The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-07
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From the New York 4 srald-s
Important Political Movements
Equal Rights for All''-The No-
men in the Field.
To the Editor Of the Herald:
VIII you please give the inclosed call
place in the Herald, and call atten-
ton to the fact of the proposed eonven-
tion2 This, and oblige yours, respect
fully, SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
TIE ELEVENTH NATIONAL woNAs's RIGHTS
CONVENTION.
The Eleventh National Woman's Rights
Convention viii be held in the city of New
York, at the Church of the Puritans, Union
square, on Thursday, May 10, at 10 o'clock.
Addresses will be delivered by persons to
be hereafter announced.
Those who tell US the republican idsa is
a failure do not see the deep gulf between
our broad theory and partial Legislation; do
not see that our Government for the last
century has been but the repetition of the
old experiments Of class and caste. Hence
the failure is not in the principle, but in
the lack Of virtue on our part to apply it.
Tbs question now Is, have we the wisdom
and conscience, from the present upheav-
ings Of our political system, to reconstruct
government on the one enduring basis
that has never yet been tried-equsl rights
10 all.
From the proposed class legissao IA
Congress it is evident we have not vet
learned wisdom from the experience Of the
past; for while oar representatives. at Wash
ington are discussing the right Of suffrage
for the black man, as the only protection TO
life, liberty and happiness, they deny that
necessity of citizenship" to woman by
to introduce the word 'snale"
into the Federal Constitution. In securing
suffrage but 10 another shade Of manhood.
while we disfranchise fifteen million tag
payers, we come not one line nearer the
republican idea. Can ballot IN the hand
of woman and dignity on her brow more
unsex her than do sceptre and CROWN
Shall an American Congress pay less honor
TO the daughter of q President than a Brit
ish parliament to the daughter of a king2
Should not our petitions command as re-
speetful a hearing in a republican Senate as
a speech of Victoria in the House of Lords?
Do we not claim that here all men and wo-
men are nobles-all heirs apparent TO the
throne? The fact that this backward lepis-
lation has reused SO little thought or pro-
test from the women Of the country, but
proves what some Of our ablest thinkers
have already declared: that the greatest |
barrier to a government of equality IS found |
in the aristocracy of its women. For while |
woman holds an ideal position above man |
and the work of life, poorly initiating the |
pomp, heraldry and distinctions of an |
eDste European civilization, we as q nation |
can never realize the divine idea of equal |
ity that man in his highest moments has /
TO the world. To build a true |
republic, the church and lie home must
undergo the same upheavine age now see in
the St9te-for while our egotissn, selfishness,
luxury and ease are baptized in the name /
Of Him whose life was sacr iee-WhiIe at |
The family altar we are taught to worship /
wealth, power and position, rather than b1-
nanity, it is vain TO talk OF republican
government. The fair fruits of liberty,
equality and fraternity must be blighted in /
.he bud till cherished in the heart of wo-
man..
At this hour the nation needs the highest |
thought and inspiration Of q true woman
hood infused into every vein and artery Of /
is life; and woman needs a broader, deeper
such as pure religion and lofty |
patriotism alone can give From the bap.
ism of this second revolution should not |
woman come forth with new strength and /
lightly, clothed ia all those "rights, privi-
eyes and immunities'' that shall best ena-
DE her to fulfil her highest duties to hu-
nauity, her country, her family and her
lelf?
In behalf OF the National Woman's Rights
Central Committee.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Pres't.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Secretary.
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