The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-22

for Ultimate redemption in this conspicuous hour
when new dawnings Of liberty new sunrIses OF
francbisement, are illuminlng the word;
A man once So d: "Where liberty is there is my
country" Blu. on what con inent or island, or IN
what vast wi deiness, shall woman find a nation
alIty, where she snail be taxed to support no
eminent she did notaid in max nR. obey no law she
dadSad hSs nep Spy ~ INV Ty paS1 AZ es Ser
peersY True her privileges IN this State nave been
after long Iugg,e and conflict, ENLARGED and in
had her Civil Rights Bit but like all those, It is to
be compared 10 the Dred Scott decls on itself The
power that gives can take away, but of that power
woman Is no part. Mr.. sumner SAYS the ballot is
the one thing needtu to the emanclpated slave.
without Il he declares his liberty IS an alluslon, q
ack.O'. lantern which lie will pursue IN VAIN. Wilh.
out the ballot he reiterates the slave becomes only
sacrificed And shall It not also be pre.eminently
lower than the anResY Her ruling lords and
masters have, by legislative prescription, plunged
her, not little, but lmmeasuraby below mYriads
of the human race, whose only claim that Dy some
inscTutable reason they were so constituted as to
American Equal Rights Association 1t IS determined
to prosecute an agitation which shall at
the nation to O new consciousness of the injustice
suffer- by the prescription occasioned by race and
complexion. To the indus. rial, the hard. .tolhng,
the pIoperty-producng women OF New York the
appeal Will bo especially made to to rescue
OF their own long.lost rights. The angel OF a con-
stituuonal convention is sOOn to come down and
STIR the water. Let all who need healing hasten TO
the Baptism Nor is 1t one of the heart cneerIng
signs of the times that mutltudes of the IN Je Igent
women OF the country are fast waking to q tull
consciousness of the wrongs thev suffer. Even the
war has taught invaluable lessons the dignity
and the worth OF women IN thousand new spheres.
Our Florence Nighbngales have not been one, but
many, yea thousands. Woman well as freedmen,
saved the nation in its hour of peril and invested
herself with new dignity, demanding new distinc-
ton. Now emphahcally, is her hour. But no COM
parisons need be Instituted, none scarcely need be
urged, as to whose Is the paramount claim. The
great clock OF hun anity has struck the hours aud
Its ton( are ringing across the continents reverbe-
ra1ng as well among the Alps as the Al!eghanles,
spheres. We in New YOrknave heard, and gladly
obey the summons. We are coming to the rescue Of
justice and right grded with the full panoply OF
dtylne and holy cause, and OmnipOtence is pledged
III our behalf,
We propose to organize Equal Rights Clubs or
committees in every city, town, or village to hod
meetings. for discussions and lectures 10 circulate
tracts and petiuons, aud to funds to enable
the association to carry for ITS operations for
educating and elevatng the popular sentiment.
We shall endeavor TO enlist the pulpit aud the press
must and will RloIiously TT umph Already host
is on our side. and our principles never be de-
ment, and confidently we submit our en- erprIse 70
the heart and hand oil waiting and expectant peo-
pie. Recess.
Afternoon Session.
Mr.. Lawrence favored the audience with song
in which he declared that in che good time coming
there would be no evil Politicians, doctors,
lawyers, etc., would all be abolished
Miss Bessie Bisbee, of Boston, said that nation
stands lace to face with the most difficu question
we have ever been called upon to decide. A General
says to soldier, III you want a tort build Tort"
republic" Someuhave views for women, ex-
cept embroidery and otner like accomplishments,
women, and the nourIshment and care OF
statesmen. What mother framed the charac
had been said. she could weep tor the weakness
OF her EEK, whose sole view was that OF husband,
new and better things, and before long woman
would step forward and claim the rights OF her
IA liberty which will it ali the ~ wraSgling eIe
ments of earth, and unite all the fond hgaments of
love. THIS is the liberty we clalm Gne lady was
received with the applause which we always accord
to a pretty woman. Miss Bisbee is but twenty
years of age, and IS decidedly pretty.
mis- Stanton defended the song which we had just
heard. Some had thought it strange; she did not.
When woman get the reward for their labor, mere
pleasure can be obtained, and all women would then
be comp paratlvely rich Then men would not be
afraid TO marry, and no old maids or old bachelors
Mr.. Parker Pillsbury said that we were talking
about q revolution. Ii was necessary to under
stand what we were talking about. When our
forms OF the British Government were retained.
This is true, and we do not wish to initiate all
their faults. Edmund Burke predicted the French
Revoluuon, and we are IN the habit of predicting
revolution. When we say we are the State we
speak ttuiy, Tor the SIae ls made up of us. We
rest our claims all of humanity. We are greater
than the CONSTITUTIONS of the past, and we do not
propose TO the new goddess IN all the old gar
ments of the past. We are to have new forms OF
government Our fathers formed the Government
for Whiie men, not for black or for white
women. Ii has required a years war to solve
true that the regeneration OF woman needs Dap-
tism of blood. 1t was certain that II 1t were not
granted it would some day come. The armies oil the
Union had marched into the fed to uphold slavery.
General Butter had endeayOred to return the
slaves of the South 1t took three years for the
black man to gain the right to liberty. When
he had finally gained it would not do him jus nee,
The President showed what he was willing to DO.
Slavery is now dead, and dead forever. slavery, IN
ITS last dying agony, had stung the President and
killed him. Even now we are unwilling to do JUS
tice to the black man, so we have not approached
the Questions OF woman. Our time Is absorbed In the
question whether we can reconstruct the Union
without doing justice to the negro. He did not be-
lieVe that the present man who occupies the Presl-
dental chair would ever be martyr.
Evening Session.
Rev OLYMPIA Brown said that If we did our duty
next wear would show women citizens of the United
States Let the old women tell their experience,
! ana the middle-aged also All are needed The
Tar away, but we should be as those VINO when the
Lord comes should be found watching. II Is not a
| light work, but we should be willing to give the
! "a Committee was appointed, consisting of Susan
| h Anthony Frederick Douglass, ana Elzabe, IA
YSy Stanton 10 PTseaS se %dopOS Of the
| Constitutional Amendment by the state ot Ne"
! York.
! adopted q second time with applause. Susan Is
Anthony illus rated the reasons, pecunlary ano
otherwise, which should induce woman 10 claim the
ballot. 1t would enable her so to influence po III
clans as to obtain greater wages, and the mere lac
of her having the power would accomplish TINS re
suit, She inquired whether there was any woman
become greatly increased she would refuse t.
cast vote to gam this consumption WomaI
and the way to get 1t is TO have the ballot. MIS-
Brown rose TO a correction She had not ASSERTED
that public men were drunkards bnt simply tina
she had been told so by those who ought to know
so much the more reason for woman IN poll tics
G. l.. Remond and Mrs Stanton followed. Th
| other Instructions 10 suffrage. Mrs. EzabetI