New-York tribune., 1870-08-08
THE WOMEN AT NIAGARA.
THE IMBECILTTY OF MAN AND THE SLAVERY
OF WOMAN.
A BRAVE PIYl

and arrows OF outrageous fortune" in tho
West, or take arms against sea OF troubles IN inc
East the manner Of such daring and taking no longer
wakens any thrill of wonder in the philosophers mnd
There IL that he quite unmoved whcn dropping
into the Cave OF the Winds the other day to take COM
Portable cup OF spray with Undine. that fair cretre
announced Woman Suffrage Convention al tne fais'
Only az he stirred bit OF rainbow INTO MS cup no
smiled smile II was grim 1t was compassionate;
it was q superior and knowing sort OF smhe ouiaBo
at Niagara-Niagara whose air Is red0lent OF spoons
where Spoons radate from every bench, giegle on
every staircase are oblvous in every parlor ana re-
mark You dear old duck |" the very brink OF the
Falli What Talk Of the " shameful tyranny OF man
to Mrs Bob OLnkum, who has Just graced the SUN ana
blushng Bob with her pretty hand and whose existence
is delicious state OF leaning very heavly on INC siu
Bobs arm and looking up at him Susan b. Anthony at
Nirgara oh Ariel laughed himself biack In the lace
and frightened Undine into an unprecedented shver'
Oaks and vines here We shall see what we shall
see," said the sententious Ariel
We did On last Tuesday afternoon, at the sacred
hour Of having brushed up his feathers In his room at
the International and bestowed divers Denlgnaht
gances upon three pairs of turtle doves in the drawing
room Ariel descended to the street Stagnation and
Indian curosites Also pair OF turtedoves on the
piazza No eager crowd enraptured, took its way to
where les danes du ballot held their sway. The only
evidences of popular excitement were an announcement
of a grand Woman Suffrage Mass Convention hanging
in n grocer's window and two little boys kicking up
their heels In the sunshny gutter before it, Ariel smiled
the smile and ascended to the Hall Of Audience 'Twere
base attery TO call it crowded. unless one fat old lady
one slender maiden in curs, and three immature
males be the elements of such condition The
visible possibilities OF this gathering being soon ex-
hausted Ariel examined the Bird o Freedom howlng
over the stage. and mysterious curtain representing
two galeOns careering at each other with turtle
doves embracing deck These works of art disposed
1rI.4 ,l.f a.ltnft apaa
at one window the echoes Of the Fall at another the fat
old lady whispered in unereal to the lady in
curls But presently strayed in one curiosy-seeker
after another until sorry thirteen specked the deary
hall. Then familiar step upon the stair, and up
tripped Miss Anthony, wnsome, gay, and free. In
her train appeared Mrs. Paulina Davis, glorious In
cloud Of pretty white hair Mrs. Hazltt, the bright
downright little Westerner; and Mrs. Gage, the State
authority They did MT look happy, Ariel thought They
buzzed; buzzed again; then they buzzed some Inore
That dauntess woman, Miss Anthony, remarked In an
emnonty feminine manner, that she'd told studwell
so worst place in the country TO have convention M
But in no wise abashed she busted table with fine,
brave spirit" and her handkerchief and escorted Mrs
Davis thereto. This lady soemnly opened the Mass
Convention and for the edcation Of the Thirteen re-
counted the ofttod tale OF the Woman Reform She sar-
casticaly alluded to the sghts lecturer whose
hysband always stood at the door, pocketed the
admission fees and would Mt give her six
confessed that this awful She told the audience
how Lucy Stone had said Lets have convention"
how that first convention was ridieued from Maine 10
Georgia how woman's speech made all the men
snufle-a triumph indeed how they had been carca-
tured how the papers sneered at them, though The
NEw-YORK TRIBUNE gave fairer report than it has
given of great many grand conventions since. Here
Ariel was favored with glance and trembled that he
dropped feather. Mrs. ID. remarked that she dreaded
to up paper because of its rdicule while Ariel
wondered why these estmable ladies always waste SO
much time and breath these rubbishy journals"
Then she referred TO their mObbed convention In new
York, where the Press is so corrupt that 1t can
excite a mob any time" AprOpOs Of wOman's tight
ing she remarked that she had rather shoulder mns-
ket and 90 into the army than take up newspaper feel
ing that she was caricatured in it, She alluded TO the
starting OF The Reroluon. "After the war Mrs. San-
ton and Miss Anthony became associated with Mr..
Train Suppose they made mistake. Where is there any
one that hasn't made mistakei But don't say they
did. never saw Mr. Train, and don't care anything
about him But he did great deal Of good, and don't
believe there church that ever refused %
receive money from the worst Of But just as soon
as The Reroon began 10 attack the crying sins OF the
age why, these terrible TO have received
assistance from G.. f. Tralnv Thus Mrs. Davis.
No thunders OF applause rent the hallowed air. The
Thirteen sat silent and awkward and Ariel almost dozed.
But proper regard for the sovereignty of womanknd,
and q sense of his contemplate folly in being
man. enabled him 10 hear Mrs Gage, far-faced woman
in a heavenly sort OF white gown. Mrs g. said with
spirit worthy Of Mr.. It's aunt that the opposition to
womans voting from the fact that the bearing be-
tween this branch OF the subject and the Other-edue
ton, work, etc-was not realized, The majority
of the women United States in state Of chronic
and forced pauperism. She eSeerated Virginban
lawyer who had said that altogether superior
TO woman and asserted that the of Virginia were
as much under the power Of the master as we're ever
their slaves She solemnly declared that bachelor had
no knowledge OF a womans heart which aphorsm Ariel
grinned at and put away reflect upon. Her special
point evidently considered tO be the statement that
men have regard for power that can't enforce Itself
a statement slightly savoring Of the parndoxcal.
l. Here Mrs Blake York made her appearance in
attire which put shame the lilies Of the field. Thus
reinforced the party proceeded to organize convention
In due FORM Mrs Hazt nominated Mrs. Davis as Pres
ident and while the Thirteen Aept silence, eioctod her
unanimously with the aid of Mrs Blake and Mrs. Gage.
When the Thirteen melted away, the unconquerabe Five
marched, and Ariel flew away, while only the Bird OF
Freedom left to howl over vanished hopes. The
harp that once" etc, stled and the moral welfare
of the nation left TO take OF itself while the Five
took Ariel concerned for the Question Of the Age,
reconnotered Band playing in worldly manner at the
International turtledoves listening and strolling in
serapc state OF happiness; gentleman from the coun-
try buying grass baskets Of Fenan squaw in short
the Question of the Age dust in the nostrls Of
Niagara.
But II ia the cause, II is the cause, my soul, and
what Miss Anthony hath determined the Fates do frown
upon in vain. so when the stars came out and ickered
in the river and the virgin shone softly down upon
prornenadng "spoOns," the "Mass Convention"
opened the "Mass" consisting of 80 and women and
several precocous children one combined turtledove
in blue silk and yellow musaehe came in state OF in
sane wrappeduppedness, and in their wake rolled
elderly gentleman, designated by Miss Anthony as a
flc iris threp eInall hovs
twddled the thumbs Of infancy. Mariana theoretical
believer who had never convention reformer,
left her moaed grange to appear with eyes OF wonder
The deyned Five aseended the platform and grouped