Show PROGRESS OF COLORED A OMEN mrs mary church jerrells Ver elo quent plea bea before oi e the woman suffragist convention ox ON friday night last a scene was mi at the columbia theater the meeting place of the domans womans suffrage convention in this city that to a majority of the audience composed as it was as of the upper crust of white society was a revelation there were four addresses by eminent women of different tl nationalities viz swede norwegian american white and american negro the latter mrs mary church terrell spoke on the progress Tess of colored women she spoke as she always does without notes and for a half hour in one unbroken chain of eloquence quen cean and d with power and fascination of manner such as few I 1 women possess she held her vast audience spell bound with amazement and the women suffragists n on the platform were so proud of their new discovery that they fell upon her neck upon the conclusion of her great speech and kissed her she was almot covered with floral offerings mrs terrell opened tle tl t e eyes of her hearers both white arid and colored to many facts of interest inhere S t accarrino among our women men I 1 throughout e hout the country especially in the south showing the surprising progress 0 made along all lines since emancipation she very pointedly answered a sou southern therit white delegate who had spoken earlier in the week giving her to understand that indiscriminate i mixing t w with ith the whites was no more desired by the colored than by the whites JI that what they wanted was only an equal chance in the race of life social questions would regulate themselves she made a most magnificent nt and nd womanly appeal for the encouragement coura gement and assistance of the white women of the country in the work of breaking up some of I 1 the obnoxious systems in the ole south that tend to degrade colored women the jim crow ear car convict lease system and other unsavory unsavory i institutions corrupting to good gaoa morals the opportunity offered mrs ter relt J by y miss susan B anthony to address the national woman Wo roans JI s right association composed ot the most progressive and brainiest brai niest women of oar count country rv was no normal small compliment viewed atom whatever standpoint that mrs terrell dame came up to the full measure of her opportunity y r none who were present will gainsay she went wen beyond t and over it she covered almost almo o all the ground of our grievances in the small space ot the half hour ali allotted abber to her and to do this she had io to speak rapidly rap idla but not a word or syllable was lost to her hearers aers her appeal for forthe the womer 1 p of her race was a soul stirring effort and the long continued applause p that thair followed 0 t the I 1 close of if re her r remarks alzo ittie attested sted that she had bad vron her hearers bearers to her tae 61 Colored areil American bencan |