The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-15


the cotton fields Of the southi There she is com
pellcd to drudge and toll for nothing, and can BE-
made to DO the osass,s q her master What hnasrs
his horse his hound .aas woman 10 shs is, and
as she ought to be. on the southero plantation lie
Calaoan TO Arsd. There il nothing in the picture of
sIaye woman to excite sympatiss-her degradation
prevents t. - the blood flows down her back IL may
appeal to sympatbes bnt the fact that her better
nature ohiitcrste forbids that feeling would
have for like ourselves. II has been said that
woman msde for love and II may DO that God,
when he furnished man with one more nerve IN tho
head, gave more csn In the heart. ZAP
plause and laughter.)
Te reverend gcntlewoman here went into SOME detail
"A TO the condition OF the institution Of marriage at the
South. Marriage Is there said She compulsorly made.
None OF Me slaves affections regarded even ma
tarnity Is cared for; couples who love another
are often parted. Can you wonder that the feeling
should prevail among those poor women that there is
NO Godf The master buys woman and she Is his, and
there Is help for II but i, said Miss
Brown, with animation slave, and wrong be offered
me, would make him feel the keen steel. (Appaase)
II the posr woman i mother IL il why tho
children may not be taken from her and reared for
Southern market; AMI again, she may be put the
slave block and be sold 10 the highest bidder Oh what
o woman be- under such system These things
enough TO make ONE stand appalled, at the crimes OF
slavery But some people ask, "what shall we do with
them " a. Il they we're 50 many black cats and take
thought OF their manhood womanhood The blight IL
brings The elections Is enough to condemn il before
all raen. A ,ave woman is whpped-the child In her
bosom dies, i,l che cannot it from its own
father Is not is enough to make us look with horror
the whole sysfems The American slave only be
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OF slavery Can the slave mother her child beaten
wchont feeling corresponding degradation in her spriS
How can she b. anything but degraded creatureS II
the system brings forth one good specimen Of noble
Christian woman, il would be indeed miracle The
logical effect Of slavery s to make and women
like cattle The increase Of numbers is regarded by the
master tho in both No affection must in
terfere where his interest is concerned No matter
what woman may be, when she becomes a slave she
loses all har nobility of character. Here Is
intellectual wrong done TO all She Is Obliged
also to immediate her womanhood on the alter Of
aha Ia hua hutfar {Aupla havn
been what men have BEEN because they have not had
the same opportunities great woman IL an anomaly;
she is mere compound of flesh and bones-organzed
cabbage and b"cfsteak 0.aughter) knowledge Is said
to be power, but what Incentive has woman to acquire
II; Il It has been benefit TO men, it has been anything
but that to her.
Public opinion, which has been defined by Hood as
the average ignorance OF mankind is opposed to the in
tellectual growth OF woman Such wrongs unbeara
Bile; literally buried alive in the tomb Of igno-
rance. But this Is especially true Of slavery. When a
woman tries teach few children how to read she is
put in jail slavery is curse, and the eyes OF the
North would see it we're it not that they burned
ont. Has woman no voice in this country slavery
should make nj cry out for slave laws appeal espec
ernments derive their just powers from the Of
woman has her responsibility in tkis matter and she
should TO IL that ID il performed The Rev. Lady
mere sad that certain minister was asked what was
counted as one while the deacon counted nothing,
and being placed BY his right, would add to hia
he was therefore, only CIPHER IT not possible for
women to apply some moral to the question Of slavery
ing women political privileges She Continued when the
old clock stopped the pendulum acknowledged itself in
error, and said il weary Of always going the
round-and women have come to the task to set the
clock Of liberty going when grew tired Of It. Gap
plause) The Of the slave Is suffering from the
want Of womany feeling in their behalf Every depart
ment Of human effort shows want of woman's inlu-
ence lApplanse Never will the rights Of all men be
recognized until women have their rights. DIR. Lyman
Beecher said that God had inspired his daughter to
write and the devil had taken her work aud put 1t in
the theatre But might it not be possible that purer
aspiration would arise from the OF anti
slavery plays Let not blind herself to the inu
che may exert al around her. for she win yet be
called to account for her deeds done in the body.
Daniel O'Connell.
LECTURf By THOMAS FRANCIS XEAGHER.
Thomas Francis Mcaghcr lectured last evening in the
Broadway Tabernacle, the great Irish Reformcr to
very large audience. The house crowded to it,
most capacity Previous to the commencement Of the
lecture, Judge 0Connor addressed the assembly fol-
loWs-
Ladies and Gentlsmen--By the direction Of the COM
ittee of arrangements and at the special request OF
Mr.. Meagher, have 10 that public meeting
will nc held here to evening" for the purpose OF
presenting congratulatory address to William Smith
OBrien, dmmense APPLAUSE on the occasion Of his
lease from captivity. (ReneTed applause)
Nr. MfAcHER then appeared on the platform. Tie
following is brief sketch Of the more prominent por
tons Of his lecture Tie commenced with ra-
pid sketch Of the social and political condition
Of Ireland, supcrvening upon the act incorpo-
rating the two parliamens, the English and Irish,
in 1900. fatal injury had been donc he said to her
commercial spirit her social vivacty, her political
sequence, and that pride which is the SOUL thu saliva
ton the providence Of nations Absenteeis for three
centuries eSbsusting curse had exorbtany increas
ed The heart Of tho people all but gone-the head
Of Robert Emmett had been given to the worms. The
peace OF the country was committed to yeomanry,
whose implacabe passions ncessantly disturbed 1t;
whilst the magistracy monopoized by who in
vested the Of law with errors warfare and
taught the public to regard the prisoners stand the
inevitable Threshold to the gbbct Bigotry every
where sctne and relentless formidable faction vas
senate the university the municipal governmonts-was
eyeyw here supreme The operation Of the penal code
their exclusion from the honors, emoluments, and
immunes of the State but in the gait aud
bearing Of tho Roman Catholics themselves.
John Kcogh, the leader Of the Roman Catholics,
in the days Of the Wing Club and United Irish men, had
described this gait and bearing the strongest terms Of
reproach. II had come to the worst and having
to the worst the stoutest spirit might have stood dis
mayed, beholdng, the one hand feroci0us domina
ton, with all the anxliaries of the to
tain it, and, tho other hand inert mass, counted
by two million heads, which, one might think, no magic
could uscitate. TO face that ferocous domination
shake il its throne then dash il to the pavementa
giant shous be born To speak to that dead mass
wake II from the sumber In which it sened, like the
IPgiOOs in the snOwS-hOOG its brain with burning
tbonghts--impe it to what arduous, courageous,
noble-to do this, giant should be born Who comes
forth to do II. Who IL he that appoaroth the hills,
rejoicing in his youth ami strength and with the voice
Of the torrent, and that seems TO sway the
clouds he casts II aot and eye that has light
nnss in il for tho evildoer caeth upon his people
sleeping in the plains below, and the secret places OF the
hills 10 arise for the night is past and the day hath
again? Here followed vivid description of the
Court Of Kings Bench. in the city OF Dublin, the
cason oi the trial Of one John Mcee, editor and pro-
prstor q the Dublin Eening Post for setious libel on
the Duke Of Richmond. late viceroy or Ireland.
Mr. Mcagher then went on to show that 0Connell was
enemy TO revolution, though his mind rccolled from
the committed at the establishment Of the
French republic Tn relation 70 his REFRESHING the
luiionsry spirit in Ireland, he (r. Meagher) believed
that he stfovc not for the assertion of principle but
with the prtnacons desire 10 carry out policy by him
,apaciousiy devised aud determined on; and he was
willing moreover believe that lie did not to subdue
but to cn,ancpatc not to perpetuate and confirm the
rule oi the wroncdoers but TO undermine, confound
and subyert II. In word he willing to believe
that 0'CcDneN made of the weapons which, in his
dsmeu he thought best Cited for the people, whose
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