Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27
NATIONAL W0MAN's RIGHTS CoNvEN-
TON.

The Sixth National WOran's Rights Convention
was held at Cincinnati on Wednesday and Thurs
day OF last week. Mrs. Ernestino L. Rose. of
New York, Mrs. Tracy Gutter, Of Illinois, Mrs.
Francis y. Gage, of Missouri, Mrs. Lucy Stone
Blackwell, of Cincinnati, with other distinguished
ladies participated in the discussions. Mr.. Barker
and Mr.. Blackwell are the only gentlemen whose
names We noticed among the speakers. We have
seen indeed no report of the meeting, which seem.
cd 70 Us a fair and reliable one. The Gazette gives
a some what extended report, but it has about it
an air of supercilliousness, which we dare say will
be more amusing than irritating to tho ladies'
whom it condescends to notice.
We copy from the Gazette The following report
of the remarks of Mrs. Swift of Elyria. Ohio.
Mrs. Adelino T. Swift, of Elyria, was next in.
troduced. and said that she regretted the existence
of laws which made il necessary for her TO appeor
in the attitude OF a fault-fnder. but 50 long as the
Statutes OF the State is d~isgractd by one code of
laws for white men and another for women and
colored men il is the duty Of all friends of freedom,
to manifest by prompt and earnest action. their.
sympathy with the oppressed. She remarked that
some persons present might think she mixed uu,
Inboiitionism and woman $ rights too mpcb She
claimed that abolition and woman's wrongs were
each su!ject to the same disabilities, and therefore
lne claims asa'us.N r1ngs OF each could be presented
q, thV otlib tltnc Without Qctrlmcut to eifbar
W mai prompts woman in most instances to take the
platform Z because she suffers in consequence Of
UNJUST legislation. Her rights of person and nron.
erty are restricted. Books and the upwritten law
OF public opinion stand opposed to her interests.
Who is robbed of home and her liCe.lono eorn;na.
on the death of her husband ? 1t is woman WE
are denied the rights of Trial by a jury of their
peers? Women and colored persons. Who. that
have attained the age Of q years, are derived the
right 10 control and usetheir own earnings2 The
saves OF the south and married womed. Women
and c6lored persons he they ever so intelligent.
learned and %virtuous, are placed on a level with
idiots and %lunatics, so far as political
rights are concerned, while men, lie thew ever 40
vie, II they can keep out of the penitentiary, arc
permitted to vote and hold Office if elected, and
some OF the most unprinciplcd men in the nation
mold important Offices. The ungodIy rulers of tho
nation cause the nation to mourn. Culored ner-
sons are not citizens, for they have not the rights
OF citizenship, Who made the laws which rob the
Wow ana lathcrless, to support State officials
W ho made the laws by which we of the North arc
made the watch dogs of the South, to keen n mil.
non and a halfofour sisters inthe foulest bondage.
and which forbids us to aid in any way the pant;ng
iugitlve from the land Of slavery ? White men
mace them all. Women and colored persons ore
taxed without representation or the ir consent for
the support OF the government, and to pay the men
Tor making laws; laws unsanctione ed and reprobate
IN Heaven. Where is there a government yerpinp
so near despotism? And shall not woman exnoss
wicked ana unjust Legislation If God has given her
talent and ability to do il? Shall man forbid h.r
from welding her pen, raising her voice in publio
or depositing her vote in the 5allot box? Is she
not accountable TO God. and not to man and shall
man, who is amenable to the same being, assume
lne prerogatlve to mark out woman s sphere, and
thus far shalt tb0u go, and no further fD
should any person desire to know what the prin-
c'Piies OF the Woman's Rights platform are, as she
understood them, they are simply believing that
has made of one blood all the nations of the
believing that God is no respecter of mar.
that there is in rights neither male or "a.
na'e,l Tor both are one in Christ Jesus; believing that
they demand equal and exuct justice for all of every
nation sex, color or condition; and for a furtbsr
illustration OF their principles | would refer you
to the declaration of Independencc Anv 49,
would say Of his wife, that she is not com.
petent to vote, should blush for himself. if he
las stopped so low MS to marry a woman who ia
not us Intelligent as the man who cannot read
ms name, but can exercise civil rights. and con-
.rl our ele ;tions.