Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-02
Correspondence.
WAsHINeroN, D. c., Jan. 25, 1876!

TIoN
This Convention after two days hard
work, adjourned last night about 0 O'Clock
to meet at the Capital, again, one year
hence.
Undoubtedlythe cause is gaining friends.
The sessions were s',4argely attended by
all classes of the people Of Washington,
more especially by the most intelligent
classes, including members of Congress,
and their families and the chiefs and
clerks of the Bureaus of the Departments
and last night thc!great hall was exces-
siyely crowded, and some persons were
unable to get in.
Another indication Of growing favor was
the total absence of disrespectful manifcs-
tations from first to last. Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton delivered written and able
speech on the first night, and Parker Pills
bury on the last night. The rest Of the
speaking was extemporaneous. The lady
speakers show themselves as earning, in
public, the reputation they have always
had in private, of being good takers. For
the most part they evinced good sense, too,
quite equal to that Of a similnr convention
of our own sex.
Part of the first day and evening Scna-
tor Pomeroy, of Kansas, the President Of
the Convention, occupied the chair, but,
in the evening, Miss Susan b. Anthony
the business manager of all Womans
Rights matters in this country by the au-
thority of her greater efficiency than any
other woman who takes so earnest an in-
terest in thom--havins asked him for a
1000 contribution, if he was the rich
man he was reported to be, he did not
make his appearance again, Perhaps he
Thought his blushing honors weighticr than
he,could bear.
Miss Anthony, by the way, is person
worth your readers acquaintance Her
name is destined to 60 down to postcrity
indissolubly linked with the cause of AM
erican women's political enfranchisement,
as Lincoln's with negro emancipation. She
is a tall, large-framed woniar, not less
than 5 feet 6'inchesS in hight, l guess.
Her figure Is moderately rounded-much
more suggestive Of action than ease, in
keeping with her plain, strong, unimagin-
ative, work-day face. Her face has a
width across the checkbones well proper
toned to its length, but it is a little too
wide at the outer angle Of the lower jaw
for, symmetry or the admired oval female
face. The chin is prominent and pointed.
The mouth is rather wide, and little fexed,
except at the corners, which are slightly
drawn down. The lips are thinnish. The
upper front teeth turn inwards, as if to
fit inside of the lower ones, All the ex-
posed teeth are fine, but they join the
straight line of the mouth, the long upper
lip and the relatively short and compress
ed nose, in giving a sharp, almost snar-
ling, character to the face, This express
sion is given perhaps its true meaning
the meaning given by her philanthropic
career-when she smiles. The smile sends
a silver lining athwart the, cload, and sets
her sharpness in the light of resistant SOL
icitude for those she conceives to be OPP
pressed. as a mother-whether human, or
brute-throws herself into a protecting
attitude at the threatening of any of her
young.
Miss Anthony's head is Of the long and
high type, straight at the sides, did rising
from the middle, where it is indented-at
venerati@,--=to the crown--the assigned
habitation of self-esteem frmness and
conscientiousness. Her forehead is plain,
even, capacious. Her head is large.
Her pioneer character and career are
due to no extraordinary benevolence, or,
love of novelty, or notoriety, or to po-
litical imagination or temperament; but
it was suggested, in the first place, by her
want of reverence for conventional things,
her disposition to subject everything to
the test of her own understanding before
she would accept it. Then finding, on
inquiry, that her strong sense Of justice
was violated, her powerful will and pow
erful physique have sustained her efficient
intellect, in devising and prosecuting meas
ures of resistance. She is not deficient in
kindly feelings. But thousands Of women
live in every community possessed Of equ-
ally kind and commiserative feelings, who
never Have dreamt Of advocating Woman
Suffrage.
Her hair is brown, arranged in plain
bands over her temples and ears, the back
wound round in a circle, something after