The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-15
KANsAs-.-WOMiN As A VOTER.

We publish herewith an appeal, most
inAuentially signed, to the voters of
Kansas, urging them to support the
pending Constitutional Amendment
whereby the Right of Suffrage is ex-
tended to w omen under like conditions
with men. The gravity combined with
the comparative novelty of the propo-
sition should secure it the most candid
and thoughtful consideration.
We hold fast to fhe cardinal doctrine
of our fathers Declaration of Inde-
pendence-that governments derive
their just powers from the consent ofthe
governed" If, therefore, the women
of Kansas, or of any other State, desire,
as class, to be invested with the Right
of Suffrage, we hold it their clear ii light
to be. We do not hold, and cannot
admit, that small minority of the sex,
however earnest and able, have any
such right.
1t is plain that the experiment of
Female Suffrage is to be tried; and,
while we regard it with distrust, we
are quite willing to see it pioneered by
Kansas. She is young State, and has
had memorable history, wherein her
women have borne an honorable part.
She is preponderantly agricultural, with
but one city of any size, and very few
of her women are other than pure and
intelligent. They have already been
authorized to vote on the question of
Liquor License, and in the choice of
School Officers, and, we are assured,
with decidedly good results. If, then,
majority of them really desire to vote,
we, if we lived in Kansas, should vote
to give them the opportunity. Upon
full and fair trial, we believe they
would conclude that the Right of
Suffrage for Woman was, on the whole,
rather plague than a profit, and vote
to resign it into the hands of their hus-
bands and fathers. We think so, be-
cause we now so seldom find women
plowing, or teaning, or moving with
machines), though there is no other
obstacle to their so doing than their
own sense of fitness, and though some
women, under peculiar circumstances,
laudably do all these things. We de-
cidedly object to having ten women in
every hundred compel the other ninety
to vote, or allow the ten to carry
elections against the Judgment of the
ninety; but, if the great body of the
women of Kansas wish to vote, we
counsel the men to- accord them the
opportunity. Should the experiment
work as we apprehend, they will soon
be glad to give it up.-N Y. Tribune.
NORTH CAROLINA CANALs.-Gen E.
5. Parker, from the staff on duty at
Gen. Grants headquarters, who. before
the war was civil engineer of many
years experience, leaves tomorrow for
North-C Carolina to make an examination
of the Dismal Swamp Canal. There
are two of these, designated as old and
new canals The former is under the
control of the General Government
the latter belongs to the State and
private parties. The old canal was
broken in the earl y part ofthe war, and
has not been used since. It is much
better than the new canal, and the
North-Carolina authorities and many
citizens are very anxious to have the
Government put it in repair, and enlarge
it SO as to make a passage for ships. 1t
is possible that, in certain contingencies,
purchasers might be found for it among
capitalists interested In that section
The Treasury Department has made a
partial investigation on one or two oc-
casions, and now a more complete eX-
will be made under authority
conferred on the Secretary of War by
acts Of Congress. ,....,...., ......
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