The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-11

i'm the lCOnv SnriII Demand
for the Ballot for women, Etc. EIc.
From the WOrtd.
The oman's RIGHTS Convention met yeserd ~
mornmp at the Church of the rurtans (Or. Uhee-
Yet's) with a yer larg" attendance.
Mrs. Elizbe h Cady Stan on, fine, portly, middle
aPod woman IN back SILK dless, ana short hPht
cur s, with blue ribbon IN her hair, occupied the
chan. lyon the platform were Mrs Martha Wright,
MRS Gage, Theodore Tilton, Abby Ke ly Foster
LucTetia Mott, Mr. Sergeant of Boston and after
wards Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs Frances El en-
Watkins also took their places the platform, with
beamIng faces.
Mrs Stanton opened the meeting by reading the
resolutions, which were adopted
MRS. STANTON WANTS TO MAKE woMAN's SPHERE
ILLIMITABLE.
W.. stanton then made formal address She
salu the outer orld, as well as he home, ne DIS
woman 10 look after the order of its arrangement
Wrh the ballot woman would extend her Sphere
ano make her sphere as ilhmitable as her wants
Shall Senator's in their places tell that
does not need the vote when forty thousID women
IN this CITY are living at starving prices by the
needle; and below these IN over depths are mighty
mul itudes OF fallen ANGLE, over hose mserv and
crln society draws veil OF orgetfu ness and before
thai neXuicable problem sands appalled,.
THE SOCIAL EVIL
Here are thousands without sslf-respect or fear
nope or love who SIT in darkness and gloom IN the
moral lazar houses of disease and DESPAIR waiting
for the shadow OF death some good spirits on
earth TO Palvanze them INTO lie again or such as
these, what can be dOne2 Outside the pale of re-
spectability, with every honorable employment
closed against them like an lrretTieyable banS TO
them; shall we camy told our arms and like the
ihaIisees of old, thank God tha we are not one OF
them and leave them TO their fateg No. no; it is
your duty and mine, and our interest too, to open
new avenues for work to all tins class of women for
they are sapping the ounda ions of our national
their sins VIII be avenged and our children to
the tn rd aud fourth generation. With the ballot,
we would organize from this class O standing army
for TIE natlon-an army not to destroy but to
HINT FOR NEW COMMISSION
would have women associated together with men,
on CGua ages, as inspectors streets, OF prisons,
and Iaid by the Slate to guard and watch the youth
OF the nation; with star on her brow and the
sCeptre IN her bend. Would not woman patrol our
stleeIs at the midnight hour with hOher mission
than she now does-a dependant on the Will and
BOUNTY OF ano herr Give man the lighU over my
sub istence, he has a right over my whole moral
ben &. would have organized companies OF women
watch and guard the ycGIh the "eas aiiu ignorant:
to counsel the criminal and unfortunate; to look
aier the order and cleanliness OF tenementhOuses,
streets, and prisons, thus making the mother
and wife and sister aud uaughUer a power
over this moral realm and be no longer slave wher
sue shou be ruler no longer subject where she
should be queen, In the narrow spnere now as
signed woman under dynasty of Iorce, she per.
ishes for want OF labor and thought Shall they whJ
lounPe on velvet cushions, clothed IN purple and
fine linen, farng sumptuousy every day. tell us
they do not to vote? Have YOU no ouues TO the
sad, al en-, and outra- ed of our own sex? Hete
very STOUT woman, in front pew, began to look
e @ 9 Mrs. end
ton, she uttered the word Amen" whi'e two or
Il rec other old women Put their handterchiets to
But stil the fret o d lady clapped her hands and
nodded her head, and said "Amen.")
A HINT IN CASE OF ANOTHER DRIVERS STRIKE
Mrs. stanton Continued 10y saying that women |
should be conductors on cars and railroads drivers
IN carriages and stages and objection to if
even ladies can drive two horses in Fifth avenue,
the Park, with man on the back seat Tor nent
(Laughter.) Why may not the less fortunate women
stages? There would be less cruelty to the horses
less swearing and quarrelng in streets Woman's
influence in all departments would introduce more
elements of brightness and beauty Go into the ed-
orlal saDctums. She had often been sorry that such
men as William Cullen BRYANT Horace Greeley
theodore Tilton-men who hold in their hands the
destiny OF ma lons-should be compelled to forge
stout woman cried "Amen!'p
Theonore Triton, who sat by the side OF Abby
Ke ly Foster, smiled caImly.
Mrs. Stanton asked, If woman knows enough to be
hung does she not know enough vote on the laws
by which she is hungg The stout woman clasps her
fnted the idea that the home, the Church and tn
state were distinct spheres. Woman was needed IN
between woman and man necessary for the propaga.
hon OF he race so there is that spiritual difference
necessary to the VItaizlng OF thought in American
pOntics. She saw the dawn of new era as clearly
as she ever saw the sunlight the eastern hills
and she believed the hour OF woman had come
SOME JOKES BY THEODORE TILToN,
theodore Ii ION was the next speaker. He said |
I hat however dark and gloomy and doletul might |
be the place VIII re newspapers were printed, his
The salutatlon of the speaker, Mrs Charwoman," |
was received WI an outourst of laughter and the |
Sha suggested that she be addressed as Mrs. Presi
The speaker con,idered that this meeting was !
called 10 enforce the most humane and beautiful !
idea that was ever introduced INTO politicsthe giving
OF the ballot TO wOman and never until that idea rs
coined into the statute-book of this land will our
Government be worthy of tine name of a republic |
The ballot was the right, not OF woman or mau, or
the LAWYER or minister or editor, but the citizen.
lie demanded the ballot tOI woman not for WUman's |
sake but for the sake of man. We need woman in |
polncsi when she enters 1t bad men will be driven
from it. Shall we have a woman for President? For |
one, he would thank God if we had Ior Presi. |
dent In Speaking further OfwOman, Mr. Hlton in. |
dulged in joke. He said tBe chief bone OF cODten-
tlon IN the world had been the rib taken out of |
Adams body whereWith God made Eve Laughter !
lie referred to woman's work IN literature, and, |
al udng TO Lucy Aken's work, spoke of 1t as Lucy |
been to the theatre lately, seen his friend, Mr..
Beecher' before for two or three weeks.
REcREANT RETURNS 10 THE FOLD.
All the antlslavery people were present at the |
mostly wore corxscrew cuTls, tad also succeeded in
drawing out the lately recreant Henry Ward |
beecher, be said 1t might be asked whV at such
time as TINS, when tne attention OF the whole nation
IS concentrated upon the reconstruction OF our
States, we should init ude new and advance ques.
uon. Because the question is one and the same We |
are not now discussing merely the question of the
vote Tor The heedmen as newborn citizens; that is
fact which cOmpels us to discuss the whole under
lying question of Government That IS the case in
court, and when the judge shall have given his de.
civil society, and the relation of every individual
it as agents and actors The history of the develop
ment OF man durng the last thousand years has been
collection Tor the sake OF distribution II was need.
Iu that fraterntes and professions should be esta.
blshed in order that law and medicine should pro-
tect themselves,
belong TO the law ers the dissemination oil the
Gospel 10 the ministry any other profession TO
an exclusive class. Men have a right now to be |
well without a doctor, and go out OF the world |
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