The daily gazette., 1876-05-13

ZION tne petltlOnerS undertake anu
promise to establish aud make good. I {
From the World
The New Declaration Of Ipdepcn-
dence.
The we'll known drum boaters of
woman suffrage met in this city yester-
day and put forward their well known
arguments in favor of the extension of
the franchise to their own sex. A few
measures were adopted with view of
firing the female heart and making the
Centennial year famous for new de-
claration Of independence; but we fear
that John Bright's recent speech has
done more damage to the cause than
many conventions will be able to re-
pair.
In all these meetings a certain anita.
gonism, on the part of men, seems to
be assn med, and the whole suffrage |
movement is considered as a sort of
rebellion against mans tyranny. This
is great mistake. The majority Of
men may think that the ordinary du- /,
ties of women and the distinctive char
acteristics of womanhood do net con-
sort well with the business of public |
life; they may hold that our voting
population is already large enough,
ignorant enough and venal enough.
without doubling its Numbers, ignOr-
ance and venality, and leaving the
ultimate result unchanged; they may
know that the right of suffrage will
! only enable the strong minded woman
to cast her ewn vote, in addition to
that which she has hitherto directed
her husband to cast, and merely enable
the weak minded woman to add her
voice to that of her stronger partner;
they may hold that the destiny of So
ciety is safe in their own hands, since
the interests of man and wife are one
and the interests of the family are sa-
cred to both, and that they cannot
wrong or degrade woman in any way
without trenching upon the rights of q
wife, mother, sister or daughter whose
houor is as dear as life; they may
believe that in legislation and in social
life the whole tendency of civilization
has been to protect and favor woman.
and that the unwritten laws which
seem harshest against the sex are due
to its own influence; they may be of
opinion that woman has everything to
lgain from the homage and service of
man and everything to lose in conflict
with him, if conflict were possible, they
may be conscious, each one for him
self, that womanly influenues-chains
light and unseen, but strong as links
of iron-control their actions and shape
the course of the world, but notwith-
standing their convictions on these
points, men will not hesitate to grant
suffrage to women, however useless
they may esteem the privilege, when
ever women make up their minds that
they want it. To suppose that the two
sexes could for an instant differ on a
great practical question like this,
would be ridiculous, and in case Of
such a difference the men would doubt
less give way.
The great task of the agitators for
woman suffrage is the persuasion of
their own sex, not the conversion of
ours. If they can convince our moth
ers, wives and sisters that they are not
safe without the ballot, and that wo-
men are better prepared than men to
work out the problem of republican
government. Then the revolution
which they seek to bring about will
follow naturely, Thus far little has
been done in this direction; and the
majority of our wemen still hold that
they are no: a separate cl2ss in this
community, but constitent element
in all classes, sharing in the labors,
lpowers, triumph and trials of man as
partners, and not contending with
him as rivals. The reformers must
set themselves to remove from the
hearts of their sisters the teachings Of
TENNYsoN, whose lessons are the eX-
preston of their womanly instincts.
THE woman's cause is mans; they rise or
Together. dwarfed Of god-lIke, bond or free;
For she that out OF Lethe scales with man
The shining sleeps of Nature, shares with
His nights. his days. moves with himt to one
goal,
II she be small, slight -natured. miserable.
How shall men srrow2 =,
For woman is not undeveIopt man,
Bnt::diyerso. Could we make her as q man
Sweet Love were slain; his dearest bond is
this
Not like to like. but like in diff renee.
!. Yet in The long years iiker must they grew.
) The man be m re of woman. she of man.
- lie gain in sweetness and in moral height.
5 Nor lose the wrestling thevs that throw the
i She mental breadth. nor fail in childward
/. Nor lose the chi'dward in the larger mind;
| | Till ut the last she set herself to man
! Like perfect music unto noble words"
The Presidential canvasser has ap
$ peared again in the railroad trains. His
l. present route is between Philadelphi.
s and Baltimore, and he reports Thurman
1 20, Bayard 81, Bristow 20, Tilden 40
!. Blaine 25, Morton 5, Conkling l, Grant l
: This was on the Presidential train,