The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-30


however declined to speak, AZ 10 was getting dark
and the audience was moving out but promised to
me Convention then adjourned until half-past
seven.
THE EVENING sEssION-MH. BEECHER's ADDRESS.
Regular theatre rates were charged for admission
IN the evening; but neither that arrangement nor
the last falling snow prevented over 1000 OF inc
crsrne de Ia crime or Hartford society from nlling
the house from parquet to gallery. There was
large gathering Of agtators the stage, and when
Mr.. Beecner was announced bis name was received
with enthusiastic applause
Ex-Governor Hawiey sat with the reporters In the
orchestra, being reporter himself, and very good
one, too.
Previous to the presentation OF Mr.. Beecher Mrs.
JULIA WARD HOWE read poem written by herself
for the occasion, entitled "A New Flag" The last
verse was the BEST
he dusk of battle did mourutay pale and fa
Let us yield our claims and our quarels for compac Oh
~. priceless, W. worth ,,,,, r. ~, ... n., us
The Rev. HENRY WARD BEECBER then came for
ward and delivered his GRAFTON, OF which the follow
ing Ia a synopsls:-
The tendency of our times TO investigate the fonn-
dations OF all things and to reconstruct on better
basis, Is phllosopnic and as whole sale, though u
now because all questions now come up Tor recon-
sideratOn, especially since that war when 80 many
bands were broken. the whole world seems dis
posed to think boldly and take fearlessly suc1
sources as shan after discussion seem best. IL IS
just the time to advocate woman suffrage IL Is NOT
to elevate woman TO let her use upon wider scale
an influence as shall better the schools, tne ialnly
and the Church. We long for still better
development we thank God for the advances Oh tne
past and shall Ill requite HIS goodness, II We do
not SOW again and again. and look for better ana
better harvests. The real grounds OF our movement
are misunderstood. We affirm that woman mas the
same right OF development that man mas. Every
mans character is written by the hand OF Coo.
Every man has n right to develop all that God has
gwen him OF power, ana claim the same for
woman. What she can do well she has right to do.
The fact that she is woman does not take away the
tnnf m n oh non In oil IN
sex is no more proper disability than the matter OF
color. | plead the universally OF the rights OF
human nature, without reference TO color, or
race or sex. Woman Is to have the unreouked
liberty OF trying what she can do. Men
VIII say that II woman VIII but show ner
capacity then she may take the place to which
she aspires But they are opposed To her trying.
AS II . treaty should grant navy, but allow the
nation water to sail il upon. Prejudice that
frOwns on the woman active In this movement says
she has unseXed herself. No. she il perhaps doing
what she Is unaccustomed to, and you are bound to
give her o chance ana not 10 hinder Thus far only
the bravest, who could put on the soldiers face and
fight 1t through, have shoudered along against your
opposition. You say they are masculine, as II Your
prejudice had not compelled her to assume mascu-
Unity. She finds that the actual delicaey OF woman
falls to affect the preludices OF this fatness genera
ton. We demand no favorS, no COUGHING, no but-
tressing no courtesy. We demand that woman
shall treated as to all manner OF influence just
as man is shall stand just where her natural
qualifications place her. Let the forces of nature he
exerted upon fair field. She Is not fairly treated;
the division Of the spois OF life Il not fairy made
the strong hand and foot. Social, intellectual and
moral forces have come more and more into play,
but much OF the old harbaric evil OF brute force Is
left Woman Is weaker and Is called inferior She
ia kept down and refused the liberty OF ascent;
treated as belonging to class and refused the lib
erty Of being an individual She IS treated as II she
were the inseparable concomitant OF man. So she
is in sense; but nearly onefourth OF the women
are single for various reasons. The sewing woman
would be glad TO stand in the relation
of q married woman. Sneer1ng man go
marry her. 1t Is her business to mend stockings.
NAll IN Unnf
women who must lock up the lonesome crying child
and go out for whole days work, coming back
sadly at night to the dear creature. How many or
these sneering men have sought out her home and
relieved the weary woman perisning for want OF
work. II she seizes an opportunity to WORK fair
termine the price, Paw Tor the head Is always higher
than pay for the hand. Not SO with woman. In
some things she win follow man ana do as
a month and she fifteen or twenty. LOOK
at the wasteiul expense entailed upon socl-
ETY. by multiplication OF costly colleges for
men, from which women must be excluded. She
must have her special schools; We must have female
and mortar. When the sexes are brought together
in many Western colleges mutual respect mutual
admiration, mntu u love, you choose, settle all
troubles. tMr. b. denounced the Infamous barbar-
Ism Of hazing.) Put selI-respectlng men and women
together and this trace OF infamous barDarlsm
would not last one year. Sermons are good poul-
tees for sore eyes, but there was never pressrip-
ton that so snapped open the eyes as the ballot.
Men that refused TO believe IN hundred things, as
all very quickly. Never was there such develop
nent Of the doctrine OF human rights as in the
notice some objections to woman sufIrage:-
Fyst-It will take women into the disgracefnl tur-
bulence of elections and II Is sin to expose her to
such violence. Man Is brute, and we must not
take woman to civlize him. IL Is not good for man
to be alone; nay more, 1t Is very bad. The moment
lawyer and his wife, the doctor and his wife, q man
and his wife are to vote everywhere, we shall
w /
as duty. Twice or thrice would purify
the voting. ~ we 81 shall never -, have pure
mar and wife, The same argument is used toward
MINISTER'S 'Our minister does not soil his robes By
he ao a. "a nees
blessing. There is anything good in minister 1t is
because he s the fullest man you have; you cannot
make minister out Of the leavnes Whatever he
scan do by argument or wit or tears labor vot-
ing or In any honorable way for the good OF let
for lawyer or doctor, or too lazy to be farmer
"We Sally, we snail have to make minister OF that
boy" And then we nurse him tenderly; we solder
up all his leaks, lest he may close his influence"
Just az II man couldn't take care OF his shadow
If he il fat enough his shadow win take OF It,
se ~ on rae r s neope and Tue 9
make OF his pulpit common forum. No minister
lives, without q severe rheumatism who has good
excuse for not voting. He should be model OF all
civic virtues, beginning at the polls. 'Soilng his
robes" indeed Just as our Divine Master consented
to soil his robes by going down to the lowest that
goes all foul impurities ny. The mother would go
with her son, the sisters taking their brother just
casting his first VOTE So would politics to their
highest condition, so we should have religion in
politics.
SecOnd-Meddlng IN politics would react unfnvor-
ably upon woman; IL would destroy her woinan-
ness. The same oojectOrs Will argue that the woman
is not unneard or unrepresented. She Influences
ner husbands vote. 1t does no hurt to read and
study and learn politics well, and take sides. she
having learned It all the harm lies in the simple
act OF dropping the ballot They tell her to
read and learn. They forbid her the act that
gives recf-the discharge OF the cectrcity-the
voting. l know how gun feels that Is loaded
ana cannot FIRE; nave onged TO speak when /
could not What Is indicate In poitlcsS Politics
Is noble wisdom dedicated 10 the interest OF the
State. True politics IL the nobest thing next to the
worship OF God; 1t is enrolling Did woman lose
her delicacy when the drum rolled from end Of
the land 10 the other, and she gave her husband,
her father, her son, when sue gave herself TO the
solder boys, living IN tents that she might teach
them in the ul OF battle, or dressing their CHASTITY
wounds, dwelling as In Pandemonium Where she
went purer thoughts arose, oaths ceased labors 0t
erwise the most loathsome rose 10 be the highest
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