The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1895-02-20

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COLUMBIA, Feb sS1 Is i
SHY people, mo-, ,ait womSS 29u 2a
Miss Susan BE- AntIiony}in in I IS ss$art
house last i;fjs'ss iflsso peoli & i q G
enjoy the Lectures FiejW,t tferVl 5 tssSSsSp SS
ing 4. 6 ~ W ords or nytliinG else ~ ss
have been to their
| opera house Was simb,; {jSg
Warehouse. There NJ & 8sj y
but hide IN, oYefcoa
sliYor and keep cool.s,{ n M
and 0ast Pare now inY +
n AZ tai ll,,ascsstii! wo,na4s
sehcel K bol,r', deep sunllS 6 i,
Face ind iron gray hair 81 y Y
ted from the centcr OF lIe4,N i
forehead, her person slightly ". !, s.i
very angular, II red shawl ab0 l4 d,s
shoulders and u skirt Of some p8aS;
dark stuil-tl that is Miss Anthony ba s
the comlcnl papers call herf'AIl, /"
Susan. You have seen cuts Of ~,
IN the illustrated novels Of Now II mo
land life. While not unprepossesg;n,e
she is severely, almost unmerciEtfiS
plain in appearance oven fora we3#,,,
OF perhaps seventy. Her yoic6 6El4S3.s IS 5 !,
tinct, not over strong and rather I
notonous; she speaks rapidly h.,
| makes occasional gestures in straEo 81
lines. ~"
The burden Of Miss Anthony's sb L.,
was the power of The ballot. She slEooll,,
Of the reforms accomplished by jEn,oo
lish farmers after they were ,enfknn,g;
chiscd "rhis government, . she Sa /,
was based originally on a white I'll
oligarchy Of wealth" Black men cb MI al
not vote and the suffrage of Will
except in Vermont was limited tSsr' az
property qualification The Dcmo{kSo
party from Jefferson's timc had s$l.',o,
glcd to enlarge the suffrage and e
forty years was therefore snccel &C.,
with only occasional defeats. Thtn'Hi,, ,
tho samo principle the RepubJ;ooo ~ y
party arose and tic vote was givele, !" !
the negro. Tho negro was frccdsp,
measure Of military necessity. THESES.
ballot was placed in lis handsR ~ ~
from motive of philanthropy but Ern,,
"Rcpublican party necessity" t5MSl,
placed stress upon tho power yIb;nn
the ballot gave the negro, proteAa;1
all his equal political and civil rT2tHn,
Thcn she told q story OF a lhna,
meeting she had attended in Lq{s5So,,
worth, Kan, in 1866. a numb&. - :
| eminent speakers lla0 ,,ecl, ;n,ritf, !
address it, but all failed to do stEu |.
sac explained il iii her speech bTTtaul1l
ing the negroes that they had mi Iel
lots in their black hands to Z pa
their influence felt" Then shetl
trasted tho welcome given in theiecol
city ten years later 80 Abram R]ean1l
q negro United States SenatoTael, y ,
the former meeting ho would Z
been ignonliniously driven froi nay =,
hotels and railroad cars whcr{h =, !,
white men We're. Now he was 81 u
the respect which his manhood 9oW
ed because he represented a negr}t
powerful in elections. fSo'
III these references to the nc
Miss Anthony impressed her aufHroe
as u stranger TO what is calleaIi !,
race prejudice" of the South e VI
having no sympathy for it; as II g." ~, !. !
to cat at the same table and for3otus :
social and race differences woE'l,1I I, !
neither unpleasant nor rcpugndiu
her. She did not actually say SO q. ,
, nor did she 90 out of her w }tiiuc :
offend Southern prejudice" 1Es;tty -
implied what to her hearers M Gy,uS 81
appeared an unpalatable igno{'aa. ~ 10 F,
them; for instance, when She ,I.tioo
with nantes. satisfaction to- l,,,
J 60 oi-"saDlc vote OF the oMMflAnchisc
: negro womon in Lcavenw worth
/ She next proceeded to illustrate u
influence Of the workingmelin c]c
tons, and declared that politio,l cha1
; ges and reventions were due, eStircl
Is It. i5iiiucatiSn,,' size said Was 81 II II
,, remedy and 'the st to had nolrieht
permit a child to grow up ilighoran
and idlcncss.
Miss Anthony, IN conclusion, stat.
that a'committce had been appoint,
and plans arranged at the comycntit
,, recently held tn Atlanta to have Il
! subject of female suffrage agitated
South Carolina during the camlpais
for the election Of delegates to Il
Constitutional convention, and to ha
people OF the State familiarizcd a,
educated up to it. State. XII