The New York herald., 1868-12-06
way OF clnching wind up that he never had voted
and never should vote till women were allowed TO

way OF clinching wind up that he never had voted
and and never should vote till women were allowed to
Responsive to this dotard devotion to feminine
sway rose gentleman OF ambrosia luxuri0usness Of
ana clear speech He desired here and there to
put M cneck on extravagant laudation OF women and
onered the following resolution.
RESOLVED. That women are not superior to men.
gentleman with pointed forennger and remark
soy confident way Of laying down through this me-
eaped to his feet from the middle Of the audience
ana without any prOv0cati0n or note Of warming
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hersef also leaped to her feet when her argumenta
tive masculine assailant had finished his remarks
attempt to daguerreotypc nash OF lightning Is the
mingled nashes OF fury lighting up her eyes and
flashes Of scathing rhetoric lighting up her speech
That speech made an impression. As says Shelley,
ARD ioSt. :aek :: n vsirixisd: bore.
The man of Samsonian locks attempted response
put u was feebly DONE He was Internationally and
or pedSes which
to prosecute their work In the future closed the
morning session.
The afternoon session was principally taken up in
discussion OF the resolutions. BOmbast and fury
and sense and nonsense were the chief character
istcs OF this protracted poemical indulgence. The
men praised the women and the women praised
themselves. and nearly all spoke with sneering dis
paragement OF negroes and negro suffrage as COM
special stickler and pretext for oratorical en'er.
vescence resolution that the 134, 900 women Of
New Jersey demand the ballot right, and refuse
to have anything to do with any men or party who
do not support their right to VOTE Generally speak
ing, harangues, II marked by any ability, command
their doctrine It was the reverse in this case Doc
trlne was everything; rhetoric nothing. At length,
with few minor amendments and In the earnest
process Of circulation is to become great political
power in the land-in fact, holding the balance Of
political power IN their own nands-the resolutions
thizers in the movement and second urgent ap
peal for pecunary assistance closed the afternoon
session.
Set speeches were the order OF the evening and
closing sesson-speeches in set phraseoogy-
speeches OF those OF most stubbornly set views.
woman, the best dressed OF any on the PLATFORM
and the pleasantest faced and with bewichingly
graceful gift OF oratory, led of with showing the
ali these might be rghted by allowing the right to
vote. She closed with clasping Hester Vaughn to
her imaginative bosom and holding her up as sin
spoken man. Of great prolxity Of speech but meagre
Oratorical powers, took the Bible, Old and New Tes
lament and Apocrypha, and birth and marriage and
death records and all for his text. Sc. Paul he pro-
claimed as cmlnently clear-leaded when he forbade
women to speak IN churches but the translators he
said, made laundering botch OF it in the transa-
tion HE SAID that the original Greek only forbids
women to gable or talk nonsense, and he showed,
or rather claimed to show, by other texts that they
have the right to talk IN churches or elsewhere as
has read Pollock's description Of Byron, compared
with the common herd Of mortals, who have
weak memories upon the subject OF their
mothers names and very indefinite ideas as
to the expansive area Of the moon. One such there
was here. He was the third speaker at the evening
session. TALL fne looking man, with 'spectaces on
nose,n though as yet very far from being In the
clean and slippered pantaloon." His pOmpous
periods were more than astonishing. They were be-
wilderlngly unintelgible. lie talked about the
beautiful sway OF the heavenly systems being SYM
bolical OF the harmones OF the infinite and OF the
luminous fountains flowing full OF eternal ideas and
of the harmonious apendOr OF the rolling universe.
lie stood to his auditors as GOldsmiths teacher to
his pupils:-
His words of learned length and laundering sound
Amazed the gaping rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew
How small head could carry all he knew.
The female president made the closing speech.
She took bold, centrifugal lights but quickly, with
velocity would come back 10 the great,
absorbing question OF woman suffrage. third and
final appeal for financial contributions and singing
the song, "Where the Roses Shall Ne'er Wither,n and
the Convention was declared adjourned sine de.