The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-20
MAssAcHUsErTs.
BOSTON, Nov. 10.
The Democrats have renominated
Mayor ShurtliH.

i T4u6 nave THnOTnInAteG
Mayor Shurtlif.
! woMENs' SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
Resolutions were presented and laid
/ over for discussion. The following em.
Il braces the general scope:
-ResoLUed. We invite the Republican
1 party to drop the watchWord of man
hood suffrage, and the Democratic par
II u 10 abandon its motto of a white
l Lnan's government, and unite in an
| amendmsnt 10 the Constitution OF the
| United States extending suffrage to all
nenRnd women, as the inRlienable
birth night of every American citizen.
Rev. b. j. Bolles of Springfield, Rev.
ID. A. Mason, Lucy Stone and her hus-
band, and Mr.. Blackwell made ad-
dresses, The latter advocated the form
Ing of n aieague to obtain and use the
balance of political power to effect the
enfranchisement of women in Massa-
Samuel q. Sewell read the proposed
constitu Ion, which is as follows:
Believing in the natural equality of
the two races, and that women ought
to enjoy the same legal rights and
privileges as men; that as long as
women are denied the elective fran
ohise, they suffer a great wrong. The
undersigned agree to unite In an associ-
alton % be called the New England
Women2s Suffrage Association. The
object OF the association Is declared to
be To procure the right of suffrage for
women and 10 support such changes
In the laws as shall place women in all
reEpectA on an equal legal footing with
men; adopted. He also proposed a
list of officers, which was unanimously
elected; also an executive committee of
fifteen.
Wiliiana Lloyd Garrison and Senator
Wilson spoke, and were warmly well
nOme6 EQnnNOI- IUfllnF1 w 1ad hi -
self strongly in favor of female suf-
frages bnt he did not want that or any
other question put forward till the
Southern question was fully settled.
He had no doubt Congress would
authorize thet colored men to vote in
every State, but as some good men
doubted 1t, Il was proposed the coming
winter to put forward an amendment
to the Constitution embracing the pc
htical dogma that aeolored man has the
right to vote in every State. With &c
Legislatures in our favor to only
against MS our success was probable.
That done, the female suffrage ques-
ton would have a clear way, and would
be aided by the success oftthe other.
1t would stand a Deter chance of
speedy triumph, because men could
not feel prejndiced against their own
sisters, lovers, mothers and friends, rs
they had against the coloBed men here
Iu4VEbs Mah6 tne CO1OEe0 hunHhRe sure
first before taking another step.
There was large attendance on the
reassembling Of the Woman's Rights
Convention. Rev. James freeman
Clark advocated educating the sexes
together Addresses followed by Chas.
Barnard, Frederick Douglass and Hon.
Frank w. Bird, expressive of sympa-
thy in the movement TO establish suf.
frage for women.
9a rSPRINaFIELD, MASS, Nov. 19.
Mrs. Anna Mclean fell from a win
dow last night during an attack of
somnambulism, and was instantly
killed. She was IS years old.
...s.z.s PrrrsFrKLD, Nov. 10.
A train on the Housatonic Railway
was thrown from the track yesterday
by a broken rail. Every passenger was
injured, and Miss Sarah Hayes, ofPitts-
field, seriously.