The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-09

changed groand. We know ofbut Eve
out ofour fOriy-odd State exchanges act
lag in opposition to the movement; the
Topeka Lsadsr, Atchison Champ ion,
0skalOosa Independent. Manhattan Rad.
zeal and Leavenworth Conservative.
The clergy ars coming up to the work
nobly. It is announced that Rev. D. P.
Mitchell. OF Lsayenworth, has been ad-
dressing various meetings 10 behalf OF
Impartial Suffrage. He is, We believe,
universally admitted to be the ablest Meth
odist preacher in Kansas. We have be-
fore us letter from the Rev. w. K.
Marshall. pastor of the M. E. Church at
Atcbison. From it we quote: "My
symPathies are With the movement. Caste
Is one of the greatest curses OF the civilized
world to-day. and trust that the young
heroic State of Kansas will be the first to
breAk loose from it's chain aud to eafran-
chise all her citizens without respect to
color or sex. Such a great act Of Justice
would be second only 10 Importance and
grandeur TO the immortal Emancipation
Proclamation of our lamented Lincoln,
and would be the rising of the star of hope
to the disfraachised classes of ali nations"
The question is fast assuming a nation
al importance. The Wisconsin Legisla-
ture last winter submitted the question to
the people as ours did. aud the probabiIi-
ties are that their action will bs ratified.
The foreign vote is all that leaves the
State in doubt; for there. as here. our for
eign born voters stand in solid phalanx
against US. The Michigan Constitutions
al Convention will submit the question OF
Impartial Suffrage to the people immedi-
ately.
! In New Jersey and Con necticut oul
friends have been defeated-or rather re;
pulsed, for progressive movements are
never fairly defeated--by small majorities
In New York, owing TO the astounding
action of Greeley and his party, the vote
was heavy against US. The white coated
philosopher, in the Tribune of the 26.h
ult., fully states his views. He says that
women must vote-we can't get on with.
out them. But they must not vote wter
and where men do. They must have
elections and Legislature of their own
Marriage, Divorce, and Educational mat
tiers must be handed over to them, AMI
they must have exclusive legislative pow
er on those subjects. They are also t,
have courts, aud juries of their own 70
the trial of female criminals. The who'll
| scheme is worthy of the Quixotism tina
bailed out JEFF. Davis. We believe tina
God intended men and women to worI
together in The Family, the Church, th,
State, and what God has Joined together
let not man put or keep asunderi
Ouly one point 10 Greelsy's scheme i
noteworthy; it is that all voters be regis
tered, and that they be allowed to SEM
their votes over their own signatures il
sealed envelopes, without personally Wis
Ting the polls. This is valuable sug
gestion.
We are making gratifying and glorious
progress. Everything now looks favor
able toward the grand reform which seemi
almost certain to sweep our State like
whirlWind next November.
} He must indeed be blind. who does no
, see In all these movements throughout tht
United States aud Christeniom, the en-
4 trance of the giant Democracy, in a new
form, upon the intellectual and politica
arena. This principle is not The whIm o
individual politicians; it is a step in tb
: l0arch of the ages. Delayed and repulset
it may be, but never defeated, for th,
forces of the universe are behind it. I