Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-21
Anmuruus department.
From tho Augusta Chronicle and Sentine
THE WOMAN QUESTION.


From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
THE WOMAN QUESTION.
BILL ARP ON FEMALE sUFFRAGE-TRIAL OF
soosAN ANTNY, &C.
Mr.. EDITUR-Soosan Antny aint nuthir
to me-that is nuthin pertikler. No woman
aint exsep Mrs. Arp, but when I heard they
was tryin her for votin, my feminine instinks
carried me strait to the courthouse. was on
her side before got there, and I'm on her side
VII. Women in general is my weakness and
espeshually woman whose name is Soosan
l always envied man who could fondle over
his wife or his sweetheart and call her "Soosy.'
1t sounds so meller and soft. So when seed
Soosan Antny arraind up before the judge
like konvict was mad-mad with the whole
Yanky nashun. They raise a hellybilloo over
the old broken constitution, and mend it up
so as to let the black babboons vote in the
rebel States, but if white woman of sense
and spunk dares to do it, it shocks their pew,
rtan modesty. The old judge tried to look
fierce, and said woman shouldent undersex
herself. / have seen heap of men who,
when they got sorter old, took up sour-grape
spite against good-lookin women. But Soosan
looked at the judi dge as strait as an egul. She
stood up square on her paster joints, and re-
marked that she was free born and nativ-born
and had property of her own, and had right
to vote for the law makers of her choice. She
said that women done as much for the country
as the men, and, if they dident fight in bat
tie, they raised the boys that did. That havin
them and nursn EN- and tendin to EN- in sick
ness and in helth was harder job than itin,
and if the men dident believe it Jest let EN- try
it awhile. She sed if the judge could name
one good reesun why they shouldent vote, she
wanted to know it. Soosan's eyes flashed a
little angelic fire when the judge fined her a
hundred dollars and she remarked that every
advance in sivilization had to have its mar
tyrs, and she was reddy. She throwd hun
dred dollar bill over to the clerk, and sed she
would bet another hundred that that money
never reached the State treasury. She dident
mind that old judge no more than he was
monky. She told him that if they would base
the votin bisness on morality, or property or
intelligence, or all three put together, the
women would be satis6de but they based it
on wearin britches, and drinkin whisky, and
chawin tobakker, and keepin one wife at home
and another sum where else She declared
that she had as much rite to choose her polit-
ikul masters as the Southern niggers or the
hethen Chnee. That if the women could
vote there woudent be drunkard, nor a
thief, nor fool on the bench, nor in any other
offs, and whisky would be harder to get than
arsenik An old, red nosed, swell faced man
winked one eye at her and hikkuped "the h
he-hell you saw" When the court adjourn
ed the crowd cheered Soosey, and one man sed
he'd pay the fine another sed he'd see her a
fair 6te with the Judge; another said the law
dident say whether the britches must be worn
outside or inside, and another sed he'd rather
risk the women to vote than thousands Of them
drunken furriners and fools who elected John
Morrissey.
Now I've been thinking heap about this
voting bisiness myself and my opinyun ar
that Gov. Jinkins is a nifty smart man. The
first time he run for Govnor they beat him
bekaus he sed he dident think that every fool
and every vagabond ort to be allowed to vote.
lie was for drawin in the lines instead of let
ting EN- out, and the melankolly sequel hav
proved that he wer right. If was king
wouldent let anybody vote who couldent tell
whether General Jackson was dead or alive,
or who took more than three drinks day as
Il regular thing or who chawd tobakker after
he had gone to bed, or who was meaner man
than his daddy, or who believed in costs and
witches, or who ddent put on a clean shirt
onst week, or who dident earn fifty cents a
day at sum respectable bisness, or who shouted
;to hon f,ro q
stretch. heard blind freenologist say that
the way to test mans sense was to draw a
straight line from the top of his upper lip to
his forrerd and another from the lower corner
of his nose to the hole in his ear and if the
angle between was less than so degrees he
might be smart fora monky but he was a fool
for man. He sed that this test would rule
out nearly all the idiots and Africans from
votn, and if it dident their faith in witches
would. | wouldent let furriner vote unit
he had lived here and behaved himself for ter
wears, and he shouldent vote then unless he
had married an American gal or was raisr
children on American soil. Iwouldent let nc
unmarried man vote who was over 80 years
old though would let all sich justify by
swearin that they had tried but nobody woulc
have en- Id make EN- name the gals in theil
af6davy.
I would let every married man and his wife
and every widder vote if they wasn't cut of
by the foregoing exceptions. They should
have one vote apiece for themselves and ont
for every child they had. This last would
elevate the Arpan family about election times
shore. Akkording to Solomon, all sich ough
to hav heap of privileges, forit amt no pix
a yune bisiness to raise big drove of chill
dren. Jest let any hide-bound bachelor try
it and see. l look upon respectable children
as the hope of the State, and if had my
way these stagnant old rips who wont marry
but prowl round and live easy and die rici
and leave no sign, at least none to speak OF
should be taxed heavy and the money appro
priated to the or6ns' fund. What's maj
worth to the State who leaves it no defender
after he's ded and gone; who patronizes NJ
Sunday-school or Monday y-schools-buys nj
candy or baby clothes, or balls, or barlow
knives or long stockins, or jakonet muslin, o.
hoop skirts or galluses? What intrust has h'
got in perpetuatin great principles Why,
chronik old bachelor can jest turn over in hi
one-horse bed and die and not keer darn i
the world comes to an end in Is minutes. H
wouldent keer if the devil was to break loos
and eat up the women and children alive:
n ,ot o,,;pc, q ,pord aoin then