New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-06
UNIVERSAL s1yFFRAGE CONVENTION.

The friends of universal suffrage gathered on the
Fourth in grove on the borders Of Lake waccabGc in the
upper part Of westchester County large stand had
been erected In the grove with seats TO ACCOMMODATE
aDout thousand persons. large majority OF the null
titude were wemen many of them young and pretty. At
O'Clock the meeting called to order by Edward Law
renee esq., President OF the South Salem Equal Rights
Association apd the Rev. George L. Smith opened the
proceedings with prayer Miss Susan b. Anthony
then read the declaration Of the mothers OF 1913,
adopted at the first "WOman's Rights Convention"
at Seneca Falls N " the 18th Of July. l8S The Hon.
d. Culver having been introduced said that he was not
make Speech n put r 10 SUT cause me He Dd
handsome tribute TO the patriotic devotion OF the women
the Revolution asserted that the war at the Rebellion
had demonstrated that the women OF our ay are equally
devoted TO the OF their country and aVowed that
III his opinion the women are entitled 10 equa rights In 1t
with the men When Mr.. Culver had concluded Mrs Eliz
abeth Cady stanton SAID although the gentleman who
had Just spoken had told the Convention many excellent
things, he had yet forgotten to mention that taxation
without representation Is tyranny and that our fore
fathers had repeatedly declared that resistance to ty
rants is obedience to God" This logic many are
carrying into practice by refusing TO pay taxes Mrs
couseled the men and Of Westchester County
send up petitions the Constitutional Convention de-
manding Acknowledgement for women since If the found
CASTE all the wisdom and philosophy the world has
CURED in the last century would be lost But Mrs Stan
ton will not be content with the simple enfran-
chsement of women. Women, she thinks, should be
jurors Judges and lawyers as well as electors
and tried and punished for their crimes while their be-
ayers sit on the bench OF In the Jurybox ministers
the sacred atari Therefore, t Ia that
woman should be juror Judge or lawyer that she may
defend the interests and plead the OF her Mrs
Stanton SCOTS at the idea Of the ballot and the bullet
always going together" How many members OF the Con-
stitutOna Convention. she asks, went to the war Are
not clergymep and Quakcrs though having the right Of
citizenship, always held exempt from military servcei
And legislators elegynen and Quakers, why not like
wise wOmen2 After paying her respects to Horace
Greeley for his report tile subject Of imperial suffrage
Mrs Stanton continued her address, contrasting the poll
teal status Of with that of paupors and negroes,
and adding that her ambition is not to compete with the
and Parahs OF society but TO stand the high
mountaintOp of humanity. side by side with such men
Horace Greeley, Judge Paige, Theodore Dwight, and
George William Curtis.
When Mrs Stanton had concluded, Miss Anthony made
informal report the condition of the Equal Rights
Association, and committee appointed 10 make n
collection for ts benefit. Mr.. Charles l.. Remond also
spoke strongly in behalf OF wOman's suffrage Then a
letter from Lucy Stone read approving the objects Of
the Convention. Next vote taken on the resolu