The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-27 00:00:00

FASHION AND SUFFRAGE.

The anniversary of the Brooklyn Equal Rights Associa-
tion has been held in the Academy of Music. There was
a charge of admission of fifty cents.. and this probably
was the cause that the parquet was well filled and tlic
galleries nearly empty. There was a galaxy of talent do
the platform, never equalled at the meetings of this assb-
elation previously, arising, of course, from the fact that
there are two women's suffrage conventions meeting in the
neighbouring city of New York. This galaxy ineluded the
two presidents of the two associations, Henry Ward
Beecher and Theodore Tilton. The ladies on the plat-
form included Miss Anthony, Mrs. Lucretia Mott, Lucy
Stone, Mrs. Eliza Cady Stanton, Margaret Winchester,
the venerable negro lady (Sentanor Truth,) Eleanor Kirk,
a female local editor from Illinois (Miss Baldwin), and
Mrs. Adele Haslett. The meeting was opened by Mrs.
Laura C. Bullard, who had the presidency of the meetinc,
assigned -o her in consequence of domestic affliction in the
house of the announced President (Mrs. Burleigh) pre-
venting that lady from being present.
Mrs. Bullard, in a few words of introduction, remarked
upon the progress of the woman's equal rights movement, as
shewn by the meeting of that night ; a few years ago no
such meeting could be held, and if held would have en-
countered opposition. The lady President then introduced
to the audience Mrs. Lucy Stone, who in her address
spoke at length on the labour of women and of its equal
value both pecuniarily and intrinsically to that of man.
In illustration of this Mrs. Stone gave a number of inci-
dents in her own experience where women were forbidden
to vote even in the churches, and contrasted it with the
action of the Methodist Church, which now allowed
women to vote on the question of lay preachers, and
women were now acknowledged as preachers, and were
making their mark by converting the men as the result of
theirpeireaching. The women in the old time,when they were
Church members, did not, neither did the men, do that
which they do in Plymouth church, sell the pews to make
up a salary, but they made up the salary of the minister
by a more simple method. In the voting thereon Mrs.
Stone gave an amusing account of her vote not being
allowed to be counted in. She wanted the ballot because
whatever good it was to any man it was equally good to
any woman,
Miss Susie Skinner followed this speech with a song.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton rejoiced to have an
opportunity of addressing a Brooklyn audience, because
Brooklyn had produced two presidents of this movement,
and these might be considered the generals of fifteen mil-
lions of American women. She thought that the women
must give these presidents a few lessons ; for she under-
stood that one of them had said, in that very hall, on the
celebration of the fifteenth amendment, that the tree of
liberty had now fully grown and had blossomed. Now a
tree of liberty in this country was not full grown, nor
ever blossomed, or in full bloom until both the male and
the female have an equal representation. Mrs. Stanton
had many good reasons for thinking 'that there was more
hope of the democratic party favouring the woman suf-
frage movement than the Republicans. There was a
time when she believed in the Republicans, but she
thought that the Democratic party had been greatly
purified in the furnace of political affliction. (Cheers
and laughter.) There was another proof of the sym-
pathy of the Democratic party in the attitude
of the New York World towards the woman ques-
tion. There was' a time when she used to say hard
things about the World, but she had forgiven that
journal. She had felt very strongly against the Tribune,
but the course taken‘by that journal on the great fugitive
wife question (Mrs. M`Farland) had caused her to forgive
Horace Greeley ; and she had during the last eight years
had much to forgive Horace Greeley. (Cheers and
laughter.) Horace had refused to put the male " into
your Constitution when she and Miss Anthony beseeched
him to do it when it was proposed to the New York
Legislature,
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, instead of making a speech
drawn from her memory, her judgment, and her imaginit-
powers that had been worn out in the Convention meet-
ings at Steinway Hall, read a little essay of well-grouped
sentences about a visit made during the day to a local
picture gallery. The pictures of " The Woman Taken in
Adultery" and the war pictures made up the texts for
this rather stilted talk.
Miss Skinner sang another ballad.

Mrs. Adele Haslett, from Michigan, said that the dis-
cussion of this question should be considered in the words
of Lincoln—" with malice towards none, charity towards
all, and with firmness to the right, as God has given us to
see the right." Miss Haslett then proceeded to discuss
the question in relation to the political right of women to
vote. In reference to the control of the husband in the
woman vote, she said Paul had forgotten to provide for
the widows and the maidens, Those thousands of women
who do not marry, what are they to do ? Men said it
was the fault of women they are not married. Mrs. Has-
lett brought down the house by the utterance of two little
words—" Is it ?" There was but one safe course for
America to pursue, and that was to grant liberty to all
classes and not to deny it to any class. She did not for-
get that which was due from women towards the men of
America, for they had made woman's position more
honourable here than in any other country. She. knelt,
she said to God, and asked that at least justice be given
to woman, and she believed that men would give that.
Miss Cozzens, in a very attractive and amusing
speech, told of the progress of this woman's movement
in the West, which, she said, exceeded that of the East.
Miss Cozzens is greatly exercised that the women
abolitionists were not glorified in the celebrations
of the 15th amendment, and rehearsed those oft-repeated
sentences about her impressions of that negro procession
in St. Louis, which it is now about time for the rear
guard thereof to appear. The Washington monument
and the Goddess of Liberty, Mars and the Bacchus jokes,
stale as they are, were served out to the Brooklyn
audience. Miss Cozzens became very eloquent on the in-
crease " drinking saloons and gambling hells" and " social
evils." and the problem therein could not be solved with-
out the mother element being introduced therein.
The meeting was brought to a close by Mr. Beecher,
who said that for three hours women had kept that
audience together by her speeches, and if she had done
that she was qualified to vote.—New York, Times.

Tux CARES OF RICHES.—The eighty grand-
children of William Innis or Ennis, heir to a Scotch
estate, who settled in New Jersey in 1732, have lost the
peace of mind which they " owed " six months ago, and
they and their families are now in a state of perturbation
naturally caused by the hope of having over twenty-
millions of dollars to divide in family gavel. It is strange
they never thought about that property till Mr. Smith,
the claim agent, discovered it. But stranger things than
this have happened. The family Bible, printed 1723—
with the family names and entries, along with the family
wills preserved in Sussex County, New Jersey, will offer
powerful evidence in favour of their claims ; and though
the Scotch lawyers will, no doubt, make a hard fight to
keep " the siller " at home in that frugal country, we hope
the Jerseyites will eventually get it—or at least enough of
it to repay them for the "hope deferred" which most
people who go after such things are doomed to experience.
—New York Times.

A. WISE PROPOSAL—We are opposed to all
" entangling alliances " with foreign governments ; but
as our State Department has shewn its indisposition to
take any steps, on its own acoount, for the mitigation of
the horrors of war that have been witnessed in Cuba
during the last eighteen months, it would perhaps be well
that we should accept the invitation extended to us by
the British Government to co-operate with it in that
humane undertaking. The atrocities of the Spaniards in
Cuba have been appalling, long-continued, and inex-
cusable ; and we have again and again urged and implored
our Government to raise its voice against them. Will it
now refuse to join Great Britain in sending such a re-
monstrance to the Spanish Government as will have a
speedy effect both at Madrid and Habana ?-11Tew York
Tribune.