The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-03-22

will vote only for prohihitory men.
tFroln the Springfield Republican,
Vermont Equivocating.
The course of the woman suffrage
campaign in ermont, especially on the
New York side Of the mountains, re-
minds one of the lrishman who wanted
to give an "equiyocal answer" to any
body inquring for his master A gintle-
man called and axed was yer honor at
home, and answered him cquivikil like
i axed him was his grandmother Il
monkey" Vermont don't know what an
swer to make to the women that ask for
the suffrage, and so it abuses them.--like
Byron's Jack Ounce
Who knew not what to say and - he ,wore
The amount of vituperation and SANDER
poured forth by Dr. Lord and the Argus
in Montpelier and the Burlington Free
Press and few other scurrilous news
papers elsewhere, is both ludicrous and
disgusting The ArgHY has long been
known as the nearest approach to the
La Crosse Democrat that New England
would tolerate, hut we looked for some
thing better from Dr. Lords organ and
the Free Press, which had regulations to
lose. The vile nature Of their charges
and insinuations against snch pure and
excellent women as Lucy Stone, Mrs.
Howe, Mrs. Livemorc and our own Mrs
Campbell, is an indication of the taste to
which these journals minister, and these
ministers journaize. And their public
abuse is followed up by readers with anon
ymous letters and magignant village
gossip which reflects only too exactly
the scurrility of the newspapers.
At the convention in Burlington, last
Thursday and Friday, this sort of war.
fare came to a head in such a way as to
check it for awhile, if the good people OF
Vermont have that care for their high
!, reputation which We give them credit for
When Mr.. Garrison, Mrs. Howe, Mrs
: Churchill, Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs
l Livermorc arrived in Burlington to speak
at the convention that had been called
; there, they found the air poisoned with
l SANDER against them and their associates
: Mrs Stone and her husband who WERE
7 then performing the funeral rites of theil
| beloved daughter in Massachusetts, wcr,
G denounced in Burlington as never having
= been married Mrs. Churchill, a widow
e ed and bereaved mother in circumstance
r no less affecting, was smirched with like
abuse, and the whole woman-suffrage par
e ty were denounced as.frec-lovers and in
s fdels, after the malignant copy set b,
}, DR.. Lord of Montpelier, month ago
Il When the convention met some low fel
e lows of the baser sort undertook to dis
: turb it by noise and Interruptions, sue
: as the anti-slaycry meetings had to en-
n counter ten years ago. Mr.. Garriso
h was interrupted in this way, and rebuke
: the disturbance in his sharpest manner
o and both he and Mrs. Liyermore CAV
n their attention to the Free Press an
J. the other slandcrers of spotless women i
3. a way that their he rers will not 500
l. forget. The result was hearty applaus
l. from large audience, and the pressin
invitations of the best people in Burlins
ton to hold another convention In thu
city, where the champions of woman su
r frage should have fair play and open Of
70 position, instead of sneaking abuse and mo
40 law.
in We hope, for the sake of Vernon
10 manners, that the Burlington insul
h. were exceptional, and the work of eli
NJ rabble. But Mrs. Campbell reports th'
1. in the country town of North Fairfa
t. where she was holding meeting, the o.
to position burnt cayenne pepper on Il
n. stove, and resorted to other offensi'
q. measures to dispense the audience. TT
: ISLANDERS of the Montpelier Democra
st and the Burlington Republicans seem
Of have had their legitimate effect, and
W. spirit is at work in Vermont which mo
i nearly resembles the brutality of Phil
bo delphia medical students than the court
no sy that New England men are accustom
,o- to show toward women. Such persec
cd tons only increase the number of CONVEX
70 to the woman suffrage party, and so d
Ia feats tho objects of its promoters, VIII
az it leaves stain on the fame of Verne
:. that none of us can look at without pa
no
ost A California missionary says that aft
a devoting two nights to visiting the und
.r- ground drinking and free lunch saloc
he of San Francisco, it is not mystery
on to him that the California State Pris
In has 799 inmates, and that n large propc
ch ton Of them are youths