Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-01-20
WOMAN SUFFRA9E.
THE NATIONAL Coxv1xrvnV

Letters from Senators Ross and Car.
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saa.toa': APpeal-A i.ss Gail se che
6ut Demand d-Address 0f senator
Mfls0n-he Announces Hiusself An
Favor Of Woman Sunraxe-Passage
Of Resolutions On Favor Of the l6th
Anendment-AFe Female Lawyer from,
81. Louis Pleads W0mam's Cause. sNc
The National woman's Suffrage Convention
re-assembled last evening. Mrs. Stanton pre-
sided, and in opening the meeting said she had
hoped to have had more Senators and Represen-
tatives at the meeting tonight, but 1t had sud
denly been found by them that they were yer /,
hoarse, they had sore throats; but she though
the trouble was further down than the throat
their hearts she feared failed them. She had
how ever, received encouraging letters from one
rtwo which showed that they had the use of
read a letter from Senator Ross, of Kansas, ex-
pressive of his regret by reason Of previous en-
gagements TO accept their invitation, adding ::
cordial sympathy with the movement TO extend
the right OF suffrage to the women OF the coun-
Try, and my pledge to make that sympathy
arise for my Official action" Also. a letter from
Senator Carpenter, Of Wisconsin, regretting
that his official duties would not allow him 10
comply with their request to nd the meeting,
and adding, :" assure you, and the ladies with
whom you are associated, that am heartily in
sympathy with the efforts YOU are making for
the success Of the cause which you, especially,
have so long and so ably advocated beg fur
ther to say, that the bestowal Of the right of
equal political suffrage upon the women OF this
repubIc cannot, in my judgment. be much
longer withheld, and that whatever influence 1
have shall be exerted at any proper opportunity
20 hasten the consummation for which you are
laboring."
Mrs. Stanton then, by request, addressed the
Convention on the proposed sixteenth amend
ment, saving the men of the day have no right
To pass the fifteenth amendment without the
consent OF the women of the country. The pas
sage OF the sixteenth amendment would be the
crow ming glory of all Congress could do at this
session. This sixteenth amendment was lust as
natural a result of the late war as the fifteenth
amendment was. Mr.. Stanton spoke at great
length on this subject, and her address, which
lively.
Miss Susan b. Anthony said she would put a
vote-women loved to vote-and called upon
every one present in favor of sixteenth amend-
ment, giving the franchise to women, to saw
and it was declared carried. She then intro,
duced-
Miss Jenny Collins, Lowell factory girl. who
salo that she came here as daughter OF toll to
thank Mrs Stanton for what she had done for
the poor laboring women i'm cheering them for
ward in the cause of freedom and emancipa-
ton. The women have no protectors, and are
made mere tools to serve the purposes of the
male gender. Universal franchise was their
only remedy. We have no statesmen now-they
are set Of mummies. [Laughter.l The DAYS
OF the Republican party are numbered There
was springing up in the country party of labor
ers, who would take the lead i'm the cause of
progress, because this party would recognize
the rights OF women. This party would sweep
immediate ground for universal sufiraSa
In the days of slavery the Southern planters
fN rnrafc hxrff fl.a,l
science, as did the Massachusetts works6on
lords, who studied this science. Southern
tyranny was more clumsy. But the 1S,0eO fac
,ory , guis wiil be heard from Yet. and woe
nent political men of Massachusetts, owe their
positions to the labor of women. She continued
70 speak OF the "tyrants Of Massachusetts" i'm
the most scathing terms, charging them with
ieceit and treachery TO the working women. and
detailing the alleged meanness Of their acts to
their employees.
delegates would hold a levee at the Arlinotsn
House after their adjournment and until y n.
M, and the convention then adjourned.
THIRD DAY.
The Convention reassembled this morning. At
half-past ten O'Clock. The admission % the
hall being free, the seats were nearly all occu-
pied before the arrival of the speakers, the
larger number of spectators being women, who,
have their rights, and more. SO far as control of
their husbands purse-strings is concerned.
LAST CALL TO THE scoFFERs.
Mrs. +. c. Stanton called the meeting to order
who were penitent for past sins and short-com-
tngs, to come up to the anxious seats and plead
in broken accents Of penitence, and they
associa.iOn. This was the last Hear that Womae sae
would petition to any legislative body. They
are going to assume an entire new position in
the premises Demand was to be the word now.
m "a N her yKnv S,l
graded by their petitions being spurned by their
representatives in Congress. Where a woman
g rash enough to marry man, they can anord
sexes on each other is always wholesome, and il
is to this principle Of human nature that she
looked for reform.
REMARKS OF SENATOR WILSON.
Senator Wilson was seen in the hall, when
call was made for him to come on the stage.
de came forward and said he did not come to
address them in argument on the subject nor TO |
give his adhesion to the creed here advanced,
but he pledged his vote to any cause where free
dom was the question at issue. He had come at |
hat he had spent his life in the cause of the |
yolored people, and the work they had sought TO
achieve was nearly accomplished. We have i'm |
our standard Of politics to the logic of the con-
stitution. He pledged that his efforts i'm the
future should be given to the cause of universal
Miss Anthony said she was glad to know that
Senator Wilson was so good a soldier and so
brave man as to avOw his advocacy of this
cause.
Senator Upton was invited to come forward
ON the platform, but excused himself on the
ground that he had to 60 to the Capitol and
looking to his watch SAID that they must excuse
him on this occasion.
Mrs. Stanton said they would have to let him
20, but it must be with the promise that he
would come back at some other time and take a
seat on the platform, and make a good speech
in their favor. (Laughter.l She then invited
converts to come forward and take front seats
Every one seemed to be satisfied with their DO
sitions, as the rush for front seats was not great
sTIRRING APPEAL TO THE MEN.
MT. Rachel NJ. Townsend claimed that there
was no one here who was not fully convinced of
the great truths which had been uttered. Truth
was SO much stranger than fiction that IL was no
wonder Ii impressed the minds Of the people, IL
they were impressed with the truth OF the sub
ject, why did not the fathers, husbands, sons
and brothers come forward and Join the grand
army for woman suffrage? She only asked that
she might stand side by side with the other sex;
that women might be In every business, every
occupation the men might engage In, 20 that
both together should be the head OF family
as one. There was one great head, that Is God,
the only head Of all family relations. We are
told in the New Testament, that ON the Ten
Commandments hang all religion. II there vas
q man In this assembly who was q man. he
would come up and identify himself with the
cause. She was sorry, last evening, to hear
some hard things said against the President and
the National Legislature. No matter what the
Prpsfdeuf had in oaylv 1fGa a.