The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-02-26

whose reason has not vet advanced to tn
conception Of government. aud who. was TN
privilege conferred upon them to-day. woul'
no more know what to do with it +" than hi
man with the elephant he drew. But 1t i
not with the "negro" branch Of the PROPOSE
ton that | propose to deal with. 1t WAS no
in favor of negro suffrage that the gentle
mans voice was raised. To rePrcss the mis-
conceived wrongs, and enforce the unaSkeo
ideal rights of woman, his pueril sophisn,,,
were mainly directed. 1t is With these
shall have to do.
As the mirror of the prophet lies behind
him, so the manuel of the statesman Is IN the
past. However profound the wisdom of this
body, however capable it may be OF suggest
ing and enforcing radical innovations IN
society and government, 1 do no.
Weld lis precedence to that immortal
BODY that formed the Constitution OF
the United States However deep the learn
| ing, or sincere the conviction OF the gen
tieman from Storey Orr. Hilyer). beg
/ humbly to suggest that Washington, and
jefferson, and Hamilton. and Monroe, and
their co-pa,riots. were possibly as learned
| and sincere as he; and possibly as earnestly
desired, and as thoroughly comprehended
the rights Of man, the principles OF govern
ment, and the necessities ofsociety as he. Is
| opinion, that in shaking eff despo'ism,
trampling ont oppression and iBst:tuting
vi a, they fondly believe to be, and what the
ages past ard ,imr present proves to have
ben. the noblest and best government that
ever rose to animate the hopes 0f man the
fathers of tie Republic should have SO utter
" failed to grasp, or comprehend, or recog-
iize the splendid conception Of female
suffrage: Is it not strange that this primer
pie, if Just ct wise, Should have been left for
this day and gene ration 70 enforce, and that
Ct the millions Of Christian men and women
adjoining the arc in which we live, no, one
in ten thousand sraspcd the conception. or
favor it's enforcement And above all, Is 1t
TO; strange that the one in ten thousand IS
an unnatural woman wearing b!eeches, an
impra ctical fanatic. cr Go,t, who deserves to
wear pertiera:s. But perhaps cur fathers
,vera mistaken. Perhaps the whole world
has been mistaken these 81. thousand years,
in excluding woman troEl the governing
class. and that il was left to the gentleman
frnm Storey to discover. and a Nevada Leg
islatt,rr To correct the mistake. Nd man
ever con. TT, h.rtlcd the great natural liberties
more th1rnu2hlv, than did orr revolutionary
f.tlcrS. NO men ever more thoroughly IN
dcrstood the purposes .nd necessities OF GOV
eminent han they. NJ men we're ever ami
mated with noblcr resolves to preserve IN
divduai liberty to the utmost extent consist
ont with public happiness than they. Eat
knowing well the ineon'pati5iii;y be-
tween mans primal and social state,
mans natural and civil liberties.
recognizing the absolute necessity cf gov
ernments and laws. they instituted n gov
crnmcnt aud enacted laws restraining rights
and Withholding privileges so far as deemed
essential to the public welfare. In the De-
caratlon of Independence they fearlessly
unclaimed the natural liberty and sbso-
lutte equality of all. In the government
they ordained, they imposed restrictions
upon both, because without these restlic-
,ionsa government. could not exist. They
ordained an Elective Representative Repub-
lie, with Legislative, executive and Judicial
departments, and took away from the lntl-
,iduals the natural freedom from restraint
the right to be law unto himself-the
right even to make, interpret or execute law.
and vested that right not IN his agent or
representative but in the agent or represen-
taiive Of the whole people. They wisely
provided that no person shoull be repre-
sentative ~ tho shall not have attained the
age Of twehy-fi,e years, nor Senator who
shall rot have attained the age of thirty
wears "nor President :. who shall not have
attained the age OF thirty-hve years. Pray
was this Why were these restrictions I'M
posed l. it because the natural right to
make, interpret or execute laws Goes not
exis. until the citizen shall arrive at these
ages respectively, or is this an arbitrary
limit mposet for the coed OF the State and
prosperity of society: In every civilized
State the right to participate in making and
executing the laws is snd ever las been de-
MED to minors and felons. Is this because
The abstract right does not exist Is II be-
c.us. their property il not taxed: Is it
because they do not possess the same inner
eut rights Or is not this an Il Oitrary rule
of society. an imperative law of government
DENYING the exercise If the right for reasons
Of public expediency alone The minor
from his youth and ineAperience is deemed
an unsafe repository Of the elective pIivii.
egg; the frlGn from his criminai.ty is deemed
unf, to vote or hold office. For no other
reason is the privilege denied upon TO
other prettxt can its denial be excused. Ard
here. sir l appeal TO the gentleman from
Storey (Mr. Hillyer) who proposed and ad-
vacates this meaaure upon the ground OF
abstract right and payment Of taxes, to kno"
If h. is in favor Of extending the elective
pri,il-.s--,he right to vote and hold office
t. the high criminal. in the South, vino SO
lately conSpircd to overthrow the CnI' OF
the States. II not why not Is l: because
their property is not taxed Is 1t because
they do not possess the natural right or Is
i, because Of public necessity? Is 1t because
they have proven themselves uis"ortny OF
the high tru,.?-,he enemies alike of liberty
and law. For similar reasons Of social
well-heinz and govern mental policy did our
fathers and do we. their children, withhold
the right to vote aud hold Office from
women. Primarily this idea-ti'is necessity
originates in the ordinations Of Goo; IN
desire not To debase but to exalt the female