Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-01-12
The woman Sunrrasisfs.
THEIR NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Inc woman SunR0Si9ta,
THEIR NATIONAL CONVENTION.
tSalo1, Suffrage a Fdct-Nrs. GriFnc and Ter
Sisters % De- Re. is:sre3 ia iris D:s.ric,.
The National W0maus Suffrage Convention
mel ut 5 O'Clock yesterday afternoon at Lincoln
ball. There was a large audience. Mrs.
seochsr Hooker Gale i the convention TO order
and Rev. DIV mpis Brown opened with prayer.
The Chair then introduced Mrs. WO0dhall,
NhO read the Petition presented By her TO the
judiciary Committee OF the Ho1se OF Repre-
sentatives yesterday morning. Mrs. Deysreux
u axe, OF New York, referred TO the fact of
ladies' going aboutsscrihcing themselves by op.
posing woman suffrage, and a. 10 the obiect ton
that woman should not have the ballot because
fLey could nor carry arms, there were plenty o:
men who couldn't. She then took her audience
10 ancient history and cited occurrences where
NrMkN FOUGHT SIDE By SIDE WITH MEN.
t!Ss LIhe Peehbsm said hat she was aston
l>hed al her country women thinking that thew
Rad all hey wanted They had duties outside
"a PERFORM tHat Of securing further rights.
BIss Susan II. Anthony said IL az now tley were
gO.rs 20 work with VIII and
60 ALONG BT STEAM.
JEey had lew system OF tactics now. which
va TO Hsht out en- the idea that women we're
Emitted 10 vote without any additional amend
EeLt 10 the Constitution
TBE EVENING sEssIoN
was beid at the Congregational Church; and
Str2t9f aye presided. opening the bal by stat
Ing bumOIously that the POSITION vas a novel
sse to him, e. he had been accustomed more to
beng PRESIDED over by the female sex th An the
revere. He then introduced Miss Kate Stan
ton, who claimed the right TO. women to vote on
The ground that they were tax payers.
TIE COMING MAN
wonld reach 70 the STANDARD of the women who
AZ tins time are leading the public sentiment
New bad done double work long enough.
Lney should have, in reality, help meets, which
women c. uld lot be as mems slaves. 1t was
thought that the women we're better fitted
Iol marriage than POLITICAL economy; and as
reconstruction was the order of the day at the
capital, she thought few female committees
would benefit the country.
Hen "A. G. Riddle then entered into lengthy
a.gnnlent TO prove that the right of franchise
DO" existed In women, and the only question in
Lis mind as their ability to use il.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE WAS PACT,
ana ne would oher In few months Mr.. Grif-
fng and several others for registration, aud he
Nas prepared, if their night was questioned, to
Try the lssue before the Supreme Court OF the
United States.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker disagreed with
hr. RIDDLE, and wouldn't condemn men by the
wholesale. The two great questions TO be con-
slGeTed were
TEMPERANCE AND EprCATroy.
and tie evils resulting from bad practices in
either could be corrected By placing the ballot
IN the bsncs of woman.
Miss Susan b. Anthony walked boldly for
WARD, and said she required no introduction.
Tie republican par had enfranchsed the
negro, and % made tor itself Tour million votes
mat casnet be alIensted from that party. There
were another class 10 be cniranchised, and II
MAS question Of
WHO PTps YIEsT?
Would the republicans or the democrats take
Tie twenty million female votes that awaited
them. This was the only way in which the
present administration could be sustained for
ahOtber term. They were going into this bust
HesS With "a viii, AMI to evince that fact they
were going 10 appoint a committee IL watch
tohgEes>. They wsnted money, and were going
10 raise 1t, tee, TO the tune OF Slp,oo0 Adj
lOuIIed.
SECOND DAY.
This morning the convention reassenbled.
and the hall being fairly filled, az 70 e, O'Clock
Mrs. Hooker came forward and stated that Sen
ator Warner would preside.
SENATOR WARNER.
IN taking the chair, said woman should have the
opportunity OF sharing the responsibility of self
government. lie saw nothing indicate in their
gong TO the bsllOt.box.
Mis-. Davis, Of X. L., was introduced. and said
woman suffrage was no issue before the people
nov, and there was 10 necessity for their hold
Ing other conventions, for they could 90 nome
and register, and II rejected could carry the
case TO the Supreme Court Of the United State.
II necessary. NIss Murdoch had said IN her
lecture that If women were called OIL TO exercise
the ballot they would
VOTE FOR The EAEDsONzsT NAN,
ard this was one OF the ridiculous oh ections 10
The ballot being gwen 10 woman.
Miss Hszlett, OF Michigan, quite handsome
young lady, dressed an black velvet, was next
introduced, and with a strong voice addressed
the convention, asking care men worthy of
respect We claim TO be republicans, but act as
o despofs IN Their own families? Applause Do
Why, this nation Is undermined by
VOLCANO OF DIsESFRANCHIsED CITIZENS
You may denounee the old pioneers, but from
the dust OF old Susan B., and of faulina Davis,
race of still greater sgi;ators will spring. The
starry banner Of whch they are all so pro1d
Heats ret over one free woman. II foreign
power enslaved the nation, they could share the
slavery with tie war, but when their husbands
and brothers ens!syed them they must COM
plain. She spoke OF the sentiment OF the peo-
Die in regard 10 the European war a. having
changed the OF AIye Ia RAnuhii.. uaT
had come across the Atlantic, and asked wha.
would they DO for the cause OF republcanism
An their own country. Kepublicanism is fail
uTe unless the crown OF citizenship is allowed
10 descend on the whole population. She in
stanced cases n the North where bail Tor "A wo-
man arrested for an offence is fixed four times
az high as the mans bail. The petitions of men
are received in Congress, and attention IS paid
them, but sOmen's petitions are Like
'PHARLS BEFORE SWINE"
This is womans hour, which has been sic
thousand years in com ng, but thank God il i
here at last, !apI !Aase and they should stand
Ep IOr their rights
MISS SUSAN p. ANTHONY
ssid that Mrs Hooker was not new in the cause,
anc before sic was a Hooker she was a Beecher,
and brought into this cause the energy OF the
latter family. She spoke OF Miss HaZlet a. OF
Michigan, where colleges were open 20 women.
Mrs Hooker here came forward and suggested
they hold
Low FEAST,
and let al state the:T views
Madame Lllis stated that NAE did not give
- n.
She had been his slave and toy, but al she had
10 DO now > 20 O1eT 10 vote, and deny her if YOU
dare. She, Tor one, would 90 20 the polls aud
take with her one recruit, gained TO the cause
last night. Applause
Mrs Hooker said il Miss Anthony could be
ssnt through the South She would convert tie
whole South 20 tie cause.
Miss Anthony said that she was in Richmond
about two months since, and saw
TNErTV BLACK NRN
sitting IN the halls OF the Legislature-tweutv
RACK men-and she sent a petition for the use
81 The hall and II was lost, on a motion TO sus-
pend the rules. by vote OF IS TO 10, and she
learned That tie colOTei men voted in q BODY
lof SUSPENSION. A man sitting near her re.
marked II she had been a nigger She cOuld have
got II, and there MAS the KEY TO it. They you!I
not vote sgsinst color, but sex
Ms Hocker read An extract from a letter
from Richmond. do come on AMI mold 4, con
fentiOn on Tuesday and Wednesday next
WOLF IN TEE FOLD.
hr. Wolfe, from Nevada and various oth.r
places, proceeded 10 give his experience stating
that ne became an sVvO. ate OF the rights OF the
back man thirty years ago, aud modestly
claimed TO have been one OF tie trst workers Tor
the rights OF woman.
N. II. Freed here read his poem, composed
and respectfully dedicated to Mrs. DIR. Lock
wood, Miss t'COluOr. Mrs. ,yoseDhins l.rif-