Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-23
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GTOS LIE cIE8.
WOman's Rights AEaiu-CODkress
Eclipsea-rha wOmsn's Rights
Com ontlOu In Session

convention nH beDoHOo
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, y. g.. January 1lG 1854
'Tiss Get to turn from the din OF lcyis's
i've debates at the Capitol 10 the hen-like
exclamation ofa wonan's rights convention
Debates in Congress s,n:e Butler. Blaine
Conklng aod Thu-man are no more have
grown tame 40, when heard that the Ma
ional Womans Right. Don en'ion' was
no d,nv its fourteenth annual SO sion at Lin.
coin Hsll, I'isi me th hoe TO hear such GU
war h 'rses," or, to ba exact, wAr.inares, a.
Susan Il. Al thony and OAdy Sta. ton, and To
dwell upon the dulcet tones OF the younger
ladies, who make pretty speeches In kid
gloves. have IN almost romantic adm ira
ton for Susan Il. Ami ny-'s skill ~ a
presiding officer, she Ia not exce'led, In this
roo, by Blaine himself Mrs. tanton know
what 20 say, how to say it, ard the kind o
clothes to say 1t In. Ono Of the hrst thing
the convention did, was TO sprns this resolu
tIon upon the nlneteenta century: Resol
vet:-That /, |. the DUTY OfCohgress TO add
n sixteenth amer dnoDt to the Constitution
fJrbidding any state 70 deny the r'ghtof sui
frsge Oh account Of SIX. when this resolu
ZION was read, Miss. Anthony came to thu
font and asked for an emphatic aye In favol
Of IT, and she got a pretty unanimous affir
nation + on about two hundred Ia lies pres
emit. Miss. Cousins then arose to sleak to the
resolution She said she had been four week.
IL the city trying to Influence Congress She
dwelt upon the superior communications OF
the Senate over the House for iemsis lobby
t.. She said that the house had turned the
ladies' waiting room in o smGkeinK room FOL
me ters oti ougress, and she then switched
Off on u trade again inst tobacco. which she con.
cluded with the wish that every smoker might
fun to hear.them talk. 1t IL stranse that We
have no verbatim reports Of their verbal folly
Tho opposers of the move Dent would want no
better argument against Its success.
Now propose TO make little speech ia
these suffrage asplrann My dear friends in
silken dresses, Kid gloves point laco ruffies
and patent corsets. You do not need votes
and it is net from such agitation as yours that
revo utonsc ONE You have no wrongs tina,
suffrage will redress. Ihoie Is no argument
In your stale platform witt isrnF upon the
ungallantry Ct man. no sach path0s 10 you,
cause as W es'cd magma chalts 4 ON tyranny
or hurled the Ficnh Revolution upon the
nine zenith Gle vi Ii ,uch force that 1t has
not yet ceased 70 ling, Have patience ladies
and talk less oily with your mouths. lfthi.
experiment o, suffrage, which the United
States and France have only begun prayfully
to teft hal provS . good thing; II 1t shall BE-
able to cope with the M nacing problom, %
today, why. theI, Tomorrow 1t may 10 wise
to extend 1t to you. But let w hastea slowl =
or We II Up. This country does not sod
more voters Just now any more than ke fcr's
committees need more heads and tails; wha,
1t needs t. b. tier voters. cooler and mo Q dis
cerl ing voters and frou the talk Of the best
Of you on the p!a form, We are not hopeful
that You can supply the need not even though
the old fashioned and somewhat ab-Otcte ru'
ccss Of bearing and rearing good men, Have
patience. When the age and the line shall
cal you to T. poll and to the Senate, Satan
hilnse fcannot bar You. Put this nKe does
not call YOU and the effort ofa very few Of
you to call yourselves Is ridiculous. When
you usIcmb once "A ear and say over the
old plutitldcs to ha'fa ho Sc OfliStles1 omen
We feel that the u ost hl'ing Comment would
hn Inn with which nr johnson, IA sWerrd ma