The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-05

right here is point worth knowing. We wLo are
vegetarians are but small and feeble folk in com
parison with the rest of the world but the time will
come when our system will be generally practlsed
1t s very singular indeed at present to 20 into the
house of gentleman and find the family sitting
down to eny meal without meat. What the mother
eats the child eats what the father eats the child
eats, so that when the father eats beefsteak the
child eats beefstesk also and, as a necessary conse
quence the child brought daily under the influence
OF ms stimulus which is just as bad the stimulus
produced BY alcohol
Here the audience became impatient, and kept up
constant stamping with their feet The scene at
this period was exceedingly amusing. We will en-
deayor to describe it as it actually took place.
desire tor strong drink.
Renewed stamping and capping of hands, during
which lady is oh erved in the gallery at the lower
end OF the hail. shaking her fan at the speaker ges
ticulating very much, and saying something which
was innudible to the reporters
A YolcE-Louder! Let us hear what the lady
says
SEVERAL VOICES AT oNcE-Yes yes certainly;
let US hear what the lady has got to say.
Here The speaker esssyed to speak, but was again
senced by the dseontented portion of the audience
The la0y again spoke, and this time we understood
her to tell the speaker to put her down as meat
eater
DR.. JACKSON again-ODe point to which wish to
call your attention, is this
Here the Bouquet Man interrupted him, and said
something which in the noise we could not hear.
Miss Lucy Stone also said something which for
the same reason cannot appear in print.
A VOICE Mr.. President, Is this a temperance
festival or convention, or are we in Tammany Hall
!. the lady the gallery again said something, and
shook her fan at the speaker
A VOICE-ln this country we are entitled t) free
speech.
SEvERAL-"Go on" "Go on" But the speaker
could not proceed, on account Of the stamping,
Dr. JAcKsoN--Another point to which wish to
call your attention.
More stamping, and cries Of "Order,' "Order,"
and "Who is that stamping?' To this question an
individual in the body Of the hall rose up, and point
ing to some person in the gallery, called out It is
out"
Quiet having been restored after much dficnty-
DR. JACKSON proceeded with his speech as follows:
j intended to say nothing personal asI am strang
er here, but want to say what believe, what my ex-
Perence pr,ves true; and if cay anything here it
firmly. Now the point was this, was saying that
the great prevalence Of disease from the use Of meat
formed in the mind of vegetarans an objection to It,
Its use by children is another objection to it, because
plecariousy in their deVelopement, giving them
premature maturity, making them men and women
before they should be, in the order of nature and
thus impelling them into state of social relation
ship towards each other, before the proper period
had arrived. The Doctor next proceeded TO say
that meat diet was not 80 well calculated to pre-
serve to man the ful possession of his faculties,
both mental, moral and physical, as the vegetable
diet. He ventured to state that ninetyeght out of
every ninety-ninc persons who eat meat are unable
to think when they want to do SO, and have, as
general thing, very little control themselves
never stop thinking, while those who eat vegetables
could think, sleep, eat, and in fact do what they
liked, at any time they desired.
This closed the address of DR.. Jackson which we
give in full, specimen of the peculiar arguments
yeQetprInnian1 nv Oadv afe
that system.
A temperance song was sung by Mr. George W.
Clarke, after which the President announced the 10
lowing toast:
"The New York women's State Temperance Society
My the which has wned and continues still
abundsntly to crown its labors, stimulate the Of
OIL er States to initiate their example,"
Mrs. VAUGHN responded to this, giving a brief
sketch of the Society all Of which have published
before in our report of the proceedings of the Tenn
peIance Convention. She called upon the audience
in favor Of it to stand up About half stood up.
The speaker returned her thanks for this expression
of their approval
Next came the Amphions, who sang The Stiff
Cold Water Man. and then the President gave the
following toast, which was responded to by DR.. Har
riet K. Hunt -
"In the dspsnsation where woman as physician
!, accepted there will arise higher state Of social Life
THAI that based on champagne suppers."
To this Dr. HUNT responded briefly as follows -
have to say very little, for am very sleepy 1t is
Saturday night, and being Bostonan, and living at
Plymouth where they go to bed early, fear must
be true to my habit and go to bed early tonight.
was thinking how pleasant it would be to have no.
thing to eat, and have the evening dependant
upon nothing but social intercourse and music,
with flowers around u.s. have only one remark to
make, that the appearing Of men in connection
with the women's rights movement is auspicous of
good for the future
Here, if we mistake not, the fair Dr. yawned, re-
marking at the time to the audience: "You see l am
very sleepy; cannot help it, (Laughter)
When she sat down, Miss CLARKE came upon the
platform, in compliance with the desire Of the au-
dence, and addressed them. We have already pub
shcd one of her speeches, and given description Of
our readers, without hearing from her again.
The next sentiment was, as follows;-
When the cooks Of the world set out the feast of rea
and the flow Of SOUL the eaters Of the world will lose
their aprettes for public dnI ers.
To this, we ourselves beg leave to reply that when
the cooks Of the vegctarans set out such public din
ners we were present at last night we should not
wonder the eaters would lose their appetitcs.
|. Mrs. NICHOLS responded in a somewhat different
STYLE In the course of her remarks she said that she
was very tired, for she had been walking through
the Crystal Palace the greater part OF the day. She
had been looking there for pair of knitted stock
ipgs, but could not find them. She informed the
which rocked itself; and she could not but admire
the ingenuity and foresight of the Yankee who in
vented it. lie knew the time was coming when the
would have to rock the cradle, and he bad gone
to work at this believing that they would by il be
relieved Of the trouble.
When she concluded, there was another song from
Mr. Clarke then Mrs. Gage related an anecdote Of
sir. Greeley. When she reached the cndsof this.
Mrs. s. u. MARTIN was called for, but that lady
declined, saying that, as according to the rules
chvalry, every lady had right to select her own
night she would call upon Rev. Mr. Pieirepont This
gentleman being directly called upon said that in
lieu of speech he would give the following
The vh, has spoken ersrng too long.
To sreah the next evening At all would be wrocg
Mr.. BuRLEiGH being next called ont, gave the fol-
lowing apt reply. The rhyme, he said was good
Yankee rbyme:-
We know the who has spoken the first evening oo
thort,
If called to speak the next he certainly ought.
The Bouquet Man, determined to have finger in
the pic, here chimed in with his couplet:-
man has got nothing 10 say with viii,
think he had better keep still
These effueioIs were received with the most up