Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-10
40 washington Woman Suffrage
Association. hrh
, CARD FROM MR.. HAGER.

!. 10 said that Mr.. Baxter, hdf10'' " "'o
RrrrAND HERALD, had addressed the
meeting of Suffrage Association III THIS
80 and adds that "the association were
evidently not much encouraged by Mr.
Baxter's remarks, for it decided to aban-
don its struggle for life and adjourned
sine de-" In tho HERALD of the I'd inst.
I also noticed q card from Mr.. j. n. Bax-
Ter of your town, who seemed to ''be very
willing to become famous" as reported
editor, but evidently not willing to risk the
infamy likely to fall upon those who advo-
cate the right of suffrage for woman
but iSready to thank me if l have sue
ceeded in "breaking up the meeting"
In the Washington papers of last Satur-
day noticed that the last meeting of the
Universal Franchise Association was to be
holden Mt Union League Hall on that even
ing Rev Samuel May of Syracuse, N.
". and Prof. ]. H. Wilcox of this city
wers announced as the speakers. 1 at
tended that meeting. Before the regular
speakers were called upon, Mr.. Stebbins
Of Michigan, was invited to the stand and
madS some very appropriate remarks to
the audience.
The President then called upon me and
think introduced me as Mr.. Hager, the
correspondent of the Rutland HERALD.
wish to stop here to say that l have no
desire 60 be famous" under false colors,
that have not at any time represented
myself as Che Editor of the HERALD,
nor have called my name Baxter; but
in visiting the Freedmens school, and the
place where the hungry daily come to be
fed. and are not turned away without
food, from the good woman who dispurses
these daily charities, I was asked
my csame and occupation. l told her
WINS the correspondent of the Rut-
band HERALD, and that my name
was Hager This lady, Mrs Josephine S.
Drifting, one of the most accomplished
aud christian women in the city, was the
President ofothe Association, and was the
one who called me TO the stand. l am
not "tall&ng" man, nor had I sought
the objectionable notoriety of making
myself heard" in that meeting. | was in
vitod to speak at the National Franchise
Association Gin Lincoln Hall, where Mr..
b probably saw me,) but declined not
withstandng, he says, "the old gentleman
hooked az if he wanted to be heard upon
this question" Mr.. Baxter should not
trust too much to eye-sight. Has he never
ohenrd how mans eyes once deceived him
so that he mstook dougLnut for a rota-
toe and only learned his mistake when
b. attempted to peel it No, did not
wish to speak in the National Association.
was Made to know my weakness too well
10 attempt to gain the attention of that
irAeOugent audience after hearing the
strong appeals and incontrovertble argu-
incnts that had been adduced by those
q fhat "called themselves women"
+. ! was &lly content to hear these wo-
men, and the question never for once was
raised in my mind whether all of these
-omen wore trowsers" or not for do
,ot measure the merit of a man or woman
~ q clothes that they wear, but by
ciher =, 'endards,
I wish further to have it understood,
a,t did DOT "break up the meeting" at
pnion Loag re Hall, and furthermore the
IN coar,oemen or Encouragement which
Ig,vo had moth ing to do with the sine die
sfhurnmcnt AZ il. 'timated by the Journal
cprrospoudcnt. 1t may be we'll to say,
tat those wbo had the matter in charge
trEa ,ht it advisable tt adjourn sine die,
Dr. the reason that the o'o1Ggts and r0'cdSeS
al this city were determl ued to break up
d. Association.
At corporation, or an Incorporation
meeting of the citizens holden here last
week, the rowdies event in In such
numbers that they actually ovtrpowerea
the meeting and it was broken mp by
them Their known hostility to the sui
frage movement for where is IA rowdy IN
favor of it p induced the executive COM
mittee to suspend the public meetings Tor
while rather than run the risk of an
open aght or a I" free fight" 1t may be
U'ct0ry in the eyes of some, but it is
sictory like that one that broke up the
meeting and carried Mr.. Garrison through
Die streets of Boston some years ago--a VIC
Tory in favor of the mob and against law
and order. Such victories are inverse
ones. When a person or party are so
badly driven as to oppose free speech, to
favor the mob that breaks up meeting,
or to misrepresent the case as did the cor
Respondent of the Journal, it shows that
O screw is loose somewhere which the en-
lightened people of the nation are bound
TO examine and tighten when properly in
vestigated.
I spoke, not to gain notoriety," but
because 1 was called upon to do so, and be-
ing in sympathy with the movement l did
not feel at liberty to decline on that ooca-
sion. l am sorry to be the innocent
canse of disturbing Mr. Baxter's feelings,
by having his name introduced in place
of mine Those who know that l was
unwilling to have my name appear or
have it announced that 1 had any connec-
tion with the HERALD during the time
VIZ "oo SOhhoObSu Win II, WiAi hob pS
prepared to believe that so great change
has been wrought upon me, by three
weeks life in Washington, as to suppose
Iwould for " notoriety," or for any other
reason, wishto misrepresent my true rela-
lions to that paper. am not ambitious
topsee my name in print, but here sub
scribe ii. ALBERT d. HAGER.
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PScKARD's MoNTHLY.-The chief no.
liabilities, con exhibition in Ptckard's
Mon'Hly for February, are Alice and
Phoebe Gary. The Rev. Charles F. Deems