The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-05

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the world q different o. va has usurl
| women. by which moral u IL as
ciude woman from society ere hat
b.'c deemed OF little account In Se6u. - y
| the rerogatve OF Jehovah himself clsimess
right . assign for her sphere Of action srdeas~
longs to her conscience and her God He iu n
in every way he could to destroy her conads nske n
powers 70 lessen her self-respect and to low,
willing to leaS dependant and sbjsct life IF
view Of this NITRO acknowledgements or .onoA Aeg
people Of this oNntrv their social and religious %
dalion; in view OF, The unjust laws aboye mentA
pressed audulsny deprived Of their sacred rg
We insist that they have Immediate admission 10 all TIA
rights and PRIVILEGES which ss.ng to them as citizens
great work before u.s. anticipate no small amount OF
msconception, misrepresentation sAt ridcue but We
shall use every fundamentally wsAsin our power TO
effect our object We shall employ agents, circulate
tracts petition the State and national legislatures, and
half We hope this ss' cSuvsssn me- b Followed By
series OF conventions embracing part OF the coun
try Firmly relying upon the era triumph of the Right
and the True we do thus day ax our signal 10 this
declaration.
Signed BY Lncretia Mott zizabsth oady Stanton.
Ann McCintock. Amy Post, MAY H. Halloween, Cathe-
rine f. sebbIns. Harriet Cady rkton Elzabsh McCiin.
Doty, Hapnah ] Latham. Ezal ssh Leslie ana ffn two
others. In all sixty eight In Central New York
twenty years ago ass ted their nlicnable righw
Thirtytwo men registered then selves "a favo-or their
demand. III the list ind the or James Mott,
Frederick Douglass, Henry "; stymour Jacob'cbau-
6erain, Thomas McClintock Char Is L. Hoskins. Elisha
Foote, samuel ID. Timan, Richard p Hunt
The usual Fourth Of July orati q was then delivered
by Judge Culver, after which Mrs Elizabeth Caiy STAN
ton ascended the rostrum and dsavered somewhat
lengthy speech
Mrs. STANTON bcsan by referring she chief principle
involved IN tue Revolutionary struG potbat taxatson
without Independence was tyranny she said that
out being represented or haviN any voice
as to tho manner in which tho public
public funds Should be she ~ aaSsea n
women who were unmarried and had hoes to refuse to
pay taxes until sense Of justice shoad induce the
American people TO grant to the so-caled weaker
the right OF suffrage. There SO important
meeting as the present in all the Empire sts,e that day.
ard the reason that their representative for West
chester in the State Convention was Horase Greeley,
Chairman Of the Committee Suffrage 1t was ait
important that the and women OF WeslchesIer
should scnd in their petitions through tn the Con-
venon, demanding that the women OF the Sc&e should
modelling the foundation OF the government ON the
basis OF caste and class legislation, all tho experience
that we have had all the wisdom and philosophy that
the world has uttered in the last century, was wholly
lost They must either have universal suffrage Or caste
and class legislation. There. were but Two
that was ''s pol.ca Ss en Ss
given 10 and taken away from the people by will
important that the men and women Of westcEester
county should pour In their petitions to the Conversion
Ss r .oa. the STATE OF VIEW YORK SHOULD Fence
men and women should exercise the right OF suffrage.
Miss Anthony and herself had been already to the Con-
sttuonal Convention and had had hearing In bohsR Of
the women OF the state There several question yput
to them by the convention. Horace Greeley hir,ssf
ed them If they proposed that should si1 on
juries. She answered 'yos, surely" so long as
women were dragged into courts Of justice, and 'sng
erring girl Of fifteen might be taken into courts
and tried for the crime OF ntanticid and hung on the
galiows, while he who had betrayed her trust sat
on tho seat as Judge or in tn, the jury box or
She said "most certainly, woman must not oay
be a juror but judge, and she ought also
1t might be IN oil the laws that the laws made
wholly by man and that there was always loophoie
through which man might escape while an erring glri
might be hanged. Then they asked another ques
ton Dd not the ballot and the bullet go ,ogeher2n she
replied, s'No, they did noi.n She presumed that not
member in the Constitutional Convention had gone to
the could show tho scar OF bullet received In
battle The ballot aud tne bullet did certainly
from going TO war; and the Quaker had always been cx
cused But the only reason that women did no, go to
war In large numbers was because there WAS strong
public sentiment against IT, She was very glad that
there but. nevertheless from the beginning woman
had always gone to war; she had stood by tho side OF
the hour OF DANGER she had been ever with him
in his crimes and vices Was 1t too much TO ask that in
the dawn Of tho err, In this moral ere, In this
si6o OF man In all honorable and profitable employ
men,s9 Mrs Stanton closed by stating that the grand
cause of many OF gravest social eyils, tho
degradation OF woman We're woman granted tho right
Of suffrage the entire social system would DO regen-
Grated.
Mss SUSAN b. ANTHONY said that all who could not
give their names sgners OF the petition 10 the Legs
lsure in behalf OF The rights OF women, should sign petit
lions OF this nature az the first opportunity all
neded to carry tho rights OF women through the New
CnAALrs l. RKmoSp Ncolored) Of Boston, was the
speaker He considered the subject eloquent and
logical wi bout either the exercise OF eoquence logic
There many who hayeye 10 lsarn that wives moth
ers and sisters are their equals He would inquire what
question is 50 important as the enc to which the meet
Ing calls attention. He knew that n nlimaed that
created from very small portion OF
He would not subscribe TO thar bat lie would
open the negro question OF color from that and
ask why there was any objection 70 the black man en-
joyng his political rights as we'll a. the white man.
Tho white man paints the dew black and the negro
M nj a m A. MA 10
a1ghtcr) Tue taste OF tho negro in this matter might
BE- as good as the white mans lRoaewed lan1h,er IL
Is not question OF favor but OF right. Why make
negro responsible TO la~ that h has no voice IN
foEmings This meeting ID no trivial one dor,
he hoped no would fairly represent II on this question
10 wished to call attention to William Lloyd Garrison.
whose name has been a hlsssng ARD byword who has
been subjected 10 all kinds OF Insult aud indgny. He
suffered in the cause Of the Negro OF JUSTICE and
nars OF se so ooo wLS DO oaual rsas means That
tho revolution OF l1I6 be made complete that there
DO no call for future conscrton He then read
copy OF Irish petition for IA appointment as Etcse
officers under the British government which created
considerable merrnent and sad that the sam, 10
consistency and absurdity has been seen In America
ani Americans lie called upon n present to conri-
bute the funds OF this society he Advocated Tbs bost
paving nves. ment now is in this new reform. lie
called upon all to roll the OF universal freedom
MIS- Anthony hon read tho following letter from Lucy
NEWARK, N. j., July. 3. 1867
T. A. sruDwuI, Esq -
D3tR SRI regret tuht c1nnOt Oe WIN you On tue
4th No other time IL 50 appropriate for meeting in
behalf OF equal rights ths anniversary Our fathers
announced tho groa, truth tina, governments just
only when they obtain the consent OF the governed"
YET, in violation OF equity and common sense, ous-hsf
OF the citizens Of the United States dis anchised
account Of sex. In the State OF New York the most
ignorant and vicious nan, the Foreigner and tire negro
worth $3.50 vote But educated American women,
tho wives aud mothers OF tho State, arc
ranked politically below the criminal, below the
foreign and below tho negro. Thousands of
won have read with unsposkabio regret tho
majority report Of the Committee on Suffrage TO Tie
New YORK State Constitutional Convention. In this
women ana about ten thousand colored men. Arc tho
political rights OF three nandrsd thousand women DO
serving of less consideration than those Of ten thousand
colorcd mcn2 Many thousand woinon--more than ten
tmos as many women colored men-have potiiioned
the Convention for suffrage. Are tho wishes OF ten
women entitled less respect than the wish Of one col