The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-02

Letter From Washington.

DEAR .FGIs: My tongue is not the pen OF q
ready writer wish il was, that might graph
cally describe the prOcc, dings of the cOnVen.
ton recently held hy the strong minded women
who are seeking the Dallot-buN and any other
box had almost said, so that IL placed them
Just where the men stood. On the roStrum in
Lincoln Hail. where for The ninth time this au.
gust (D body, composed of the same ndiyidu.
ais had met, were Mrs. CaGy Stanton, over
whose "crown of glory" had fallen nearly the
allotted span, diguiiled and polished, evidently
TO the manor born. Sara Spencer, wife of the
Spenceran copy-book man, Rela Lockwood,
Esq, who wreakcd her vengeance on the L. 5.
Supreme Court and Centennial Commissioners,
Gen. Hawley particularly; Mrs. Lily Blake,
Mrs JUcelyn Gage, Mrs. Kicker, Jane G. Swiss.
helm, Miss CoZEens and Dr. Mary Walker with
Il host of Others as gifted, perhaps, but not yet
so yociferous as The aforementioned warehouses,
rs they style themselves. Miss Swisshcm is a
Swedc, q preacher and writer; an editor too,
perhaps, since in President Johnson's time her
paper, The Agitdtor, was stopped here for indis
Greet remarks made about Mrs. Surratt. One
of her books was Letters to Country Girls"
full of instructions about churning and sailing
butter turning old dresses, washing "iady"
| calicoes, and many things new and charming to
girls who are so fortunate as to live in the conn
try and do their work. wish you could see
this individual. She has not lost one trace of
her nationality by long sojoum here. Angular
and wiry, with u tlickering countenunce and
Thin lips which are ever expressive Of the satire
which the tongue in the rear is SO quick to
| form. As gazcd my mind turned back to the
wild wood where hung the gnared grapevine,
| eahess and fruitless, swaying to and fro in the
| wintry wind, creaking and grating as did her
| voice while she claimed superiority for woman
from the days of Deborah down. Some luckless
! wight has crossed the path Of Jane Swiss.
helm.
! In Phebe Cozzeps, petite brunette, was con.
! centraied all the beauty, suavity and pathos of
the clique. woman without Il country" was
| the subject of her lecture. Faint ideas clothed
| in language SO chosen as TO give them interest,
| since they were delivered in voice as clear as
silver bell. Phebe demands attention, and Us
| there was much applause some of the audience
must have listened.
Susan B. Anthony, long so notorious, scanned
the audience carefully, She had an eye TO bus
| mess
| Last but not least, was Mrs. DR.. Walker, who
wore n suit of diagonal cloth, and was on the
stage more than her quondum sisters cared for;
! indeed they sent for one of the hcImetted
| knights of the peace, who, after taking peep
al The scene. declared himself inundated and
withdrew. No wonder, poor man. The hen
convention was all in Il iluIter; Kisses, groans
and applause mingled in wild confusion. DR..
Walker stood his ground.
| Susan b. is the tinancier Concentrating her
vision to a focus through gold trimmed glasses,
she penetraies the remotcst granny of your
pocket and the last dime at her nod feels il in.
cumbcnl upon her TO step forth.
1t would seem hard that DR.. Walker should
ever have aught to do with the destiny of wu-
man. Does his memory run us far back as 1865
in Louisville, Kentucky, when he was in charge
of female prs, ners there? (Forwhich he gets q
| pension) Does il? Well he then has not for.
! gotten that for simple expression of opinion, n
| delicate female was by her order hand.cuficd
and put in a wood shed in mid wiz er. Mary
was loyal and wanted Uncle Sam to know it
albeit an erriDg sister should lose life OF limb
by the proof A gc,tle, tender guardian, she /!
! For woman's rights! When such as she rules
let my court be paid TO all emperor.
] This is the SD day since the earth donned her
robes of white. True many times ii has trailed
in the mud, but as often has been frcshened up.
! Washingtonans must long remember this win
Ter, it has been many years since they have en-
| joyed such snow and mud privileges; and the
merry jingle jingle, of the many bells have filled
the air with glcesome sound. In the recent
sleigh carnival there was fair sample of an
cnfranchiscd woman, dextrously holding the
ribbons Of two finland cutter, while by h +
| side sat man fondling a large-sized doll.
wonder If Susan saw it? hope the whole re-
tinue viewed in perspective the triumph of cleo
! tive franchise for down.trOdden females. There
was in the van many burlcsquc apropos to
the times, and the whole thing was hugely ell.
| joyed for Its very novelty.
ISFZ