The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-05-11
THE TILT0N REVOLUTION.
AMERICAN WOMEN TO BREAK THEIR
MARRIAGE sHACkLES,

Tobacce-Chcwins, whiskev-Guxxlins Men
no Longer to Own their Patient, nom
snun-Takinr wivcs-susan, EiixabetS g.
60. in Their Top Boots and ResimentaSs.
The National Woman Suffrage Association be.
gan its anniversary sessions yesterday. Mrs :Elirs
beth Csdy Stanton, the President, In the chair
attred In black silk aud q black lace shawl, and pic
turesque In silvery looks. Miss Susan b. Anthony,
peering through her gold-bowed spectacles, sat be-
side tho matronly Elizabeth. Everything having
been made lovely, tongues were lot loose. Mrs.
Stanton objected to submitting the question Of
suffrage for women 70 the people OF .
State. She would not ask Tom, Dick,
and Harry, Mumbo Jumbo, John Cbinsman,
and every drunken wretch twlo beat his wife TO 70.
cognze the equality with themselves Of Lucretia
Mott, Susan b. Anthony, and Ernestne L. Rose.
She would fold repeated conventions In Washing.
ton. and urge the passage OF a sixteenth amendment
to the Constitution, before the picked men OF the
nation. This amendment should confer upon women
the right to vote In addition TO Washington con-
vontions, she would continue to agitate the ques.
tion by perpetual meeting. throughout the country.
Mrs. Stanton next launched out sgainst the selfish
vices and bloated indugences Of men. and snecred
at their assumption Of mastery over thoir wives.
Women, she said. In their awakening pride would
marriage relation. which they held last cestury.
They we're bernning TO understand that their nnc>
tons were more holy than mans laws, and rather
than live with men they loathed and abborrod, they
would
TRAxrLr cRKEDs, coDEs, AND CUSTOMS
under their feet, and sunder the tics like thread
that bound them In false relations. Men would do
well to share their sentiments and laws In accord
ance with this new feeling Shooting rivals, divorce
cases, four-weeks trials, simply suggest the whole
Idea upon which they are based-man's right Of
n
rouse the Indignation Of every woman to white
heat. The Souiherner OF past times claimed the
slaves. Woman is to-day a slave, under the mar.
rage bond and such men "a Sckles, Cole, and
posed property. Journalists in the way they Wow
the Richurdson case talk as though there could be
no nlendsLip between man and woman, and no
true anection apart from
IGsoBLE PASSION,
and vulgar, uufeelng LAWYERS were still more con.
temptibe In their base questions and remarks. TIE
sreaker quoted John Stuart Mill In soy Ing that the
enfrunchisement OF women was the only remedy for
the present and past DEGRADED propagation OF the
race and that tire day Of its realization had dnwned
Women In Wyoming voted and sat on juries lead
ing politicians everywhere we're adopting the new
creed. and the bill for granting suffrage TO women
had passed to second reading in the English Par.
snn hit, reflected from the white mountain tops OF
wyoming, had gilded the dome OF the London St
Paul's.
Miss Phrbe Cozzens, a pretty 81. Loui. brunette.
In her early twentes, n blending Of Adelina Patti
and Mrs. Lucia Calhoun, next addressed tne meet
ing She a girl-ofthe period black silk with
dark blue velvet coat and extensive pearl buttons and
q black jockey hat surmounted by q blue feather.
She vigorously asserted IN. equality Of woman with
man. and deprecated the notion of her being polit-
Sni ssliy ine'or to nhwashei ioreieners, negroes,
ths mass OF men mere rcceptaces OF
sNNyRINa wnsxEr AND TOBACCO.
Mrs. Stanton, she said had offered premium to any
one who would define mans sphere she had found
II on tile good authority OF the Bible, In tue 2lst
Chapter I'd Kings and 18Th verse, viz: IL will wipe
turning II upside down"
In the afternoon session Theodore Tiiton was
elected President, and the association name was
changed to the Union Woman Suffrage Society
In The evening session, Nr. Theodore Iiiton, b.v.
ing been elected President, on tue refusal Of Mrs
stanton and Miss Anthony TO accept tho oflce, oc-
cupied the chair, and opened tie evening with
sDeech, In when he touched upon the Bible argu.
mcnts against woman suiirare. He remarked that
no reform had been ruggeste1 to society in which
passage. from the Bible had not been found both In
toned the Fugitive Slave law. Bible arguments
were found to coincide with II, and when Lincoln
signed the Emancipation PROCLAMATION, the Bible was
lound TO be equally fertile in streugt, ening texts.
Miss Plghe CcZzens followed with AN address,
and Mrs. stanton then announced that Mcfarland
had been acquitted. partial applause followed,
winch was speedily silenced by
Kisses.
Mrs. Stanton said that the fact OF MIR. GcFarland's
being found not guilty equivalent an assertion
that is late wife was guilty In severng the vile rela
uon which he held toward her. Women, ne said
had no protection against the unholy ties that So
clety forced upon them Ii should be a duty of the
Woman Suffrage Society 10 see woman protected in
her Individual sovereignty or her right TO her,clf
Miss Anthony then announced sessions for this
morning, afternoon, and evening, and mentioned
Mrs. Wilbour Mrs. Jenny Collins, Mrs Hazard,
MR. ingersoi, and Mrs: Stanton among the sPeLkers