The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-01-17

/ should be gentleman cno-Eh and have
selErPspect enough, IL he have ever so
/ little for the petitioner, 20 present her
\ petition with the manner and in the tone
! of a gentleman If We needed any added
Z proof TO the already too evident fact that
I as an aggregate, the Congress Of the
! American people does not consist Of gen
/ Hcmc7, we have IL in their tones, words,
I and manners when they present q wo-
mans petition Judging by these you
must believe that nothing on earth is
quite so funny rs that a tax.p1ying cit
| izen-oftcn the widowed head Of "a family,
\ an intelligent, educated, thoughtful be
I iug-should ask that she have some voice
\ in the laws that govern her; that she
I should, az least, be free TO give that ICON
sent of the governed on which even the
/ man-iramcd Constitution declared all
I just government rests, which is not de-
MED tho lowest creature that CrIwls, ID so
| be he happens to crawl in the shape OF a
man. woman Of great nature could
afford to pity the men. senators Of the
| United States, who that day made them
selves look so small Had she not been
sure that, as a creature Of God, she was
/ greater than they, she might well have
bowed her head in humiliation and COW
cred herself with sackcloth and ashes
that more than ten thousand women, her
peers. have come to sue at such q court
as that. Is the caste of sex so all per
vading, so omniprosent that man can
not read even the petition Of n woman
without at once dissolving into sueering
laughter and inane ridicule2
In autocratic Russia to-day n woman
sits regent on the imperial throne, while
her husband and her four sons, beyond
hn "a ErrfrH fFH HaH Of III
ligion and their race. The third volume
Of the Life Of the Prince Consort," just
issued in London, refutes forever a favor
ite assertion OF men that the Queen Of
England is but a puppet in the govern
ment Of her vast realm In pouring light
upon the general management Of public
business in England, il shows US in uner-
ring outline the Queen from the begin
ming Of her reign to this day. Tor forty
years, attending personally with the mi
nutcst attention to the routine business
Of departments, carefully studying and
weighing every subject. small or great,
which affects in the slightest the well.
being OF her people" Let the women Of
the world arise and bless her. that she a
woman pre-eminent in station has for
forty years proved herself equal to her
opportunity. Not only wife, mother,
woman among the best, but "cvery inch
g queen.
Prince Albert, writing Of Napoleon
Third. said: Gle seemed astonished when
] told him that every dispatch went
through the Queen hands and was read
by her; as he only received extracts from
them, aud, indeed, appeared to have lit
tie time or inclination generally 10 read.
When / observed to him that the Queen
whole Of the diplomatic correspondence.
he replied that he found q full compen-
sation in having persons in his own con
fdencc who reported directly to him. /
could not but express my sense OF the
danger Of such an arrangement, to which
no statesman in England, at least, would
consent Again Prince Albert writes
from Paris to the Queen The Emperor
told me one Of the deepest impressions
ever made upon him was when, after hav-
ing gone from France to Rio Janeiro, and
thence TO the United States. he arrived
in London shortly after King Williams
death, and saw you, at the age of eigh-
teen, going to open Parliament for the
first time.
Charles Sumner, in writing Of the same
occasion, conicsscs that his prciudices
were all against the youthful Queen but
she won him completely, not moro by the
womanly trembling Of her hands than by
the splcnior OF her elocuti0u, which, he
declared TO his friend Hillard he had
never heard oqualcd. IL was the elocu-
ti0n OF woman, at eighteen q queen, up
on an occasion as august as the earth
could show Not a man lived that would
not have felt honored TO come within
hearing Of that perfect voice. All this is
N.|s Sea "a
in America that even the petition OF a
woman is a thing 10 be laughed at and
scornod by her highest lawriyers. 10 is
in the sweet land OF liberty alone that
it is supremely ridiculous for a woman to
stretch forth her hand to touch even the
hem Of the garment Of the state.
Forty senators presented petitions,
signed by thousands Of men and women,
asking for constitutional amendment
enfranchising women. A few read the
petitions Ss they would any other, with
dignity and without comment; but the
majority seemed intensely conscious Of
holding something unutterably funny in
their hands. They appeared to consider
il a huge joke The entire Senate pre-
sentcd the appearance Of a laughing
school practicing side-splitting and ear
extended grins. Mr.. Wadleigh leaned
back in his chair and shook with laugh
ter, after portraying to his next neighbor
Pinkney Whyte, OF Maryland, the appa-
rition Of Pinkney's land-lady descending
upon the polls like a wolf on the fold. TO
aunihilate Piukney's election-an avcug
ing landlady, of terrible repute for exec
utive temper, who, IL is declared impris-
oned Piukney in his own parlor, and bar
ricaded another descendant Of q signer of
the Declaration Of Independence, Hester
Clymer, till, 10 save him from starvation,
food was lifted to him from the street, on
poles. The heir Of the Pinkneys leaned
back in his senatorial chair and quaked
at this vision Of the coming woman, while Z
Wadleigh laughed and laughed at the
mental havoc he had created. Oglcsby,
erst warrior OF Illinois, sp1ke with such
endearing gallantry OF his dear constit-
uents," whom he did all his wit could do
to make ridiculous till the whole Senate
laughed, and even Roscoe Conkling who
never conde-ceuds TO sucer at woman
in public, turned and listened and smiled
his most sardonic smile Then Thurman
blew his loudest regulation blast-sure
portent Of approaching battlc-and rose
and moved that the petitions be referred
to the Committee on Public Lands, Of
which Oglesby is chairman. At this
oposit.On-intended to be equally hui
morous and coutemptuous-the whole
Senate laughed aloud. There was one
senator man enough and gentleman
enough to lift the petition from this in
sulting proposition. 1t was Senator Sar- |
gent, Of California, the husband Of the |
woman who, though a senator's wife, is
brave enough to be the president Of the
Womans National Suffrage Association
lie turned 10 Mr. Thurman and demand
ed for the petition OF more than ten
thousand women 40 least the courtesy
that would be given TO any other petit
tion WhereUpou Thurman, with "a Flip
paucv Of which ! would not have belirF-