New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-27
A SIGNIFICANT AsSEMBLAGB.

month there was most slgnlncant mee'
ing of the intelligent and fashionabl
women of New York. Apollo Hall wa
: filled with them, and the presence Of nc
even one man allowed to witness the in
teresting proceedings. The fact, how
ever, that the proceedings have BEEF
made public disproves any intention o.
the part of the fair advocates of women
rights to take advantage. by exclusiy
meetings, of those who are generally re
: garded as the "sterner SEX" The obiec
of this meeting at Apollo Hall seems t,
have been to afford Mrs. Elizabeth Cad.
Stanton chance to speak on the subjec
of marriage and divorce from (
woman's rights standpoint; and the well
known character Of this lady as a writer
and speaker of more than ordinary ability
attracted very large audience, composing
the best female intellect and accomplish
ments of polished society in New York.
1t is but just to believe this was no fe
male conspiracy against man, for man
with all his imperfections, will still be
dear to woman, and DICE uersa. Woman
is the great centre of attraction to man
and when she ceases to be this the world
will have come to an end. Notwithstand
ing these are the true relations
OF man and woman, they dc
not always, as husband and wife
pursue the even tenor of their way.
Trouble often overtakes them, and not
unfrequently it is borrowed trouble
trouble that, by the exercise of little OF
that good sense and goodness which we
all think we have, could be avoided.
Matrimony though often abused, is most
| holy and honorable institution-an institu-
ton of God, that is not to be lightly or irrev-
erently dealt with. Those who enter into
it are commanded to do so discreetly, ad-
yisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.
When they have done so the work is apt to
be well consummated, with no ground for
dissatisfaction on either side.
Mrs. Stanton opened her address with
the assertion that the Mcfarland trial,
just terminated, indirectly involved the
solution of the momentous questions of
marriage and divorce as
she asserts, that underlie our whole social,
religious and political life. Mrs. Stanton
evidently thinks Mrs. Mcfarland Richard
son an ill-used woman, and the verdict
turning Mcfarland loose upon society a
bad one and for this reason wants the
law SO made as to imprison the man in the
future that is acquitted of the crime OF
murder upon the plea of insanity, and
advises the women of New. York
to agitate the subject until the
Legislature is compelled to make this the
law. Size also denies "the husbands
right of property in the wife, and says
"the old common law of the barbarous
ages reflected in our statutes contrasts the
public sentiment of the nineteenth centu-
ry-thopgh the real character and position
Of woman has entirely changed from the
thoughtless, ignorant drudge of the past,
to the enlightened, dignified, moral being
of to-day" She believes that the women
Of the State Of New York should !
also demand that the Legislature
make can entire revision of the !
laws on marriage and divorce,
making man and woman in all respects
equal partners, and when by the cold, in
liherent or base conduct Of either party
he contract is practically annulled, the
State should declare it So" Mrs. Stanton
wants woman the equal of man in all re-
poets, and proposes TO secure this blessing
y revolutionizing her present social and
POLITICAL condition toward the "lords of
reation." Nor does she stop here. She
oes still further, and wants a new
Of that part of the Bible
'hich defines woman to be the
lterior of man. She is eminently radical
/ her remedies for the wrongs of woman,
) she conceives them to exist in her day,
nder the most liberal government known :
} the world, and desires to improve even g
le quality Of love. She treats of celes-
al and terrestrial love, evidently believ- O
g that when woman's rights are fully OBJ !
ined and she stands the equal of man in T
e halls oflegslation and in all the rela- +
ons of life, that purer love will mark
tercourse between the sexes, and there h
ii be an end to strife a; an r
d to the bad passions that has Il
en- the cause of SO much pain and l.
,uble to us poor sinners here below. r.
le millennium will certainly be upon the
rth, and the highest happiness, blessed
IS and glory will crown the people
,reof, when such a state of things are
ought about as we can readily conceive a
s. Stanton believes will be, when wo. j
IN is the equal partner of man in work. al
, out the great social and political re- ct
m that is to make everybody happy, h'
tuous and contented. Then, indeed, N
uld terrestrial love be ready TO take a.
ngs and mount to celestial abodes. The CT
ing is almost too good to think of being sc
Allied in our time, when crime seems On l.
increase and every day but adds TO the W
mining record of sin that boldly stares 10
IN the face; sin that is instigated and OF
rpetrated because men and women will 81
subdue their evil passions, will not do d.
hit notwithstanding all the rights they re