Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-16
Vomens, Rights Convention.

BhOys an the Galleries.
The New York papers still continue to run
over with tho doings and sayings of the ami
versary people. Among these are copious re-
reports OF the speeches delivered at the Wonens
Rights Anniversary Convention, by Mrs. Doll
Lucretia,Nott, Antonette Brown, Mrs. Rose, and
pretty much all the rest of the stock actors IN
the Women's Right cause. Some of these peo'
pie are naturally much more than ordinarily
talented, and some of them very highly educat-
ed, and what they say is of course often intel
lectually inter esting. Tho New Workers. are
much divided in their opinion of these people,
as the following scenes intcrspersed in the re-
ports will show:
Mrs. Blackwell, dressed all IN black silk, with
flowing sleeves of lace and of silk, came forward,
looking Younger than ten years ago, composed
and prepared She was greeted with long APP
plause, Of which the rowdes taking advantage,
fell to whstling, drumming, groaning and cat
calls Said Mrs. B., will try to be heard and
if l cannot be, l will sit down. lCrles OF
Good" "Go on" go in."l There was no di-
vine law, she said which stamped woman inferi-
or to man, none to hedge out the tree Of knOwl-
edge from her, and yet, as a class, women were
weak and inferior. Our wiSGst women never
were The superiOrs Of our wisest men, even If
equal to them. Then she must either be weak
err nv nature or the deficiency lies in her educa'
ton and here lay the difficulty. The laws that
Cypress woman we're few, but they diSfranchised
her They withhold from married women GER
tain property rights, certain social rights, GER
tain maternal rights The first demand of wo.
man was that legally she should DO made equal
with mnu,-shc asked only justice. Shakes
peare is nv domi- god" said u male critic;
i but If he were woman would not marry
him." First, man would lay the scalpel TO the
brain and pare away all its surplus, before his
wife would suit him. Mrs. B. rapidly sketchedt the
representative father, who, sitting by the open
coffin of his only son, says, out vi his broken
heartedness, to his daughter, who comes to
weep with him: "Oh, my dear child, l wish
YOU were boy" Laughter on the part OF the
asses in the gallery, and indignant misses on the
part OF those who disguised with them,
discovering to his insulted daughter that his
pride and ambition are bleeding more than his
love. But she takes boys for her model The
asses laugh uproariously-the audience cry
hush" SHAME ''shut up"l She does all
that boys would do hoping to win the love of
her father. Boys study Lutin-she studies
Latin and receives the first honors-the de
lighted fnther again insults her when Inc speaks
his heart to her, On, my daughter, you ought
to have been a boy" The asses laugh again
the audience keeps perfect SiIence.l The
daughter, when she has arrived ut maturity,
though the father has no longer the authority
to control her, by the love she bears him is en-
treated still to keep down all those aspirations
which urge her to assert herself When his
head is hid away at last, her kindred are all
against her, and unless she has unusual power
to face difficulties and rise above them, she is
sacrificed TO the Moock Of pretended mOdesty,
can we conceive Of Jesus of Nazareth shrinking
bashfuy, gracefully, modesty away from the
crowds that curiosity had brought TO hear him2
| lie lost himself in his great theme. His sub
lime thought ovcrtowered all native fear. Shall
woman be instructed to put her modeSty above
all themes? TCries of Louder" Louder
/ "Good."] Are the archangels, because of their
| great knowledge and wisdom, any less lovely
| The daughters of the rich Wan may be saved
| from the usual fate-to be sacrificed to mainmon
in the name of matrimomy- because money
settled on her, married or unmarried will insure
her position; but when man is both poor aud
proud, pitiable is the fate of his daughters.-
! ICries of "rime's up;' sit down." go on"
GIVE Phillips chance, sc.
! Next Mrs Ernestine l.. Rose was introduced.
She made strong, manly speech, With many
delicate womanly touches of wit, aud some
sharp hits at the rowdies who Perpetually inter-
rupted her, but commanded her temper to the
! last, and concluded even with n compliment to
the boys who were trying so hard to behave well
while in good company. Her subject was 'The
Education Of Woman" but she would not argue
it, The Press, as often the led the leader,
the bar still oitener led than leading, the pulpit
which unfortunately was in the rear of public
opinion, were altogether Mt last pleading for the
Education Of Woman. Time was, when if she
could write her name, so as simply atEix it to
the marriage document it was enough. Society
advanced, and Woman was required to read
and to know how to write, but of arithmetic
what need had she, except to be able to figure
up her childrcn2 But now society demanded
her equal education with her brother. And
why should she not be? Tho cultivation of all
the powers and faculties promoted the physical
and moral Improvement, furnished the purest
/ enjoymcnts of life, and gave power. Does not
she need all theSe2 Then is not she entitled to
them? But some one might say she is educated
as her brother in the primary public and collie
giate schools. Granted. But after that the
girls education is pronounced iinished-the
boys is just beginning. She goes then into So
ciety, marries, and then, like picture, is framed
in guilt or pine, according to per position, is
hung up to grace the drawing room or drudge
in the kitchen, but from that time has ceased
to exist. lCres of Louder" "tha 5 the talk"
"hod up" Gel Will you ask is not that
enoughY She must continc herself to her
sphere, but what is her sphere, or rather what
is it not Go to Washington misses, cheers,
and the apparent beating of lamb head, l-if
women were educated they ought to be,
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