New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-13

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Gated their cause and sustained them by tas stood Mr.
and their counsel. Prominent In their mlds. the
George William Curtis, who would now "u''''' WV
MT Curtss remarks couched In the logcai ans
eloquent style 50 peculiar 10 and so
spirit manifested "a by such meetings pro wp All here
was an American one and concerned woman. ~ T
chivay gallant but deman na Of the riddle OF
true democracy Forty mems 5 aaG
asked them receive fair play IN sn tnat me
have The only reply was burst OF tur GHai
and 1" bsS1.ned 'pG o ecs o1
Louder and louder the question asEgu m amo
country its life in the answer 1--WE r pav in
this country That question will swell louder and Louder
by ballots in the hands Of every o THS wond differ from
every political movement that had been ".esseu a
d%G wd Tian thea daa al citizens
it encounters more preiudices ana ,h iHs of
women for higher educaton denied that al when u az
present is all that can be- Now that inc ANth ho a
en had been adopted it was to see nov many
abotonsts there were and although gratifying 70 kow
their numbers were so large-the question susSn Sh
their cainsi Equal rights of women as human beings
human beings that they are-have never been ackno~
Thought to the subject as any one. has said
The wisest strongest race has always usufpe%a I
cares duties and emOlumeGts OF Office, ana cohnheI
women to domestic duties Go back to the age OF
Pereles and stand in Athens the gem OF Greece I'm ire
speaks the great orator Woman greatest glory Is to
talked least OF among men, II Perlce5 hau nveu , 80
he would have said That 10
among men, like Harriet Martinean and Florence Ngnt,
ingale. would he wOmans greatest glory; Tue won. oi
ancient Greece were destitute OF an ~ wen
destruction of Roman law was that ~ treated "T dt
not beings but as things. nhha, tre o con
AIMED and mos, e eass Of women who held that
If they kept certain vows in this world they woa 10
II had heen his good fortune be invited to address the
students OF vassar College, Poughkeepsie, college De
there told that ii was the first endowed female college
the world had ever seen: Within the last fortnight an
advocate pleading for his client, spoke OF him as man
who owned his wife. He was surprised at the rcinaiS
escaping the just censure of the press II had eeen sara
that when women met they talked but very little sense
II only persons Tho could talk reason and common sense
spoke popular oratory would be damned up III avery
Take up the morning paper and turn to the column
devoted to the report OF wolnans meeting IN WI, ar
notions and IDEAS their gestures and their remarks ana
hat may be aGehg rs M @ as possible
upon the Tnrn to another column OF the paper
where the ladies are so calamity toasted while they look
from behind the screens and through crevces WIN de
rtentast t TO man and as the last toast is drank
and the party sagger OF hiceuplng We Wont go moIhe
they have made with much complaeeney while IN me
same moment the deride the women Men oppose the
political enfranchisement of women on the ground Una;
1t is unnecessary for the performance OF ther duties
home is the proper sphere for womanl Look inlo the
spirit of society aud the circle IN winch woman inoFes
that which is most agreeable to man Is the heaven ap
How do men know their spherei When meet to
under any government TO which they render allegiance
can they conceive of any rrupon OF inc genicr sex
with the declaration that they are unmanly ana lorSet
Let every gateway and every school and college be
opened the and let them have the same aNan
iges as the and il will he found that the Heaven
appointed sphere of woman IL not at home u may DE .ie
studio the laboratory the counting house or the UsrN
tory, and when she has had that opportunity then VIII DC
| discovered the true sphere OF womau -
II there mysteries that woman should not pene
trate, would God have given her the instincts 10 90 so
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being, as it is Of any onghared specialized saiow aus
sipated bOOr who Kisses her a. she enters the school
Florence Nightingale demanding supplies for the sick
and wounded in the Crmea, and, when they were de-
break open the doors to convey what was desired to the
hospital as fair picture as could be conceived
God had given woman power and capacity Tor that
which she should perform TINS dlscssion rs no 1fs
in the degree that she a woman will she he faithful to
her duties and all that is asked for her is fair play The
Without the ballot i only Half man II is but pleading
the claim of Justice There are as many lnelgent wo
men as there men, and as many Ignorant women as
there and while might not be proper TO place
grosscst Injustice to give the ballot ignorant
kee it from Intelligent woman IL SAID that
depends upon women themselves whether they shall
have the ballot or not and when majority OF the wo
men demand suffrage they shall have IT, such aconces-
made, the barrie that precudes the vote OF wo
the equal rights movement began 90 years ago at
Seneca Falls, by women whose fidelity to the rights OF
their will always he hOnOred This movement may
be derded and laughed at There are, are two KINDS OF
hyenas amongst the graves whilst that on the right side
Webster sneered at the abolition agita-
ion at Nibo's i'll New-iOrk City many
wears ago, and termed IL b-a-dub
agitation. To that rub-a-dub, one million men have
marched to that rubadub have hundreds of thousands
to their graves; to that ubdub has the schackes OF
millions OF slaves been stricken OFT tn that rba dub
has Sherman marched Ia the sea; and 10 that rub-duD
did the Kearsarge sink the Alabama to that rubadub Is
the appeal made.
Addresses were delivered by the Hon. Geo. W. Julian
aud Mrs Burleigh after which the meeting dispersed.
Our reporter yesterday represented Mr T. W. Higgin
son as saying in the Woman Suffrage Convention that
he had more respect returned soldier than for any
other man, except Universais preacher, or newspa
per reporter.
We are informed that what he did say was that he
thought IL would be easier To majority for
woman sufrag among returned soldiers than among
any other class Of men-uDess it were among Universal
isl ministers newspaper reporters.