The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-06-12
NO. 712.

hlghB Convention was held at the Cooper
Institute, New York, q fortnight ago. Ths
wise expedient Of an admission fee excluded
rowdy boys aud the sessions we're held in
peace. Mrs. Martha Wright, Of Auburn, n.
Y, was chosen President. Mrs. Emstino
Rose spoke o. the benefits Of agitation. BY
this means women had obtained recognition
of the right to hold real estate; by this means
Mrs. Swisshelm, though no woman's rights
woman, had obtained the position Of inspec-
tor of logs and lumber, at $500 salary; by
this means such men had been reused to the
support Of the cause as James 7. Brady, Ed
win H. Chaplin, aud Henry Ward Beecher.--
Applause. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones offered
resolution to the effect that woman's sphere
cannot 90 bounded, aud that her orbit is tho
largest place she can fill, End argued that ca
pacity should determine the sphere of action,
that adaptation should he the requisite for al
employments. She had seen in a bonnet
stcIe man miliinrr Tlaughter holding bon
net in his viii, aauds and expatia,ing on IL
'eau..cs to a iu'y stoyuer. The lady tried
10 cG; he wont INTO exstaces laughter +,
was so becoming 50 charming" She W
Ike r. take a cargo Of young men, now -.
ling iacra, rt.iicial flowers and criuoliue, out
West gni 80, them digging coal, aud let thci
place. be supplied with women starving
aa5rets. hpplause. When she saw M.
t.t,lng gsitar 20 q .ady's foot she wished TIA
woman would kick hin into more aprro
pTi,..e sphere. Laughter What man eve.
imagined ihat God designed them to fit Ia
dies caitcrs3 laughter. Where did the
get the revelation that It was not woman
appropriate place: The fashionable sphere Of
yoUag wcmen was sitting in the parlor AMI
looking oui for AZ o.Isr ot marriage. Cali II
husbandry. Laughter. 1t would be Nor
appronr,ato ior woman to navigate tho sea-
than il is Cor drunken husbands to navigste
the srreets, -sughter.l Wendell Phillip
made ono ot nj ".oquent and musical speeoh-
es, and Mrs f. G. Stanton read, by request,
an address delivered by her At Albany a>t
winter before the legislative judiciary coui-
mittee, wherein she argued that one class can
never safely leeislatc for another. Cutie has
no name; he is Cutie Brooks or Cutie Doig
las, or whosoever Cutie he may chance to b..
So the married woman is Mrs. Brooks or Mrs.
Douglas, or inst whose Mrs. she may chance
to be; the negro aud the woman being treat
cd very much alike. The American prize
pie "no taxation without representation,
ought to be carried into practice.
Matrmony was tho interesting topic O.
Friday. Mrs. Jones talked feelingly Of iis
perils. A young man 10 necessarily uncer,aa
whether a girl marries him for love or To-
wealth aud position. If the young wife W.
tell the truth she would often confess tha; ii
she could have the pleasant home without tn
boots and whiskers she would like it better
But under the system proposed by the advo
Gates Of womans rights, women would be
placed above the necessity and, perhaps, tenn
tstion of marrying for money, since it is pro.
posed to make her independent 10y opening t.
hor the avenues of business Mrs. Jones re
lated tho case Of daughter of wealth
man, who, against the entreaties Of her pa
rents and friends studied medicine, was gra
uated and commenced practice as a physical.
In the commercial crisis Of 1857 the faith
failed in old ago; bu. his daughter reture
home and told him to be Of good cheer, sim
the income of her profession was sufficient /,
support half dozen fathers. Then the tea,s
which worldly pride had damed up for half =
century burst forth in gratitude for the cours2
his daughter had pursued. Mrs. Stanton O..
fered resolutions for free dissolution of un-
congenial marriages. Sho went for as entire
freedom in marriage ~ in business partner
ships. Mrs. Blackwell objected to this loose
notion Of rnarrag'. anil offered resolutions
tn" ctfec, tin m,risge is the voluntary Z.
lianca Of ~, u.. ,aa, sud from the nature u.
~ ease mr, FL, permanent as the life
,l.a p.rt.a~i .s le, in no case has man
woman .! 'urrcnder his indiviaul'
'reolo.a. ray,ica, mental and moral. NJ
Blackwell orgurd that the marriage rela'ien
,an ID lr5;. DO Dissolved than The relation
parent % y Child. and that the only gu
tioa "a. whe.ha, tass3 is really Il marriage
~Uo protested in -l:org terms against the 81.
iue...5u ~ woman, ard 2-on,uuced those
her sax vino s5yrl.', rs weak and helpi",'
craa.u,es. Panr Hr. Blackwell! Unhsppy
lir 5tgntor