Womanhood Suffrage.—The Assembly Chamber was well filled last evening to listen to Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony. Mrs. Stanton made a stirring appeal, and Miss Anthony followed. In response to queries, she said she expected that women would yet serve as jurors and be drafted. Several hundred had fought in the late war, but when their sex was discovered they were dismissed in disgrace; and to the shame of the Government be it said, they were never paid for their services.
[98] Mr. Folger offered a resolution—That the use of this Chamber be granted to the American Equal Rights Association for a meeting on the evening of Wednesday, the 10th inst.
[99] Geo. Francis Train before the Constitutional Convention at Albany.—The Constitutional Convention at Albany has not had many variations from its customary slate of topics, but it is a noteworthy fact that no New York paper mentioned that Geo. Francis Train addressed the Convention for two hours on the subject of woman voting and the financial policy of the nation. Mr. Train having been the only man to volunteer his services in Kansas and before the Convention, it is worthy of note, when the argument advanced by our chivalrous press is a sneer, a sarcasm, or an insult, that Mr. Train's defense of women voting was received by the Convention by loud and repeated applause. The following was the resolution, passed unanimously, offering the hall:
State of New York, in Constitutional Convention, }
Albany, December 4, 1867. }On motion of Mr. Ballard:
Resolved, That the use of the Assembly Chamber be granted to Geo. Francis Train, Esq., at 4 p.m. this day.
Luther Caldwell, Secretary.
By order.
[100] In 1846 the question of negro suffrage was submitted to a popular vote, and negatived by 223,884 to 85,306; in 1850 it was again defeated by a vote of 337,984 to 197,503; a similar submission was provided for by a concurrent resolution of the Legislature of 1859, which by neglect of the State officer to provide for its publication, was defeated; but its fate may fairly be regarded as further evidence of the indifference of the public toward a change.
[101] July 1st.—Mr. Fowler presented a petition from Miss Laura Bosworth and others for woman suffrage.
July 9th.—From Gerrit Smith and 180 others of Madison County, for female suffrage.
Mr. Endress—Emma C. Lawrence and 50 others of Westchester, for female suffrage.
Mr. Murphy—Thomas N. Cashow and 20 others, of Kings County, for woman suffrage.
Mr. Fullerton—Mary J. Quackenbosh and many others, from Newburgh.