The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-21

Ay aHftAfu 10 De 20, was porn IN
yu6ed Ae9lo loey m Bottom, where she is now pastor
Of Unv0ftGhst Church Hcr features are pale;
and vciss q fsDssrFab,e esrIon O poWer owe She CON-
tended Int Greelsy, and others who believed in
woman sam ase, put wouldn't advocate 1T because It
II this hour be les pass, when viii Il come aeain3
An bgHr Of delay is al, opportunity for dIsaser.
Our randmothsrs had work to do, and they were
grave and usefal Now Invention has abolished
enter new dutiea We must do more; more for
humanrw, more for ourselves.
and was warmly obeored at the close. 'p'''O"'
When Mte Brown had concluded her remarks,
Rev. Mr. Blackwell offered resolution that ability
Convention, and advocated the educational test 10
q long spseah. BE instanoed John Morrlssey's
electten - preof Of the success of the incompe.
tent 10 vote. electing one of theu kind
4ra Stanton replied that IGNORANCE and crime
culture were eftsn syKonymous She rejciced in
the election OF norrissey. Socety was responsible
been now he weuld be able TO improve, not per-
FTeaerisf DoIklass and Charles Remond fol-
bate was postponed 1nti Wednesday morning. The
eduOational tsst win not be insisted upon.
Evening Session.
A very considerable audience met in the evening
to listen q address from Mrs. Ell zabeth Cady STAN
ton entitled Bread and the Ballot" The number
Of Aloenians out was quite large. The speaker is
ana wife Of Hon Henry b. Stanton, at one lime
Naval Ohoef OF the Port Of New York. Mrs. stan.
ton spoke as tollowst-
ms. sTASroa,s LECTURE LAST N1eHT.
The OensrtuHonal Convention is now q fixed
iact Let the people decide what their representa-
year.' interval m whsoh these Conventions meet, i
is right TO suppose that the people will have out
s1omn many Of thetr, M o.asidsas, and win demand
the ballot in the hands Of the negro. Now,
ton, As the proposed work of the Convention
l. 10 be the extensson of suffrage, al disfran.
shiaed Glasses should be represented there.
deeply interested in the choice Of the men
Bas SnS 70 sSs on 'es great
turned to good account, il those who WELD them of
the female sex, will use the social opportunities they
afford In favor Of their own In eIests. There has
been but little said on woman's rights during the
Wer We thought less of our chains than OF those
seemedto be to give the negroes the ballot on the
score OF humanity, we Thought the settlement OF
hood was proved when he showed his rights and
ability 70 bear arms IN the nations behalf, and
tbe question of his voting has become certainty
the sole parties whose status is fuc uating we de-
mand attention on the part OF the coming new
women Of the State TO organize into CUBS in every
school district for the circulation of tracts pettions
and documents In favor OF their rights Let the men
OF the Convention look to 1t how they treat our
claims now. Twenty years to come when arc
Of IN s of o.
be let pass. Womsns right to life, liberty, and the
purfuit Of happiness as well as TO property, cannot
be denied, for II 20 back to first principles, where
did the few get the right through all time to rule the
manyf From the same soprce that pirates had the
ripht to make the ocean sepulchre. Force and
fraud took the place of right in bo cases. Twenty
years ago women In New York state had no more
riehts than slaves on plantations; had rights to
person children, wages, to make contracts, to
or be sued NOR in many cases. to testify in courts;
much Of this has been chan Red for the be err and
equal advance Will secure us Affirmative hearing
in the Constitutional Convention. All that we have
received, however, have been avors secured by the
wilt Of an uncertain Yarylng majority Mrs. Stanton
continued at great length, and advocated the ballot
TOR womeh not only az question OF night in the
stact, but required by her intere ts in the bus
OF the country She il ted that the only
Itclaim the from the helplessness, the trivoty
and IN some cases the degradation into which they
lapse, was to make them. above all, and first in
dependent. The lady insisted that objection
could be uIged against II. People were only op-
posed to It because they did not think of it, On the
score of judgment. Justice. and intelligence, woman
STOOD on an admitted level with man, and far above
the negro. That she would exerc se the right dis.
creetly. could not be doubted; and that it would
produce disorPaniEation could no be predicted,
than # could of fact that che worshpped at the
same altar with man.
The lady was listened to with great attention, and
wss frequently warmly applauded.
After Mrs Stanton's lecture had concluded.
Massfs. DouRlass Remond, Parker Pilsbury, and
others followed In short speeches. when the Con-
vention adjourned till tomorrow morning. N. Y.
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