Litchfield enquirer., 1872-06-27
Signs of the Times.

When Hon. Henry Wilson introduced bill into the United States Senate, three years ago, to confer suffrage upon woman in the Territories, and when George W. Julian, about the same time offered bill in the House of Representatives for sixteenth Amendment, prohibiting political distinctions on account of sex, we knew our cause was marching on.
 When the Republican State Convention held at Worcester, in September, 1870, admitted two women, who had been regu- larly elected as delegates, and heard the memorial they carried from the Massa- chusetts Woman Suffrage Association, and also their plea in it's behalf, and came within few votes of adopting Woman Suffrage resolution, we hailed it as sign of progress.
 When Gov. Clafiin, in his message, the same year, declared that "With regard to the abstract right, it is difficult to see.why one sex only should exercise the privil- ege of voting, and there certainly are many strong considerations why those now ex- cluded should be permitted to share in public affairs. The laws of State ought to express the sentiments and opin ions of the people, but our statutes now fail to do this, in many particulars deep ly affecting the~rights of women, &c.," we accept this as another sign of prog ress. ..-.. -.. Ea.a,-.. - ....'.
 When Wyoming and Utah made wo- men legal voters, we accepted the solid fact with heartfelt gratitude, and counted miles of space gained on the long road we have to travel. ......... -
 When the Massachusetts Republican Convention, in 1871, adopted resolution which commended Woman Suffrage to "careful and respectful consideration, we accept 1t as another good omen.
 When Gov. Washburn, in his message, last winter, recommended that the women ot Massachusetts should vote on the sale of beer and cider, it was an additional inch of progress. .rH
 When Hon. Henry Wilson, last winter, again proposed in the Senate bill to en- act 'That women who are inhabitants of the Territories, and citizens of the United States, may vote at all elections and be eligible to all civil offices in said Territo- ries, on all conditions in the same respects as men, and when Hon. George F. Hoar proposed in the House of Representatives, 8 bill to prevent the repeal of Woman Suffrage, where it now exists in the Terri tories without the consent of Congress, we thanked God and took fresh courage. When the National Republican Conven- tion, held last week, in Philadelphia, for the first time in the history of any such ebody, acknowledged in a resolution its obligation to the loyal women of Ameri- ca, and welcomed them to wider fields of usefulness and affirmed the duty of treat ing with respectful consideration, their honest demands for additional rights, the roof was lifted from our prison house, and our claim for political justice was put a | TuhOIo Ana onward No other event since the beginning of our movement has been so full of hopeful significance.
 We hail it, and accept it, and, for the first time, have reason to feel that we have National party, with which we can make common cause, grateful that we shall be l able to help those who help us
 We do indeed wish that the resolution had been fuller and nose decisive. It is not all we need. But compared with the ''worse than nothing" which Cincinnati offered, we count ourselves rich by it's ex- precision. Now let the loyal women of America do their duty, and four years hence, we shall have all we ask.-TRe
 Wonaar's Journal.
 Mr.. Clarence Deming, of this place, for several years captain of the Yale Univer- sity Base Ball Club, graduates this year, and closes his account of the last Yale Harvard game in the Yale Courant with the following characteristic valedictory: It is with mournful feeling of vacuitv 1 that we at this appropriate time and place l take the quill in hand to bid college. in n base ball sense, farewell in behalf of our- selves and the senior members of the nine who leave this year. For four long years have struggled, and for for four years We have met defeat in the contest for which we gathered all our powers. But however l painful these experiences have been and long as the memory of the wrong done us in Boston may sting, there is yet not one 1 of us but can cherish pleasant recollec- tions of our base ball days at Yale. Our games even with professionals have not all been defeats, and along with the trudg- ings to the Park and the pleasant out-of- 1 town excursions we shall recall many a contest bravely fought and bravely won. And longest of all shall we remember the old scenes at the Park, the green sward, the familiar forms of the nine, the crowd with its long row of beaming, earnest faces, the sympathies in defeat, the con I gfatulations in victory, and old West Rock
 towering grim and solemn over all. Our
 personal relations with the nine have ever
 been of the pleasantest character and as we look back we regret nothing save the
 cruel fate which denied participation m the Harvard games when the spirit was so willing and the flesh so weak. ~