New-York tribune., 1870-06-01
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ATE-"woMAN SUFFRAGE DEAD" THOUGH
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RESPECT To PIO NONoq NOl NOi-SOCIETY.

THE CORPSE DENIES Ir-NIGiI SEScIDNS-
! RESPECT TO PIO MONO? NO, NO!-SOCIETY.
| WASHINGTON May 23-HOme again, in dusty,
windy, hot, showery, inconstant, nconruous, much
abused uchindulged queer, dear delightful old Wash
ingtonl never was so glad TO get home. return as
to haven OF peace rcspectabiity and Yitue-as toa
choice spot Of earth, where the hunoniues can yet
flourish feel that even here the Capiioline Hill
almost under the shadow Of the Capitol ITSELF am In
! Christian community come, you know, from fort
nights soourn in York. never supposed that we
could compete with you in grandeur, but dreamed we
could in wickcdness That concet has been taken OUT
| OF me. / have at times been rather sharp IN my
criticism and in my judgments on Con
| gressonal examples OF ilbrcedng special plead
| ing, pandering TO vulgar and vndietiYe prtJu-
dces tergiversaton injustice, and indcocncy; but one
half day. spent your City Hall, during the progress OF
the great trial. convinced that had been over censo
rious and exactingthat by my structures had betrayed
gross ignorance Of the great wOd-that the atmosphere
OF halls of legislation purity itself In comparison
with the air Of a metropolitan temple of IEstice had
| thought that sometimes women had not been treated
with due respect and manly consideration by Congress-
when affecting their interests Were under ds
cusson but after seeing noble women and true ladies
put in puory, tortured and tainted by successful
NewYork criminal lawyer my heart elcnted our
ungaant Legislators. Ieyen felt like burying the hatchet
| raised against poor Mr.. Rogers Of Arkansas
| Having heard every day of dlscredtable Government
jobs yet appalled, by stories Of your stupendous
municipal inquities 1 had thought that IN otF mixed
population there trouble 9ome, perhaps dan
gerous elemeuts; but when contemplated the strange
peoples that swarm forth your devoted isle nom
that dumping ground for the ends Of the eart-Caste
Garden-I felt that yoke easy and our burden
light
Yes with all her faults, love Washington. II she is
not magnificent, like New York, she is magnetic
II she is not cosy like Philadelphia, she is como
potan like the manners Of her people at home and
in public assemblages and convcyances We hHoo good
manners here and if knew them not, have plenty
Of colored people to teach Us.
cannot find that the Senate has done much real work
during the five six weeks of your correspondents alb
sence. They to have debated aud CALLED, and
dawdled-to have reyeled and houndercd in rhetoric.
and disported themselves in "mut;udin0us seas " Of
talk. "when the eats away the mice viii play ]
should like to have heard the debate the bill TO grant
to the of the departments equal pay with the
for equal services. hear grateful mcuuon Hdde,
by the ladies Interested Of the speech of major
Trumbull as very generous and noble have once OF
twice spoken rather harshy Of this Senator'S manifesto
tiOn OF party aud personal annO5tes. think he IL
that takes political life very hard, and can scaIteY
be earnest without being severe show intensity With
ont bitterness. Yet of much of this manner dodb not,
he is quite unconscious and know that his strong, keen,
vehement character in private life grSccd and sweet
ened by chiyarOus regard for women 2nd tender love
for children.
On my return, was greeted on al sides BY the sad
|
Suffrage cause dead! Some a2cribe its untmeY
taking of to the action OF certain distinguished adies Of
the Capital who solemnly protesting against tho
ballot-and the absolute separation OF the Bo'-
ton from the NewYOrk branch OF It's adYoclies Ihey
say it died the operatouust according to the
! opinion Of surgeons, the siamcse twins would give
I'D the ghost or ghosts should the vital h1ature which
connects them, be severed. Strange! attended the
| last New-York Convention of thu American Womans
Suffrage Association without suspcctlnS tat tne lNely
proceedings of the nature of funeral obscques
must say that eminent President, the Rev. Henry
| Ward Beecher was uncoInmonly jolly for mournfm
an occasion. also venture to declare that he did not
then know OF the decease of his poor proteye-nether
| did the corpse.
Iremembcr once to have read in that spiritual aurora
bDreGiis, Tie Pa,mer Of Lig something quite strange
and startling purpong to be the aftcsdeath deposition
OF Union soldier, who fe at the first battle of Bull
Run. said he in the midst OF the fg, flight,
when something happened that took hH Oh his ieet lie
supposed he shot right through the heart but tho
first thing he knew standing erect where.
feeling as well as usual aud face 10 face win old
army comrlde, whom, fifteen years before be had
killed in Mexico "G0od God, Tom" he exclaimed, II
| thought you were dead."
| $50 am" the calm reply, and 50 are gOu."
And this, he informed his medium tie nrs intima.
tOn he ha Of his change of condito-that ne was, in
fact, in the spirit land"
III a man can b. defluct without knowing IL, suppose
| a cause can he, and though at t..c time Of the
! breaking up of the two NewYorl Conventions seemed
doubly alive, perhaps IL presumptuous in to
hold against clerical obituaries and eptaphs and
editorial crowncrS quests" any longer really have
no quarrel with the eminently respectable ladies who
| set on foot the anti-suffrage movement here.
! They did what they thought their duty to them
| selves TO society and the Rcpublc. I viii
throw doubts the perfect independence and spou
tanety Of their action. will not say OF any Of
! them as the Welsh parsOn said of the old woman of
Brenford, 81 spy great peard under her nluner."
will only say such of the leaders of this reacOnary
movement as have the pleasure Of knowing, women
of funexceponally happy fOrtne-that luxurious homes
aud loving protection honor ease and troops OF friends
have left them little to desire cause FOR discomfort
do not deny their right to speak for themselves, for
their class, publicly, and even from the PLATFORM |
should like to hear them. They have taken brave step
toward what Yankee conservative called gon' ont
OF wimmn's spear to ectur," by holding drawingroom
! caucuses and issuing newspaper manifosoes-but L
must say that a great anti-sufrage movement, initiated
| and carried on wholly by UorkinGwOneit- who
work with hands, and their heads and their heart
their honorable support and for the daily bread
OF those they lovely unfriended struggers With hard
ship and poverty by lonely oiers for faherless children
by under paid Teachers clerks, and seamstresses would
| Impress me far profoundly. Yet then, in
this age OF political miracles and oyerturning should
hesitate believe the woman dead without hope
of resurrection Here in Washington, it has been made
especially unpopular by the inJudieiOus management
bad taste Objectionable character Of OF It's adj
yocates It's diSdn friend has often been its worst
enemy Here the Walker has most disported herself.
Here defiant unwomanness and monsrous slinesses OF
eccentreity have done their worst. But everywhere
there are fools and fanatics burning for notoriety
spoiling for a fight" who ready to attach them
| selves 10 any popular, unpopular movement, and
surely unfair to Judge all the advocates of any
cause these struggling adherens these rash motley