Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-15

W. Beecher and Others-Curious Doings in tn,
Conyention-A Shrim Demand for the Ballot
for Women.
The Woman's Rights Convention met
a few days since at the church Of the puri-
tans (Dr. Cheever's) with a very large
attendance.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a fine,
portly, middle-aged woman in black silk
dress, and short, light curls, with a blue
ribbon in her hair, occupied the chair.
Upon the platform were Mrs. Martha
Wright, Of Auburn; Ernestine L. Rose,
Mrs. Winchester, Mrs. Gage, Theodore Til
ton, Abby Kelly Foster, Lucretia Mott, Mr..
Sergeant, Of Boston, and afterwards Henry
Ward Beecher and Mrs. Frances Ellen
Watkins also took places on the platform,
with beaming faces.
Mrs. Stanton opened the meeting bv
reading the resolutions which were adopted.
MRS. STANTON WANTS TO MAKE wCMAN's
SPHERE ILLISuTABLE.
Mrs Stanton then made a formal address.
She said the outer world, as well as the
home, needs woman to look after the order
Of its arrangements. With the ballot.
woman would extend her sphere, and make
her sphere as illimitable as her wants.
Shall Senators in their places tell us that
woman does not need the vote, when forty
thousand women in this city are living at
starving prices by the needle and below
these in lower depths, are mighty multi
tuds Of fallen angels over whose misery and
crime society draws a veil Of forgotfulness,
and before that inextricable problem stands
appalled,.
THE SOCIAL EVILS.
Here are thousands without selfrespect or
fear, or hope or love, who sit in darkness
and gloom in these moral lazar houses of
disease and despair waiting for the shadow
OF death or some good spirits on earth to
galvanize them into life again. For such "a
these, what can be done? Outside the pale
of responsibility, with every honorable em-
ployment closed against them, life an ire
trievable blank to them; snail we calmly
fold our arms and, like the Pharisees Of old,
that God thank we are not of them and leave
them 10 their fate2 No, no; it is your duty
aud mine, and our interest too TO open new
avenues for work to all this class of women,
for they are sapping the foundations of our
national virtue and strength. We may for
get them, but their sins will be avenged on
as and on our children 10 .he third and
fourth generation. With the ballot, We
would organize from this class standing
army for the nation-an army not 10 destroy
bat 10 save.
4 HINT FOR A NEW COMMISSION.
would have women associated together
with men, on equal wages, as inspectors OF
streets, of prisons, Of metropolitan police
commissioned, uniformed, and paid by the
State to guard and watch the youth of the
nation; with a star on her brow and the
sceptcr in her hand Would not women
IL 4, ,.g.t.t a. VrrtFl
a holicr mission than she now dOes-a de
pendent on the will and bounty of another!
Give a man the right over my subsistence
hc has a right over my whole moral being
! would have organized companies of women
10 abatc drunkenness gambling, icentious-
ness; 10 watch and guard the youth, the
weak and ignorant; 10 counsel the criminal
and unfortunate: 20 look after the order and
cleanliness of tcncment-hOuscs, streets, and
prisons thus making the mother and wife
and sister and daughter power over TIN,
moral realm, and be no longer slave where
she should be ruler; no longer a subject
where she should be queen. In the narrow
sphere now assigned woman, under dynas-
tv of force, she perishcs for want of labor
and thought. Shall they who lounge on
velvet cushions clothed in purple and fine
linen, iarng sumptuously every day, tell Us
they DO not care to vote? Have you no dui
ties to the sad, fallen, and outraged of youl
own sex? Here very stout woman in {
front pew began to look agonlaed in tn,
countcnaucc. aud at the end of every meas
urcd sentence that fell from Mrs. Stanton
she uttered the word "Amcr," while two o.
three other oId women put their handker
chiefs 10 their eyes and some young womer
laughed audibly. But still the first old lad,
clappcd her hands and nodded her hca,
and said Amen
A HINT IN CASE OF ANOTHER DRIVER
STRIKE.
Mrs. Stanton continued by saying thai
women should be conductors on cars am
railroads, drivers in carriages and stages
and saw no objection to il, If even the ladie
can drive two horses III Fifth avenue, in tn
Park, with a man on the back seat for or
namcnt. Laughter. Why may not the les
fortunate women earn two dollars a day a
drivers ON the cars and stages? There woul
be less cruelty 10 the horses, less swcarn
and quarrcling in our streets Nomans IN
nuencc IN all departments would introduc
more elements of brightness and beauty. q
into the editorial sanctums. She had Otter
been sorry that such men as William Cullel
Bryant, Horace Grcely, Theodore Tilton-
men who hold in their hands the destiny O
uations-should be compelled TO forge thci
thuuderbolts in such dark and dingy den'
IThe stout woman cried Amen "
Theodore Tilton, who sat 10y the side &
Abby Kelly Foster, smiled calmly.
Mrs Stanton asked, if woman know
enough 20 behung does she not know enoug
10 vote on the laws by which she Is hung
IThe stout woman clasps her hands and noc
her head Mrs. Stanton then reiuted th
idea that the home, the Church and the Stat
were distinct spheres. Woman was neede
in public affairs. As there is that physlca
difference necessary for the propagation
the race. so there is that spiritual diiieren,
necessary to the yitalizing of thought ]
American politics She saw the dawn of
new era as clearly rs she ever saw the SUI
light on he eastern hills, and she believe
The hour u woman had come.
With this gratifying statement she col
cludcd.
SOME JOKES by THEODORE TILroN.
Theodore Tilton was the next speake
lie said that, however dark and gloomy an
doIeful might be the place where newspape
were printed, his office was ever bright wh'
Mrs Stanton visited it. The salutatlOn
the speaker. "Mrs. Chairman was recelv,
with an outburst of laughter, and the Cha
SUGGESTED that she be addressed as MI
President
The speaker considered that tins meetu
was called 10 enforce the most humane al
beautiful idea that was ever introduced m
politics-thc giving of the ballot TO woma
and never until that idea is coined into {
statute book Of this land will our Cover
mcnt be worthy of the name of repuol
The ballot was the right, not of woman,
man. or the lawyer, or minister, or edlt,
but the citizen lie demanded the ballot !
woman not for woman's sake, but for I
sake Of man. We need woman m pohuc
when she enters il bad men will he drlv
from IL. Shall we have woman for IRE
dcnt2 For one, he would thank God II
had man for President. In speaku
further Of woman, Mr.. Tilton INDUCED IN
iokc. lie said the chief bone OF contenu
in the world had been the RIB taken
Adams body, wherewith God made r.
Iaughtcr.) lie referred 10 woman.s We
in literature. and, alluding TO Lucy Alike
work. spoke Of il A. Lucy Rushtons, 4
correcting himself said he had not been
theatre or seen his friend, Mr. Beccher,
fore for two or three weeks.
RECEEANT RETURNS To THE FoLh.
All the anti-slavery people were pres
a; the convention; but the ladies ct the G