Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-04-29

We have not the slightest IDEA that
woman suffrage is to be adopted Yer
mont flr several years. Il viii be quite as
likely 20 come to Us by way Of the AFlth
I Amendment as by any action Of cur own. We
confess 20 a desire TO see the proposition receive
respectable vote but that is all for the present.
We would not have the Convention adopt it If
We could ANY law that is in advance Of public
/ sentiment is practically a failure. The PROPOSE
I ten ofthe Council OF Censors has ouly Afforded
an opportunity for the primal stages Of that ag-
tation which is always necessary 20 effect reform.
The opposition papers 10 which we have referred
have indeed iniustriously given oat that d" an
Association with an. ample fund ~ have msie
great canvass. which, owing to the good
sense Of the Vermont women, has resulted 10
failure But We have learned that it is some
times best to seek truth from more sources than
one, and 80 We would like 20 tell the people Of
Vermont Just how great this canvass hss
been.
The association (Which, by the way, has not
sn ample fund, and never had have been OBJ
ligei 10 substantially close the campaign, owing
TO bad roads, while three entire counties and
more than half the towns in the State remain /
uninvaded." In only two counties have meet 1
ings been held all the towns, and not more .
than one tweutis'I Of the men and women Of .
=
Of woman suffrage unless they have heard them
abroad. How much Of an attempt, then, is this
30 d" fore" an obnoxious measure upon the
people,
1t is the St Adams Messenger which says this
the stoutest advocate Of woman suffrage in the
State, the freeman, perhaps, only excepted.
The article, joined with other indications, shows
that the suffrage campaign has been practically
abandoned so far as the State is concerned. Nor
has it been the slight affair which the Messenger
would make it out to be What the Messenger
would call an g. ample fund 80 We do not know
We do know that one Of the most active and
prominent members of the Executive Committee
If the Vermont Woman's Suffrage Association,
assured Us that they had - al the money Mev /
raHtsd. " The canvass was certainly thorough
.nough in this vicinity, and it was the plan Of
he Association TO make it equally so elsewhere.
But with the bright, sensible, intelligent women
f Vermont almost unanimously opposed to the
reform, and with the men disposed to be con-
rolled by the women in this as in other mat e
ers. woman suffrage was found to be 50 hard
DAD to travel Hence, " owing to bad
Dads, as the Messenger puts 1.-THE road
yerywhere Icing not only very " bad. Sc but all I
be way uphill-the effort has been abandoned. b
f5er all, canvass which reaches all the coun- l
es in the State but three, two Of those being the
tile shires Of Grand Isle and Essex, containing +,
OF two thousand voters all told, and which c
ods meetings in nearly half the towns in the J.
tate, including Of course the more populous \
mes, is not very slight affair. Joined with the v
ztendei discussions in the papers. it has brought
lie subject fairly and squarely before every in y
lgent person in the State. What the decision n
i'll be, is sufficiently evident, when all that the
ivocates Of the measure expect or profess to de- t
re, is g respectable vote in the convention nj