The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-01
wouax,s SUFFRAGE MEETING.


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Those Irrepressible feminine creatures TO the
number Of eleven and half, backed up by ten full
grown masculines, one Dutch doctor and small
boy held q suffrage meeting In the Sixth Congress
sionai district last evening" at Lebanon Hail. oppo-
site Abingdon square.
Some twenty minutes after the hour advertised as
that which the meeting would be called TO order
an understood wearer Of crin0lne. with ''strange
device" upon her bosom, walked into the pulpit
1.-THE room Ia mostly used for religious purpOses and
facing the peggarly account Of empty boxes, with
very sweet smile upon what is yet o passingfair
countenance, remarked that the audience was
small; that 1t couldn't by making reasonable de-
auctions for manhood and sensible womanho0d be
much smaller There was some mistake, said tins
"highly intellectual looking femail," as the late
Artemus Ward was won't to state the case-in the
published announcements; but she trusted that
would have no real eject upon the object Of the
meeting, which was just to listen to extracts from
wonderful lecture she had written, which con-
tanned the creed Of every w0mans rightist;
and second, to choose delegates to represent
the Sixth Congressional district at the woman's
Suffrage Convention, winch would possibly be held
at Saratoga on the 18th and l4th OF July, which
would be after the horse racing was through. This
was decidedly an advantage too, and showed be-
the sex OF which she was proud to be member, and
also showed that women 1r0wned down everything
IKE horse racing 2ao time betting cigars or bon,
vlrtuous and being SO, they ought to have the bal
lot. But lust that those present might act under
sandlngy as to woman's rights, the lady MRS. Nor
toni would proceed to read extracts from her lee
ture, which was really wonderful effort OF genius
formed by her husband, and must have been exceed
ingly new and instructive to nine out Of ten Of the
women seated before her, and who, IN the advocacy
Afx aao pixr hfo m IA
ting heas at every meeting that is held In town or
country.
loud voice, ana she read her ..logcai;' piattudes
with an emphasis-an e'dn that would have done
infnto credit to professor OF el0cuton at Vassar
things Mrs. Norton believed and did not believe In.
She believed In woman's right to vote she smiled
social BELIEVED eli ID the iteensa
TO the federal constitutions and she did not believe In
y. g., In free trade, IN paper money or old maids.
extracts from her letters to her .revovingh friends
and then abruptly closing announced that she was
on hand to nominate delegates to the convention.
only woman understood TO be resident Of the Con-
gressonal district in which the meeting was held
that was Momans Fighter and asked SOMEBODY to
Whereupon the little Dutch doctor, who visits the
sisters ct their homes and labors TO persuade them
that their brains are sOitening, got on his pedals
and said. with that delightful German accent which
30 pleased the ear Of the hero OF Lundye Lane that
Mrs. CrOly accepted. Susan b. Anthony arose and
remarked Miss Jennie Fielding, who might be relied
on; whereupon MISS J. +. was nominated and
elected, and her name placed on the rolls OF the
righteous.
Mrs. Norton was, for want Of better, put in
nomination by the Dutch doctor and chosen as Of
the elect.
Miss S. B. Anthony then, on being called up to face
the music, assured her listeners who were, as she
was lab0rfnp for the exatati0n Of her that she
was modest, retiring, and even remembered when
she was girl Yes, and she was giggIer
Think Of that Mrs. stanton, when she was girl
in her fathers halls was black-haIred woman;
now she was O gray-haired woman, and, notwith-
standing these grave facts she Is. b. Al, when
laughed at the vagares OF Mrs. Stanton Then after
time she was converted to the truth by the
overwhelming arguments Of Mrs. Stanton and then
that WAS in lS4s She put the armor OF truth and
went about battling Tor her sex. She did wonders.
aSo 20 ee soday 1qt soF ner
ton. who was then black-haired woman but her
hlrsute growth was now white, snowy grayf No;
woman would have been nowhere. And there
was II. G.-and s. b. A. became very sepulchral
in ner utterance-he for thirty or forty years
great reforms and truths Of the age, but now II. G.
was down on women. Ha he sc0rned, he laughed,
he printed puerile articles on women. But-and the
eloquent lady drew long breath, and then adjust.
ing her spectacies and looking sterniy, dehantly at
her audience, Told them (she meant II. g. to "be
ware ~ IL. c. couldn't long defy truth and the
American people. once they got down On I'll. q.
there would be an end Of him and women would
then gorousy triumph. S. b. A. gradually worked
herself up to q fine state OF frenzy on the hardi-
hood OF the recacltrant white-coated phioso-
pher for daring to oppose the truth as 1t was IN
sat down exhausted giving place TO gentleman
Susan b. Anthony and the women's paper" Susan
who said his tongue was rusty he not having spoken
Tor fifteen years. He heard Susan b. A. deliver
speech IN Brooklyn, and 1t was solemn. The time
was coming 1t had come, and he was OF
opinion tnat 1t would come againthat is II 1t was
permitted to come But the TACT was that the time
had come--if 1t hadn't II ought 10 come; and when
1t really did come he would be satisfied to let it
come. The gentleman sat down, exhausted and
borrowing his wlfes handkerchief, removed the per-
SEPARATION from his brow that had gathered there
during MS very lucid speech.
The Dutch doctor then gave us one Of his charac-
terstic speeches; but 1t was got up in high-fown
German, for which he apoiogized, saying he was o
Dutcnman--he was
The meeting then adjourned, and Susan 3. An
thony putting or her spectacles, left the scene Of
her labors ID an Eighth avenue car. Vtte