The national Republican., 1868-12-16
LOCAL DEPARTMENT

EQUAL suFFnAoE AssociATtos.aThis AZ.
ISOLATION met at Union League HaIl, iat
dept, called the meeting to order, and stated
the question for discussion 70 oe the sLantins
Of suffrage to womsq n,,cs 10 M st.,cs seners2pS
She presumed the president would soon be In
and occupy the chair; @ -, ,.,,,,,,,,
we're now some eight measures pending In
Congress calling for universal suffrage.
Mr.. Linsmore believed in an aggressive war
women to vote, not only for themselves but
for his benefit. Now, when he had to vote, he
frequently had to stand in the rain to get his
would have comfortable voting places. He
did not believe In inviting discussion on this;
there aT Sne f .ssuta e
nissers, and that they could not always be
we're sG engaged IN raising babies. Some thought
hard OF the remarks Of DR.. Clayton, a few
evenings since, but he was assured by DIR.
clayton that II II came to vote, he would
Mrs, Archibald, OF Kansas, an earnest worker
in this cause, congratulated herself on the fact
was the pioneer in the Senate, in this effort TO
establish universal suffrage. Mrs. A. thought
the idea that going to the polls TO vote would
Gus pretext. She could, with as much pro-
priety, go to the polls to vote for her choice
of officers, as she could 20 In a room crowded
tSoSsRs there %s nS SneS Ss s a
ination in the former than In the latter duty.
'AMaRiGthri Mf' Gatcheri begged leave to differ from the
former speakers. He believed this woman
suffrage was all vast humbug. 1t was de-
grading woman to ask her to go to ballot
box; her work wa. through men, at home.
Look, said he, at the mother OF Washington;
she was the cause OF our freedom, for she In
structed her son In his youth.
NJ watann VIII an.
tleman allow me to correct hint The mother
OF Washington was a loyalist. In other
words gTua .ns rebel
though In his youth; and on this instruction
he acted, and BY 1t he was guided. Our Presi-
Women were good as Instructors, and In
plotting they werc very devils. He recol-
iooted when q rebel woman came over from
Baltimore to Washington and rode around
with Union general. She even had the I'm.
pudence to show his tGatchell's) wife a pair
Of splendid garters she had made present to
her by man in the Treasury Department.
TLaughter, and the Chair blushed.l
Mr. @. FJnney made quite tt. spicy address S,
10 tHy0r o, sn sS o which sS
attending the holding Of the meeting.
Mr.. Kenney took the negative on this ques-
tion' and proceeded =, to , show That woman was was
framing OF laws for her own sex, because
when sister deviated from the path OF virtue
push the unfortunate further down into the
0fGi" Bf. VIM. v boyd thought ykst M! A. Watson
this evil on the world. He did not believe
such an event ever occurred, or anything like
1t.
Mr.. Watson: / did not say so. Twill say,
just here, that l believe 1t was villalnous
lie gotten up by old Adam. Laughter and
Br. BOYD held that the government of man
was = failure, and always would be until the
lsdies enjoyed the privilege Of the ballot. Did
not the greatest ,sssrl and tree.s Gcyer1%snt on
the nations capitol. He believed the ballot
in the hands OF the females would insure pro
hibition Of the liquor traffic.
Nrs. Lawson said she began to think, in
deed, that women had some other rights be
they were entitled TO the ballot, and the rish
to assist In framing the lava which goverr
them. She believed 1t would produce better
% Mr. John B. Wolf said he had few word.
to say about the Immortal Horace Greeley
and he would, 4 agreeable. say then them now. ;,
Mr.. Wolf said that although Greeley was
using the Tribune. and his oratory, such as Il
Is, TO defeat their objects, he was not immortal
TO wheeling, West Virginia, to make a speech
10 Opposition to slavery He went to th.s,, ths,
slavery speech, and he made speech OF
books, and the making Of books. He wished
N,dlHtlnctly uuueTttOOu tnat horace
was a trimmer. Was such q man, he asked,
nt person to lead public sentiment
A voice. MARY time.n
Mr.. Wolf also asserted that after Horae,
Greeley and his committee were outwittet
and ouigeneralled By number OF girls 10
Rochester, Greeley went to Europe and wrote
back scurrilous articles about these girls, al
any one about the Tribune ONCE can testify.
DR. q. b. Purvis made a lengthy speech In
favor OF woman suffrage.
Prof. Wilcox here announced that Mr.
Greeley In his lecture stated that II the ladtes
asked the ballot he would open the bAllot-bos
to them. He did not believe that Mr.. Greeley
was sincere In this. He believed that MIR
Greeley meant that n the women asked thi
he would grant 1t, but that he would Civ
them to understand that he had voted an
worked elections for thirty years, and h
would advise them to not ask the privilege Q
voting. He thought, 10 fact, that Mr.. Gree
iey's lecture was poll cal dodge, and nothin
more. -
Others delivered addresses, when the nssoeii
tion adjourned.