The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-16

| WoMEN's RIGHTS CONVENTIONS is to be
Women's Rights Convention on the 18th instant,
in Ohio, and one at Phiadsp hia on the first Of
June. There was another recently at Rochester,
the birthplace Of the "knockings." The public
may perhaps be curious to know of what description
of individuals these gatherings consist The male
portion Gf we may be pardoned the bull } are old
women in pantaloons who to be found figuring
at the meetings Of the anti-savcry and abolition
societies. at the orgies Of the spiritual rappers and
in the reunions of all the sms of the day. The wo-
men who kick up such dust mt the conventions, are
either old maids who cannot get husbands, and are
down uron the whole OF the other shocking
brutes that they are-or they are Of that class of
married ladies who too much of Xantippe to
live with Socrates There are probably not three
hundred in all and no matter where the conyen-
tons hed--whether in Massachusetts,, New
York, Ohio, or Pennsylyania-the same names turn
up the chief actors in the farce, and each per-
forms the same roe she enacted somewhere else
There arc not, perhaps. three hundred of them in
all but still they make terrible noise about their
rights, just as if anybody was disposed to deny
them
We at least 90 for women's rights, and arc ready
to do battle for them, with pen and ink against every
have a right to a husband, and they have right to
any nuruber of babies. They have right to any
quantity of scolding. They have right to tho
domain Of the ktchen-thcy have n right to make
their husbands shirts, knit bis stockings, and sew
on button that has dropped from his collar or
wristband and they have several rights which they
do not always enforce. But that they have Il
right to put on the brecches. md do great
many other things which they regard as their pro-
vince, we cannot admit Their claim Is 80 prepos-
terous and absurd, that the rest Of womankind
ridicuc 1t moro eiiectualIy than men. All true
hearted women-all who have a right conception Of
the decacy Of their SEX and Of their relation to the
head Of the creation-disclaim the masculine ire
tensions Of these viragos. Good women are too
happy and too much at home in their domestic
spheres, to have any taste for the din Of the work.
hop, the publicity Of the courts, the wranyling of
Congress- the turmoil Of politics, the carnage of tho
battlefield, and other scenes in which men play
their appropriate parts, but which are revolving to
the finer sensbiliics Of lovely woman. The Amazons
not only reverse the law Of nature, and cast off the
authority Of man, but they cast of the authority of
God and the holy Scriptures, which declare that
the man was made first, and then the woman NJ
F" an help meet for him'-that the man is the head
Of the woman, Christ Is the head of the Church.
that woman ought not to speak in the church,
and that wives ought TO submit themselves to their
husbands, aud that they ought to be keepers at
home, adjoining themselves with the ornaments Of a
meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of Cod
of great price. The tendency, therefore, Of these
conventions is to make women inGdels; and we find,
in point Of fct from the blasphemous and reckless
speeches Of some Of the tribe, that this result is
actually produced; and if there be nfdelityto God,
whit reliance ask can he placed on their fidelity
70 man, or their recognition of those obligation. o.
morality and religion which keep the framework Of
society together!