The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-02-20
: WOMAN'S RIGHTS WOMAN.
Mis- Susan l.. Anthony Lectures il
Columbia.


Columbia.
CoLuMEIN. 5. c.. F.b. l3.-.-ibout
SHY people. men and women. heard
Miss Sus;m 3 Anthony in the opera
house last night These people did not
enjoy the lccture. Fiery, fervid, burn
ilg words or anything else hot would
have been to their taste because the
opera house was simply 4 cold storage
warehouse" There was nothing 10 do
but hide in overcoats and wraps.
shivcr and keep cool. 1t was frigid
and ''roasts are now in order
\ tall. gaun- woman, prominent
check bones, deep sunken eyes, thin
ssace and iron gray hair smoothly par
ted from the centerof her high narrow
forehead, her person slightly bent and
very angular, red shawl about her
shoulders and skirt of some plain
dark stutf-that is Miss Anthony or as
the comical papers call her Aunt
Susan" You have seen cuts Of her
IN the illustrated novels of New Eng
land life. While not otunprepossessing
she is severely, almost numerically
plain in appearance even fora woman
of perhaps seventy. Her voice is dis
tinct. not over strong and rather mo-
notonous; she speaks rapidly and
makes occasional gestures in straight
lines.
The burden of Miss Anthony's song
was the power of the ballot. She spoke
of the reforms accomplished by Eng
lish farmers after they were enfran-
chised. This government" she said,
was based originally on white male
oligarchy of wealth" Black men could
not vote and the suffrage of whites
except in Vermont was limited by a
property qualification. The Democratic
party from Jetfersons time had strug-
gled to enlarge the suffrage and for
forty years was therefore successful
with only occasional defeats. Then on
the same principle the Republican
party arose and the vote was given to
the negro. The negro was freed as a
measure of military necessity, then the
ballot was placed in his hands, not
from motive Of philanthropy but from
Republican party necessity" She
placed stress upon the power which
the ballot gave the negro, protecting
ali his equal political and civil rights
Then she told stoc,v OF a negro
meeting she had attendedin Leaven-
worth, Kan, in 1865. \ number of
eminent speakers bad been invited to
address it, but all failed to do so and
she explained it in her speech by tell
ing the negroes that they had no bal
lots in their black hands to make
their influence felt Then she con-
trasted the welcome given in the same
city ten years later to Abram Revels,
negro United States Senator. At
the former meeting he would have
been ANONYMOUSLY driven from the
hotels and railroad cars where the
white men We're. Now he was shown
the respect which his manhood merit
ed. because he represented a negro vote
powerful in elections.
In these references to the negroes,
Hiss Anthony impressed her audience
as a stranger to what is called the
race prejudice" of the South and as
having no sympathy for it; as though
to eat at the same table and forget all
social and race differences would be
neither unpleasant nor repugnant to
her. She did not actually say so much
nor did she go out Of her way to
offend Southern prejudice but she
implied what to her hearers must have
appeared an unpalatable ignorance of
them: for instance, when she referred
with manifest satisfaction to the un:
purchasab bic vote of the enfranchised
negro women in Leavenworth.
She next proceeded to illustrate the
influence of the workingmen in cleo
tons, and declared that political chan
ges and reventions We're due entirely
to it. Education, she said was the
remedy and the Site had no right to
permit child to grow up inignorance
and idleness.
Miss Anthony. in conclusion, stated
that committee had been appointed
and plans arranged at the convention
recently held tn Atlanta to have the
subject of female suffrage agitated in
South Carolina during the campaign
for the election of delegates to the
! Constitutional convention. and to have
people of the State familiarized and
educated up to it.-State.