The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1851-12-13
The Women in Convention,

The N. Y. Sunday Times makes tho
following illusions to some of the feminine
notabilities who recently assembled in con-
vention at Worcester:
Mrs. Price read a report describing
man as ''doughfaced, cringing creature"
and contending that nature designed wom-
ems legs (she actually said legs! y for
pantaloons. In conclusion, the report sta
ted that as revolutions for human rights
were generally accomplished by oceans of
blood, there was no telling what it might
be necessary to do, and dare, and suffer,
before woman obtained equality with man.
Mrs. 2. is trump. We say to her as
Macbeth said to Mrs. Macbeth?
--s.Brng forth men children only;
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males.'' --...
Miss Lucy Stone-a precious stone, no
doubt-felt aggrieved that women made
her waist SO slender. "To minister TO the
depraved, morbid taste of man, the very
soul,' said Miss S., ''is screwed out of her
body" She also averred that ''there was
not room for large and generous heart in
pair of tight-laced cOrsets.'' These
woman's-rights-women are fond of going
into details. Miss Stone concluded by
moving resolution that all employments
be open to women, and that all openings
ought to be seized.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanton, of Seneca Falls,
daughter of Judge Cady, exhorted her SIS
ters by letter to persevere in the good
cause. She argued in her communication
that women should act as captains of
steamboats, and other vessels, conductors
of railroads, where they could obtain plen-
ty of air and exercise, and members of
Congress"
DR.. Hunt, Of Boston, described as q
robust woman, "fat fair and forty,") COM
planned bitterly that she had been unable
to obtain admittance at Harvard College az
a medical student. She sought TO "devel-
op her nature" she said, and her nature
tended to the study Of physiology. We
think that DR.. Hunt was an ill-used wo-
man. She said, and we do not question
it, that lady doctors ''had an ease, a con-
fidence and a prudence, that would 20 far
! to cure the patient without medicine.
No doubt of it.
Mrs. Mehitable Haskell, an old lady,
! said she chad groaned for fifty years un-
| der the oppression of men," Having made
this affecting statement, she lifted up her
voice and wept; but soon drying in her
tears by the fire of her indignation, she
adjured the women present to do battle for
| their rights. We hope the he-fellows will
let Mehitable alone for the future; ffty
years are enough to "groan under the op-
preston of men," Let the old lady have
an unlimited furlough.
OF all the women who figured in the
convention, we like Mrs. Nichols, the
wife Of a Vermont editor, the best. She
is in false position. Her heart is evil
IDENTIFY running over with warm womanly
feeling. She said that ''the object of wo-
man was to be loved" We like her for
the real tenderness with which she spoke
Of her husband and children. She COM
PEELED all her sisters to betray the softness
of their nature in spite of themselves, by
making them all cry.
DECLINE OF TRADE AT New ORLEANS.
The Daily Crescent, of New Orleans,
gives the following account of the decline
Of business prospects in that city, owing
to the advantages given to the Northern
route, by means Of Canals and Railroads:
Trade is passing away from our city.
Nashville editors are canvassing in Sa-
vannah and Charleston for business. Gin
cinnati is shipping East. St. Louis fol-
lows in her path. The Canal Board Of
Of New York have informally promised
such rates as must invite the shipment of
Kentucky tobacco in that direction. Gal
weston threatens to invite New York CAP
ital to build railroad, and deprive New
Orleans Of the last vestige of Texas trade,
by transferring it to New York. The
city of New York having a superior sys-
tenn Of Banking (free, even under its ex-
posure to the fluctuations and convulsion,
Of foreign markets, stands ready to pay
premium on our lost trade. The planters
Of our tributary country, and especially
on the lines Of our proposed railroads
through Opelousas and to Jackson, Miss,
are complaining Of inconvenient access 10
us. Mobile enters the field, with New
York, Charleston, Savannah, to say noth-
ing ofprosperous Baltimore, and now wide
awake Richmond, to despoil and inpov-
erish US, TO take from us Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Ohio, all Northern and Central
Mississippi and Texas.
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! A rather interesting legal proceeding
was lately had before Judge Of the Court
of Common Pleas, in Massachusetts,. A
suit was instituted against the city Of
Charlestown for excluding girl from the
public schools. The defence was that the
girl was not virtuous, and proof substan-
tiating the fact was offered-and It was
contended by defendants counsel, that