The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-12-16
From the New York Herald.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The National COR-ention al C1ereIGnd- De-
bate on The CoaueRtt0n- Henry Ward
Beecher Elected President OF
the Association
CLEVELAND, ONO, Nov. 25, 1859.

| CLEVELAND. OHIO, Nov. %, 1869.
The Woman's Suffrage Convention. last
| night resclnded the order adopted in the af-
ternoon session tabling the constitution pro-
| posed for the national organization.
Mrs. LIvermOre announced that she had
received letter from Henry Ward BeecheT,
consentlng to be president of the proposed
| national organization and thereupon, with
out waiting to adopt the constitution, mo-
ton was made and carried electing Mr..
| Beecher president Miss Hall, of Toledo. vo-
| ting alone in the negative.
when the Convention met this morning
the hall was well filled. the delegates occu-
| plying the front rows OF seats aud the spec
| tators, large proportion of whom were
citizens or Cleveland the remaining part OF
| the hall and galleries.
After some personal explanations draft
| ottne constitution was reported By the Com
mlttee on Organization. IL was taken up
ana gave rise TO an animated discussion
which was Interrupted at one time by the
advent of Mrs. Bickadike upon the platform
VINO was received with great applause.
Inc section providing for the election Of
9ihcers elected an animated discussion be-
tween Mrs Lucy Stone Blackwell, stephen
). f. ser. Mrs. Livermore. Mrs Antoinette
Brown blackwell, Judge Bradwell. Julia
" ara howe and Mrs. nannaford. The Sec
zion reads as follows =
All officers shall be elected annually at
me annual meeting of delegates who shall
- N'iN7Nh Oh bllt OASIS OF tOnGICe-tOiidt
representation.
IL was finally adopted under the operation
IF the previous question. Mr.. Foster voting
done in the negative.
The following despatch was received from
Washington -
Kept at nome by illness. God speed the
cause. GRACE GpFEEyoon
Inc clause providing that as far as posi-
de the officers should be one-half males and
Ine-half females was discussed on the mo-
non OF Rev. Mr.. Mcconnell, IF Ohio, to
strike it out.
Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell thought there
we're as many good men as women. though
they were about alike, any way.
The amendment prevailed. and a section
vas adopted that no distinction OF sex shall
70 allowed in the election OF officers or
members.
AT the afternoon session letters were read
rom number OF distinguished persons. all
+ whom heartily endorsed the suffrage
movement.
The Committee on Permanent Organiza
ion reported the following list of officers of
he American Womau's Suffrage ASS Dci,-
ION. under the constitution adopted this
morning =
President. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher:
Vice Presidents at large. L. W Higginson
Mrs. Livermore, William Lloyd Garrison
ieOrge William Curtis. Mrs. NJ T. Hazard.
ella NJ. Burleigh, George W. Julian, Mar
lin n. Longley
CI'iit hi'i VI oiS EAecuIIFe committee
lucy Stone Blackwell:
Foreign Corresponding Secretary-Julia
Ward Howe;
Corresponding Secretary. Lyra bradwell;
Recording Secretaries-Henry Blackwell
md ,manda Way;
Treasurer,-Frank II. Sanborne.
A large number of persons were elected
- an executive committee and local vice
presidents.
Judge Bradwell offered a resolution deny
ing the right of any paper to speak as the
ryan of this association, which was adopt
ed.
~peeches were made by Rev. Mr.Marshall,
Miss Lizzie NJ. BOyntOn. Lucy Stone Black
we'll. eX-Gov. Root of Kansas. and others.
The evening session was devoted to speech
making, and the Convention adjourned sine
lie.