Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-20
suffrage for Women-Tho Convention nj
Albany.

At the second days session of the
Women's Convention in Albany, Mrs.
Stanton again came out on Mr.. Greeley.
She said he is favor of giving the ballot
to women "as soon as a majority should
demand it," She added: Chow does
he know that a majority docs not wish
it? But suppose they do notH A major
ity of the freedmen do not demand it
probably; but Mr.. Greeley demands it
for them"
The Convention, before adjournment,
adopted an address to the men and
women of New York. The case in ia
vor of suffrage for women is stated as
follows:
"Base and degrading as has been the
position of the negro in the government
of the State of New York, that of wo-
man is below his. At no price within
human power a she arrive at equality
of action in supporting the government
she is compelled to support and obey.
In the making OF executing Of no law,
however deeply her womanly interests
or happiness may be involved, can she
bear a part. She is found guilty, not Of
q crime, not of q color, but of a sex
and oil her appeals to Courts or COM
munities, for equality and justice, are
in vain, eve in this democratic and
Christian republic. She is a native,
free-born citizen, a property-holder, tax
payer, loyal and patriotic. She sup
ports herself, and, in proportionable
part, the colleges, universities, church
es, poor-houses, jails, prisons, army, the
navy, the whole machinery Of govern
ment; and yet she has no vote at the
polls, no voice in the national councils.
She has guided great movements of phi
lanthropy and charity; has founded and
sustained churches; established mis-
sions; edited journals; written and pub
lished invaluable treatises on history
and economy; political, social and NOR
al; and on philosophy in all its de-
partments +; filled honorably professors
chairs /; governed nations led armies 4;
commanded ships; discovered and
described new planets and patiently
explored the whole realm of scientific
research; and yet, because in life's allot-
ment she is female, not male, woman,
not man, the curse of inferiority cleayes
to her through all her generations.
Eden's dire anathema was to be remoy-
ed on the coming of the second Adam;
and in the new dispensation there was
to be neither male nor female. Jewish
outlawry from all the nations, continu-
ing through almost twenty centuries, is
repealed by common consent among all
civilized Governments. Nor does the
curse of eternal attainder longer blast
the Ethiopian race to degradation and
slavery through Canaan's sin. But
where shall woman look for her redemp-
ton in this suspicious hour, when new
dawnings of liberty, new surmises Of
human Acknowledgement are Illuminating
the world? A man once said, "Where
liberty is, there is my country - but on
what continent or island, or in what
vast wilderness shall woman find a ma
tionality where she shall be taxed to
support no Government she did not aid
in making, obey no law she did not help
to enact, nor suffer any penalty until
adjudged by a jury in part, at least, of
her peers j"
The convention, under the name Of
the Equal Rights association, propose to
prosecute an agitation which shall wake
the nation and remove restrictions on
the ballot. "To the industrial, hard
toiling, property-producing, family-sup-
porting women of New York;" the ap-
peal will be made to come to the rescue
oftheir own long-lost rights. The angel
of a constitutional convention is soon to
stir the waters. Let all who need heal
ing hasten to the baptism.
Mrs. Stanton made a closing speech,
in which she advanced the following en-
couraging doctrine: "The reason for
the tendency to celibacy. which is so
visible nowadays, was the result Of the
extravaganza and frivolity Of young wo-
men, and that an extension of the rights
demanded would lead her up from the
miserable schemes and tricks Of beau
catching to a personal independence and
to consequent economy. If women
were not so dependent, an increase in
the number of marriages would DO in
evitable." Bed