Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-03-18
womaa suffrage nt Kennett.


AND PR0GHEssIvE-MARY GREW TO THE FRONT
-KEsNETT AROUSED ONCE MORE.
Special Correspondence Of ute Commercial
KENNErr SQUARE, March II.
You do not need to be told of the progressive
and reformatory spirit of this good borough
Well 1t has aroused to a new concern, +" and has
started the Woman Suffrage ball in real earnest,
meaning to send 1t iolng clear into the hall Of
the State Constitutional Convention, knocking
over such high and mighty defamers OF the wo-
men, as Boyd, of Norristown, and those other
people who resisted and ridicued the righteous
proposition to put Woman Suffrage in the new
Constitution.
Last Friday afternoon and evening, meetings
in behalf Of the Work were held here, in our
Hail. Oh the platform were some of our old
time iaborers for Freedom, Temperance, and
Liberal Thought, with some new faces There
were MIR. Turner, and his wife Eliza Sproat Turner
the poetess Dinah Mendinhall and Hannah
Cox Chandler Darlington and Hannah Rev
Mr.. Ames, and Mrs. Ames, of Germantown !;
John X. Wildman, of Philadelphia, who deals In
money and stocks, but won't sell bis principles !;
Mary Grew, the eloquent champion of all good
works Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Jackson Evan t.
bwayne, and others while all through the Hall,
there were scores Of well-known philanthropic
and progressive people Mary Grew said it re-
minded her of story from Boston. One mer-
chant Of that clean-shaven city, said to another
after they had closed bargain "Were you up
at the Woman Suffrage meeting ?" WELL"
said the second, II came by and thought /
should have gone in, but looked into the door,
and there saw the. same old bald-heads that
used to be always holding Conventions about
this and that"
This meeting in our town is the first
OF series to be held under the auspices OF the
Woman'H Suffrage Association OF PENNSYLVANIA
of which Mary Grew is President When the
people came together in the afternoon, Josiah.
Jackson WAS called to the chair, and Florence
Preston appointed Secretary. Josiah is one of
our sound and weighty people, and has been
long staunch advocate Of extending the ballot
TO woman.
Mary Grey opened the speaking and stated
why the meeting was called, that ID, to commence
agitation OF the question of Woman Suffrage,
with view to it's effect hrst on the Constitution
al Convention, and generally on the public
She paid glowing compliments to John NJ.
Broomal and William Darlington, (such as they
deserve, too,) and il those gentlemen only knew
how enthusiastically we applauded their names
they would feel somewhat repaid for their ef-
forts in the convention.
After Miss Grew Rev. Mr.. Ames, the Unitari-
an minister at Germantown, spoke, and follow
ing him, the Reverend Mr.. Acorn, our earnest
young Methodist preacher, who labors here at
Kenneth He said he had long been converted
TO sense OF the justice of Womans demand for
the ballot, and was now sure that Prudence sup
ported Justice in the claim, and that the time
James Frazier, our Presbyterian dominic.
thorough, stauneh, preacher of the Word, origi-
nally from the Scottish Kirk. He said
he thought his coming to Kennett, his eKperi-
ence OF the Reformatory atmosphere here
and his growth in Progressive opinions,
were Providential, but il his father in
in the flesh and his fathers in the Church, in
Scotland, were to know of his presence here,
speaking thus from this platform, in favor of
Woman Suffrage, they would send up groan
W m
But he felt it his duty to go ahead, and he goes.
He found convictions on the subject enter his
mind, after hearing Mrs. LiVermore, at Long
wood. (She is great woman.) He closed his
address with the remark that if the people
elected woman President, his love for the
place of his nativity, and his respect for its
Ter, would forbid him to complain or object, SO
long AZ sogood and true woman as Victoria wore
the crown. And then we applauded that. We
DON'T want Queen but We reepsct Victoria--or
any other true woman.
Well, in the evening, the Hall was crowded.
The platform was full. and every available space
was occupied. All the country, round about,
drove in, and we had good old-fashioned gath
eHns. You could have started John Browns
Song, or Julia Ward Howe's Hallelujah Hymn,
and raised the roof of the Hail. but of
course we didn't want to do that (Woman Suf.
frage, by the way, has no songs, yet. Can't
some Of your Wilmington poets make us some I?
Or you might hold Convention, ike you did
upon Croquet, and get ~ good, rousing Cho-
rus.)
The speakers in the evening were Rev. Mr..
Ames, who made good, strong, argumentative
address, calculated to influence and convince /;
then, MARY Grew, who spoke beautifully, elo-
quently, and earnestly. think Mary Grew is
one of the very finest female speakers in the
country. In spiritual force, expansiveness Of
mind, and purity of thought, she resembles Lu-
cretia Mott, and like her diffuses feeling Of
goodness that some of our other eloquent and
forcible women do not. In the course of her
remarks, our neighbor William Pyle, who though
Kennett man. is opposed to having the women
vote, asked Mary some questions and she
answered them most conclusively-at least
SO We all thought. And Samuel Pennock
applauded tremendously. He is new
convert, but is greatly in earnest as he always
is, when he takes an interest, at all. Mary said
the woman clerks, in the Departments at WASH
ington didn't get theirpoor little inadequate sala-
rles increased, but the Congressman grabbed for
themselves because those had no votes, and
these had. That's the difference.
Other addresses were made by Mr.. Turner,
who was set to talk against Time, while the FL
nance Committee was raising money and by
Mrs. Ames, wife Of the minister. She is an ac-
tive, quick, earnest woman, and made forcible
address full of snap, aaa garnished with good
anecdotes. And so the meeting closed, and
must, too. KENNETT.
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