Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-17
Communications.
NEW ENGLAND woMAN's RIGHTS CON-
VENTI0N.
Bosroy, June 81 1854.

BosroN, June 81 1854.
DEAR MARius: There is so much of intense in
terest now in Boston on the slavery question, that
] can hardly turn aside moment to speak Of that,
which, under other circumstances has equal, if not
paramount importance to freedom to the colored
man, "Womans Rights"
The first New England woman's Rights Conven-
ton was held in Boston, Friday June 2nd, in the
Meonean Hail. fremont Temple.
And, although Boston was in an incipicnt state
of civil war, with United States troops from Long
Island Portsmouth and New York, with its own,
and the naval militia on the side of despotism
against the friends of freedom enough were found,
trusting in the power of liberty to triumph over
slavery, for all Anthony Burns was sent back to
Gil that large hall to overfowing, and to declare in
the ears Of the slave power, in whatever form it
might exist that, so far from presenting them o
flag OF truce in this, their apparent triumph, no
human right should he surrendered with their
consent, and that they would not be voluntarily
amenable to government which dared to stand up
in the face of its declarations and before high
heaven, and receive the sacrifice of a human being,
or one of the rights that belong to that being.
That they would not voluntarily pay taxes to n
COulu not consent 10, Ccen "
asked, and that they would especially resist the
paying indirectly, tha. part of the forty thousand
dollars which they might be assessed by the govern
ment.
They asserted that the brutal and Infamous out
rage which was being perpetrated upon Anthony
Burns, and through him, upon every man and every
woman of this nation, in spite of their moral sense
and holy sympathies, while they had no redress
was an irrefutablc argument, demanding woman Is
political right on the ground of universal humanity
and justice, as well as by our Constitutional bill Of
rights.
These with other most radical sentiments were
embodied in resolutions, and discussed forcbly
and cOnclusivcly, by Lucy Stone, in her thorough
who has had seventeen years practice, in Boston
in the profession Of medicine, and Mrs. Emma r
Coe, of Buffalo, who never fails to secure the ad
miration VI her audience. by her logical and ele
CANT style Of reasoning. Mr.. Garrison also ad
dressed the audience in the evening, setting forti
as 10 other can, the truest, broadcast, highes
ground for demanding human rights, and the in,
perious necessity for womans aid, in this trial hou
of our country's peril.
l think the impression of this meeting upo
those who attended and those who did not, vii
be exceedingly practical, from the fact that man
n of the men and women identified with this move
n ment were in actuar demonstration of their prir
y ciplcs at the very hour of the meeting in Coui
Square, and were, for once, with the exception {
the militia, in the majority of sentiment. Were tie
e full of reprcssed indignation, and with countt
!, nanccs that spoke unmistakable words of rcbuk
u :, to the cowardy minions of the slave power, an
}, deathlcss hostility to the idea that man may
bought and sold under any sanction of Law 9
, Religion. Very truly yours
!. JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING.