The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-11-20
THE NEXT GREAT QUESTION.

A friend of the cause advocated in
the following article from the New
York independent, requests its publica-
ton, and we accord to it place:
After Grant-what? Why, woman's
suffrage, to be sure. That case stands
next on the docket. Last month it was
it is the woman's hour.
Grant and COlfax are elected. The
Democrats no longer talk of assassinat-
ing the former, in the body; they only
assassinate his reputation, or tenderly
invite him to political suicide. If he is
TvleriZed and JOhnsoniZed, our labor is
lost, and we must try again. OF that
we have no fears, and shall not waste
sOlicitude upon it, till the time comes.
Meantime, it is the woman's hour.
Your easy-gOing Conservative Re-
publicans, who with difficulty arouse
themselves once in four years, and then
their pillows. Nay, your tired Adolf
ZIONIST, who has been for thirty years
at work. and wishes a little slumbef
and folding of the hands at last, give
him pillow too. But let those of us
who had the luck to be born for Ill
traists and men of the future stick to our
function. Like the slave in the ancient
monarch's pageant, the Woman now
touches us on the shoulder, and says :
Remember that thou art a Radical
II ever anything was promptly and
aptly done, it was the calling of New
England Woman's Suffrage Convention,
in Boston. November 18th and 18th.
The weight of names attached to the
call shows too that it was done deliber-
ately and in earnest. 1t is signed by
Rev Drs. Clarke and Manning, of BOs-
ton, and Prof +. j. Child, of Cam
bridge; by the veteran Boston lawyer,
S. +. Sewall, and by George f. Hoar,
leader of the Worcester bar, and just
elected to Congress by ten thousand
majority. 1t is signed by Francis w.
Bird. the leading Republican politician
of Massachusetts,, and by Judge Chaplin.
Maine contributes Rowland q. Hazard,
the author and manufactures, and Owe
hope) future United States Senator; al
so John II. Bartlett (Secretary of State)
and Col. Z. w. Higginson. To these
add devout women not few: Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Horace Mann,
Mrs. II. W. Emerson, Mrs. AlcOtt, Mrs.
Edward Earle, Mrs. Severance and
others.
In presence of such names, it is evil
! dent that this movement has passed be-
yond the phase of Radicalism. Judges
and members of Congress, and doctors
OF divinity do not usually ascend the
car of progress until thay are pretty
sure that the train will leave. And il
! is too late to say that women do no.
! demand the ballot, when such represen
tatives of their sex come forward tC
ask it. Are James Gordon Bennett anC
! Brick Pomeroy better qualified Il
speak for New England women thai
Mrs. Emerson and Mrs. Howe!
1t is rare to see man who denie
that the cause of female suffrage j
making rapid progress, both here ant
in England. There never was so goOC
time to urge it. Millions of Ameri
can men have just exercised the RICH
of voting-sOme travelling many mile
homeWard for the purpose, others risk
ing life or property i'll the act. Now i
the time for those men to recogniZ
; that the right which is worth so mucl
to them would be worth the same t
their mother or their sister. Ever
woman who gave brother, Il husban
or a son TO the war has moral rigll
2 to vote for the principles for which h
fought. Every woman who worke
for the "Sanitary" is fairly entitled I
; continue her labors, and roll up ballot
instead of bandages. Every househOl
in which the war left a vacant chair has
= right to claim that some woman's han
= should throw the ballot which the OccT
pant of that chair would have cast. q
: on. reformers! After Grant-wOman
4 suffrage!