The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-21
From the augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
Bill Arp on Female Snferage-Trial of Soo-
san Antny, sc.

From, the augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
Bill Arp on Female Suferage-Trial Of SoO-
san Antny, &c.
ROME, Ga, August, 1873.
Mr. Ep1TUR-Soosan Antny aint- nuthin TO
me-that is nuthin pertikler. No woman amt
exsep Mrs. Arp, but when | heard they was
a-tryin her for yotin, my feminine instinks
carried me straight to the court house. was
on her side before got there, and I'm on her
side yit. Women in genral is my weakness,
and espeshually woman whose name is 500
san. always enyied man who could fondle
over his wife or his sweetheart and call her
sSoosy." It sounds so meller and soft. So
when seed Soosan Antny arrained before the
Judge like konvict was mad-mad with the
whole Yanky nashun. They raise belly.
billoo over the old broken konstitution, and
mend it up so as to let. the black babboons vote
in the rebel States, but if white woman of
sense and spuuk dares to do it, it shocks their
pewritan 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 Judge as strait as sn egul. She stood up
square on her paster joints, and remarked that
she was free-born and nativ-born and had prop
erty of her own, and had a right to vote for the
lawmakers of her choice. She said that wo-
men done as much for the country as the men,
and if they dident fight in battle, they raised
the bows that did. That havin EN- and nursin
en- and tendin to EN- in sikness and in heith
was a harder Job than ftin, and if the men
dident believe it jest let em 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 little angelic fire
when the judge fined her hundred dollars,
and she remarked that every advance In slvlll-
zation had to have its, martyrs, and she was
reddy. She throwd hundred dollar bill over
to the clerk, and sed she would bet another
hundred that the money never reached the
State treasury. She dident mind that old judge
no more than if he was monky. She told
him that if they would base the votin bisness
on morality, or property; or intelligence, or all
three nut together, the women would be salts
fide; but they based it on wearin britches, and
drinkiu 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 politikul masters as the
Suthern niggers or the hethen Chlnee. That
if the women could vote there wouldent be a
drunkard, nor thief nor fool on the bench,
nor in any other offs, and whiskey would be
swell faced man winked one eye at her and
hikkuped "the h-he-hell you say" When
the Court adjourned the crowd cheered Soosey,
and one man sed he'd pay the fine another sed
he'd see her fair fte with the judge; another
sed 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
thousans of them drunken furriners and fools
who elected John Morrissey.
Now I've been thinkin q heap about this
yotin bisiness myself and my opinyun ar that
Gov. Jinkins is nifty smart man. Ihe hrst
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. He
was for drawin in the lines insted of letten em
out, and the melankolly sequel hav proved that
he were right. If / was king wouldent let
ANYBODY vote who couldent tell whether Cen
eral Jackson was dead or alive, or who took
more than three drinks day as a regular
thing. or who chawd tobaker after ne had gone
to bed, or who was q meaner man than MS
daddy, or who believed in costs and wltcnes,
or who dident put on clean shirt onst week,
or who dident earn 80 cents day at sum re-
spektable Disness, or who shouted at mite meet,
ins more than two hours on stretch. heard
blind freenologist say that the way to test
mans sense was to draw straight line from
the top of his upper lip to ais forrerd and an
other 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 for
monky but he was fool for a man. He sed
that this test would rule out nearly all the
idiots and Africans from votin, and if it dident
their faith in witches would. wouldn't let a
furriner vote until he had lived here and be-
hayed himself for ten years, and he shouldent
vote then unless he had married an american
gal or was q raisin children on american soil.
I wouldent let no unmarried man vote VINO
was over 80 years old though l would let all
SIGH Justify by swsarin that they had tried, put
nobody would hay EN-. I'd make em name tne
gals in their afidayy.
and every widder vote if they wasent cut off
bv the Neutrality-suspicious. They should have
one vote apiece for themselves and one for
eyery child they had This last would elevate
the lrpian family about elektion times, shore.
Absorbing to Solomon, all sich ought to hav
hean of privileges, for it airt no picayune bisi-
ness to raise big drove of children. Jest let
any hide-bound bachelor try it and see. I look
nnon respektable children as the hope of the
State. and if had my way these stagnant old
rims who won't marry, but prowl around and
live easy and die rich and leave no sign, at
least none to speak OF, should be taxed heaVy
and the money appropriated to the or1ns' fund:
What's man worth to the State who leaves it
NO de defenders @ after he's ded and gone; who pat
ronizes no Sundy-schools or Mundy- schools
buys % no candy, or baby clothes, or balls, or
barlow knives, or long stockirs, or jackonet
muslin, or hoop skirts, or galluses. What in,
trust has he got in perpetuatin great principles?
WIN. a chronick old bachelor can just turn
over in his onc-horse bed and die and not keer
a darn if the world Gums to an end in 10 min
utes. He wouldent keer if the devil was to
break loose and eat up the women and children
alive.
Now I'm not sayin word agin them mar
ried foaks who sumhow or sumhow else halnt
aksidentally been blessed with offsprlngs. by
no means. They showd a willingness TO nav
EN-. and that's enuf for me. I've always apollo
rized for peopul who done the best they could,