The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-10-31
Woman s Rights Convention.


4 Convention under the above title,
held session in Worcester, Mass, on
| Wednesday last Lucretia Mott, ABBY
Kelly, Jane S. Swisshelm, Lloyd Garri-
son, Wendell Phillips, Foster (the husband
of Abby kelly,) Fred Douglass and others
were the active participants.
The objects and views of the Conven-
ton seem 10 be very well set forth IN the
following resolutions offered by Wendell
Phillips, on behalf Of the Business Com
mittee:-
ResotCed, That every human being, of
full age, and resident for proper length
of time on the soil of the nation, who is
required to obey the law, is entitled 10
voice IN its enactment; that every such
person whose property or labor is taxed
for the support OF the government, is EN-
titled 10 direct share in such govern
ment,-therefore
/ ReS0tCed, That women are clearly en-
titled TO the right of suffrage, and TO be
considered eligible to office, the omission
to demand which on their part is a papa-
! bic recreancy TO duty; and the denial of
which Is gross usurpation on the part of
man-no longer 10 be endured-and that
/ every party which claims to represent the
humanity, the civilization and the progress
/ OF the age, Is bound TO inscribe en its BAN
ners, Equality before the law without
/ distinction of sex or color.
/ ReS0tUed, That civil and political rights
ackno Wedge no sex, therefore the word
"male" should be stricken from every
| State Constitution.
As will be supposed, after an inspection
! of the names above given, great many
| speeches were made. Some were fair
and others furous-a few quite sensible
the rest quite silly. The Tribune has
4 report Of the proceedings which ii en-
dorses as full and impartial, and cautions
| the public against others which it alleges
are not so-yet the Iri5une's report sup
| presses nearly the whole OF the speeches
of Abby Kelly and other frantic and fa-
natcal agitators. We give below a part
of one of Abby's energetic addresses
| There can be no doubt that the condition
of woman-that is the condition of the
working women of ibis, as well as of all
other countries-may be greatly anchor
ated, but not in the way proposed by these
worse than useless Conventions. y line
teen-twentieths of the working women
prefer better rewards for their labor, IA
reform that can be had without any change
of law TO any participation in the bene>
| fits of the ballot box. The evils from
which they suffer now, and of which they
most complain, are too deeply rooted for
| the powers of either State Legislature or
| National Congress.
These evils may be lessened or removed
| by proper movements, of sensible and
practical men and women, and as we have
said without legislation, but never by the
aid OF the wild and visionary projects of
Wendell Phillips and Abby Kelly. Such
assemblages and such proceedings must
be positive drawback on the cause they
are intended to advance, for there are but
few women willing to acknowledge fell
lowshlp with such spotted gatherings. A
business committee like the one appointed
by the "Woman's Rights Convention"
composed OF white ladies and coloreG
gentlemen may do in more perfect state
OF society, but it is too far IN advance of
the present age TO receive either co-opera-
lion or countenance from those. whom it is
designed 10 serve.
Speech of Abby Kelly Foster-I do not
talk of woman's rights, but of human
rights, the rights of human beings. | do
hot coiie to ask aueHl, Out 10 demand
them; rot to get down on my knees and
beg for them, bu; to claim them. '.Sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander."-
We have our rights, and the right 10 re-
volt, as did our fathers against King
George the Third-the right to rise up
and cut the tyrants' throa,s. On this
subject scorn To talk like woman. We
must give them the truth and not twaddle.
We must not be mealy mouthed with our
tyrants in broad cloths. In short, in the
harangue of Abby, she simply demanded
that men and women should be treated as
human beings all alike-that the sexes
should be forgotten in society-that prop