Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-10-03
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BILL ARP on FEMALE SUFFRAGE
TRIAL OF soosAN ANTNY, ETC.
ROWE, GA, Aug, 1873.

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Mr. w:-Soosan Antny amt
nuthin to me-that is nuthln pctiklcr. -
No woman amt exsep Mrs Arp, but
when heard they was tryin her for vot-
in, my feminine insiinks carried me
strait to the court house. was on her
side before ! got there and I'm on her
side yit. Women in general is my weak
ness and espeshly a woman whose name
is Soosan. always envied man who
could fondle over his wife or his sweet
heart and call her "Soosy" 1t sounds
so mollcr and soft. So when | seed 500
san Antny arrained up before the Judge
like a konyict | was mad-mad with the
whole Yanlsy nashun. They raise a
hcllybilloo over the old broken konstitu-
ton and mend it up so as to let the black
babboons vote in the rcycl States, but if
a white woman Of sense and spunk dares
to do it, itshocbs their powritan modcsty
The old judge tried to look force and
said a woman shouldn't undorsex her
self. have seen heap Of men who
when they got sortcr old, took up sour
grape spite against good lookin women
But Soosan looked at the judge as strait
as an egul. She stood up square on her
pastor joints and remarked that she was
free born and natiy-born and had proper
ty 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 didcnt
fight in battle they raised the boys that
did. That havin them and nursin en-
and tcnden to en- in sickness and in
health was a harder Job than ftin, and
if the men dident believe it Jest let EN-
try it awhile She sed if the Judge could
name one good reason why they shouldn't
vote she wanted to know it.
Soosan's eyes flashed a little angclike
fire when the judge fined her hundred
dollars, and she remarked that every adj
vanso in civilization had to have its mar
tyrs, and she was reddy. She throwcd
a hundred dollar bill over to the clerk,
and sed that she would bet another hun
dred that that money never reached the
State Treasury. She dident mind that
old Judge any more than if be was a
monkey. She told him that if they
would base the votin business on morali-
ty, or property, or intelligence, or all
three put together, the women would be
satisfied; but they base it on wearin
britches, and drinlin whisky, and chawin
tobakker, and keepin one wife at home
and another some where else She de-
clared that she had as much rite to choose
her poltlkul masters as the Suthorn mig
gers or the heather chinee. That if the
women could vote there wouldn't be a
drunkard, nor a thief, nor fool on the
bench, nor in any other offs, and whis-
ky would be harder to get then arsenik.
An old rcd-nosed, swelled-faccd man
winked one eye at her and hikuped "the
b-h--hell you say" When the court
adjourned the crowd chccred Soosy, and
man scd he'd pay the fine another
sed he'd sec her a fair fte with the judge /;
another sed the law didn't say whether
the britches must be worn outside or in
side, and other sed he'd rather risk the
woman to vote than thousand Of them
drunken furriners aud fools who elected
John Morrissey.
Now Pvc been thinin heap about this
votin business myself aud my opinyun
ar that Gov. Jiukins Is a NIFTY man. Tho
first time be run for Governor they beai
him bekaus he sed be dident think that
every fool and every vagabond OFT To b
allowed to vote. lie was for DRAWN ii