Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-18
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The Congress of 5Social Reformers h,
meeting in New York on The evening
the 10th inst, for the purpose Of nomin
ing presidential ticket, and it is describ
as a scene Of .he widest confusion. In {
assemblage there was no distinction on a
count Of 'race, color, religious belief
previous cor dition Of serFitude.e
Black spirits and white.
Blue spirits and gray
mingled without the slightest obiectio,
Women with hard, angular, masculin
faces, aggressive, shrin voiced, and occs
slonally bellicose: men with long hail
r>stless eyes, battered and worn looks
met together to institute movemen
70 reform the world under the rec
nag Of the Commune, which at one end O
the room faced gorgeous banners of blue
bearing ii golden letter texts wrested from
Che Gospel of Peace and Love, and made TO
support the socialistic views of the gather
Ing Around the gallery were hung red
banners bearing such Inscriptions as "Gov-
ernment protection and provision from the
cradle tn the Oraye-n Interest ON rnonev a
direct tax on labor" Mrs. Victoria n
Woodhun, who appears to have been lead
ing spirit on the occasion, is described as
declaiming in the most impassioned, al
most frenzied style, before crowded audi
ence of men and women who had
been wrought up to very high state of
excitement. In one of her most
excited passages, she exclaimed in loud,
clear tone: "Who viii dare to attempt to
unlock the luminous portals Of the future
with the rusty key of the past ?" Aye, in
deed, who will {? was the thought which in
voluntarily came TO ones mind while look
ing at the extraordinary spectacle displayed
in Apollo Hall. When her defamation
ended, the audience, masculine and femi-
nine, sprang to their feet and cheered till
tleir wind was exhausted, cheered with a
frenzy and force which must have startled
the multitudinous promenadeTs who
swept along Broadway. The hero
from the platform, but the multitude en-
cored till she returned, stepped to the front,
and bowed once and again her acknowledg-
ments for the applause. This heterogeneous
assembly went through the farce Of nomin-
ating candidates for President and Vice Pre-
sident. Up the members jumped one after
another, but finally a stout and hearty per- !
sonage who was recognised by the chair as
Judge Carter, of Cincinnati, stepped quick
ly to the front, and in stentorian tones !
nominated Mrs. Victoria Z. Woodruff as a |
candidate for the Presidency of the United |
States. Gan who are in favor of the nOmin |
alton, say aye" were the words from the
chair, and instantly the shouts of the Con-
vention, ''delegaLes" and outsiders, burst |
forth in a roar, thunderous and continuous,
which might have blown the roof Off the |
building to the skies. Again Mrs. Woodruff /
appeared onthe platform accepted the nomi-.
nation in few words, burst intears, clapped |
her white handkerchief to her eyes and was
led otto an ante-room. / did not know
what was saying or what / was doing"
she observed, 81 was so intoxicated with
delight" Then followed an hours wrangle
spiced with few dozen speeches, as to the
candidate for Vice President. A number
of names were suggested, among
whom were Fred. Douglass, Ben.
Wade, Theodore Tilton, Spotted
Tail, Ben. Butler, aud Henry Ward Beech
er. A great deal of merriment was Great
ed by solemn young man in a white coat,
who rose and said he was in favor of ''per-
feet action by the nomination of Mrs.
WoodhRll for the Presidency, With some
man to cooperate with her." He uttered
he first two syllables Of the word cooper
ate with drawling emphasis, which would
not have been half so funny if it had rot
been in simple 'earnestness. Frederick
Douglass, however, at last got the vote of
the Convention, and was thus nominated
for the second place on the Woodruff !
Presidential ticket. Some idea of this
motley crowd may be gathered from the
description of an eyewitness:
"The audience were highly respectable,
liarly American in physiognomy and ap-
pearance. There were large numbers of ]
fashionable dressed ladies, and most of the ;
gentlemen evidently belonged to the bust ;
ness and professional classes. Doubtless
most of them had come for curiosity. There | s
were also plenty of ''Reformers,' and in t
fact it was they who contributed the real {
genius of the aSsemblage-lOng-h haired men I
and short-haired women. saw Andrews, t
the chief Of the Free Lovers, with his lead
ing disciples. / saw Spiritual mediums, of [
both sexes, by the dozen. saw a lunatic, {
of my acquaintance, who, must have been
released from the Asylum for the occasion,
and there were not a few others who look a
ed very much like him. l saw quack
doctor, an astrologer, a pantarchian, several T
female preachers, several Communists, a l
number Of dardes, and what not? i
"At the close Of the session, Mrs Wood '
hull, the nominee for the Presidency, pass
ed int2 an ante-room, where her friends
crowdAl h to congratulate her. She was in
ecstasy, and so was her sister, Miss Clahin.
Her face beamed under her high crowned |
Neapolitan black hat. She shook hands J
with the gentlemen enthusiastically. The
ladies kissed her and embraced her, kissed
each other, and kissed her again. never
before saw so much kissing and hugging in 2
public, nor, for that matter, in private eth {
er. Men were not afraid to pass hands I
round women who We're not their wives,a and +
INDUCED in political OSCILLATION till !
they were tried. r
Well,' said the venerable astrolOger, as I
ssed from the scene-'well, we live in c
lie midst Of-well, something" I
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