The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-10

20 the suppsrt Of paper, in which our voices shall
be fairly presented 70 the world At our last conven
such paper which | viii request hereafter to
be read here. We do little or nothing without
such an organ We have no opportunity now to
repe ISLANDERS. and are restrained in disseminating
truth from the want OF such an organ. The Tribune
and some other papers in the untry have treated
US generously, but paper to represent us must be
sustained BY ourselves We must look to our own
resources We must work out our own salvation,
ana GOD grant II be not with fear and trembling
Woman must hencetorth be the redeemer, the re-
generator of the world. We plead not for ourselves
alone, but for our humanity We must place woman
upon higher platform and she will raise the race
10 her side We must have no more oatcasts-no
more Judicial murderers-n more helots in the land
frail, miserable " men. and murderous men, must
olssapesr before the pure gospel love when
We design to preach the newspapers and the
lecture room have become grester than the pul pit
more effective in stirring up human hearts TO great
movements Let Us pleoge ourselves 70 the sup
port of those in the work N which we engaged
We must work diligently than in times
past. that our sons nav he fitted to nober hu min-
iteran purposes We must help to cleanse the ve-
naiity Of the ballot box and help also to free
legislative halls, not only from injustice, but
oyism Yes bave looked TO the pulpit, but in
y5iE, aud now, in spite of st. Paul, must our
selves preach. We have looked to legislation, aud
now, despite OF our legislature, must vote. Do
rot mind the pratings about womans sphere, dear
deaF brothers. kuox, woman makes any sphere she
Chooses 70 fill, lovely The maiden may be fair. the
mother holy and tender. bu. the mature woman,
sandin her serene wisdom. giving tue law not only
to her household, bat 81 the country also, is moro
than these-she Is beau it'll, august Again, |
aay, LEI Us no. tails, but act, We should have
literature OF our own. a printing press and
publishing house, and tract writers aud tract distri
bUteTs, a well as lecturers and conventions We
must show the HOild that are in earnest; and
Yet say this to ii race Of heggars, for women have
pecuriaiy reso lrees. Well, then, We must work
we must hold property. and claim the consequent
res ypI
Our aim is nothing he's thIl overthrow of our pre-
aent partial legislation, that every American citi
zen, whether man or woman. may have a voice in
the laws by which governed We do not aim
81 ouy IDLE destruction, but while would pull
down our present out. worn and Imperfect structure
OF human Institutions, Will help 10 reconstruct il
upon a new ard broader base, which shall hereafter
show perfect and harmo 1ious temole Mrs Smith
concluded by presenting the resolutions sent you BY
telegraph. Loud appause followed this address.
MI, Holly, of Syracuse, then followed up the
observations Of Mrs. Smith, and said. their revolu
tiopary fathers all wrong in ex ;ludng women
from The same rgbtsas men.
Lucy STONE said the resolutions seemed such
Self evident truths, Lad only to be announced and
The common sesse of the iuors of our audience will
a-sys decide right The foreigner no cannot even
speak the language correctly, has more political
rights than the wives and daughters Of American
citizens The negro who has been SO exalted by the
friends Of freedom that pew has Leen selected for
bin in the corner OF your churches, he has been
N ade only little lower than the angels Yet you
will Dot associate with him or take him to your
table. But even he has privileges superior to the
educated women Of the United States, for in Sc
yeral States negroes can vote. Her husband had
60. 10 maintain her What conquest il was
to gain the same right as a town pauper-the
right 90 be main tanned, They had taken from
every married woman not only the custody of her
own person but Der children /; her furniture, the
very carpets she had made with her own hands
These evils she did lot expect the 'esent genera
ton Of women TO overthrow, but they would be
oveTt5rown at last. Let them take broad radical
ground, and never let them patch up fig leaves to
bde the naked truth
Rev aNToINETTE Brown, of New York State,
x addressed the convention She said the reason
why men did not right the wrongs Of woman was,
because they did not understand woman's nature,
and could not represent her. Ali the world &C.
knowledged the mental difference between and
vCmsn, II a difference occur between welded
pair end appeal is made TO justice, the Judge and
jurors are men, and will look at the question from
that point Of observation
mr, ROSE of New York, then followed at great
length, after which the convention adjourned till
The evening session