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

! law and medicine should protect themselves.
| But now education is so difiused that law
! does not belong to lawyers the dissemi-
nation of the gospel TO the ministry, nor any
| other profession to an exclusive class. Men
| have a right now to be well without a doc
| tor, and 90 out Of the world without a bish-
| op. There are gradual changes going on
now, revolutionizing society. 1t is not nee
essary now for one 10 continue in the sphere
| in which he was born. The Emperor Of
! Russia was noted as the greatest democrat Of
us all. lie has appreciated the right of citi-
zenship, and probably fOresees the ultimate
result. When all Russia and England will
have walked up, it is strange that the mother
of republican institutions should so long
have withheld personal liberty, the rights of
man. In England but one man in six has
right to vote. 1t is the general, universal
law that all men shall partake of the manu-
facture Of the law which governs them.
This is the world through, and he who took
exception to it, he asked to give the reason
why. 1t it was right to give one million
black men the right to vote, was it not right
to give the same right to ones mother or sis
ter. He was in favor Of giving the right to
Irishmcn TO vote Every Democratic poll
tcian was willing to have all Irishmen vote,
unwashed, uncombed, and ragged as he
may be.
A FENIAN REFERENCE.
Mr.. Beecher had great respect for the
Irishman except when he undertook to make
war, but that was too ludicrous. (Laughter.)
For wind fighters commend him to lrish-
men. Woman, Mr.. Beecher said, should be
a nursing mother TO human society. She
should be interested in the sum total of that
society in which she lives. He argued not
for a wOman's right TO vote, but for wo-
mans right to discharge citizenship. The
questions that are to fill our politics in the
future, are not to be mere money questions
or questions Of party power and ambition.
Questions of labor are hereafter to occupy
the nation. The question, how shall work
find leisure and in leisure knowledge. In
such a question woman's instinct is better
than mans wisdom. For the sake of such
questions as are knocking at our doors, he
declared that woman ought to feel il her
duty to mingle in public affairs. In the fu-
ture schools, books and newspapers are to be
more powerful than exchequers and banks,
not TO underyalue these. We are near the
end of all isms, and questions of morality are
to come before the people. Without women
YOU shall never perfect human society. 1t
was woman's duty to take part in public af-
fairs.
A GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE STATE.
A woman who is content to wash stock
ings and make johnny-cakes bring up her
bows, is an undergrown woman, and when
she comes to Heaven she will spend the first
thousand years in getting to that state TO
which she Ought 10 have attained before she
died Woman will purify the ballot-box,
and when woman comes to the polls, the red
sea Of loud mOuthed politicians will divide
to let her pass through. 1t is said woman
will lose her delicacy by mixing in politics.
If she were to go into partnership with a
politician, that would be true. One tho
rough politician has corruption enough TO
spoil a whole village. But it is not expected
| that woman will be any less woman than
ever. She must be more of a woman. We
need different element But tits said that
the woman is represented by the man. But
! if that argument is trve, why does not the
! father represent the boy, after he has arrived
! at the age of twenty-one, as well as the girl
Why not 90 back to the idea Of the patri-
| arch acting for the whole family? 1t is said
that women are excitable, and there would
| be introduced acrimony into politics. Well,
| he would not for the world contaminate pol
itics. Haughterl He would admit that
woman was an excitable creature, and that
| politics did not need any more excitement
! But the excitability of men and women neu-
| tralize each other Seriously, however, he
attached no weight to that argument. lie
concluded with an eloquent peroratlon.
BEECHER SOUND on DRINKING QUESTION.
Mr.. Beecher having consulted a testament
! and handed it to Mr.. Tilton during his speech,
the latter told story which he had heard
| of ten ministers, none of whom had pocket
testaments. but every one of whom, when a
! corkscrew was called for to open the cham
! paigu bottle, 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 did not use
corkscrews for champaign. 1t was ale, he
believed instead of champaign, for which
the corkscrews were wanted. (Laughter.)
A HORNETS NEST FOR SUMNER.
Mrs. Stanton said, as Mr. Beecher had
told how respectfully the Queen of England
was received in Parliament she would like
TO tell the audience how a Republican Sen
ate received the petition from the women of
New England Instead of presenting 1t as
il should have been, with an appropriate
speech on the subject, a Senator actually
presented it with an apology for so doing
petition from New England women,
headed bv Lydia Maria Childs. Charles
Sumner. i'm the United States Senate, made
an apology in presenting that petition.
Susan il. Anthony then read petition,
which is to be presented TO Congress from
this convention, showing Mr.. Sumner very
pertinentlv that every one of his arguments
in favor of negro suffrage apply also to
women, and that he is thoroughly committed
by his own words for woman's suffrage.
When Sumner reads that petition he will
feel As though he had 4 hornets nest about
his ears.
MIR. PHILLIPS THROWS 4 PAIL OF COLD WA
TER ON THE AUDIENCE
Wendell Phillips was then introduced.
| He said there had existed at a certain time
an inquiry as TO the reason why at certain
stage of the meeting, a man always got up
and went out, and a number OF surgeons
held an autopsy ON the man to lind the rea-
. SON They found il. 1t was because his
brain was full. He thought that this was
the condition of this audience after Mr.. Bee
cbcr's speech. He called attention to the
fact that il is not the legislature so much as
fashion that keeps woman back. The young
man comes TO the city and in few years l'
rich why don't the women do it. 1t Is be
cause fashion has decreed that boy may
work and engage in business and that wo
man may not. Large rs the ballot Is, large
as legislation is, behind it are broader op
portunities. Business, the colleges, medicine
law. all the prizes Of life are before woman
but fashion denies her entrance; the onl,
thing that blocks the door TO these paths
their own opinion, and an opinion that sh
! can change. The edict of woman's decisly
opinion will close the groggerles OF Ne'
York much quicker than the police can stol
them. The trouble Of this cause Is that 1t /
: to be argued against the wishes and PurpoS
of its victims. The unrcpresented millions
> of England swell the voice OF John brlgh'
When we come to the woman-quesuon' u
first great abiding difficulty Is that woma
:. herself is the obstacle. She fills the char
/ most potent in the university of tins discus
F, sion-that ofpublic opinion-and she utter
her verdict against it. He would remln
{ woman that legislation was but clrcuT
; stance in the broad circle of forces that max
u and would public affairs. The tempter
vice in the streets Of New York Is not IN
{ rouc il is the absurdly, fastidious, and bie
: ,t,alv r,ligious sister who lives IN m