Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-06-28

Fro1a the New York Times
LAWRENCE, june -.

Ills Views Female Suffrage, Re
construction and the Relations of Capt.
tnl and Labor.
LAWRENCE, june 1J.
[ was greatly surprised, on returning to
Lawrence with the excursion party, to find
how imperfectly and inaccurately the local
journals report the significant speech de-
iyered III this place on Monday last by
Senator Wade Neither of the two daily
papers makes any allusion to the closing
part OF the speech, in which the question
of labor and capital was touched upon,
and their reports in other reports are alto
gether inadequate.
Mr.. Wade made an address at the Oma-
ha banquet, but he did 50 with reluctance,
and there confined himself to topics of To-
cal interest. Although frequently called
out at other points, he has nearly always
peremptorily refused to respond, stating
tina. he was travelling with his friends for
pleasure, and not TO make speeches. 1t
was plain to those who heard him at Law
renee that he only waived this resolution
to remain silent, is a concession to sur
rounding associations, since his remarks
were off-hand and impromtu throughout,
for it was not until after repeated emphat-
ic, and long continued calls that he made
his appearance upon the balcony of the
Eldredge House, where the party had been
entertained at dinner. Since some histO
rical Importance is likely 10 be attached to
the speech, and inasnluch as the telegraph
bungled the brief report L sent through
that channel, it may be worth while
for me to give your readers as full sketch
as possible from the notes l took at the
time and which l for tulnately preserved.
After the applause with which he was
welcomed had subsidized, the Senator re-
marked that he had no intention Of max
ing q speech. He had tried to do SO at
Omaha, and us he then broke down in the
midst of his remarks, he did not feel en-
couraged to repeat the attempt on the pre-
sent occasion. Still there were some
thoughts which always suggested them
selves in Kansas. There the great battle |
between freedom and slavery had been |
fought out, and the cause of liberty had |
triumphed. If the slave power had sue
ceeded III it's Infamous efforts it would have !
gone on to nationalize the accused insti-
tuition, but it was defeated, and now there
was not remnant of it left in the land
| APPLAUSE
MIR. Wade then said that as he had kept |
in advance OF the people in the great strife
between freedom and slavery, he meant 10
do tie same firing in tie contest aChich had just
for extending tic right Of Suffrage |
10 acon1ea. He was unquahfedly in favor
of equal rights for all, not only without re-
gard to nationality and color, but without
regard to sex. Women we're more virtu-
Gus than men; their perceptions were quick
er and keener, and when they gained pOllt-
ical power they would rectify many abuses
which had thus IA remained untouched.
If he had not believed that his own wife
had sense enough to vote he never
would have married her, laughter
and applause and IL any OF has
hearers had wives who we're unequal to the
discharge of the right of suffrage, he would
advise them to go home and get divorced
at once Renewed laughter. The speak
er denounces those women who did not
want to vote because it was not fashionable, |
and said that he had prediction to make
Female suffrage will be general in less
than twenty years, A voice-Ihats too
far off, and he thought it likely that in
Kansas the next Legislature might set the
matter straight. [Applausel. He repeated
that he intended to keep Ill advance OF the
people cn this subject, and that he was now
ready to take another Jump forward, II ne
cessary. In his view yadicaZiSn1 up0n Mis
and alEothe, questions aCas righteousness aohafe
acas hyp0crGcy and coec.rdice.-
The conservative was mere llcksplttle
and hanger-on he was not only willing 20
be trampled IN the dust, but was willing to
remain there.
AS regarded the political situation, he
would only say that the Southerners now
l.sd the mildest terms offered them they
ever would get. If they chose to accept
them, well and good /; they might have all
the advantage OF such action if they re-
fused them, another turn would be given
to the screw, and they would be compelled
to yield, whether they wished to or not
Congress had thus far been with the
people, and it would not now desert them
under the lead Of Johnson or the devil
His hearers might rest assured of one thing, i
that reconstruction was as certain to take
place as that the sun was shining I
Senator Wade then proceeded to say that