New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-18
TIE WOMEN MOVEMENT.

Tsfae EGsvss TAeK. " Tribsrs
SIR: The readers of Tx TRIBrHE who have pc
FUSED its colunas closely for the last siE months viii
remember among it, advertisements repeated announce
men's Of County Conventions" 10 be held in differ
ent parts Of the State by certain ladies engaged in the
advocacy of Womans Rights, and it may noa DO urin-
terestng an item of State news for those readers 10
know, that every Of those appointments have been
filed by the said ladies. Over sixty counties In the
State have been visited and petitions presented to the
people for their sI atures praying after this wise;
70 ne seanf, and A.sembiv q The STATE o, Nes Sors;
y ak yo vii t.e 10 submit 70 the people an
OF the Consution allowing Women to vote and
the fun and entire control of all property originally be-
longing TO Item ard other earning; during marriage and %sa
enOys and the rights Of widow TO her children aud as 20
the piopery and over the children Of his deceased wife,
These petitions have been largely signed by the au-
dences gathered together to listen TO the arguments IN
favor Of the emancipation of woman.
In tie rural districts the success has been wonderful
considering the unpopularty Of the subject, our moet
violent opposers being demagogical Democrats, who
frankly acknowledge that if our doctrines prevail
Anti.SlayeIy, Temperance, Moral Reform, and Re
publicanism Will conquer.
Large requests have been made IN the East for the
furtberance OF this movement, and under the patron
age of Committee appointed for that purpose, these
ladies have gone forth to proclaim the doctrne OF Civ
and Political Equality for Noman.
No la2gards are they in their work. In the Ian
guage OF Mr.. Greeley, they have found work TO he
done, and have gone at II with ready ana reaolule
will, and they have net, some OF them, been able TO
answer the calls made upon their time and talent Dne
of them II can speak but for one, between the 18th OF
November and the 3lst of January, has given sixty
eight lectures, missing not one appointment resting
only through the holidays and some Sabbaths'
The others have, doubtless, done as WELL but the
writer has not the facts. These ladies have in most
instances been able to pay their expenses and IN
some to nearly accomplish the feat of paying their
own salaries. They are not disappointed old maids
desolate widows-Or unhappy wives-though there 10
one widow and one who has passed, what Is
called the sunny side OF twenty-five.
Miss Susan Is. Anthony the general agent, resides
at Rochester, and is unmarried. Mrs Ernstne IL;
Rose Of New-York city, is too-widey known TO neeo
C jmmept. The same may be said of Antoinetts
Brown Blackwell the eloquent minister and accom-
plished scholar, and amiable wife and mother. Mrs
j. Elizabeth Jones of Ohio is lady in the rpeness OF
womanhood, to whom, equally with the above, al
these adjectives apply.
Mrs f. M Troy Cutler of Illinois, a lady who has
been twice married, and who has superintendent two
families of children satisfactorily has been teacher in
high school IN Columbus, Ohlo and natron oil GEAR
and dumb asylum, taken premiums on sorghum sugar
made By her hands, and is also physician among
the poor of her neighborhood.
Mrs. Lucy NJ. Coleman of New-fOrk is widow,
and has fought LIES battle brayey and well for herself
and children. -.
Mrs Frances D. Gage of Missouri formerly Of Ohio,
might claim the nomination for President under the
authority of Beeeher, having brought up SIX unruiy
boys" whose aggregate hight would form column
thirty feet high in honor of their mother who viii
all vote the Republican ticket in 1860 but one, and he
is not old enough and no Of them smokes or chews
the inner man with intoxicating beverages.
She II slso the mo her Of two daughters.
Two wears ago. Greeley said to one OF the LADIES',
"Why don't you ladies 60 TO work They have
gone 10 work and with the help of such as Phil.
lips Parker Giddngs Curtis, Beecher, and host of
others whom the world delights to honor their cause
will surely triumph.
1t is question of time only-not of fact.