The examiner., 1882-01-28
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.
 The National Woman Suffrage Associa
 tion has just closed a three days Conven
 tion in Lincoln Hall, three sessions each
 day. The main feature of this Conven'
 tion has been the earnestness and the
 hopefulness of the western women who
 were sent as delegates by their State soci-
 cities. Nebraska and Indiana are so wide
 awake and under such headway already
 toward securing an amendment to thelf
 state constitutions, it is decided to put all
 our strength into that canvass; hence, the
 next National Convention will be held at Omaha, and all our best speakers are pledged to that campaign. Another en- couraging feature has been the number of thoughtful and cultured young women who have come to the front, and with modest strength told the story of their sense of degrada tion under the wrong of disfranohisement. This so impressed OUR new committee of the Senate for at last we have a standi1ag committee of our own which no man can take from us we be- lieve(, that they could scarce trust their eyes and their ears at the same time,
 such wisdom and knowledge from mere
 girls,' they said, 6 what does it mean p
 " Yes, gentlemen Miss Anthony replied,
 i've have brought you to-day our answer to the objection that it is only few dis contented fanatical women who wish to vote, and who bring us the same old argu- ments and faces year after year. I am the only one of the old guard now before you and you have heard these young eloquent lips for yourselves; can you doubt any longer that the patriotism which kindled the speech of a Patrick Henry dwells in these hearts and prompts these utterances, and that our country greatly needs the help of such souls as these." Whereupon the committee de- sired another interview which is now taking place at the capitol, and the word comes that Speaker Kiefer of the House is on our side in regard to standing com mittee in that body and will probably se- cure report from his committee on rules to that effect.
 What we shall ask of these committees is to recommend to Congress the passage of bill adding 18th amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall forbid any state to disfranchise it's citizens on account of sex. My private hope is, that by the time when such an amendment can come before the people of the several states for ratification. some of our courts of highest jurisdiction will have discovered and announced that women, being component part of the people who create and ordain constitu- tions, both state and national, are not and cannot be disfranchised by any law passed upon by half the people alone, viz, the men people therefore, they being enti- tied to vote already do not need the pro- lection of any new amendment. Never theless we must continue to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, for the odds against us are almost over- whelming, and but for deep conviction that invisible forces are at work in our behalf, for one shonld despair, not only of success but of the perpetuity of our so- called republican institutions.
 send a slip from C Our Herald," pa per published in La Fayette, by Mrs. Con gar, one of the most effective speakers I ever heard upon any platform also 8 few words from Mrs. Cady Stanton on the best method of approaching the dis tinguished statesmen of the present gen. eration. I.B.H.
 Mrs. Stanton said: $ find the follow ing in the daily papers:
 ''An old lady in Vermont lately sent to President Arthur a box of butternut Ia reached me at dinner time on Thanksgiv- ing day, and was highly praised by all at the table. l think you will be pleased to know that Senator Edmunds, who was present, was so much pleased with it that he copied yonr address, with the inten- tion of sending for some himself. Thank ing you for your good wishes, l am very truly yours, CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
 Several officers of the National Woman's Suffrage Association have called on the President, asking his aid in securing their political rights as citizens of the United States.
 They specially urged him to recommend in his message standing committee to look after the political interests of women.
 But while he has spoken wisely on so many topics, in taking statesmanlike survey of the whole habitable globe-of { the government of Alaska, of the water supply, the depots, and the Potomac l of Washington of the social ( of Utah, of the civilization and of savage tribes, of the educa- t ton of the little Indian boys in Hampton, i Carlisle and Forest Grove-he does not :. vouchsafe one word in regard to the fran ,hisement of the 2O,OO0,000 of his country | women. r
 The History of Woman Suffrage bound in calf, has beon pre- i ,ented to Senator Edmunds, with the com t pliments of the editors; no letter of thanks t has yet been received. And yet how these honorable gentlemen take note of the lady who sends butternut a candy from Vermont.
 Can it be that distinguished statesmen n the prime of life, with all their boyish ollies and tastes long since outgrown, can f prefer butternut candy to the history of all the brave battles their distinguished have fought during the a ast forty years? If so, the wisest move o he Woman Suffrage Association can now make is to suspend all conventions, reso- i, l. u