The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-12-03
Observation-Disclosures

not for a long time read the proceed
ings of deliberative body in which
more business was accomplished in
the same time, or with more perfect
order and decorum. The Cleveland
Leader gives the Convention the fol
lowing complimentary notice:
The final sitting of the convention
has been held, and the greater part
of the delegates have left for their
homes. They have launched their
gieat work before the world, they
have announced to mankind their
claims to higher place in society,
and have given to their cause an i'm
pulsion which will awaken echoes Ia
every quarter of the globe. The
convention was not only a great
event in the cause of woman's suf
frage, but it is destined to exert a
wider influence, and will ever be
looked upon as a grand event in the
history of the world.
In this city a marked and decided
change has been wrought in the pub
lie mind. In the court rooms, at the
Weddell and Kennard Houses, in the
first class billiard rooms and wher
ever young men of education are in
the habit of congregatIng, the all
absorbing topic of conversation is
the late convention. Its discussions
and proceedings have been read or
heard by every one and acquiesced in
be nearly all. Il want to see them
vote," says one person. 81 too,'
chimes in second, as he raises the
billiard cue and takes deliberate aim
at the ivory ball. 81 have always
been adverse to the doctrihe," says
an elderly gentleman, "but now if l
have anything to say about it my
wife shall vote and Dy daughters
too"
The adhesion of some-of few
remarkably learned individuals-is
modified by slight objections. A
lawyer objects that a woman is and
always will be unable
ITO sever and divide
A hair twixt north and northwest side"
and that she can never begin to car.
ry in her head all the obtruse and
complex doctrines of contingent re-
mainders. And still this learned
knight of the green bag, "full of wise
saws and modern instances" would
have his forensic lance broken into
splinters in the first encounter with
Miss Mary E. Livermore, who is an
attorney and counsellor at law, and
was one of the ruling spirits of the
late convention.
Another gentleman, a knight of
Esculapius, says that he finds some
thing grand in the doctrines of these
ladies, but is not completely of their
opinion. He has practiced medicine
many years, has studied the human
frame, held in his hand the heart,
explored all the secret recesses of
The skull, and that in all his varied
combined with his re-
searches in books, he never saw or
heard of lady whose brain weighed
10 much as that of great man.
Therefore he thought that women
should not be placed on an absolute
equality with the proprietor of the
heavier brain. Nevertheless if this
learned Theban" were to come in |
contact with Mrs. H. III. Tracy Cut
er, M. D., vice president for the as
,ociation for Ohio, he would find
hat her brain weighed enough to de-
nolish every argument he could pro-
luce against the claims of the ladies |
II the convention. Every objection,
whether technical or general, was
net by the ladies Of the convention.
The noble, d;-nilied an uncompro-
nising appearance of Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe. the pleasing, practical,
ogical and earnest language of Mrs.
lucy Stone Blackwell, the firm can
lor of Mrs. Livermore, always sready
With an a propos for every question,
he terse conciseness of Miss Lizzie
q. Boynton, whose short sentences
Fere like so many sword thrusts or
Military orders, the mild, calm, prac-
ical spirit of Mrs. Ames, of Califor-
ia, the entire abnegation of self in
be remarks of Miss Lilly Peckham,
# Wisconsin, the charming grace of
diss Celia Burleigh, of Brooklyn,
Iew York, with the eloquent, philo-
optical and rational address of Mrs.
of Cleveland, the ener-
,etic and determined tone of Susan
;. Anthony, were enough to silence
opposition In whatever form it may
ppear. /,
Yesterday morning Mrs. Lucy
tone received the following letter
,om the disabled volunteer soldiers
the National Military Asylum.
he spirit contained in it needs no
omment: :,
'ATIoNAL MILITARY ASYLUM,
MONTGOMERY Co. O., Nov. 90
3 President Koman's Rights Con
vention, Cleveland: L
DEAR -:-In behalf of my COM !,
Ides [ send to you the following
ntiment expressive of the inmates !
the Central Branch National Mill
ry Asylum for disabled veterans, !,
hich we request and trust you will
ad before that body.
L. j. JONES.
The disabled volunteer soldiers to {
q Womsn's Rights Convention I
nd greetings. Your cause is ours. 7
o our mothers, wives, sisters and L
sughters as we'll as to our fathers,
Others and sons would we equally
'nfide the future destinies of our )
Ition. Ambition and selfishness,
ir country's greatest danger, exists r,
IN man; patriotism and IL
'nesty, the nations safeguard, is 1:
ost firmly imprinted in the heart of fl
oman. Let man plan and execute a
he will, but let women equally b
tide and control; thus only may o
IT government, by the EQUAL COM C
nation of her greatest national vir- Il
es with her strongest forces, con- "
hue in uninterrupted prosperity, a
ID avoid for all time the fate of a
reece or Rome. b
Among the facts of most perma- d