Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-03
Female Suffrage.

therein been well reported. Adroit man
agement was apparent. Good speakers
were secured; no extravagant statements
were made; nobody showed bad temper
the air OF plausibility, despite the Rev
Mr.. Walker,) was well kept up. So far if
was calculated to gain converts, who will
believe the invariab1e conclusion of every
speaker that therefore women ought to
vote" d
On the other side of the question, in
the aspects in which the convention was a
farce SO far as argument was used, it is
fair to ask what was proved. Let us
look at the record. .-E1
Pleading, persuasive Mrs. Stone telling
how women have suffered and still suffer
relating how bravely she and others Of
her sex have been fighting all their lives
to be and do something more than mere
dolls, wasting in inanity, can be or do
left the inference that women should vote
because Mrs. Stone, in her restlessness,
wanting always more than she has,
doesn't propose to die until she can go to
the polls.
Mrs. Howe, bringing heart and brains
fascinating in thought, language and
voice seeming to hide female suffrage, as
practical thing, in the ideal; scarcely
limiting that she wanted to vote; stood as
an argument chiefly by reason of the
company she kept.
Noble Lloyd Garrison the la1lrels Of
forty years of devotion to human rights
freighting his words with peculiar weight
going over the whole ground without
signs of firing; argued that female suf,
frage is sound and certain of success, on
the ground that anti-slavery opinions,
once unpopular, are now almost univer.
sally accepted.
Busy Mrs. Bowles; of business aspect,
attending to business, urging business,
insisting on business, selling tracts and
collecting subscriptions to pay expenses
and print journals; finding discrepancy
in her cash accounts and suggesting that
somebody had signed and omitted to pay
patiently waiting till the chairman had
played out, " to happily introduce her
self and insist that she must and would
sit on a jury proved that woman should
be secured for the national treasury, and
gave lively intimation that broken male
hearts will yet find the balm for all their
wounds in verdicts of damages for
breaches of promise.
Mr.. Blackwell neglecting his sugar re-
fnery in New Jersey, Ito his honor be it
said he has an occupation,) to waste
words in attempts to answer a lady
writer of Montpelier; showed that man
cannot be safely left at home alone, cit
isn't his sphere and that Mr.. Blackwell
is no match for his wife cor any other wo-
man"
Mrs. Slocum; with words fifty chosen
and with rare eloquence, telling how
farmers wives are over-worked and moth
ers are broken hearted; deserving more
than the passing notice of newspaper
that reported shabbily what she did not
say had no need to assert the self-evident
proposition that wives and mothers should
be allowed to enact that overwork and
broken hearts are nuisances to be ubated
with costs.
Mr.. Clark of the Rutland HERALD !;
telling how, as no oamo into the hall, lie
-a- Tho gauntlet of one human being,
who, innocently thinking he knew better,
treated it as a joke and bantered him) !;
asserting that he would keep up his oour-
age stood as an exponent of movement
that will not be popular until it is adopt
ed as measure of party policy.
As Mr.. Cain of the Courier did not APP
pear with his Democratic credentials, he
is unvoidably absent from this report. He
has, however, in the last issue of his paper,
himself in his most indescribable
and unapproachable style, style that
the slimy-venomous, and
has probably, ere this, returned his Gre
dentials to headquarters.)
Mr.. Clarke of the st. AlbaDs Messenger ;.
illustrating, from his own experience, how
an editor may think and write one thing
one day and an entirely opposite thing
the next; telling how the legislature of
Vermont has for twenty years been grad
ual acknowledgment of the claims of
and steady altering of the laws
in her favor; suggested the frailty of
some things here below, and proved that
Vermont has utterly and persistently de-
MED the claims of woman by refusing to
her the ballot.
Mr.. Dorr found famous the first night
and embarrassed at the thrust behind
time the second night, and looking at his
watch as if to be sure he was behind and
to apprise the audience of his regret at
their disappointment; proved that, if
man cannot give public expression to hon.
est opinion, the ballot should be transfer
red to woman.
The Bible arguments that were brought
into play must not be overlooked Rev.
Mr.. Walker of st. Adams brought out
as an antidote to the counsels of Baptist
clergyman of Rutland; introduced with
doubtful propriety; speaking in connec-
ton and disconnection with the Bible re-
sented, in behalf of the movement, the
title of consolidated Nonsense" only to
gain for it the less desirable one of jun
bled Nonsense"
Mrs. Stowe; coming to the rescue of
the Bible in reply to Mr.. Walker; relat-
ing her girlish disbelief in Paurs sim
certify her resolve to learn Greek and He
brew so as to interpret the Bible for her.
self, and her fual discovery that the
Greek word that, in our translation, is
rendered "to speak" means also "to CAB
ble," and that Paul, instead of saying SIT
Is shame for woman to speak in the
meant sit is a shame for
to gable in the church," did not
get out of the tumble so as to escape the