Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-13
Female SuHraoe

Female Suffrage.
 We print on our outside, this week, the speech of John Stuart Mill in favor of Fe- male Suffrage, lately delivered in the Brit ish House of Commons That seventy three members of so conservative a body should have favored the measure. shows that America is not so far in advance of the rest of the world, politically, as is generally supposed. Regarding the recep- tion of this speech by the House. we make brief extract from the London cores pondence of the N. Y. Tribune Mr. Mill spoke as follows on the changed social po- sltion of the sexes in our day
 Then the man spenthis hours of leisure among men all his friendships, all his real intimacies were with men with men alone did he converse on any serious subject the wife either a play thlng or an upper servant. All this among the ed- heated classes is changed men no longer gave up their spare time to outdoor exerclses and bolster ous conyivialitv with male associates the home has acquired the ascendancy The two sexes now really pass their lives together. The of the family are the mans habitual society the wife is hls chief associate his most confidential friend and often his most trusted counselor
 When this was said,' remarks the correspon- dent, ' there was what the oldest habitue of the House never heard before-a general beating of feet in the gallery which was only prevented fiom being general stamp of applause by the mufflng carpet: Now the galleries are guarded by ara gons ln white ties, each of whom implicitly believes that the British Constitution will be upset if any visitor while applause would be regarded as downright revolution. Just as these dragons paralyzed by the unmistakable applause that had been excited by Mir. Mills words, were meditating whether or not to turn all out, the House broke out into loud ringing cheers
 There is undoubtedly prejudice in this country against this measure of reform, arising, probably, as the PoAadium sug- gests, from the fact of its advocates having generally been of the 'impracticable' stamp. The question seems to us to de- serve fairer and more candid considera- tion than has yet been given to it. In the matter of Reform, especially, as the Hartford Post suggests, it is of the greatest impor- tance. In this State we see the Temperance reformers struggling with their heads barely above water :; yet they acquiesce in the ex- clusion from the ballot-box of by far the most religious and most moral half of our population of whom ever even taste intoxicating liquors, and yet who are the greatest sufferers from the intemperance of others. In the war against Slavery. we conquered our prejudices, and decided the issue by arming the slave against his mas- ter Are those who are fighting Intempe- rance less earnest or less wise, that they hesitate to arm an infinitely more intelli- gent class of citizens, and decide that is- sue
 Bas~ The Rev. Joel Hawes D. D. of Hartford, died cn Wednesday of last week at Gilead whither he had gone to preach on the Sunday proceeding. He was one of the most prominent Congregationalist di vines in the State, and was nearly fifty years pastor of the First Congregational Church of Hartford. At the time of his death he was v years of age and the oldest Congregational pastor iii the State His funeral took place from the Center church Hartford, on Saturday. The church was hung with black and decorated with pro- fusion of white flowers. For three hours the people passed in solemn procession be- fore the coffin. The funeral services com menced at 2 o'clock P. M., the large church being crowded. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Theodore D. Woolsey, Presi- dent of Yale College.