The New York herald., 1870-05-14
FASHION AND SUFFRAGE.
The Drawing Room Nigh. Of tho Women's Con.
ventiols-A Galaxy Of Woman Orators at
the Brooklyn Academy-Woman
Voices from tho East and West


Association was held in the Academy Of Music last
night. There was charge OF admission Of ffty
cents, and this probably was the cause that the par.
quet well filed and the galleries nearly empty.
There was galaxy Of talent on the platform,
never equaled at the meetings OF this association
previously arising, OF course, from the fact that
there two women's suffrage conventions meet.
Ing In the neghboring city Of New YORK. This
galaxy included the two presidents Of the Two asso-
Citations, Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton.
The ladies' on the platform included Miss Anthony,
Mrs. Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Margaret Winchester, the venerable negro
lady senianor TRUTH. Eleanor Kirk, female local
euttor from Illinois Miss Baldwin,, aud Miss Adele
Haslett
The meeting was opened by Mrs. Laura c. Bull
lard, who had the presidency o. the meeting
assigned to her In consequence OF domestic aniction
in the house OF the announced President MRS.
Burlelgh) preventing that lady from being present.
MRS. BULLARD,
in few words OF Introduction, remarked upon tho
progress OF the woman's equal rights movement,
as shown 10y the meeting of that night; few years
ago no such meeting could be held, and II held
would have encountered opposition. The lady
President then introduced to the audience
MRS. LUCY STONE, WHO
In her address spoke a. length on the labor or
women and OF its equal value both pecunlarly ana
intrinscay to that OF man. In illustration OF this
Mrs. Stone gave a number OF incidents In her own
experience, where women were forbidden 70 vote
even In the churches, and contrasted 1t with the,
action OF the Methodist Church, which now allowed
women to vote the question Of lay preachers and
women were now acknowledged as preachers, and
were making their mark by converting the men as
the result OF their preaching The women in the old
| time, when they were church members did not,
neither did the men, do that which they do IN
,.u NJ IN mi nEp ma A uoa
| but they made up the salary OF fhe min sler by
more simple method. In the voting thereon Mrs..
Sone gave
AN AMUSING ACCOUNT
Of her vote not being allowed to be counedi In. She
wanted the ballot because whatever good 1t was 10
any man 1t Was equally good to any woman.
Miss SUSIE SKINNER followed this speech with
Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON reIo'cei to have
an opportunity OF addressing Brooklyn audience,
this movement and these m.ght be considered tha
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN woaEN
She thought that the women must give the 20 pres.
dents lew lessons; Tor she ,ndcrstood that one OF
them had said In that very hall, on the celebration
had now fully grown and had blossomed Nov q
tree OF liberty IN this country was not fnll grown,
male aud the female nave equal representation.
MIS- MIS-. stanton had many good reasons Tor thinking
ao .neIe NV WAS more nope OF the party
| republican. There was o time when she
BELIEVED IN THE REPUBLICANS,
but she thought that the democratic party had been
greatly purlhed IN the furnace OF political afiction.
lCheers and laughter:) There was anoher proof OF
OF the New York World towards the woman Dues
ton. There was time when she used to say hard
things about the World but she had forQivcn that
Journal sac had felt very strongly
AGAINST THE TRIBUNE
but the course taken by that journal on the Rreac
fugitive vile question MRS NcFarland) had caused
her 10 forgive Horace Greeley; and she had
during hs last eight years had mae to orgss
had refused TO put the nale into your const tuition
when she AMI Miss Anthony beseeched him to do is
when It was proposed TO the New York Legislature.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE, instead OF making
speech @ drawn from her memory, her Judgment ana
IN TIE convention meetings Ut Steinway Hal, Rad
little essay OF
WELL GROUPED SENTENCES fs
about Visit m de during the day to local picture
gallery The pictures of "The Woman Taken in
Adultery ana me war pictures made up the texts
Miss Skinner sang another ballad
=. Mrs. ADELE liAsLGrr. from Michigan, said tlat
In the words Of Lincoln "with malice towards
none, charity towards all, and with lrmness
SO TIM e Miss IS SSa te mas ea Us o s
cuss the question In relation to the political right OF
woman TO vote. In reference TO the conir5l OF tha
husband In the woman vote, she sad Paul had for
gotten TO
PROVIDE roE THE WIDOWS
and the madens. Those thousands OF women who
do not marry, what are they to dor Men said 1t was
the fault OF women they were not married. Miss
two little words~"Is itg, There was but one safs
course for America TO pursue, and that WIS to grant
liberty to all classes and not to deny it any class
She did not forget that which was due from women
towards the men OF America for tscy had
MADE wOMAN'S POSITION
more honorable here than In any olher country.
she knet she said, to God and asked that al leasc
justice be given TO woman, and she believed that
men would give that.
MISS CozzENs, In a very attractive and amusing
Speech told OF the progress Of this woman's move.
plent In the Wet which, she said, exceeded thar OF
the East Miss Cozzens Is greatly exercised that the
women abo.!tion.sts were not glOrined IN the ccs-
bration OF the fifteenth amendment, and rehearscd
those OFT repeated sentences about her impressions
OF that negro procession In st. Louis, which It ID
now about
TINE FOR THE REAR GUARD
thereof To appear. The Washington monument and
the Goddess Of Liberty Mars and the Bacchus Jokes,
stale as they are. were served out TO tic Brooklyn
the Increase OF
DRINKING SALOONS AND GAMBLING uELLs
and social evils" and the problem therein could
not he solved without the mother element being In.
troduccd therein.
The meeting was brought to close BY Mr.. Deechcr,
who said that for three hours .woman had kept that
audience together BY her speeches, and II she had
done that she was qualified TO vote.