The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-23
Suffrage and Sex.
From the NJ p World.

There has been in Boston a convention Of
certain persons styling themselves Thought
ful men and women," assembled to advocate
female suffrage 'in wise, systematic, and
efficient way" Henry Wilson was among
these thoughtful women. Women were fore
most in tins gathering; indeed, Elizabeth Ca4y
Stanton somewhat eontemptuously sums up
the whole OF the thoughtful as the 'fOrty
women of New England whose names are
always appended to the call for anti. slavery
festivals" /" which are known to be festivals of
the most hilarious character; and she says,
moreover, that she has been trying for seve-
raj years to rouse the thoughtful and
festive forty to sense OF their own
rights and wrongs. That they have obsti-
Da'ely refused to be SO reused is evident from
the fact that ths festive and fraotious forty
have always thrust their own interests, in
cluding their own rights aud wrongs, into the
background and out of sight, and have per-
sisted in pushing the woes aud wants of the
negro to the very front. And even now that
slavery is 10 more, and the negro has the
right TO rob smol<e-houses and hen-roosts and
to cit in the Legislature, the forty women of
New England will never rest in peace or in
Boston till the colored man and brother is
permitted to vote in Connecticut as well as in
Texas. During the last session, however, as
will be seen, Lucy Stone, assisted by
Colonel Higginson and a sensible audi
eLCe, pun soulo SilSuL cntCh 10 tnlS
wild and rampant spirit, and triumphantly
defeated the effort of Garrison and
Fred. Douglass to make negro suffrage the
paramount question in WON ans right con-
venti0n. The ancient Foster, also, bemoauet
the fact that nobody would come to listen to
his lectures Oh negro suffrage, and that he was
obliged TO disguise them by representing them
to be- the cause of woman. With the forty
females in New England, suffrage must be
forced bV Congressional annntmanE and Gnn.
stitutional amendmenC--as Judge KelleY's
resolution, already prepared for the December
session, proposes-and thereafter, perhaps,
the question of female suffrage may be treated
in wise, systematic and efficient way" On
the other hand, certain women in this region,
not claiming to be particularly thoughtful, aud
numbering more than forty, have come to the
conclusion that the negro, with the run
Of the hen-roOst and the Legislature, can afford
to give way now, for while at least, to the
question of suffrage for women. Accordingly,
Lucy Stone, as president, has signed a call
announcing that the "New Jersey State
Woman Suffrage Association" will assemble
at Vineland, Decenber2 q and inviting the at
tendance of all those who are opposed to the
'existing arstoeracy of SEX" At the same
time Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. An
thOny, Mrs. Horace Greeley, and other women
issue card in which they announce in ad
vance their opposition to the intended Congrss.
sional movement for a constitutional amend
ment providing for universal manhood
suffrage in all the States. These women in
tend to press the demand that womanhood
also be recognized in the proposed enlarge
ment OF suffrage and citizenship" TRis
call and this card are not only blow at the
Boston gathering, but bombshell in the very
centre OF the colOred camp. We have printed
the calls OF both conventions, the one at Bos-
ton and the enc at Vineland; for the World is
catholic and is willing to be the organ OF both
wings of the woman movement, and of the
head and tail, il such parts shall hereafter de.
velop in the new body polite. We have taken
pains to give full, and the only full, reports
that have appeared in the press of this conven-
tiOn, and the fact was publicly recognized by
its chairman during the closing even
ing session. We shall not lose sight
of the doings OF other conventions.
If the Boston Association would only
consent to let tho colored man and
brother stand aside in favor OF the white
/ woman and sister, and if Viueland vigorously
pushes the "demaEd' for a recognition of
womanhood in the proposed enlargement of
suffrage and citizenship the combined move
ment will give Congress aud Kelley pause in
their intention to force suffrage upon ignorance
because it is black, while the advocates of
such suffrage refuse the same privilege, if not
right, to intelligent, cultivated, tag paying
women who are white.