Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-31

can Civilization, we take announcement for
continued effort in behalf of the enfranchise-
ment of woman, confident that as surely as
right is still right, and justice is still justice,
this cause will also steadily progress and
speedily triumph.
RESOLVED, That this society pledges itself,
here and now, member to member, to pursue
the work we have to-day undertaken, with
undated and undertaking fidelity, until the
women of the State of Maine shall have the
ballot, in as sure possession as do the men of
this State.
Julia Ward Howe was glad to greet the
large and intelligent audience. Glad of the
spirit of the last resolution that pledges work
No association is worth anything that does
not work-it cannot be kept alive without
work. Woman whose style of work has been
small and limited is hereafter to work for
common womanhood. Should like to see
many associations springing up in Maine
the noble State that gave to Massachusetts
such man as John Andrews.
Mrs. Lucy Stone was the next speaker.
She saw similarity in the Inauguration of the
association to the signing of the declaration
OF Independence by our fathers. 1t is asked
what good will it do for women to vote p
who will stay at home and take care of the
baby and mind the family? Such objections
the declaration of Independence. The gov
eminent has wanted just the influence of
woman in political matters. In Wyoming
woman suffrage works admirably, the one
place in all the world where women have the
same political rights as men. She told of a
lady, seventy years Of age, who had come
many miles with three daughters, to attend
this meeting. When women like her take an
interest, the triumph of the cause is sure in
Maine. Thought women themselves should
be the missionaries in this work. We have
to wait long and patiently in this matter
sow the seed and water the tender plant care
fully and often. As the buds that will burst
forth in beauty next May were formed in the
June previous, so the bud of equal Justice to
women has been formed and will expand in
due course of time.
According to Blackstone, husband and wife
are one person in law. A commentator has
said that that person is the husband. An I'M
married woman has $50 600; she may buy
and sell land, give a good title, sue and be
sued, as though she were man; but under
the common law, when she marries every
dollar goes to her husband. When a child is
born, does her lands she may possess go to
it? no, but to the husband. BY the law the
husband has taken all the money, and now
the law says, "We shall have all the land"
When the husband dies, she has the misera-
BILE pittance of one-third of the estate, called
by that hateful title "the widows incum-
brance."
Happily these odious laws and discrimina-
tons have in a measure passed away. But
even now, according to law in Massachusetts,,
If married woman wants to sell land that
she owned before she ever saw her husband,
she must first get his consent, or the sale is
not legal.
But if men were able to make woman's
cause their own, and everything else were
equal, she should for all that want the right
to vote. The womanliness of woman should
be stamped upon the government. We have
masculine government that is full of war
and murder and defalcatons. With woman's
suffrage this would be remodeled, and men
and women would cooperate together in the
administration of the government. She OBJ
jected, decidedly to being ranked politically
with idiots, madmen and Indians. The day
is not far distant when woman's full rights
will be accorded to her.
Miss Eastman of Lowell, Mass, continued
the discussion, and testified to her deep inter-
est in the suffrage movement Nowhere is
there so much unrecognized fathfulness as
in woman. Spoke in gratitude of Gov. Per-
hams allusion in his address to women's
wages as teachers. Gave some incidents of
personal observation, showing woman's poor
pay and sacrifices. Woman must have d.
vine contempt for the low grovelling position
which she occupies. Showed what women
will do with the ballot when they find out
il means something.
At five o'clock the convention adjourned
to evening.
EVENING SESSION.
The closing meeting of the session, in the
evening, was the largest of the series. The
time was mostly taken up in addresses by
Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe and w. p.
Whitehouse, Esq, for which we have no
space, even for abstract. There was some
pleasant sparring between the lady speakers
and gentleman in the hall, who suggested
that the ladies of the State vote whether or
no they wish the right to vote, before the con-
stitutional right is granted. The result of
the controversy was extremely gratifying TO
sutfrag ists. The resolutions were adopted
as reported from the committee, cooperative
committees appointed and large number of
names obtained for membership in the associ-
alton. The Judiciary committee of the
legislature were present.
All ladies interested in the Masonic levee
are requested to meet at Masonic Hall Fri
day afternoon at > o'clock, and bring with
them material for making articles for the fan
cy article table.
COLLARS, Large varieties of linen collars
and cuffs and paper collars and cuffs of the
latest styles and best qualities at S. w. Hunt
ington 4 Cos. jan3l+lw
WHITE SHIRTS. Large assortments, and
good fits warranted, at s. W. Huntington &
Cos. Tlw
Like the Electric Telegraph
Centaur Liniin ent has been long time
coming,-but what work it is now doing.
The halt and lame, sore and wounded, are
literally throwing away their crutches. Rheu-
matism and stiff joints are banished, and
Ju,,h baosts nr,, Out inxr Ono trial tolls