The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-08-22
0he ~ arietta sOnrnal.
ArLI ARP-Hrs OPINION ON FE.
MALE SUFFRAGE.
Raoy R.ading-run ana HumOr,
ROWE, Ga, August 1873.

tOMh3 0A.g hueuss AS' "
M. Editay :--Soosan Antny ain
nuthin to me--that is nuthin partik'
Ter. No woman amt exsep Mrs. Arp,
but When ! heard they was tryin
her for votin, my feminine instinks
carried me strait to the court house.
| was on her side before | got there
and am on her side yit. Women
II general is my weakness and es
peshualIy woman whose name Is
Soosan. | always envied a man
who could fondle over his wife or his
sweetheart and call her ''Soosy" -
/, sounds so meller and soft. 30
when I seed Soosan Antny arrained
nm before the Judge like a convict
was mad with the whole
Yanky nashun. They raise belly
bilIoo over the old broken konstitn
shion and mend it up so as to let the
black babboons vote in the rebel
States, but if white woman ofsense
and spunk dares to do it, il shocks
their pewritan modesty. The old
Judge tried to look fierse and said q
woman shouldn't undersex herself.
| have seen heap Of men who,
when they got sorter old, took up a
sour grape spite against good lookin
women. But Soosan looked at the
Judge as strait as an egul. She
stood up square on her paster iints
and remarked that she was free>born
and nativ born and had property OF
her own, and had u right to vote for
the law-mak ers of her choice. She
said that women done as much for
the country as the men, and if they
dident fight in battle they raised
the boys that did. That havin EN-
and nursin en- and tendin to EN- in
sickness and in heltb was harder
Job than fitin, 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 little an
gelik fire when the Judge fined
her one hundre dollars, and she re-
marked that every advance in sivili-
zashun had to have its martyrs, and
she was reddy. She throwd a 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 If he
was monkey. She told him thatit
they would base the votin bisness on
morality, or property, orintelligence,
or all three put together, the women
would be satisfde; but they based
it on wearin britches, and drinkir
whisky and chawin tobakker, an(
keepin one wife at home and another
sum where else She declared tina
she had as much rite to choose he
politikal masters as the Suthern mig
gers or the heethen Chinee. Tha
If the women could vote Their
wouldent be q drunkard, nor thieI
nor a fool ON the bench, nor in an
other offs, and whisky would b
harder to git than arsenik. An old
red nosed, swell face man winke
one eye at her and hikkupcd 9TH
h---he--hell you say" When tn
court adjourned the crowd cheerc
Soosy, and one man sed he'd pa
the fine another sod he'd see he
fair fite with the Judge anothe
sed the law dident say whether tn
britches must be worn outside or in
side, another sed he'd rather risk tn
women to vote then thousAns Of the'
drunken furriners and fools VIII
elckted John Morrissey.
Now Iye been thinkin hea
about this votin bisness my self, an
my opinyun ar that Gov. Jinkins
nifty smart man. The first tim
he run for Governor they beat hin
bekaus he sed he dident think tht
every fool and every vagabond o,
TO be allowed to vote. He was ia
DRAWN in the lines instead of letti
EN- out, and the melancholy sequt
proved that he wer rite. If | wa
king wouldent let anybody vot
who couldent tell whether Genera
jackson was ded or alive, or VIII
took more than three drinks da
as regular thing. or who chawed to
baker after he had gone to bed, o
who was meaner man than hi
daddy, or who believed in costs o.
witches, or who dident pu, on {
clean shirt onst a week, or who did,
ent earn so cents a day at sum re,
spektabul bisness, or who shouted al
mite meetins more than two hours on
q stretch. ! heard blind freenolo
gist sag that the way to test a mans
sense was to draw a strait line from
the top Of his upper lip to his fore,
head and another from the lower
corner of his nose to the hole in his
ear, and ifthe angle between was
less than go degrees he might be
smart for a monky but he was fool
for a man. He sed that this test
would rule out nearly ali the idiots
and Afrikins from votin, and if il
dident their faith in witches would.
] wouldent let furriner vote until
he had lived here and behaved him.
self for ten years, and he shouldn't
vote then unless he had married an