut Oh. creators Oi Wcatthosc who elgn theu
bread bv honest to-ihose who by tiri IN the Wheel
Of fortune. stand ace to face with the stern Icahfs OF