New-York tribune., 1870-01-03
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
THE QUESTION AMONG THE YANKEES.
THE CONCORD CONVENTION.

grand and very Awe-fun but they don't reecho
Woman suffraGe-nether do the people thrill with any
rapid enthusiasm. They have assembled In large mum
bers bat mex pectany sat stody taken the world ana
is aRitstOrs easily and departed jaunty 1t does aef
all, require the flaming Goals OF eoquehoe 10 io
NewEngland audiences albeit their universal culture Is
charming fancy with which they seek 10 move
she sinners OF NevYork to envy Mrs HoVes
pthiess philosophy has been but family welcomed
here. and even Mrs. Livermores quick Vehemenoe zen
short Of its mark The West opens Its great oosterous
bouncing heart 10 the Present idea, and in It's headong
enthusiasm applauds everything with the widest Impair
uality The East touches the novel thing with dnetante
feeler then draws back daintily like fastdous ana
haffrightened kitten. The Worcester clergyma Mr
strstton certainly realized this yesterday when he sad
the Western viii vote, assuredy, before you Old
fogy New. .Englanders come up to the scratch"
woman s not like man. thank God" said Mt
strattOn furthermore and proceeded 10 denounce his
own unfortunate sex with unnecessary ferocty 1t Is
lesson yet be learned by the Suffrage leaders that
abuse OF one class never aids the cause OF
another At every convention crude and senseleSs ua
tribes upon man are INDUCED in by women who must
have fathers husbands brothers whom they love Tney
do not state their arguments earnestly honesty, 9usy &
that many OF them SIMPLY used these opportunities TO
nng vildicve sarcasm at man. and to e1at themselves
upon TIE quicksilver apex OF words
The tue has ied whea weAsTss, meant boz NoHlni 49, 49,,
This pleasant presentation Of tbs Ego doubtless CON-
fSIns doetRs 70 me - ] 10 ouf b onts What
Of divinity hedges about the political arrago and acerue
Suffrage Conventions II is hard tosee The real life OF
the majority OF women is less in the mind than in the
spirit 10 Is thus that so much OF their loglc II al me
mercy OF their impulse-admirsble. doubtless but SUI
only impulse.
Howe he thinker the most dlSpassOnate
one OF tie movement, has bowed her noble head at
Depkos. and thence received the sacFea hTe IN
g, 0guaibro Her first address the Of the Con
asSty u Years aro she a the United
Convention held Worcester. far from these
listening to Theodore ParEers great preaching and in
spite OF It's aid and Instruction wondering what women
brains we're made for. For the great apostle Of
democratic culture could lot make his point clear
% me. At every turn his practical exposition
door. Thought might take her way through one, but
action coud Lot pass the other and Others Of my
endeavored to put the value thought life hu
az fault Culture had shown us regions beyond
she small beer chronicle Of domestic life. beyond the
gteruC maueuvers Of fashion. We could not take the
husband. with his absolute authority, said Mrs Howe,
take the Of letters with his dietanteism
the minister with his dogma and prescription. The o4d
landmarks ot reverence were rem0 the popular DOS
discredcd. For men whom our fathers and mothers
longer imposed upon US What vas left for US women
oy worship grown 50 dangerous and uncertain
soSuonse 0S 9f'' yst wSrm upon oP1s' 1s D D oqns
I55m tHe MGtees.er % @ % 10 o., GtOrOIe & cT
brought with him the health OF that purer
air tie glow Of that larger effort Thie golden Apollo
was Wendell Phillips TC h!s beaming message
eurue1 lukewarm answer. QuixOtic undertaking Here
was windmill indeed. But one among US did not
laugh. Dr. Howe with sober, persistent philanthropy
sad that this reform In this light
have made haste to walk those o US who always be-
heyed that the world had soul, and were willing to be
We have not built the streets nor opened the squares
but possess the plan by which they shall be built and
opened Justice 70 ourselves Is no longer injustice TO
0tleTs. Tue weah OF one is not the punder Of many
The honor Of not the degradation Of his fellows
The new scale has nicer weight, the new mixture
closer test Not auss do the Wickedness and corruption
OF society faunt themselves so openly abroad. The
pluuder OF innocent women and unsklled men rides
abroad chariot, and challenges the admiration Of
the world " Behold how hosptabie 1t Is to steal" Gays
trust. A thousand people waited to-day TO see the
thief Of the community out Of his office and
get into his carriage - But IN the meantime certain
honest and women have taken each other by the
hand and have sworn TO together 10 the death against
sucn practices and the evil patience which
dures them. These men say 20 these women We have
welded our state grandy rising up early and lying
down lse 10 enrich II; we have raised churches en-
dOwed schools and colleges We have moreover given
his right before the law and the Government
aud has been dragged in churches, and in
tegence has been perverted IN our schools aud colleges
1t has occurred that are after all but
When women can study the philosophy Of Law and
master the theory Of representation they will be able
They vii see What they want how and why they should
have IT, cannot see these things Why We TO
FOR ourselves This old round about method
reminds me o. the nursery taie OF ne oid & dame VINO
OF Mother GOOse day supposed that she could not The
suck her husband. would not drive the ps. The IRE
held by the minister would NEEDLE with the stick
The cold Of public opinion would not drtur0 the
Ore The does not know how to help her-the butcher
will not Finally, by imitation OF necessity
which tie story does not explain, the salutary
the OK who goes water which in turn attacks
IRE Fire rusnes at the stick and the pig is driven
think that Providence has al last enabled woman TO
get al the stick Applause with all this we know that
Of the law must not he meddled with The
house be divided aganstitseh But the system
that the community should be az once mechan
Ism and religion, and women must endeayor to
cert with the best men TO make 1t 80. Moreover when
Law fails US Gospel must come 70 our assistance Our
early Antoiayery agatOTs were clearly outside the law
tn what they did and what they suggested But they
were as clearly within the Gospel As our statute
law has not finger nice enough to
the knot IN which individual liberty blends
with social reQuisltiOD, neither has international
Law long enough TO succor friends.
Charles the enemy OF Caste the ad-
vOoae OF freedom, when last he spoke at Worces
ter struck down the pleading hands OF Cuba and
~She the technical symbols Of belgerency let
perish" And stand here 70 say that when he did TINS
be the flag whose virtue ennObled his first
triumphs That flag IS dishOnored when 1t salutes des-
potisIo instead OF returning friendly greeting
challenge Of freedom. Free America leagued with des
potc spain against CUBAN struggle :or independencs
Vas union more unhOy-tle aDnOreut uniOn whose
doWry Of blood and nre set sail from shores IN the
laughed as they steamed out o. Sew-York
haT6OT, but the scattered umbeis Of thc
eau furnish cOund for helping the deah-strugge
fOf Freedom whose blood enough 10 tnge
waters, International gospel eau and will give US this
grounds strsnged IN the sight OF Europe-CUba has
her death-waTraut the bosom OF America, and law
with IN turn" Gospel says Take your sister In your
A5sGs and II you cannot her down death with
her The true womanhood OF me country and its
manhood Will stand this" We believe in necessity
law OF the recognized gospel The very foun
datiOhs Of political economy have been sapped by the
lnvAsye tide Of culture. Not selfish interest but heroic
duty Is the true rule Of conduct for nations well as
We women who seem TO ask 80 much for ourselves ask
far for the world. Your hardness has made these
selfish paxns which have 80 long Imprisoned the ready
sympathles Of the genuine human heart Our mother
would supply their solutions the yexed problems
OF egosn The dignity OF pardon the wealth OF mercy
she safety Of dea justice andOes Tor the social
POisons ou have to deal with And the eyenhanded la
Dor with which We seek TO restore the ideal balance OF hu
life aud thought bears with the sacred weapons Of