New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-01-23


ON Thursday and Friday, Of Last week, the
ladies most prominent in the work OF agitat-
in- the question Of the right Of women to
participate n voters in the Government I'M
der which they live. held convention IN
this city which was largely attended. The
speeches were mainly made to prove that,
under the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments 10 the Federal Constitution. women
became entitled 10 the right of exercising the
elective franchise. Speechc, on this point
were made by Susan u. Anthony, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, and others. The womau's
suffrage cause Is fast becoming fashionable,
and prominent statesmen and lawyers are
Giving II respectful consideration all over the
country. We would say to the women adj
xocotes Of woman's suffrage that their angs
ot the negro and their constant Ta:al,ng
him before their conventions aS an ignorant
monster possessing the ballot, while they
or, dcnieJ II. are of no real benefit {" their
rorse. Mrs. stanton, Miss Anthony, and
their cnlaborcrs, claim that the ballot will
elevate woman, that they are now slaves A;
the advocates of negro suffrage claimed that
The ballot would elevate the negro; it has F.;
,hav were ignorant, they are now making
rand strides in the way Of education. The
majority of the women of the country are
ignorant on political questions nearly, II not
o,,ito rs ignorant as were the negroes be-
f,r. the ballot was given to them; but, like
the NEGROES, they know right from wrong,
and we fully believe that they need the ballot
rs we'll as does the negro. The filings 1t ne
gro suffrage by the advocates Of Woman's
suffrage are inconsistent with their claim that
the governed are not justly governed with
out their consent, and smaCks rather Of an
aristocratic feeling which finds expression in
the claim that white women should have the
ballot because they are better educated than
black men.
The following ale the resolutions adopted
by the convention:
Whereas the fathers declared long ago that
4 peYson who has no voice in the rules, nor
in the laws under which he lives, i = slave :
therefore
ResolecI, That so long as women are de-
MED the right of suffrage they are politically,
civility, and socially enslavcd.
Resolced, That the present attempt in cur
courts. by false construction of the Federal
Constitution. TO exalt all men as soyereigns
and to degrade all women as slaves, is Ia
establish the most odiOus form of arist"yracy
known within the limits Of the civilized world,
that of scr.
Rcso}cea, That women are ''perSon-' and
"citizcns" possessed Of all the legal quaiih-
cations Of voters in all the several States,
age, property, and education, and by the
fifteenth amendment Of the Federal Con-
stitutiOn have been secured the right Of
suffrage.
Res9iecd, That it is the duty OF Congress
by appropriate legislation, to protect women
in their exercise of this right
Hesy!red, That women are citizens, first OF
the United States. and second of the States
and Territories wherein they reside, hence
we claim national protection ofOur inalienahle
rights against all State authority.
HeSoiced, That States may regulate all
local questions Of property, taxation, &C.,
but this is an inalienable right declared By
the Constitution, and must be interpreted
by the Supreme Court, protected by Con-
gross, and enforced by the arm Of the Exc
cutivc.
Whereas the bill to unite Colorado and
Wyoming into one, and that one TO be Colo
RADIO, thus depriving the women of Wyoming
OF the right Of suffrage, sayors too much al
the old blackstone idea Of marriage, by which
the husband and wife are made one, and that
one the husband: therefore,
Resolced, That VIC heartily sympathize viii.
the women of Wyoming, and sustain them
in their opposition TO this measure.
Rc3o!red, That the criminal prosecution OF
Susan Il. Anthony by the United States fOi
the alleged crime Of exercising the citizen,
right of suffrage, is an act of arbitrary an.
thority, unconstitutional, and blow at the
liberties of every citizen Of this nation.
Whereas women IN the several States have
commenced suits against United States oiii-
GERS for refusing their ballots: therefore,
ReSoired, That we tender our hearty sym
pathies to the prosecuted officials, realizing,
as we alone can do, that their troubles have
only commenced, these suits being but the
few drops which prccede the coming storm.
Rcsolce3, That the report Of the Senate
Judiciary Committee against the petition OF
the ten thousand naturalizcd citizens Of
Rhode Island, Is new and insidiOus form Of
state rights, sustaining, as it does, State
discrimination between United States citi-
zcns contrary to both the letter and the spirit
Of the fourteenth amendment.
Reso'ced, That the friends Of woman suf-
iragc may congratulate themselves on their
speedy success inasmuch as great political
party that has just received new lease of
power BY Overwhelming ma iorities, a rcsvect-
.ui consideration OF the rights Of woman,
whose President has pronounced opinions
IN the equal rights Of citizens, and whose
Vice President has been an advocate of wo-
mans suffrage far twenty years, and in the
late campaign, in oyer one hundred speeches,
never forgot &c mention his disfranchzed
cOuntrywOmcn.