Litchfield enquirer., 1874-06-18

You never saw people look as blank as them as was against me. That young chap as went and proved too much got it hot, l expect, from his gauger, and that was nothing, reckon, to what the super got from his headquarters. Their law yer did his best for them, I must say. First, he pooh-poohed the count altogeth- CT; it wasn't an clement in his case at all he said; and when he saw that wouldn't do, he tried to make out that peoples toes weren't always on the inside edge of their feet. Then he put it that p'r'aps, being Q one-legged man, I'd got right foot on my left leg. At that I offered to show the gents my other foot, but they didn't want that. The magistrate said that clearly the excise had made mis- take, and they hoped should be properly compensated for what I'd suffered and so they set me free without more ado.
 And when that job was finished Tracey beckoned nae aside into corner of the room, and says he, "Who was it, Bob, that did it? Was it Sam?" ''How can I tell, MT. Tracey?' says I; cit warn't,. me, anyhow. 'Ah." says he, :'I remember noW-tlIe two wooden legs, P. l.. B. We'll, he says, looking quite solemn all ln minute, ''you've made better use of yours than Sam did, But Bob." says he, there's flyer for you for expenses, let 1t be warnin' to you, and don't you go breaking the law
 Whereupon thanked him, and said I never would, and didn't neither, as. long as was in that part of the country, fol there was eyes upon me all round after that, as you may be sure.
 The Senate and Woman Suffrage.
 During the debate on the bill to estab. fish the territory of Pembina on the 29th ult., Senator Sargent offered an amend ment, providing that the women of the prospective territory should have the same political rights as the men. A spirited debate ensued from which the following extracts are made, the order of the discus sion being followed:-
 MT. Sargent, of California:-At the time when tho last national convention of the republican party assembled in Philadel- phia which nominated the present Presi- dent of the United States for his second term, there were assembled body of able, respectable ladies of the United States, who urged upon that convention Q consi. deratlon of the subject involved in the amendment which I propose; and as a con- cession to the demand made by those pers- sons plank was inserted in the plat form whereby 1t was declared that the re- publican party would treat with considera- ton the claims of women to he admitted to additional rights. Since that time al- though the republican party has had a two-thirds majority in both houses ot congress and elected the President of its choice at the succeeding election, ,and now has full power and has had ever since the assembling of this congress to carry out this promise, not one step has been taken in this direction. It has not been for want of petition or solicitation. I hope the time is not far distant when some of the older states of the Union like New York or Massachusetts or Ohio, may give this experiment fuller chance. But so far as it has gone, the experiment. has been entirely in favor of legislation ot this character, of admitting women to the ballot-box. And do not believe that il putting these higher responsibilities upor women we degrade their character, thai we subject them to unoongenial pursuits, that we injure their moral tone, that we tarnish their delicay, that we in any way make them less noble and admirable as women, as wives and mothers.
 Mir. Morton of Indiana:-While 1t was argued by old law-writers and old law makers that to allow women to hold pro- perty separate from their husbands was to break up the harmony of the marriage relation, we know practically that it has not worked that way. We know that as we have made woman independent, re- coganized her legal existence as Q wife, secured her rights, and not made her the mere slave of her husband, 1t has elevat- ed her. We know that instead of disturb ing the marriage relation, it has improved it constantly: and believe that the wo- man has the same natural right to voice in this government that the man has. If we believe in the theory of our govern ment that must be so We say that all men, all human beings, are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that to attain these rights governments are instituted, which derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; and yet here are one half of the people of the United States who have no power to give their consent or their dis sent. The theory of our government is expressly violated in regard to woman. believe that as you make woman the equal of man in reeard to civil rights, you elevate her. you make her happier; and as you do that you elevate the male sex, her husband, her son, her brother, and her father.
 MT. Flanagan of Texas:-I am new convert to the doctrine. I have reflected much on this subject, and within the last few months I have settled down in my de- termination, and that is to advocate this great measure Why have so recently arrived at this conclusion? In tie last few months the women's war upon the whisky trade and intemperance at large has prompted me thus to declare unequivocal- ly for them and their glorious efforts. The great Farmer of the world, the Creator, created man first. Woman was an after thought if you please. But the idea I suggest is that women are not the inferi- ors of men, as is often alleged. The De- ity does not do anything that does not prove to be superior in any sense of the word. They having been created second, look upon them as the superior
 MT. Merrimon of North Carolina: :-I do not believe that woman herself believes that her dignity would be elevated or her happiness prompted by putting her upon an exact equality, civily or politically, in both points of view, with man; and . very strong and controlling evidence of thSt fact is, that neither in this country nor in any country has woman-I mean the great mass of them-ever demanded such a state of things. Our government has ex- isted for abou. hundred years, and the number of females who have demanded to be invested with equal political and civil rights and to be placed upon an exact equality with the male portion of our DO pulation, compared with those who have remained in retirement, who have stayed at their homes and lived and ruled within that sphere in which it seems God intend. a.l ti,at tI,ozr l,.o1.1d ,.u,In os. .l....-