The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-07
womAm's RIGHTS CONVECTION.

W0MAM'S RIGHTS CONVENTION.
The Ballet for Wswap and the Nesre-
Speeches By Mrs. Anthony. Mrs. 4. Cady
atantss. Miss Enna HarHinge and Colonel
Morse. Of Missouri, &c.
The womans Rights Convention, now holding their
session In this city, met nj the Cooper Institute Last
evening for the purpose Of making their views and
objects public and organizing Equal Rights Asso-
citation in this city. The Convention mot at hafpast
seven o'clock, . very slim audience being present.
fair proportion Of whom. however, were women, At
tracted by the novelty Of hearing the much mootsd
Of wonans rights discussed 0y 'Ts
but few Of the lights Of the association on the PLATFORM
excepting tho venerable President Mrs Anthony, Mrs
opened BY the President
REnARKs or SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
Tho President Mrs. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, in opening the
meeting, said that the republican party at the close Of
this second revolution proposed to establish much OF
the republican idea a. will enable them 70 maintain the
unity OF the naiion and people say the unity OF
the party viz that the black shall be brought
to level with the white We believe that this is
the hour TO establish the equality Of every individual
who is subject to the government OF the United States
Not the hour for races but the hour for human beings to
above that Of any other organization in the country
We have impartial suffrage organizations We have at
and in Boston an Impartial Suffrage Association Of which
Governor Andrew is the president All over the coun,
try, North and South We have impartial, universal and
but mem Women are never thought of In this whole
question Of recognising the government any
lived in Lapand beyond tho seas This association
Is established for the express purpose OF reminding the
american nation that women form part Of the people.
rating thorough Of the State Of New York. In
Of the constitutional convention which TO be held
amendment to the constitution which shall guarantee
the rignt Of suffrage equally to all men and women Of
the State wethnk that the work best to be begun
therefore
Our plan Of work is to be thorough We intend to hold
conventions IN every county snrougaon. sne ssae 70
60 up to the constitutional convention making our de-
mand there We ask the cooperation Of every man and
rali,y that all men created equal long enough and
propose to have the actual fact II men will
suffrage we mean to have them understand that
be included 10 the mparay and universaitv too
The officers Of the Convention we're then announced as
Marraret Winchester; Secretaries, Ed NJ Bunker and
bury, Mrs Francis D. Gage, Charles Lenox Remond.
Lucy Stone, Mrs. E. Cady Stanton Matte Griffith, DR.
E. D. Hudson Or. Robert T. Haeck.
Mrs. z. CADY STANTON next introduced, who pro-
ceeded to read lecture which fell like wet blanket
upon the audience The subject Of equal rights was
hardly touched upon IN the style which 1t is usually
treated by the feminine advocates thereof She wanted
to know why negroes and women were debarred from
the profitable and honorable employments, and
why in the branches Of industry into which
were less paid and remuneratedq II there was any
philosophical for this outside the ballot she would
like to hear it. She looked 70 the ballot the by
which women were to be lifted from degradation and
raise herto higher moral status. The woman must
equality that the bar Of justice she may plead for
errpg en-in the pulpit preach the gospel Of equal
iyin the hospital minister TO the sick and dying OF
her own When the black and woman hold the bal
lot they w ske their places oy ane sac o. wne men
rage win be dgnifed and will seekfor wives for
women will be fortunes in themseycs-eppanse)-a land
tnAtoo
employed At starving prices at the needle
and below in the lower depths the mighty multitude
whose follies and crimes society draws the veil
of forgetulness before that inexplicable problem
stand appalled, The objection to giving women the bal
lot e that women 40 not know enough 70 vote. MT
is Jenks-the father Of one OF those base
propositions against womens voting, has repented
during the last summer and has taken his seat ON the
Committee Of Civil Services and she hoped that by his
good behavior that committee he would IN manner
atone for unciv srvices he done the OF
the land during the last summer II women were to
vote, they ask what would become OF the house and
children2 What becomes Of them when they go to
the opera, the dance, the ball. and spend months in
Washington or in Europef It takes moro time to
vote than to put letter in the post Office, and they
women to write for fear they would not have time
attend TO house and children. Horace Greeley
upon what he that opinion They say again that
after all women would as unit vote with men, She
hardly thought So Did they think that women would
10 be bound TO loose, brutal, drunken husbands
would they vote against prOhibitory laws and against
such divorce laws made II impossible s,ver the
unhoy ties that bound them to live with drunkardsp
That women would make laws TO hang on tho gaows
the erring woman for ntantcide, while he who berays
her administered at the altar presided the bench
Of usticep that would consent to be taxed for
the support of colleges and hospitals where she s for
hidden to enerp No, the interests Of men and women
not identical at the present time But in the good
time coming, which the Women'a Equal Rights Society
hoped, their votes would be unit. That good time
would through the efforts OF the society
when the black man and the white woman would both
appear the ballot box
Mr. PARKER PuLsBuRY Of New Hampshire, Chairman
OF the Business Committee, offered preamble and
buttons for future discussion. They set forth that
woman, white black, being Of mature age sound
mind and legally convicted OF crime were entitled
York send delegates the approaching Convention
revision OF the State Constitution irrespective of
sex or complexion.
REMARKS OF MISS EMMA HARDING.
Miss EMMA Il RIDING an elderly female in rich silk
dress and with abundance Of rings, introduced.
and proceeded TO address the audience She said that
for the last years she had made the redemption Of
the fallen and outcast of her speciality and
rated her experience n this work at considerable length
in fluent and eloquent terms. She questioned where
the frightful responsibility OF this socia evil exists
them sill lower in degradation There
hundred thousand unfortunate females in Europe,
and she found that there as we'll AZ here their
drstroyeB generally aged and educated
persons The only remedy she saw for the evil was nm
attempt nuse better principles into their destroyers
and wholesome form Of legislation BY which there
shall be recognized In crime and by which the
truly responsible sinner shall suffer The fair speaker
then spoke Of the tyranny Of public opinion m Great