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

was too ludIcrous. laughter For wind fighter.
commend hm to Irshmen. Woman, Mr.. Beecher
said, shou te a nursing mother 10 human soc ETY..
She sLOud be interested in the sum total OF that
society IN winch 30 lives he arPued NJ; for a
WCmai s rlph to vote but for ROman's duty to
discharge citizen hip. The qIestions that 10 fill
our poltics in the future not to be mere mouey
questions, or questions OF lartv power aud ambiuoD
Questions of labor are hereafter to occupy the
nation The question How snail work find leisure and
m 10 sure knowledgep In such question woman's s
instinct Is better than mans wisdom FO the sake of
such questions that oCkng at doors he de-
clared thatwoman ought to fee 1t her duty tomIngle
IN pubhc ahaits. ln the future, schools books ana
newspapers are to be more powerful than eXche-
quers and banks not 10 undervalue these. Weare
near the end of all isms, and questions of morality
are TO come before the people. Without women yo I
snail never perfect human society. IL was wOman's
duty TO take part in public affairs.
GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE STATE
woman VINO IS cOutent to wash stOc tings, and
MAKE Johnny'cGKes bring up her "oys, Is an under
crown weman, and when she comes tJ Heaven sh D
VIII spehd me hrst thousand years IN getting to that
STATE to which she ought to have attained before sne
uled Woman wIll purify the ballOt-box, and when
woman cOm,s 10 the pol 5, the Red sea OF loud-
mOuhed polite aus VIII divide to let her pass
thlougn. 1t IS said woman will lOs3 her de Icacy
ntrshlp with y ht.clan, that would be true One
tIorough politician has corruption enough to spoil
Whole village. But it is no. expected that
must be NOR Of a woman. We need u d fleren; ele-
ment
but il is said that the woman is represented by the
man But, II that argument IS true, why does not
the father represent the 10y he has arrived at
the the age oi twenty.one, as well as the girl2 Why
not 20 back to the idea of the patrarc acting tor
the whole 1anilyY 1t IS saiu that women are ex.
ctable, and there would be introduced acnmony
into policy. Well, he wOu d not for the world con-
lamhate politics. (Laughter.I He would aunt
that woman was an cXcitabie creature, and that
politics did nor need any more excitement But the
eXciiabih!y OF men and women would neutralIze
each other. Seriously however, he attached no
weight to that argument. He concluded with an
elC Quent perOrabon.
BEEcHER SOUND ON DRINKING QUESTION.
Mr.. B.ecner having consulted a testament and
handed ii TO MIR. Tton during his speech the latter
told story which he had heard OF ten mnsters
none of whom had pocket testaments; but every ono
oi whom, when corkscrew was called for 10 open
'Le champagne pulled one out of his pocket.
Mr.. Beecher said he was ashamed to say he was
sufficiently acquainted with such subjects as to
Know that they md not use cOrkscrews for cham.
paPne; fors which the cOrkscrews were wanted.
(Laughter.l
HORNETS NEST FOR SUMNER
Mrs. stanton SAID, as Mr.. Beecher had told how
respectfully the Queen of England was received IN
Parnament, she would like to tell the audIenc how
a RepubLcan Senate received the petition from the
as it should have been, with an appropriate speech
on the subject, Senator actually presented 1t with
land women, headed by Lr da Nara CniIds. Charles
umIer, IN the United States Senate made an apo.
logy in presenting that petition.
susan Il, ANTHONY then read a petition which is
TO lie presumed to congress rom this convention
show nP Mr. Sumner very pertinenty thai every one
Of his al gumenIs Iavor OF negro suffrage appIv
also to women AID that he is thoroughly committed
by is own words Tor woman's suffia4e
When sumner reads that petition he will feel as
though he had hornets nest aoout his ears
Mr.. PHILLIPS THROWS PAIL OF COLI WATER ON
THE AUDIENCE
, wendell Phillips was then introduced. He said
mere mad existed at certain time an inquiry to
the reason why az certain stage OF me meeting a
man always got up and went out, and number of
surgeons held an autopsy the man 10 find the
reason. They found it. 1t was because his brain
was tul. He thought that this was the condition
OF this audience after Mr. Beecher's speecb He
attention n is
ture so much as fashion that keeps woman back
ihe Young man comes to the city and IN a few years
is lien; why don't the women do itY 1t is because
fashion has decreed that ooY may work and engage
in bus ness and that woman may not. Large as
Ine Bailot is, large as legisat on is behind 1t
Business, the colleges, medicine, laval the
thousand prizes OF life are before woman, but
las hion denies her entrance; the only thing that
blocks the door to these paths is their own opinion
and an opinlon that she can change. The edict OF
woman's DECISIVE opinion will close the groggenes
oil New ork much quicker than the police can
stop them he CUB of this cause is that # Is TO
argued against the wishes and purpose OF its VIC.
The voice OF John Bright. When we come To the
woman question, the first great abiding difficulty is
that woman herself is the o: acle.
She fills the char most potent in the university of
this discusslon-that of puOc opinlon-and she
WI man that legislation was but Circumstance in
The broad circle Of forces that make and m Juld pub.
nc atars lhe tempter 10 vice in the street. Of
New York is not the rOue it is the absurdIy fasti.
tiOus and Digo edy rehgious' sister who Iyes in a
tne M mansion within half mile. She is the one
that binds the limbs God made alert, and hands her
SISTER over to the tempter.
UNPALATABLE ADVICE.
90 home and reform yourselves. Go home, and
let there emanate that influence from soc ety which
IS the creature and the creator of public opnion
oman is equal in literature, and the literature OF
the middle ages that wasn't readable was puIged
But give woman the ballot and don't cOunt ON
The millennium the next day.
Mr.. PHILLIPS LACKS KEEN AGONY OF INTEREST FOR
wOMANs RIGHTS.
N
question that did in the slave that did 10 the
temperance cause, because the dTunkard's vice un-
od leu MN 10 heD Us IN me effort to lit him on his
rour ban every medical college will be open every
iN enue OF business will be open Don't ignore the
power of woman IL Is too great. Let it be oosened
II is hidden; we want 10 be able to find it and in.
dct il. Let woman know that no one stops her bur
herself She has her own arms, she corrupts her
Mrs Gage grim, mi ddle-aged lady. with a cap
On the back OF her head, and bunch of curls in
ohe conn enced by saying that the reason that
Eoman's influence was directed IN the avenues of
ashIon was because, for centuries, she had had no
opDor unity to exert il IN anv otner direction
ohe closed'wlth lengthy allegoTy concerning an
Did ruin.
PHILADELPHIA GETS A WIPE.
9rs. Harper. OF Ono colored lady, nicely
lresed, with her Lair fTZzed behind, was tue next
peaker che related something OF her vn experl.
ron on women and men. she was very indignant
ganst fhlladelphia ier the manne in which that
Intensely radical city treats NEGROES
Lucret'aiMOtt also SAID a rev words.
WoMAN's RIGHTS MERGED INTO EQUAL RIGHTS.
After recess OF an hour the meeting agalu con-
yened, and the Woman's Rights Association was
a meTlcan Equal Rights Association. with Lucreha
hott as President, having for lis object the obtaining
- eoai rne Pht ot snnrage lor all persons without
egalO 10 complexion, race or sex, !" which inc udes
u course, 'lndians not taxed as ell as Cinnamon
Al Al lhle lPent ourang -outangs. Some ladies made
peeches critcizIng Mr.. Phillips's remarks and Mr.
suggested, substance.