Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-06-12


I to say that all ladies of seventeen shall vote
and vet il j. impossible to say that there l.
anv distinction II respect TO Intelil-
genee as y matter Of right, any phllo-
I sophical distinction between one year
and another. True. as the Senator says,
Won nav run it down so far that at last you
have reached a condition OF infancy, ana
! there everybody says this child Is not WISE
enough 10 vote. Is not wise enough to 40
4 anything without having guardianship ana
/ tntelage But II yOu put 1t upon the grouhq
I OF natural right. the child has just as good
/ n rirbr 70 sav 20 Won that he shall be the
! iudge OF IL a. Won have TO say to him that
YOU must be and this shows that the
I notion OF any natural right OF ANYBODY Of
any are 10 particiDate IN the government Of
/ society Is an absolute aDsurdlty. IL Is one
/ of those Pigments Of the Imagination That
] have crawled into some peoples brains
within a very few years and Will 60 out
again a. other decisions do
Then when v1u come TO the fourteenth
/ amendment 1t Is equally obvious that that
/ mas nothing TO do with the subject liany-
/ BODY had thought Il related TO Suffrage
when the fifteenth amendment was passed,
nobody would have voted Tor the hiteenth
Z amendment. because on that theory the
{ right % vote did exist ii all eolored per
/ sons. females as well as males: and yer no.
] body OF any party or any creed PRETENDED az
! thar time when we proposed the fifteenth
amendment that we mad guaranteed the
/ rlrht 10 vote by the fourteenth. Nobody
suspected Il nobody suggested It; and no
I body believed In 1t. and very few people 90
3 now. Tor the simple reason that the four
/ tenth amendment was directed. as every
/ BODY knows. by its language, by Its his
I tory. by rs relation 10 other laws, 70 What
! are called civil rights bat / am not gong
70 define what they are. because 10 DO 50
/ take time. 50. Mr. President, the III
/ teenth amendment was passed IN order 10
secure q right 10 vote without regard 20
race. color. or previous condition OF serYi-
tudC
Then Won come TO the real question which
l. involved here and that l. the prOprlety
Of providing that females, limited IN their
description. twenty-one years OF age. not
idiots. not Iunaucs, not IN the penItentlary
standing upon the same limitations that
men do In these resnect--are % vote. mat
presents fair question, one that we nave a
perfect right 20 pass upon and have only
-ail WHAT / have IL order 10 show. II !
might. that we mad not better run crazy
over tine idea that We were dealing with
natural and Inallenable rights and that We
were violating human rights II We hap
neucl On say DO. OF that We were indicating
human rights 10 the sense now spoken OF If
we should say yes We are merely con
siderlnE question Of political expedlency,
a. cluiessoCly as We have the power II gov
ernin- the Territories 20 let anybody vote
we choose " can put the whole concern
in Icmbina If We think It wise, into the
hands 0i the madmen up there, and / dc
not know but that they are n the majority,
tlr ] certainly know nothing about IT,
That brings ne 10 the question winch
really is the one that the Senate ought %
pass upon. and that is what Is the pro-
prlcty OF the hIil at this time
Now what does the committee show Us
uu4n that subject here IL shows Us thai
there ARE a few thousand enterprlsIng pea-
pie or pcmbina. on the Red River, and
that all around them. on every side almost,
there Is Vet an uncu!tIvated desert DO NOS
mean desert IN the sense Of being barren
land. but unoccupied land.
think 81 would be wiser tor the sake OF
these people themselves. Instead oiImposlns
on them the burdens and responsibilities Oh
q separate government, % LEI them i've un-
der the protection OF tue nIted States ana
OF the Territory they have, until they sinai
have acquired more strength. more numbers.
more enterprise. more production. more OF
everything which the ala OF strong Terri
tory can give them. ana winch i yll turn
them out 10y themselves they are @ uItc like
ly 10 i4ll ~ obtaining
The debate was continued BIZ Nr. Bayarl,
ofMaryland. and Nj. Boreman, Of Virginia,
III opposition o. the amendment. when The
vote was taken and the amendment los.. -
70 . The bill was then rejected. 70 TO %.
vermont and canada Railroad.
Tie Boards Of Directors Of the Contra.
y ermont and Vermont and Canada Rail
roads have been In session during the past
week at the Revere House. Boston. They
nave matured and executed contract for
the safe Of the Vernon; and Canada Rail
road. with al It's property. including claims
for back rent. TO the Central Vermont. for
the sum of s. 600 zoo, payable II thirty
wear SIX per cent bonds. dated June Is,
1874, drawing interest from SepJ. lst. 1874. I
and secured by mortgage Of the Vermont
and Canada. and indemnity against OUT .
standing liabilities
This contract j. subject TO ratification By
the stockholders of the Vermont and Can T
ada company. and they vii be forthwith .
called together for this purpose. As this /
is an equitable and advantageous /
bargain for them viii ez1ricate them from .
the position OF doubt and difficulty they !
have occupied for more than Two years.
and give them II lieu Of their stock, which
is to be surrendered and cancelled. a safe
siz Der cent. security, they Will without
ioub; promptly ratify l..
The new board Of directors of 1he Central
\ ermont. not yet three weeks old. are 20 be
on having taken thus speed
lis and successfully this first and most IN
1ortant step N their proposed plan Of con-
ioliGating the railroad interests under their
charge and taking them out Of chancery.
1t is, perhaps. worthy of no1e that the
board Of directors Of the Central Vermont
never before this last week met IN B1s-
on. their former meetings. held out of Yer
mont, having been IN New YORK city
SECRET SOCIETY OfrosTIoS.-The7Anti-
secret Association Society. which was in
ession az syracuse. II. y. last week and
n which one Daniel Braley CD Of Yer
mont figures a- one of the Vice Presidents.
doptei resolutions opposing Free Mason
s.. becau-e J; omit= the name Of the Lord
esus Christ in its forms Of prayer, quota
ions from Scriptures, etc, because Of the
LEGGED exclusion from membership of all I
ID men IN their dotase, young men in their
onage. imbeciles. crippled and MANNED
ersons, all IN full health, and women
be persons above all others most needing
uman sympathy and charity because Of
Is alleged welcoming of unregenerated. y
nsanctihed paEans, Mahometans. Jews, c
ltdels and nominal Christians to the same a
ltar Of worship because of the alleged 1
Ialtati0n Of the square and compass above 4
lie Bible, IN that they are placed on the
tars Of all countries, while the Bible is l.
Ie symbol upon the affairs only OF so-called /,
tristan countries because Of the alleged 2
PRODUCTION into its higher or chivalrie de- te
zee Of so-called Christianity OF the sword, T. T.
fighting religion. and because Of the al II
ged re-introduction of the Aaronic priest d,
,od as after the order of Melchisedec. in 81 81