The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-17
Woman Suffraglsts.

From the Times-D Democrat.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, in reply to a charge
brought by an Iowa paper that not one of the
leading woman sufiragists has a happy home
OF husband and family, furnishes the following
list in rebuttal: Lucrecia Mott, five daughters,
one son; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, five sons,
two daughters; Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
five daughters; Lucy Stone, one daughter
Harriet Robinson, three daughters; Mary A.
Livermore, two daughters; Lille Devereaux
Blake, two daughters; Matilda Joslyn Gage,
one son, three daughters; Belva A. Lock
wood, two daughters Elizabeth Boynton,
Ilarbert. one boy, two girls; Helen Ekn
Starrett. eight or nine children; Myra Brad
well, two girls, one boy; Frances d. Gage,
six boys, two girls; c. l. III. Nichols, three
boys, one girl; Olympia Brown, one girl,
one boy. And, Of all the pioneer women,
Miss Anthony is the only one who never mar
ried. Of the earlier of the younger speakers,
Miss Phwbe Cozzens is the only one not mar
Tied.
Boston's was the most entertaining of all
the Battle-of New Orleans banquets. The
table was spread in the Revene house, of
course, and the Governors of.New England
were of course among the speakers, Butler,
it need not be added, was at the head. He
congratulated all who were his companions in
arms when he commanded in New Orleans,
and traced General Jackson's ancestry back
to Ireland, the birth place of the ancestors Of
New Enelands brightest. After detailing
Jackson's biography down to the time of Cal
houn's notification ebulhtion, Governor But
Ter said: "a boy, just interesting myself in
politics under the tutelage of a mother who
knew more of politics than have ever known
since, | was taught in that contest 1t was
my duty night after night to read TO her all the
proceedings OF congress, and all the state
papers, and how interesting reading those
may he to a boy you can well imagine, from
some of your late experience. But that read
ing impressed upon my mind, as with a pen
of fire, the events of that day. The whole
country was convulsed. The president and
vice president were at 'loggerheads.' The
democratic party seemed to be on the verge of
dissolution, and if any man but Andrew Jack
son had been in that presidential chair, the
dissolution would have come. Then the
war that we fought out in our generation
would have been fought out in the generation
Of our fathers. Andrew Jackson sent as
toast TO a gathering on the 9Th Of January,
like this gathering of ours, The Federal
Union-it must and shall be preserved
remember that toast, and had the pleasure
when the war was raging, within few days
after got into New Orleans, of having that
inscribed in letters cut deep into the granite
pedestal Of the statue of Andrew Jackson in
the principal square of that CITY," General
Butler went on TO counsel the democratic
party TO keep with the people, whose dislike
Of the methods of the men who had ridden
the republican party to ruin had given the
democrats the reins for time, and in closing
he said: Jackson struck every privileged
class when he struck his sturdy blows
for the people, leaving the people untouched;
but he was for them, and ever and forever
doing all that he could to raise them up.
They tell us that we are Jewelers.. Yes, am
a leveler of the most determined sort. l will
do the most can and all that God permits
me to do TO level, but it shall be to level up
and not TO level down."