Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-12
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LiTCHFlELD.
 The Woman Suffrage meeting of Satur- day evening was very we'll attended, and the audience, numbering over two hundred seemed interested throughout the entire evening.
 Miss Anthony opened with an argu- ment to show the power of the ballot and it's necessity for woman's advancement. In we'll chosen language she made clear, concise statement of the facts that show the necessity of the enlargement of woman's sphere of work, and the advant- age the ballot would be to her in her struggle for wider field of action and better pay as a worker. She illustrated the wonderful difference the ballot makes in the consideration of the class with the law-maker by the experience of the negro in Kansas. Just after the war the color ed men of Leavenworth held celebra- tion at which it was expected U. s. Senators and Representatives would be present, but none came, and Miss An thony had the privilege of making the first address. Negroes did not then vote. A few years after, when the Fifteenth Amendment had passed, and at the cele- bration of the same event, the stage was full O. Senators and Representatives and Governors and ex-Governors, showing by their presence that the black man had be- come a political power.
 nIcLuUry au auureSS or an hours length full of fact, of logical argument, and of shrewd hits at politics and parties. It was exactly the speech one would ex- pect from the shrewd, fearless advocate who has been busy with this great ques- tion all over the country for over twenty five years.
 Miss Anthony dealt mainly with the radical phase of women suffrage-the advantage the ballot would be to woman: Mrs. Hooker spoke, on the other hand, chiefly of it's conservative aspect-of the advange woman would be to the ballot. She showed how impossible it was that the great questions of moral and temper ance reform could ever be pushed to a successful issue without adding the re- fining influence, ,and the moral strength of woman to the existing franchise. Any re- port of ours would do still less justice to the beautiful expression of a womanly de- sire to enlarge her sphere of good in soci- ety which characterized Mrs. Rockers address, than to the solid fac.s presented by Miss Anthony. She concluded with brief reference to the irrepressible conflict at Glastonbury. At the close of the meeting petitions to the legislature for the removal of the injustice of taxation without representation received about 30 signatures.
 On Sunday evening, Mrs. Hooker held a religious service at the Old Con- gregational Church which was attended by at least three hundred people. Hymns were sung by a choir made up mainly of singers from the Congregational choir, and Mrs. Hooker followed the usual order of service in the Congregational church, of which she is member. Her sermon, on forgiveness, was most beautiful and touching plea for the full forgiveness of sin and the substitution of the loving kindness of Christ for the harsh severity of the law in the treatment of the erring. She is the last but by no means the least of the great family of preachers born to the remarkable man for many years pas- tor of the parish in which his youngest daughter has shown herself so worthy of her great father. Her voice is peculiar ly sweet, and her delivery peculiarly impressive, while her reading of the para ble of the Prodigal Son was the finest we ever heard. Trained theologians might find fault with her theology. It is not our province to judge of the religion of the head; but she exemplifed most thor oughly the natural superiority of woman over man in the religion of the heart; and the most conservative christian in the congregation must have been deeply impressed with the woful loss the chris tian church suffers from its exclusion of the heart of woman from it's pulpit.
 At caucus of Republican electors held at the Town room Saturday after noon, the following were chosen:
 Hate-D. c. Kllbourn. Frederick S Porter, Charles B. Andrews, James K. Wallace.
 Senatorial-H. R. Morrill,, William T Hall, D. F. Wooster, Charles W. Hins- dale.
 Probdte-John l.. Plumb, Henry s. Griswold, Edward Crossman, Henry Bis sell.
 The delegates were given power to ap- point substitutes.
 The school meeting of Friday night was a very full one, and the question of graded school was agitated. Mir. Andrews made telling speech in it's favor, and committee was appointed to report on the subject to future meeting.