Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03
RUTLAND VT, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1870

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they will do, and even subscribe literally
but this loud talk has not finished th,
i Washington monument, nor scarcely com
menced the monument for Lincoln.
This city is evidently at low tide. Ths
streets need repairs, the sewers need
cleansing and all the public works seen
to be neglected. School teachers and po-
licemen fare paid in checks upon the
treasury of the city, but that treasury has
not dollar in it for them, hence they
are without.money. But the high Off
cials get their pay every month.
At the Woman's Suffrage Convention
holden here three days last week, the
remedy for these evils was proposed
1t was there stated that as long as more
than half of the people of the city were
shut off from the right of suffrage they
must expect Judgment to follow their in
justice, that it was useles to boast of free
dom and equality and self-government
when one-half of the people were COM
PEELED to obey laws which they had no
voice in making, but to which all were
alike amenable. 1t was claimed by these
'sstrong-minded women" land that is the
right name for them, for they are not weak
minded, that the same just God who had
shaken our government from its center to
the circumference, in consequence of the
injustice done to 100000 people in this
republic, would not mete out prosperity
and happiness to this nation as long as
100000 of the people were governed
by laws which they, like slaves, felons and
lunatics had no voice in making.
Equal rights were demanded. They
asked for nothing more and would will
lingly accept nothing less If man, as
was represented by some, was the repre-
sentative for woman, would not hold wo.
men responsible TO the laws, but would
kindly step forth and pay ',er taxes, or in
case she violated the law would represent
her on the gallows, or in the prison, it
would seem consistent and woman would
not complain, but as it was she had good
cause for oomplaint-fully equal to those
who resisted the laws of England on the
ground that taxation without representa-
ton was unjust. Many strong appeals in
favor Of woman suffrage were made and
the convention was decided success and
Increased in interest and number in
attendance for three days. An admission
of fifty cents was charged at the door each
evening-the day sessions being free. But
Lincoln Hall, much the largest in the
city, was packed to its fullest capacity by
an intelligent audience, among which, in
the evening and at hours when Congress
was not in session, was good sprinkling
of Senators and Representatives. Vice
President Colfax complimented the ladies
vention by saying he thought they were
eaSitled to much praise in so managing it
as to make it self-sustaining institution,
notwithstanding the rent of the hall was
one hundred dollars per day An awak-
ened interest is felt in the District upon
the subject of woman suffrage. The best
men and the best women are in favor of
the movement. They look hopefully for
the women to settle the great moral and
reformatory questions now before the peo.
pie in the District of Columbia.
Women, who few years ago had all
the rights they wanted, now that they
have seen the negro made free but still
degraded, but when given the ballot and
made citizen, he suddenly became an
equal with the white man, without any
abridgment of rights, they now have not
all the rights they want. They want the
ballot, not merely for the sake of voting,
but that they may become citizens with
the rights of citizenship The female
teachers who receive less than one-half
the salary paid to males, for the perform
ancesof the same labor, wish to have a
voice in the election of school trustees.
They have discovered that just as soon as
the negro was permitted to vote for
mayor and councilmen their wages were
suddenly raised as high as that of white
laborers and they were at once set to work
by the side of white men.
The ladies la the Treasury, and by the
way, General Spinner ranks the ladies in
his employ the best experts for detecting
counterfeit currency, these ladies with
their acute discrimination have discovered
the injustice in the department which
pays the best of their number less than
the lowest price that is paid for the
poorest male clerk employed. The highest
price paid any lady is 5000 per annum,
and $1,000 is the lowest price paid any
male clerk, black or white.
The principal speakers at the suffrage
were the President Mrs. E. @.
Stanton of New York, fine looking
mother of about sixty; Mrs. Pauline
Davis of Rhode Island, like Mrs. Stanten
a venerable mother, both of whom have
had the good sense not to color their gray
hairs; Miss s. B. Anthony, maiden lady,
not beautiful, but intelligent, not particu-
larly in favor of woman's marrying for
or for home, and who has had
the good sense not to try the experiment.
Mrs. Rachel NJ Townsend of Philadel-
phia, Quaker lady, who has spoken and
voted often in the meetings of the Friends,
where women have always enjoyed equal
rights with men, and who seemed not to
have become demoralized or lost her
traits of character by doing so
Mrs. Charlotte Wilbur of New York,
modest. lady-like, but earnest mother of
forty years Mr.. Isabella Beecher Hooker,
a sister of Henry Ward Beecher, and like
him, ready to work for the good of hu-
manity, and like him will work earnestly (;
Miss Olympia Brown of Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, who is a lady of small stature
but of towering intellect, and already an
,rda;rad rpipistar Miss Pheba G0zZans