The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-01-15
Photographs Of Our Agitators.


This is the very noon of agitation; and
one'question is: May women vote? beg
the reader to be calm, for there is no pur-
pese to discuss it here. 1t is generally
conceded that the movement is formidable,
and that the position of the ladies who
control it is strong.
1t seems certain that some State will
soon try the experiment, SO far as relates
to state officials. The Hearth and Home
circle may relish a brief sketch Of some of
the eminent ladies who are among the
engineers of the movement
Miss Susan B. Anthony is the Bismark;
she plans the campaigns, provides the
munitions of war, organizes the raw
recruits, sets the squadrons in the field
Indeed, in presence of timid lieutenant,
she sometimes heads the charge; but she is
most effective as the directing generalissimo.
Her headquarters were long ago transferred
to New York City; Rochester was pent-up
Utica to her. Miss Anthony is quick,
bright, nervous, alert woman of fifty or so
not at all inclined to embonpoint- sharp
eyed, even behind her spectacles. She is
"smart" executive, and is the chief motive
power of the movement. She presides
over the treasury; she cuts the Gerdian
hard KIN OTIS, and when the noisy uncontrol-
tables get by the ears at the conventions,
she is the one who straightway drags them
acupdar and f,rps oh aos To ordar
In every dilemma, she is unanimously sum-
moned. AS speaker, she is angular and
rigid, but sharp, trenchant, incisive, cut
ting through to the heart of whatever topic
she touches. She would be awkward if she
were not woman; but as the elder weller
remarked They can't be ockered if they
wants to-" She is not what in the unpaved
districts is called bashful but is directed
by singular combination of modesty and
audacity. When she succeeds in coaxing
Governor to preside at her meetings, she
faces him down on the spot with the ques-
ton Now, Governor, you wish the wo-
men to vote, don't you? % Before escaping
from the platform, he is generally COM
scribe for the Revolution in presence of the
assembly
The Cleveland Convention was an overt
act of rebellion against Miss Antheny's
leadership, especially against the vagaries
of that incompatible egotist, Train but
she showed herself shrewd diplomatist,
for, instead of vainly trying to spike the
guns of the insubordinate Livermore,
Stone & Co., she marched into their COLI
vention, and drew the harmless fire when
she was at the right end of the battery
The indictments are strong party, and it
is not probable that the revolution against
the Revolution will be Suppressed.
Lucy Stone is still pre-eminsntly the
orator of the movement; readiest in de-
bate, most fertile in illustration, most elo-
quent ia appeal. She will move an audi
ence till they forget her sex, and remember
only her cause. She has an oval and rud
dy, but thoughtful face; a compact head,
towering in the moral regions, and wide at
the organs of force; clear, mild eye. and
a voice that is all melody. She is the wife
of Henry B. Blackwell, also somewhat
famous in the field of reform and is not
only one of the mothers of this cause, but
mother, also, of an interesting family of
children.
"Mrs BLACKWELL said, one day, de-
string to question her about the organiza
ton.
MRS. Stone, if you please she smil-
insly corrected me.
When expressed desire to be enlight
ened further, she continued
"My husbands name is Blackwell-mine
is Stone. When we married. told him
did not wish to assume his name, as by so
doing should lose my social identity. He
said l was clearly right-he shouldn't wish
to be called MIR. Stone So l have re-
tanned my maiden name, and when meet
my old friends on the street, they don't
say: 'Mrs.-a-Mrs.-a-a- see, Eve
forgotten your new name Even my hus-
band calls me Mrs. Stone. think l see, :"
she proceeded, g. in the retention of the
maiden name, as Beecher Stowe, growing
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expect that, by and by, women will cease
to be called by their husbands names and
am sure that in the world to come, each
soul will be known by its own name, and
not another's.'
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wife of Hon.
Henry B. Stanton, and daughter of the
late Judge Cady, came bravely, at an early
day, and brought wealth and social posi-
She is stately and strikingly handsome
woman of sixty, her white hair curled into
an aureole around her forehead, round
face, free from the lines of care, a serious
voice, and open blue eyes, with twinkle
of merriment in them-a sign of the over
flowing humor which sometimes turns tn.
serious voice to badinage. Mrs. Stanton
always appears upon the platform vel
dressed. She does not ignore silk, no
anathsmatize velvet, and does not pretent
to have soul above point-lace. Thus ar
rayed, she does not give the poor, "whit
male" much peace. She prepares he
speeches as carefully as Summer does, ant
they are methodical, logical, forcible, run
ming from irony to grave argument. lie
impressive personal appearance is the aus
tsrgo; and though she is not by any mean
a mere figure-head, she would be SURPRISED
to know how potently her face backs III
her words.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermors, of Chicago,
the Western Head-Centre Of the Sorore'
and her journal, the Agitator, is the ablest
S calmest, strongest advocate of their cause
Not only is her editorial piquancy an
p force quite unique, but sic is equally abb
c before an audience. The friends of Equs
# Suffrage have no more effective champion
y Some of her characteristics are unmistaks
bly, masculine; physically, she is large an
commanding in stature; mentally, she
/ apt in illustration, fond of paradoxes an
aphorisms and quick, sharp, and delicat