The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-27

of the Union.
WoMEN's RIGHTS PHILOSOPHY AND PHnoso
PHERs.-A number of moral reformers, male, fe-
male and by Bird, assembled at the Tabernacle on
Tuesday, in what is called Women's Rights
Convention the sessions of which were continued
through yesterday. One of the most distinguish
ed of the feminine leaders of the movement took
the chair, and the audience included more outre
specimens Of the human race than could be found
in any other place in the world There were all
shades and grades Of insanity represented, from
the mild lunacy OF lady who thought that she
ought to be President in place of Me-. Buchanan,
to the raving madness of maniac who must
have escaped from Bloomingdale
The personnel of the reformers was curious.
There were persons supposed to be women, with
all the surroundings of masculinity; there were
their husbands, mild, broken in spirit, and with
all the effeminacy generally supposed to be the
most effective panoply Of the opposite sex. The
order Of things was entirely changed. The men
were women-the women, men, These latter were
dressed in mems clothes, and generally wore long,
shsggy boards, as If to say, 1--WE are men,
although it would take too heavy draft upon
your imagination to believe it, did we not adver-
tise the fact in this hirsute manner" One lady
sported trousers and the dress of all was unique
in some particular or other.
The speeches and resolutions were still more
absurd than the dress and manner Of the orators
and the audience. Marriage was pronounced q
o,,raa an5 xycr,or roporallxv vvora In q mora
slavsh condition than of the fat negroes on the
plantations Of the first Virginia families that
Governor Wise Is SO fond Of 1t was resolved
that the republican party is especially pledged to
the womcn's rights movement, and that If the
democratic party does not agree TO the same
platform it will be "false to its name and prof
fered principles and further, 'that the monopoly
Of the elective franchise, and thereby all the
powers of legislative government by man, solely
on the ground of sex, is usurpation condemned
alike by reason and common sense, subversive of
all the principles of justice, oppressive and de-
moralizing in its operation, and insulting to the
dignity OF human nature"
In fact, after careful scanning of the reports,
We can find only one sensible remark, and that by
Mr.. Wendell Phillips, who said truly that we
alive in q government where the New YORK
HERALD and the New York Tribune are more
really the government than Franklin Pierce and
Caleb Cushing"
So much for the work of the Convention, which
was nearly all chat. The idea Of giving politi-
cal power to women is preposterous. If the
loft
taking all ages, not one in hundred thousand
would vote for It. As TO their being slaves, II il
all stuff Woman, In America especially, Is a
despot and her rule is none the less rigid because
that IL is q reign OF the affections Woman, with
s, has more personal, and often political, influence
than man. Our extreme respect for the sey some
times borders upon ridiculous servility. Is she
not satisfied with this Our Tabernacle
friends say, no-she must have toe
right Of suffrage. Only think Of our delicate,
fragile, tender, sweet women at the polls, crowd
ing, crushing, lighting to get ia ballot. Think
Of them intriguing in barrooms, lobbying in no
mina,ing conventions, aud adopting all the low
political tricks of the he animals Why
1T would be return TO barbarism
at once. The proper scene Of woman's influence
is in the drawing room, the saloon, the boudoir,
in the church. by the bedside of sickness, in all
the sweet reinements of home and the charming
surroundings Of the domestic Preside. The poll
teal arena-the halls oflegsIation, with all their
noise. tumult and intrigue, are not for her. She
Is 10 civilize and refine away the rough edges Of
The hard cold, outside worldly contact with
them. she would also become rough, hard. cold.
batbarous, and degrade man to the condition Of
the savage. whose wife grinds bis corn, labors 10
bic field attends to all his wants, political and 50
cial. while he smokes himself into chronic stupi-
di,y Think Of woman in Congress, with al the
lighting. squabbling, covhdng shooting, and
Other knock down arguments with which that
srniable body regales itself during the intervals
Of lie magnificent oratory. No, i is the duty Of
woman 20 pick up the killed and wolnded--not
to mingle in the fight; to dress the wounds-not
to scratch ont her sigtcrs's eyes.
The plain fact Of the matter is that al this
nor srnse about down trodden women is gotten
up Nv ies hundred persons, supposed to be fe-
males but whose sex Is not accurately defined by
exterior developements Some Of them wear
hreechos, others adhere to petticoats, with pea
Jacket Sometimes they marry, under protest.
Sometimes they ~ away and join the Shakers,
with sardorc Intention Of suddenly bringing
thr vmld H ~ 80 ~ stopping Reproduction.
C.lss, ~ ,hs ..nuafy, .oin the lormons, with