Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-12
WOMAN.
Jealous EOEnen at che National Capt.
tal-Sehemes and Scandals.

5 Correspondence OF the st. Louis Democrat.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ga gen
tlemen who was conyersant with
: the facts, or near by at the time, told
me of this scene, which happened
not long ago in the studio of little
Winnie Ream.
Miss Winnie, discovered in her ar
tistic dress, celebrating her statue
of Lincoln. To her enters Cadie
Stanton, and the ceremony of an in
PRODUCTION is effected by third par
| ty. Mrs. Stanton produces long
Troll of petition, on the female ques-
ton of course, and says, in her
large, benignant way
"Child, we wish your name here "
| Miss Winnie looks it over min
ute. till she discovers that it is a
I plan to move on the works of man,
the monster.
| ooh mo, Mrs. Stanton, will not
sign this. l don't wish publicity,
and 1 am not of your thinking on
this question"
I" 1t enters into your interests. 1t
concerns the recognition of woman S
labor under the government.
81 am not woman rights adYo-
cate, ma am"
"Why, child" cried Mrs. Stanton,
"You are a working girl, getting
| your bread by your hands? If you
do not help yourself and us, how
can women help your"
| MRS. Stanton, said Winnie Ream,
bitterly, mo help has any woman
ever given me here. From Grace
| Greenwood to Mrs. Swisshelm, they
have all sought to strike me down.
Mrs. Calhoun writes to the Tribune
that she has not seen any of my
work, but that she knows it is bad
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens goes to Thad-
deus Stevens, and among Congress-
men, asking them them not to give
| my studio back Mrs. Clemme Ames
- all Of them, can find no larger &C
cupation than attacking a poor little
| girl, and their venOm-I never
| offended one of them-has' extended
to personally canvassing against me.
No Madam ! Driven out of the wish
of their patronage and cooperation,
l will be befriended by gentlemen
only; for whilst Inever got any jus
tice from woman l was never treated
meanly by man!
Il know Mrs. Swisshelm," says
Mrs. Stanton, "she is a friend of
mine and prominent in this move
| ment."
Il forbear to enumerate," said
Winnie Ream, though l will not say
they did not wound me to the heart,
the many malignant, vulgar and I'M
provoked things she wrote against
me and published. Then they were
sent TO me andto my friends. They
aimed higher than my profession
at my character and life"
"Grace Greenwood also wrote
against your"
| eyes, Madame, in the AdraRce
she upbraided my patrons and called
me child, asking Congress to pay
my school bills but take me away
from sculpture, adding that if any
work was to be given out, it should
be given to that Roman matron,
Mrs. Ames, and Mrs. Ames is Grace
! GreenWOOd's sister"
Mrs. Stephens was no more con
| siderate =
"She, Madame, not only talked
against me-a stranger to her
wherever she could get q group to
listen, but she made personal visit
to Tnaddeus Stevens, to beg him to
take away my studio.
"' What is she doing said Mr..
| Stevens.
80 Decorating her studio with flow
ers, wearing long hair, attracting the
men and thereby lobbying
90 Well, said Mr.. Stevens, it seems
to me that you are round here lob
bying 2 good deal, Mrs. Stephens, il
talking to congressman is lobbying.
have never seen Miss Ream at all
90 OH cried Mrs. Stephens, mo
girl can keep chaste and pure with
three hundred wretched men around
her
Well said Mr.. Stevens, 'out OF
all the three hundred, there has new
er been an effort to do as much harm
to Miss Ream as one woman can
make
80 he took up his crutch hobbled
over to see me, befriended me imme
diately, and boldly, and died my
friend. Mrs. Stanton, the men have
more heart for my sex than the wo
men. Their jealousy is at least as
large as emulation. Repealed by
J | wrongs in the way l have stated,
, was compelled to learn the generos
ity of men, and l do not regret thu
lesson"
5 Mrs. Stanton, said my informant,
proved an amiable exception, for sh'
= always afterward spoke we'll o
2 Winnie Rcam in her newspaper.
1t is true that 4 good deal of as
persion has been foully dealt at littl,
d Ream. The women have never beer
t able to get over the appropriation
/. Congress made her These literary
women, any way, are the most reclI
less Of BOhemians
u No letters from this city wer
/ ever more absolutely wild wit
/ causelcss spleen than Mrs. Calhoun
/. aforenamed. She "run a muck il
Washington and yet uuderstoOt
, nothing about it. Mrs. Swisshelm
* searching for victims, got afoul O
d Mrs. Sprague dreadfully last yea
e and raised such Indignation tina
even her undaunted mettle was al
ashed. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens
" suing somebody for libel and appr6
/ ciating the pleasures of being abuse
j. in print. The Roman Matron'' j
h here, but without a government
. commission yet. Little Ream is tn
VeRus Tictric. She has met tn
l. enemy and they are hers. Where
a ever defcientin talent, these women
a tongues raised her compensatin
,s sympathy. l am not acquainted wit
her; for she is indeed, as little COZ
. spicuous as any woman in Washing
i ton; but her triumph seems to |
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