Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-08-15
From the Augncta Chronicle and Sentinel.
THE WOMAN QUESTION.
bill Arp ON Female SaffraGc-Erial
of SOOsan Antny, &c.

MIR. EDITUR-SOOSan Antny Is nuGl1n /
to me-that is nuthin pertickler. No
woman amt exsep Mrs Arp, but when
I heard they was tryin her for votln,
my feminine instincks carried me /
strait to the courthouse. [ was on
her side before I got there and L am
on her side yit. Women i'll general is
my weakness and espeshually woman
whose name is Soosan. / always en-
We'd a man who could fondle over his
wife or sweetheart and call her |
''Soosy" 1t sounds SO mcller and
soft. SO when [ seed Soosan Antny .
arrained up before the judge like Il |
konvict I was mad-mad with the
whole Yanky nashun. They ralse a
hellybilloo over the old broken konstl- |
tuition and mend it up SO as to let the /
black babboons vote in the Rebel |
and spunk dares to do it, it shocks I
their pewritan modesty The old |
Judge tried to look fierce, ard said
woman shouldn't underseN herself.
[ have seen heap of men who, when
they got sorter Old, took up a kind OF
sour 2rape spite against good-lookln
women. But SOOsan looked at the
Judge as strait as an e9rl1. She stood
up square ON her paster Joints, and
remarked that she was free-bOrn and
nativ-born and had property OF her
own, and had n right to vote Tor the
law makers of her choice. She sand
that women done as much Tor the
country as the men, and, If they dldent
fight in battle, they raised the boys
that did. That hayin EN- and nussln
EN- in sikness and in helth was a
harder job than fightin, and II men
dident believe it, jest let EN- try 1t
a while. She sed if the Judge could
name one good reesun why. they
shouldn't vote, she wanted to known
what it was.
Soosan's eyes flashed little angelic
fire when the judge fined her a hun
| dred dollars, and she remarked that
every advance in civilization had to
have its martyrs. and she was reddy.
She throwd a hunderd dollar bill over
to the clerk, and sed she, would bet
another hundred that that money new
er reached the State ury. She
dident mind that old no more
than if he was monEy told him
that if they would base sHotin bis
ness on morality, or prof-ty Or intel
igence. or all three put together, the
women would be satisfied; but they
based it on wearin hritches, and drink
in 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 po-
litikul masters as the Suthern niggers
or the hethen Chinee. That if the wo-
men could vote there wouldent be a
drunkard, nor thief, nor fool on
the bench, nor in any other offs, and
| ,c1- hn 10 han
arsenik. An old, red nosed, 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 hel
fair fife with the Judge; another sald
the law dident say whether the britch
es must be worn outside or inside, and
another sed he'd rather risk the wo
men to vote than thOusans of then
drunken furriners and fools who elect
, ed John Morrisey.
Now I've been thinking a heap abou
this voting bisiness myself and N.
: opinyun ar that Gov Ji1lkins is a nit,
smart man. The first time he run TO
Govnor they beat him bekaus he sec
he dident think that every fool an'
l every vagabond ort to be allowed t.
; vote. He was for DRAWN i'll the line
: instead of letten EN- out. and the mel
ankolly sequel hav proved that he we
right If l was a king l wouldent lie
> anybody vote who couldent tel
whether General jackson was dea,
or alive, or who took NOR
! than three drinks a day as a regula
= thing, or who chawed tobaker ate
; he had gone to bed, or who was a mean
=. er man than his daddy, or who believed
= in costs and witches, or who diden
put on q clean shirt Onst n week, O
: who dident earn 80 cents day at sun
!. respektabel bisness. or who shouted Il
= mite meetins more than two hO'lrs on
:; stretch. I heard blind freenologis
u say that the way tC test a mans sens
;, was to draw straight line from tn
: top of his upper lip to his forrerG an
another from the lower corner of hi
nose to the hole in his ear, and if tn
r angle between was less than 60 degree
u he might be smart for monky but h
, was fool for man. He sed that thi
:. test would rule ont nearly all the idiot
= and Africans from votin, and if it did
> ent their faith in witches would.
{ wonldent let furriner vote until Ii
l had lived here and behaved himself 70
ten years, and he shouldn't vote the
! unless he had married an american Ga
n n or was a raisin children on amerika
i soil I wouldent let no unmarried ma
vote who was over 3Oyears old; thong
[ would let all sich Justify by sweari
: that they had tried bat nobody woul
. have EN-. Id make EN- name the gal
in their affidavy.
L would let every married man an
: his wife and every widder vote. if the
wasn't cst off by the foregoin excel
! tons. They should have one vot
{ apiece for themselves and one for ever
= child they had. This last would elt
u vate the Arpian family about electio
! times shore. Akkording to Solomon
all SIGH ought to hav a heap of privilt
:, ges, for it amt no pikayune bisinesst
, raise big drove of children. Jest Ii
q q any hide-bound bachelor try it and see
u I look upon respectable children as til
hope of the State, and if I had my wa
- these stagnantold rips who wont marry
} but prowl round and iye easy and iii
: rich and leave no sign, at least none t
y speak of, should be taxed heavy an
the money appropriated to the orfin.
! fund. What's man worth to the Stat
- who leaves it 10 defenders after he
. ded and gone; who patronizes II
Sundy-schools or Mundy-schools- buy
no candy OF baby clothes, or balls, O
barlow knives, or long stockins, G
=, jackonet muslin, or hoop skirts or ga
. luses. What intrust has he got in PEI
petuatin great principles? Why,
. chronic old bachelor can jest turn owe
. in his one-horse bed and die and nc
Z keer a darn if the world Gums to a
= end in 10 minutes. He wouldent kee
= If the devil was to break loose and ca
up the women and children alive.
+ Now I'm not sayin word agin the1
- married foaks who sumhow or sumho,
else haint accidentally been blesse
with otfsprings. Bv no means. The
showd a Willingness to hay EN-, an
that's enuf for me. I've always apollo
8 gized for peopul who done therbes
!. they could, whether they suckseede
v or not. [ amt no Bonyparte to cho
, mans head off for losing a battle
: whether he was to blame or not. II
= friend to married foaks, children O
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