New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-13

nlicnnia results II is true that no women NET
cn ont by Id nor were women appointed TO DC
apostles, bishops or elders bu ~ nioccs where it
Vol rcd custom that made woman appear a. one Vi
bse and degraded class II she thus Noa" on ndo
" an, onnosed To a woman earning ner own nut
pe MSr a in any lawful calling and wish many more
to her which now Walton and organization of
women as women, to set forth the wrongs apa
great OF S am opposed to under
taxing 10 govern both boys and men-iey away mn1
ooru t have ever known selfish obstinate, I'M
!sonable women to whom chained men of deli
bcISeSs submission or and dsgraceful hrols
Nor am opposed to the claim that women have equal
rights with men. rather claim that they have the
sacred superior rights that God and good men accord to
the weak and defemselcss by which they have 'e eas
largest share of all the most agreeable ana desirable en-
joments of this lie NY man me at 10 w Ss mode
is employed to gain right oplec., ,o,r tho uronca
and relieve the suferngs of great mutltudes OF our A
The "wrong mode" is that which aims to enforce ny .ao
the author and abettor all these Wrongs and that he
must he restrained and regulated by CONSTITUTIONS anu
In opposition TO this hold that the fault is as much
or more with than with men, inasnnch as that
and suferngs complained Of and yet we do not use IL
for that end II my deep conviction that all reasona
ble and conscientious of our age and especially our
country only willing, but anxious 10 provide lor
the best good of SEX and that they VIII gd oesow
all that is just, reasonable ana klld whenever We UNI
in asking in the proper spirit and manner II Is because
| WI 40 ask "hpCauSc we ask alnSS, tHat We 40
receive all need both from God and men, Let me
illustrate my meaning by brei nariIuve Oh y "M
her time when did not find fathers heart so tender
that il always easier for him to give anythi,ng
moi one who would take much more care OF my
interests than should myself me brother VINO 70
sides is here because II IL so nara TOT MIN 10 say o w
! any woman seeking his aid 49,, A.
1t is half century this very Spring since 6egan 10
succeeded largely by first convincing Intelligent ana
benevolent women that what aimed at was right and
a4fpit flatF
fathers, brothers and husbands; and always with sue
cess. American have only to unite in asking for
whatever il lust and reasonable, in proper spirit ana
| manner, in order to secure all that they need. i.
Here then urge my greatest objection 10 tue pan ~
only an instrument for Iedressng WRONGS and reev
ing wants by laws and civil influences. Now ask, why
take shorter course and ASK To have the men DO
for what might do for ourselves If we had the pal
lot Suppose we point out TO our state ana
to Congress the evils that is supposed the ballot would
remedy and draw up petitions for these remedial inca
sures, would not these petitions be granted much sooner
and with far less irritation and conflict than hust en-
% eei0fe W g ooa hs S5 p G wb no deem that
female suffrage would prove curse, rather thah Deli
eft . -
And here will close with my final objection to woman
suffrage, and that is that vii, prove measure OF n
justice and oppression to the women who oppose ~
Most Of such women believe that the greatest eae ~
the evils suffered by our sex Is that the true profession vi
woman, in many OF its most important departments Is
not respected that not trained either to the
science tine practice of domestic duties as they need 10
be- and that the consequence, the chief abors Oh tne
family state pass to ignorant foreigners, ana by Guilt
waited women are avoided as disgraceful
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honorable and remuncrative, and that the suffrage ai-
taon does not tend to this but rather to drain of the
higher classes of cultivated women from those more ia
porant duties to take charge of political ana cV affairs
that more suitable for men.
Now if women all made voters ii will he their duty
to vote and also to qualify themselves for this duty
But already women have more than they can do wen IN
all that appropriately belongs to and to add the
civil and political duties OF men would be deemed nea-
| sure of injustice and oppression.
Mrs. Cutler of Cleveland replied to Miss Beecher's
objections. she complimened Miss b. upon her eduea,
tona rank, and described her early struggles for
education II suffrage had been Ill force, she WOuld not
have found those struggles so hard she asserted that
Miss Beecher had got her ideas of good men II al tne
world were In her condition they would never ask iGr
guarantees that his right place shall not he over
ridden, she desired to know why could
Miss Bcecher had said that men would give ali the priv
egc that women wanted they asked for them proper
forgot themselves in their work for the slave, when
they had ana n h X of f DOOM an
Congress broke the chain of the slave she severely an
ing the responsibility of the vote. Their troubles
were Judgment upon their want Of personality
1--WE fold pcIpetuIlly OF the degrading influences OF
politics. Can ON that plea shrk responsibility that
to give 9 sS 9TF We or 1 and
responding dutiesi shall be beggar for that which
the instrument without the power to make people accept
III Or shall she take moral suasion with moral p3wer
Miss Beecher said few words i'll very weak voice.
convinced the other way. Woman didn't need the ballot
she had enough To do 10 educate her children Let her
take of her children and her home and LET men take
of politics She thought that all conservative
Catherine Beecher was followed by Mrs. Miriam Cole
Of The Dayton Adr0cat, who gave long ana cabOidN
series of arguments to that suffrage is the very
best thing for women, and that she ought 10 have It, She
and women were interchangng. Men and women share
together places of disn9nor and death. Why not
of women upon the bench - and in q. the
jury with men, if the terribly fascinating
'If irresistible let them be labeled, in the
name of heavcn!" She wished women 10 be admitted TO
cole
swung around the celebrated circle OF her lord
she would never have been guilty Of the
woman, couldn't have written Paradise Lost;n
Mrs Hanaford complimented Miss Beecher, but deprc
Gated change in the laws. Mrs Stone announced that
who too i'll to be present Mrs. Cora L. " Tappan
made short speech denying that they made war upon
men.
EVENING SESSION.
SPEECH By MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE.
A large audience faced the crowd of speakers
Oh the stage To the faces of the morning added
the thoughtful one Of George William Curtis.
Mrs stowe presided, introducing the first speaker
Mrs. Churchill of Rhode Island. Mrs Julia Ward Howe
followed speaking i'll her usual quiet absorbed, and de-
cannot make any formal argument or statement in
the little shall be able TO saw to you at this time But
must ask you to remember the points of my thought,
passes along say, for ALL that in this world
there always two lives the inner life of thought and
conscience and the outer lie OF material consciousness
and interest RcfOrmcrs i'll all sorts those who
ceve this inner life, and VINO, entering into its merits
desire and endeayor beyond all things else to impart
| them tO others.
! This mighty cdhce of the ideal society has many man
sOn, whose doors open one after the other IN the series
the America az first refuge. The derded
Purans rode their hobby across the highway Of the
ocean. by and by it leaked cut that civil and religious
liberty bad made good thing of IL, and then the Old
World began to break into the spacious domain Of
the New, and now it comes with such tide that we can
scarcely build cities and railroads fast enough for its
accommodation America is TO the nations "a house Of
! God, a divney-appOntcd city of refuge
I.Yu a. lis
rem0test vision, without many changes III what II Is