The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-12-24
Doest1cls' Visits the Strong-mind-
cd Womon'S Convention,


hare recently attended the annual
Exhibition of ripstaving females who
have sworn n solemn oath to snatch the
pan.aloons from tho legs of tho tyraut.
Man. usurp the stove pipe hat, and mo-
nopolize all the standing collars in the
country. The Woman's Right. Conven.
tion at the Tar bernarle la, been the
scene Of my laborsand the Strong mind.
ed Females have been the subjects OF my
obsrrva,i5ns Was introduced by a
friend who said some of the leaders in
the movement were relatives nf his. Lot
Of people present. all sympalhz"rs with
wrnngcd Woman. The wardrobe Of the
feminiucs seemed to be 10 a transition
,ta'c as if as yet undecided whethcr to
subsidc into petticoats. or blossom into
brecches; and if beauty had been cap.
ital crime in the land, not one of thom
would ever have been accused. or even
su~r ec'cd OF the offence.
| achieved admission without diff.
Guilty, though | had previously resolved,
to shave off my hIwiug beard hoop mp
my honorned legs after the prevailing
s'ylc, and g, in surroptiticu>iv as "A
strong-minded female ; but the Womcns
Fighters had no prejudice against pan
falcons qnite the contrary, and did not
seriously Object to whikers, In fact,
Lucy, Stones mananl Efnestine Roses
man. and all the strong minded womens
men who were there. wore wiskers-they
conldu't have given more attention to
raising them if there had been famine
in the land, aud boards had been bread.
stuff.
They elected she President named
Paulina-not the Pauline mentioned in
the play, but different animal altoge,h'
er-one that Caud, Melno'te would
have gone six bucks out of his way to
avoid, aud whom he would no more have
written poetry about or sen, flowers to,
than he would have addressed sonnet
To Fighting Mol. or sent boqlot of
violets to Black Kate cell 290 in thu
Tombs.
There were considerable skirmi>hes.
Ia Congress and at one time I thought
that Luce Stone and the President
would have couple Of rounds before
they could settle their little matters,
but when Paulna took off her jlcket,
rolled up her sleeves and shool; her fists
with a sauguirary flourish, Luce saw
her error and backed out.
Then they began to do what they
called business-coudn't see mach bus
iuess in tit was all about the monster,
Man, was abusing frail w 1man---how the
Monster, Man wouldn't let frtiI Womla
vote. and objected to frail Womau's
wearing his pantaloons. and didn't want
frail Woman tn make the laws, s,and would
rather have frail Woman stay Mt home
and tend the babies, than go to Wash.
ington and try to govern the Nation.
And bow the monster, Man was cuttins
up all sorts Of monkey shines with frail
Woman, and trying to keep fral Woman
under his feet, insteal of letting her
rise to her proper sphere, and fulfil her
lofty mission, how. in short, all the
word Was leagued against the seven or
eight particular elderly women there
congregated, and trying to pulverizs
them to eternal smash-l suppose this
must be all true, though if had not
had their solemn observations of the fact
should have gone to my grave suppo'
sing that the world has bigger business
to attend to As to their frailty and deli
cate structure, it must be something
that is Undecided by outward mauifesta-
tons, for if | had not been left to my own
judgment should have supposed that
Luce Stone and Lucreesh Mott could
bold their own in fair stand-up fight
with Charley Duane and Billy MulIigan
indeed, if match could have been ar
ranged between the former ladI and
Yankee Sullivan himself | should bavc