Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-09
MP. MERR111,s ADVICE To THE 1.n1rs .

Mr.. Merrill.-Wen. if you ladies believe i'm
God, take of your silk dresses, feed the poor,
Mrs Stanton.-Oh! stop him, Mrs. Lozier;
it is an insult.
b, Mr.: Merrill ri, said that speaker Yesterday
real estate i'm New York. How did they get
it?'' he asked. Why, by their husbands rob
bing their creditors who sold them silk dresses
for their wives, and then turning their proper
ty over to their wives to Saveit from creditors.
MRS. CROCkER WANTS A NEW CONSTITUTION.
Mrs CrOcker objected to the second resolu-
ton. She said the time had come not for an
amendment to the constitution TO let women
vote, but new constitution: Go TO the Cap.
Your YOU coiored Sisters You % are all the the time ap
pealing to sentiment. Why don't you appeal
to brains? This government has been run too
be run on its brains. She said the 18Th
amendment already enfranchiSed cOlored wO-
men. and their rights should he demanded I'M
der the law.
REV. OLYMPIA BROWN
believed that proper Interpretation of the
18th and l4th amendments did confer suffrage
on women. But men don't SO understand il,
and as a consequence when MahOmet would
not come to the mountain, The mountain must
go to MahOmet. She said the day was coming,
and RAPIDLY too, when women would be given
acknowledge the justice OF it.
MOTHERS SHOULD VOTE.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bsynton Harbett said that
mothers could not meet their grave response
bllltleS Of educating their sons unless they
had the ballot. She gave a history OF The
Woman's movement in various reforms in Chi
cagO.
THE HEATHEN CHINEE.
Mrs. Lockwood favored letting the Chinese
and Indians vote. She would not stand IN the
way of it. The mothers of the country though
had an equal right.
Mr.. Spencer thought that the heathen Chinee
needed The ballot as much as woman. but She
wanted the Chinese wife brought in with him,
and the Indian Squaw with her master. She
thought that every time tribe of male Indians
was enfranchised it added to the opponents of
woman suffrage.
Mr. Evans said he thought that Mrs Lock
wood and Mrs. Spencer did not really believe
what they advocated. He did not think they
wanted fifty million Chinee votes which would
not be missed at home, imported into this cOun-
try to rule the ballot.
Mrs. Lockwood said that all difficulties with
respect to regulating the Chnee vote could be
remedied by the naturalization laws of this
country
Mrs. Stanton thought that in view of the
threatened influx of Chinese in this country.
with their vice and ignorance. that there
should be Il acOmpulSOry education law in every
state in this Union.
male delegate from Virginia spoke some
time, principally upon his nervousness in adj
dressing the convention. He thought those
engaged in the WOmen'S movement We're the
advance guard of civilization The Virginia
male delegate was applauded so yOciferOusly
that he was compelled to pause. and then
said oh, don't want applause Finally
he took the hint that the audience was willing
that he should stop; when Mrs. stanton said
He is the only delegate from Virginia, and
FIVE ladies who pay the rent for the hall want
him TO go on We don't think the audience
should stop him. The delegate proceeded,
eulogiZing Governor Holiday, of Virginia,
President Hayes letter of acceptance, the
real estate market in HarriSOnburg, Va, and
almost everything irrelevant to the resolutions
under discussion. He then proceeded to read
long dissertation on various SubjectS-fire
men. young men on the street corners with
their hair parted in the middle, the poets. &c.
The president of the convention advised him
to skip little in his manuscript.
The speaker turned over ten or more pages
and said:-"Ies, / have got just one more
point
He was greeted with such applause that he
was again compelled to stop.
The President said they would be glad TO
hear the continuation of the gentleman argu-
ment at the afternoon session.
He then retired.
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The resolutions as a whole were then adopt
ed, and the convention at II: 10 clock took a
recess until p. IN.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention reaSSembed at o'clock
notwithstanding the inclement weather. the
hall was crowded. Robert B. Puryis. esq. of
Philadelphia, read the copy of a petition being
circulated in the state of Pennsylvania for
presentation to Congress, signed alike by men
and women, asking for the adoption of the
| sixteenth amendment to the constitution.
. Miss Morgan, a colOred delegate from Mis-
SiSSippi. was then introduced and proceeded TO
address the convention. She said that the
cOlOred women in the District of Columbia
were, under the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, entitled to suffrage but they
sisters were accorded the same privilege. She
wanted no privileged classes.