The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-04-02

it seems hardly possible that the British
government will fight to maintain in their favor
the most absurd Interpretation of treaty ever
put forth.
The Woman's Rights Bill and the Civil
Rights Bill.
The women of America have sense enough
to perceive that their time has come. They
are determined that the agitation in Congress
about universal suffrage shall not be under
stood to refer to negro suffrage alone They
claim the right to vote, and in circular, which
we publish in another column, they have called
a national convention, to meet at the Church Of
the Puritans, on Thursday next, in order to
direct the attention of Congress and the people
to this important subject All distinctions Of
color having been abolished, Mesdames STAN
ton and Anthony now demand the abolition Of
all distinctions Of sex. The negro is not to be
excluded from the ballot box on account Of his
skin, and why should woman be excluded on
account OF her petticoats? Great stress has
been laid upon the fact that the word slave
does not occur in the constitution; but the word
woman b also ignored in that ancient and re-
spected document. There is not an argument
used in favor of negro suffrage which is not
quite as potential In favor Of woman suffrage.
On the other hand, most Of the arguments
against giving the ballot to the negro fail to
apply to the case Of the woman. II negroes
are citizens by right Of birth or residence, so
are women. If negroes served the country
A,xr@ IN
groes are born free and equal, 80 are women.
But the accusation Of want Of intelligence, so
often urged against the blacks, cannot be made
against our fair female friends. Nor can it be
said Of women, as it is of the negroes, that they
will be too much under the influence of the
white men, since the contrary is VIGOROUSLY
the case. The time, then, is propitious We
have Congress ready for any extravaganza.
Let some radical member present Woman's
Rights bill, and It will pass more easily than
the Civil Rights bill, and be much more accept
able to the people
By way of hints or texts for the addresses to
be delivered "by persons to be hereafter an
nounced," Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's cir
cular places before us few of the reasons why
women, as we'll as negroes, should be allowed
to vote. And let us declare in advance, lest
this conjunction Of women and negroes
should prove offensive, that the association
is suggested by the circular itself, and
is, indeed, one of the very strongest points
upon which the women of America rely In their
appeals to the tyrant, man, for justice and equal
rights. In the most logical and irresistible
manner they take it for granted that this gov
eminent is failure, and then explain that this
is because our practice has not been according
to our principles-that 10 to cay, because we
have not given equal rights to all men, women
and negroes Well, II the government is fall
ure, we think that the above explanation Is
about as good as any other. The next step Of
this sublime argument Is very plain. If the
government is a failure and II Withholding
equal rights is the cause thereof, then we have
only to bestow equal rights in order to make
the government Q success. Aud here Mrs.
Stanton and the other women find fault with
Congress, which only proposes to give equal
rights to the negroes. Why, that will not
remedy the evil. That will not "come one line
nearer the republican idea" The negroes are
not call" Women, too, must be endowed with
those "rights, privileges and immunities' be-
fore we can reconstruct the government on
the one enduring basis that has never yet been
tried" There Is the whole matter in nut
shell, as clear as the sky in June and az irrefu-
table AZ the logic Of eventA II is true that Mrs.
Stanton and her lovely assistants did not have
space enough in their circular to tell as why
this government is failure, or to prove that
the founders Of the republic, the originator Of
our republican idea," intended that women
and negroes should vote; nor to inform N how
"basis that has never yet been tried" can be
80 confidently pronounced "tho one enduring
basis, but all these trifing omissions will
doubtless be supplied at the convention next
Thursday. Mrs Stanton's circular reminds IN
Of Calhouns speeches. because II you admit its
premises you cannot deny its conclusions. But
In this respect its logic ID also not 70 very diff
serent from that Of the fsv.c,us stapsa familiar
In all well rss",@'-.--d households;--
I man who ,urnIps cries.
Cries not when his htber A.
rss plQQf ibai be would rather
I've surnip than his father
In practical point Of view, we have not the
slightest doub. that the present Congress will
give woman tho suffrage, after II gcts through
| With The negro. Senator Sumner, the radica
leader, shows great lack Of gallsntry In mo-
allowing the women he preference. Mrs. Stan