The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-05-27

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one in enthusiastic support of the com
t mittce, and the ether in an able and well
: considered speech, also supporting the
: committee, but closing with a motion to
: instruct the committee to publish the
tract during the coming year or as soon
as practicable. DR.. Tyngs motion was
) voted down. Then came other similar
propositions and along with them scene
; of confusion, noise and disorder seldom
!, witnessed in church. Cries of "qucs-
ton" order" "Mr. President" laugh
ter, applause and Kisses resounded from
, time to time through the house, and for
many minutes at time. Dir. De Witt,
pastor Of the church, had repeatedly to
appeal to members to preserve the sane
tity of this house" The occasion was
certainly the rarest specimen of "church
militant that ever came under my OBJ
Iservation. DR., Bethune of Brooklyn,
Dr.. Bacon of New Haven and Dr. Thomp-
ison, editor of the Independent, were the
principal gladiators who contendcd in the
arena aud commanded hearing in spite
Of distul bance, aud they made wretched
havoc with each others positions
As an impartial observer | should say
much Of the confusion arose from the
amable inetficiency Of the President of
the assembly. In his endeayor to hear
all sides and respond to every call on
,"Mr. President" he failed to protect a
speaker after he had assigned him the
floor, and 50 the audience fell into con-
fusion from sheer lack of government,
rather than from any special proneness
to disorder Or determination on the part
. of the members to create confusion. AZ
ter a contest Of six hours the report was
adopted and the committee sustained by
reelection, which is taken to be an indi-
cation that no tract against slavery will
be issued for some time to come.
The next meeting where passion ran
high and the clash of argumentatiyo arms
reyerbcrated to the echo, was the Gar
risonian Abolition and Disunion Society.
There the flag Of the Union was torn to
tatterS, the church denounced as the
"Buiwark Of American Slavery" the late
revival Of religion characterized as spu-
rious, Russia patted on the back for eman-
cipatlon of her Scrfs, and all our political
parties, Democrats, Americans aud Re
publicans, were consigned to one common
intamy as alike recreant to freedom.-
Here, also, sharply defined antagonisms
jutted out prominently, luckIess Oppo-
nents were mercllessly impaIed On the
spears Of warriors made skiliful by the
drill and practice OF years in the arena OF
! debate, and who, despising carnal weap-
ons, make all the more trenchant use OF
the sword of the spirit; and here too the
cheers Of the faithful and Kisses of those
who were "sound on the goose" every
where prevailed
: Then came the Convention Of Women
and those who do battle for the rights of
women. Mozart Hall, one of the largest
in the city, was kept full two days, and
three sessions a day, to hear the old stag
ers and prominent debaterS on the "Wo-
man Question" Here the women, as
usual, had things pretty much their own
way. The large and Intelligent audience
seemed to have come for instruction rath-
er than for dissent. The principal right
claimed by the advocates was the right
to vote-all other rights, it was contend
ed, would follow and be gained for women
in that single central one i few speak
ers wandered off into anti-marriage and
impracticalisms of that sort but they
were mostly outsiders and the convention
was kept pretty firmly to the question of
the ballot Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell
and the Rev. Mrs. Antoinette L..
Brown, exhibited the ease, propriety
and dignity with which women could en-
gage in the lighter branches of agricul-
ture, and maintained that there was the
best kind of remuneration in it. The
crops raised by woman would sell at as
high price as those of the sturdiest
man farmer. 1t is a maxim in commerce
everywhere, that corn is corr and "eggS
is eggs" and there could be no cutting
down to half price because produced by a
woman. Mrs. Stone said there was a
woman in the audience, and she had a
good mind to ask her to let the audience
see her, to show how delicate, refined and
womanly she was, who last year made
81, 900 by two months work of her own
hands in her own little strawberry gar
den. In view of results like these, Mrs.
Stone continued, she was ashamed of ever
having claimed clerkShips and the paltry
wages thereto attached as belonging to
the sphere Of woman.
Our Bible, Missionary, Sunday School,
Temperance and other Societies held their
anniversaries according to the usual pro-
gramme, and were troubled with no bick-
erlngs nor bomb shells There has been
slight falling off in the general funds,
but that, it is thought, will be more than
made up this year BY the recent additions
everywhere made to the church.
From the strong meat of old folks let
me pass on to milk for babes. The slaugh-
ter of our innocants bv thn nutriditv known