Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1851-07-01
Woman's Rights Convention.
AKRON, May %, 1851.

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DEAR RHERALD:-Knowing your partial
ity for news, thought you would esteem II
rather favor 10 learn something oil this at
most 'new thing under the sun,"a Woman's
Rights Convention. And, let me say, were
you TO look in upon US just at this time, you
would hardly think il "Womans Conven'
tion," peculiarly, for there are nearly as many
OF the gallant sex present as OF their sisters
Neither would you see the look OF prying
curiosity, the sly leer, the half uttered Jest,
that you might imagine so weak an affair as
a convention OF women would be supposed
90 elicit. The Truth is there is an army oil
talent that any deliberate body might be
proud to acknowledge. Seated in the char
is Mrs. FRANCIS ID. GAGE, one OF Ohlo's
uoblest daughters--a woman, vile, moth
er, member Of society, deficient In the per-
formance Of no duty, poet IN heart, YET Nv
ing life the most real, most earnest, The
most fruitful that could be seen or written.
One of the Vice Presidents is Mrs. CELIA
c.. BURR, the sprghtly correspondent oil the
Saturday Visitor, and well known through
other literary lords; another is IL. A. HINE,
Of Cincinnati, besides several others known
as individuals Of talent and high worth
Mrs MARY A. w. JOHNSON, whose hus band
is now connected with the Tribune is IN the
chair of the business committee, and on MS
same committee is Mrs. SwIssHELM herself,
tho veritable soul and body Of the distin-
guished editress Of the Visitor, and Mrs. M.
r. Coz. the eloquent lecturer who has car
ried 80 many hearts by this singular power oil
her eloquencc. Before me sits MARTHA
CLIPPINGS, a member Of the same committee;
and as turn my eyes. they catch the kindly
glance Of the HUTcHiNsoNs; who have al
re adv half electrified the audience by their
sprit stirring song. But Mrs Swisshelm IS
on the floor, more rich, more orginaI than
her pen represents her, aud | must rest my
pen Tor moment for | must llston-listen
with my very fingers ends. AS usual, she
is ready TO oppose all sides, to defend the
men, and yet declares that she always was
ready TO fight them from girlhood TIL the
present. Her remarks have called out a
spirited discussion upon the question oil the
! @ quality of the sexes. Part is taken by Mrs.
Robinson, Mr.. Barker OF England, Mrs
| HAT and Mrs. Coe, whose eloquence holds
body and spirit chained. Mrs. Swisshelm
is Tor once fairly out-talked, and good Batur-
edy Yields the point. The meeting. through
| the day has been conducted with the high
est decorum; and strange though you may
| regard IL, not slugle innovation upon ,ne
old style of dress, nor even word OF allu'
sion to it, The truth is, there are too grave
matters for discussion to allow OF such d.
gression. And such and earnest, high soul
ded set OF spirits have seldom been gathered
together. No iapstlcal ratings, no ignorant
cant, but earnest soul stirring efforts for
| higher, truer life.
The house was full TO overlooking during
the afternoon, and at early hour this even
ing IL is n perfect jam; not nook is unoccu
! pied. The discussions are earues', sPiri'od
and Of such a character as 10 expose 10
true light the false positions Of society in re
gard to moral and political rights. Mrs
Coe has produced most decided impression
by reading the legal provisions in regard Il
women. Mrs. Coe can say hard thing
most gracefully, but Mrs. Swissheln' is de
,ermined to have them all modified, and is oil
the floor to that effect.
The songs of the Hutchinsons have pro
duced their usual effect, and the interest o
The proceedings has increesee to the pres
ent time.-[Clevelaud Herald
AN NOBSERVER.