New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-11
WOMAN's RIGHTS CONVENTION.

WOMANS RIGHTS CONVENTION.
The tenth annual Convention of the friends OF
Woman's Rights commenced yesterday morning at the
Cooper Union. There about 900 persons pres
ent of whom seven,eghths were women and ia'r
proportion young and good looking.
Mrs SUSAN Is. ANTHONY, Secretary OF the previous
Convention called to order, and named Mrs. MARTHA
WRIGHT of Auburn TO preside for Vlee-Presidents;
Mrs A. H. Gibbons, Wendell Phillips, Asa talrOanks,
Antoinet,e Brown Blackwell, Robt. Purvis, Thomas
Garrett Elizabeth Johns, Giles Sebbns for Score
tares: Mary l.. Booth, Ellen Wright; Head OF Bus
mess Committee: Ernestne L.. Rose OF rIhace "o"-
mittee: Susan Il. Anthony.
Mrs. ANTHONY spoke hopefully of the progress OF
the cause The tone of public feeling was changngi
the press was coming over, and the pulpit Woud come
10 their side She referred 10 the law passed oy me
last Legislature of New-York giving women the control
of their property and children gratifying evidence
of progress and hoped for much more important steP
in the next rcyisOn OF the state Cohsttuloh' an
alusion the municent donation OF s'oOoVo 10 lot"
college for women called forth applause Mrs An
thony reviewed the position of her sex AS rsatng
civil rights showing that constant and gratiyih8 I'M
proyements have been made and were beng maze, AZ
the natural result of the twenty years OF agitation
which the leading members OF TINS ConVehloh nao
been engaged. In this State Six women had been ie4,
turing for several months during the past year ~
counties conventions had been held, and lectures deiv
cred in $50 towns. Great quantities OF documents haa
been sold and given away to anxious readers Desoo
securing the Womens Property law aud the boarding.
House act progress was made toward giving wom ;n,
ion that such an amendment to the Constitution inighs
be carried with proper effort. Mr.. Stanton sad INC
present year would be devoted chiefly 10 the oac u
Ohio where the Constitution was about 10 De revised.
in the hope of securing the Of that State the
liberal laws just adopted in New-York.
Mrs. ERNEsTISE l.. RosE was then introduced. Sne
was in favor of agtatlon stagnait waters, whetner
physical s, cia moral, could only be purlhed oy
agitation Whatever has been accomplished, much re-
mains to be accomplished, but the remainder Will 6s
comparatiyely easy for the first step the most diff
.uIt- ulcknamed Fanny
the first to speak OF the equality OF the sexes,
and she received stigma SANDER and persecution But
she had her rewardthe reward no sanderer can poll
ute-the eternal reward of knowing she had done her
duty. The speaker reviewed the history OF the No-
mans Rights agitation at some length, showing now,
by successive steps, they had gained various adVan-
tsoes which shoud spur them on TO renewed efforts.
Mrs. Rose referred to the fact that Messs BRADY ana
Beecher and Chaplin have declared for Womans
Rights Only think OF it, she said minister declaring
for Woman's Rights. Laughter Our printing
Offices and stores are filling with women. Instead Of
standing behind the counter and measuring tape the
young men ought to be blowing
Mrs. j. Elizabeth Johns of Ohio, the next speaker,
presented resolution declaring that womans sphere
cannot be bounded; that the laws OF mind are az I'M
mutabe those of the planetary world and that the
true woman must revoye around the great sun OF
moral light and truth She proceeded to advocate the
Justice and expedency of admitting women to the pro-
fessions and alluded to the coarseness and brutality
often displayed by lawyers in cross-examinng female
witnesses. Talent, and not choice, should determine
where. The other day she saw man-nlllner holding
up bonnet OH his soft hands, and expatating on its
merits lady tried it on and he went into ecstasles;
il was such BIT, and so becoming! He comphmented
the bonnet and then he complimented the lady. She
could but think this man was out OF bis sphere, and
had crowded some woman out of her sphere. In
shoe-sore, instead of sprghty girl to try on WON,
ems CATERS, you find strong man, who tres H. ana
fuses over tie gter and the foot until the LADY
is almost tempted to prope him into his true sphere
Laughter When and where was II discovered thai
God made man to tit ladies gaitersl lLaughter.l II
woman can write good verse, let her. IL she can
build shiIs let her be shpbulder. II she can keep
house, let her be housekeeper; and thai requires
about much brains as anything else Lau9n.eriiI
She had found three women out West VINO proved,
and plowed well and she had rather see young lacy
lold plow than to her decked out nhey ana EN-
ting in the parlor waiting for an oner Oh marriage
After some remarks from the Rev. DEkiAH 'kshSh'
which We're dulI and moi relshed by the audience,
WE.nrII PHILLIPS came forward. lie spoke with
ernecial reference 10 legal reform for woman Orenta
civilization made woman toy put as we 20 wes',
,r.rd ciyiization is founded on thought In social
life il is idle to say woman is mans equal Sne Is ms
snneror she is here supreme. She nas denaiueo 'has
literature should be decent, and literature nae oeen
Iarp,d You do not lind II necessary 10 say 10
band Your wife has right to read, or To church,
man that "A woman has right TO choose her creed;
That is all settled We have MADE srea' H. au S,
Teoisatnfe conceded the whole grounds FOR the mo-
nent you grant anything you must grant everything.
Men are not easy with inconsistent statute oooAs AS
,d Ful.r saws YOU cannot make one slde OF a man q
face laugh and the other side cry. You have granted
woman right to BE- hanged; therefore you must grant
her RIGHT 10 vote. But is said that woman has not
GOT sense enough to vote. Then so much the more
Shame on our schools Educate her. You think she
has got sense enough earn her own living and If So
rhe Ras sense CROUCH TO say whether Fernando Wood
or Governor Morgan shall take one cent or ten
cents on of her pocket, with which TO buy fireworks
But il is said woman is different from she does
moi know how vote. If that so, said Mr.. Phillips,
then don't know how TO vote for her, she Is like
man she certainly has right TO vote; If she Is es-
sentaly different then cannot be- her Interpreter
and she must come into the Legislative hall and speak
for herself. He did not believe men and women are
the same; if they were, marriage would be a yey stu
pd state; bu, the fact that she is different H. the very
reason why she should be represented. IL IL ssiu "
would he nde,ate for woman To go To HE n'iyI 20.
But what would she see there ? Why, she W." tbsv
men IL that ndehcaIei Ii the men aiv =" I,aIv'ay
have no business 10 be there. Woman s I" ,',5 =.
in the omnibus-lrom which she some. "a !, !; ,o, -
out; i'm the theaier church, eyeryMnoo ''u 20
late in the dav 10 say il viii DO mde"1 To- MAJ,
he seen NJ the haoi-box. My dear, ael''o nlsna'
| vow are out of vour sphere; yon oelonS 10 u.s.,
| ,rbsre tbrv have harems or To Ih'na, where tn'
Yemen DOM have any fee because iney arc no. on
, won,p ~ walk Iiaaghter Walk down BroadwV
md NEE, hundred thousand peeoais, ana lho.v y"
bava hundred thousand answers to your sis'u''A~