The national Republican., 1869-01-21

fion, N3ab y. m, adjourned till o'clock,
EVENING SESSION.
At the hour OF the opening Of the oonyea.
Ion, O'Clock, the room was well allied, and
before !;so the aisles and passages were
Mrs. Annie Kinssbury, Of vineisnd, N. J.,
was the frst speaker introduced, She spoke
Df the effects OF the late war, and urged that
while we are reoonstructing 1t we should have
enec was needed in this work with its human.
IZlng effects,
Mis-, Anthony then read the following reso-
Rorsa wsfa Ths, w'i the sss0Piss PP principle. Of the
Foman's suffrage movement is not the use Of
check against legal and social tyranny.
OF resolutions, saying Mr.. Pillsbury would
Resolved, That hitherto governments among
as in monsrchies and despotisms, their history
and desolstion.
which prescribes and dlsfranchises one half
their citizens for their sex and another for
their labor 10 contradlction In terms more
offensive and harder to be borne than despo.
tism itself under Its true name, and vastly
more dangerous by its seductive influence to
human well.beinE.
Resolved, That We demand as the only assu.
rance Of national pstpstui,y and pesee,ss well
reoonstruction OF the Government, suffrage
shall be based on loyalty and intelllgen nee,
and no where be limited BY odious distinctions
Mr.. Parker Plllsbury was then introduced In
very fsttering manner by Mrs, Anthony,
and proceeded with an elaborate written ad.
beginning, growth and decay seventy years
were the age OF man, but many died In child.
hood, and others dropped off on the way but
In nations a greater mortality prevailed, and
no nation had attained q respectable man.
hood. He reviewed the history Of the nations
for the last eighteen centuries.
Considerable noise was made In the rear of
condition, but which was Construed By the
officers of the convention, as an Indication Of
an indisposition to listen to Mr.. Pillsbury.
.nS AhSSSy ys pPssa sS to s noise T. ssSa
continued, Mr.. Pillsbury retired, depriving
the convention and audience OF probably the
most studied and elaborate speech OF the
Mrs. Sterrett was next introduced. In
reply to the assertion that woman's domestic
duties were too great to allow her to partici.
pate In government, that II was too true, and
she asked every woman in the audience
who had children, II their duties were not
now too great. II was not maternity that
broke broke them EN- down, for that should add ,yigor,
the cooking stove and the washing and iron
Ing that wore women out. This she proposed
to DO away with BY cooperative kitchens.
Mrs. Butler, OF Vincland, said that one great
objection to womsn's voting was that II was
no place for her at the polls On the sd OF No.
yember last, 172 women Of her place went to
courteous ly, n notwithstanding previous threats,
AZ II they had been In church, and she claimed
that II had good moral effect upon the men.
She then proceeded to speak OF the injustice
Of the laws which deprived an affectionAte
mother Of the custody Of her child and com
mItted II to cruel drunken father. In rela-
tion to the question which should be irst en-
franchised, she said this was q woman's sut
irage meeting, but they meant universal suf.
soon have 1t.
ready done much to influence legislation in
favor OF women, and she desired to give credit
Ior what had been done. instaneing the many
wsrs formspy ngT excl ensudsd o~sn for which they
Mrs. Anthony said the Business Committee
had decided to appoint committee to prepare
suffrage to son"st Of MRS. ehs Eiuebs.h Sl'eIss SsSy
stanton and Robert Purvis, the represents
tives OF the two disfranchised classes, and as
many from the different States as they could
get to sign It,
They also proposed a committee, consisting
ot Mrs. Josephine S. Gritiing and Bishop
Moore, TO prepare an address to the people.
Both OF the committees were appointed.
Mrs. Anthony then said It was only In 1852
that she met for the first time strong. IN nded
woman and noticed the change In sentiment Il
toward them after emancipationj money, she
pie In the District, but II was not till the bal
lot was given them by Congress that the
white men paid over the money. II the ballot
man hates, 10 such power, what will 1t De In
the hands OF the woman whom they profess to
love better than themselves. Give the woman
the power to vote, and II she does not wish to
vote on all questions, she will come out on
State occasions, especially when they wanted
alaw passed giving female clerks, who did as
much, and often double the labor performed
by men, equal pay. The women, she said, de-
manded hrst, suffrage In the District OF Co.
lumbia, and then a constitutional amendment /
that no State should disfranchise any of Its
citizens on accout Of sex or color.
II, when the women got the ballot, they de-
cided to have a war, they would go into II.
lApplsuse.l The women did go into the war
there there az at home, there was diyision Of
labor The women scraped the lint and IN ade
the Jellies and nursed the sick and wounded,
and those women were entitled to pay as
much as the men who fired the bullet She
then urged the establishment of woman's suf
frage associations In every school district,
and active labor generally Ia the cause, and
above all that they subscribe to the womsn'S
rights journals
Lucfetla Mott said that when Mrs. Anthony
said woman would be ready for war, she
should, 10 view of her Quaker education,
nave saiu u should be great moral war
Mrs. stanton then came forward and was
received with immense applause. She said
would ask DR.. Root, OF Kansas, to read 1t for
her, with the bill now before Congress, The
resolution was one requesting Congress to
female employees OF the Government
Mrs. stanton asked II any father was dying
would he not feel easier to know that their
moth mother had trade Or profession by which she
might be uIsSs PLACED IN destitution and wa,
wonder that they yielded Until we have
1t was the mother that stamped the child
A gentleman asked her, at a dinner party
Today, what would become OF the head Of the
family should her doctrine succeed. She said
the head would take care OF Itself She re.
lated several amusing incidents and anec-
uotes where women, 10 emergencies, had
shown that they were the real heads. The
women were the head at others, and that is
the way 1t always will be. When ~ years oil
age she found In her fathers law books these
proposed to cut them out, supposing her
iather's law books contained all the lawst II e
were. He explained TO her that these laws
to go there and cut out ali these laws, and she
had caused all those laws to be cut out 10 the
state Of New York. lApplause.l
one treated the audience to some amusing
experiences In this connection, which were re.
ceived with a great deal Of applause. Some
years ago when she was 10 England, In a pub.
lie meeting, when the ballot was proposed the
lots, Now they are demanding the ballot.
II the mothers Of this country had q voice the
rum miils would be closed and our sons saved,
and until the mothers soul is recognized Ia
our legislation this will never be done.
Woman, she said, was the aristocracy Of
this country. Look In New York and see the
women with their liyeried servants and lackeys
perched up behind their carriage like monkeys
LauEhterl What a mockeTy OF our Rep1b.
lican Institutions
Mrs. Stanton was listened to throughout
with the greatest attention, and often ap.
plauded.
motion by Mrs. Anthony to appoint Mrs
Griting and Mr.. J. II. Crane a committee to
publish the proceedings OF this convention
was then adopted, aud the convention ad.
journed for one year.