The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-01-24

people IN tue baCk part OF tue ROOM ulHs-
ed strongly. Isabella took IL as cool as n
cucumber. We'll, hiss if you like said
she sweetly, "but wait till you We thought
about il a while"
why do you put woman, Minerva,
the Poddess of W sdom, up Oh top Of you
Capitol here at Washington = continued
she MY soul why don't you put the
woman down stairs in the legislative halls
where she H. needed q
Mrs Hookers remarks seemed TO tick
lie the gentlemen. ! observed. She Is n
gifted but erratic woman intellectually.
and the Beecher is in her as large as the
Pyramid Of Cheops
The Convention lacks an efficient pre-
siding officer, like Abby w Nay. Of Bos-
ton, the best presiding officer | ever saw.
Of either sex, ! think. They meet in
Lincoln Hall which seats neara thousand
people, and ct some Of the women's
meetings has as many as twelve o. four
teen hundred people in It IL is tie
largest hall in Warrington. ! asked sew
eral women how many people il held.
but none Of them could tell me, not one,
and had TO 90 T. pusillanimous man
az last to inc out. Never ask n woman
| anything except about knife pleating
/ Miss Julia Smith, Of Glast nbury, Conn.
one Of the sisters who had their Alderney
cows sold for taxes, il here. She Is n
1 spinster, but looks like a bright, bcnevo-
/ lent grandmother. She made a speech
\ to the Convention. and told the story OF
/ the COWS, though she il &C lally eighty
/ FIVE years old. Some glaring discrimina.
tion against herself and Mics Abby in the
/ IN tier Of taxes, IN Glastonbury aroused
/ the sisters fiji {, and for the rest Of their
/ lives they have taken n vow to resist tax
o
/ are remarkably learned women, and have
as you know, trarsl1ied the entire Bible
1 from the Hebrew. This translation has
been approved by the Hebrew professor
at Harvard, and placed in the college
/ library. They spent forty-th &C years on
this Bible, the only Bible ever translated
by a woman. IL will be for sale soon,
and its price is only two dollars rud a
half The sisters are learned alike in
mathematics and languages. The one
here in Washington has kept her journal
in French for thirty years.
Another woman who distinguished
herself in this Convention is DR. Mary
Thompson, of Oregon. who made a Wig
orous and eloquent speech. She gave
some account OF political workings in Or
egon during the late Presidential cam
paign. IL seems il was really the women
OF OE1ENn VINO AT last NuFuNu the MNlWA"
full tide in favor Of President Hayes dur
ing that critical period. Both Republi-
cans and Democrats may make a note
Of it.
There too, s Mrs Sra J A. Spencer,
Of Washington. WHO spoke so veil and
eloqueltly at Cleveland, N Octol r. She
told with infinite wit and sarcasm how
the Congress Of the United states wearies
itself day after day with the herculean |
labor Of meet and adjourn "meet and I
adjourn, meet AID adjC 'rn." Oh, but /
shes peppery. She srys there is only I.
one panacea under heaven which will 4
save the dying Republican party, "and /
that panacea the woi i.en Of the United /
States hold in their hands"
Mrs. Cady Stanton. { e lioness Of the |
Woman's Rights party, is Chairman OF
the Association Committee on Platform
and X 'olutions. They read their plat
form and resolutions Oh Tuesday evening.
and, in some respects a better platform
was never read in any convention in this
Union IL favored trxing all church
property, favor / an .ucational qualiii-
cation for suffrage, and finally opposed in
strong language the "God-in the Consti.
tuition" amendment some clergyme1 are
trying to get put in. IL declared Cm-
phatically, that, as things now are, a com
paratiyely s.nall number Of clergymen
weighed more with the Government than
all the women in this country. ! cah not
tell you how glad was to hear that. IL
Is the surest note Of progr that has
been sounded since the VIC ans rights
party came iL.o exister ce. shoging that
at least women are I q ming 10 come out
from under the thu.-b Of the Church aud
the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke on Tues.
day evening. The old lionC Of the wo.
mans rights party never made a nobler
speech than when now, sey ~ years Of
age, she stands up and reviews the polii-
ical history Of the country, and in Ian
guage unexcelled for logic, clearness and
eloquence. demands consideration for
women rather than for clergymen.
They talk Of God in the Constitution
said she. 1T ought 10 be women in the
Constitution. II anybody ou -ht TO be
in the Constitution il ought TO be the
mothers Of the country. Gentle nen, IL
you love not woman whom you have seen,
how then can you love God whom you
have not seen 2 4
Wednesday, January 9, Rev Olympia
Brown made an address In the after
noon Belva Lockwood. the woman lawyer
Of Washington. addressed the meeting in
powerful plea for woman's right TO choose
her own vocation. The application Of
woman to be made Constable in Wash.
ington was refused. The reasou-assig ed
was that the honorable gentlemen 10
whom the matter was referred did no.
approve Of a womans following such
av0ca ion. Mrs. Lockwood declared that
she and certain other widows with her
had pledged themselves never % marry,
but to fight Maybe they might do both
Then Hon. Fred Douglass was called
on for an address. Everybody seemed
to approve Of il but one very young man,
who had a very small head and a very
long nose, and squiTted tobacco vehe-
mently. He hissed when Hon. Fred
arose and said aloud
I'VE don't want no niggers.
don't know whether he was chivalry
or not
Hon. Fred. Douglass is a fine looking
old man, with white mans ieatur.s, long
white hair, a mustache and beard still
dark, which presupposes that he uses his
brains more than he does bis jaws lie
says. that fashionable people are the
. dead fish Of society, who 4 At along with
the current" Hon. Fred seems TO be
great lion with the woman suffrage la
dies
In the evening Matilda Joslyn Gage
spoke on Woman, Church and State. -
Lille Deycreux Blake ON Citizenship"
and Mrs. Herbert, OF Chicago, on The
Nation a Family" E.A.