New-York tribune., 1870-12-22
iBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSB.l
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

DISCUSSES BETWEEN MRS. cATHARINE Z.
BEACHER AND MISS LIyERMoBE.
BosroN. Dec. 21.-A very large audience
heard tho uebate between Miss Cathrrine f. Beecher
and Mrs l. ermore on woman's sufrsge, IN Music Hall
this eyenIts Mrs. Julia Ward Howe presided as Mod
orator of to "sanguinary Conflict" as she termedi It
MISS DEEcHER's ATTACK
Miss Be>ohers argument was delivered by the Rev.
Mr. Wrigs Of Boston, She first stated the points On
which ell AGREED, and said she would not consider
wOman's ABSTRACT right 10 suffrage II opposing 1t she
gave reasons for assuming that it must be long time
before worans suffrage can be gained, and presented
another bod for giving all that unjusty wthheid
and thus Ssmedyng WRONGS which 1t was sought 10
redress Epe-tenths of the educated and thoughtful
women did OF want It. Next 20 them large class
whose enthusasms carried away tAeir intellect, and
these with tlo busy, easy women the superficial lovers
OF notorety covers OF power unprincpled
and the ignorant and degraded and despised women
wanted tho ballot At first she favored the ballot her
SELF but the seitatiOn and dscusos Of the subject had
the more cdu ated aud refined. g1e ehiyalrous, who
would give the "dear creatures thing they asked
tH" they want It, and get sick Of the ballot by
9eo sd Il the S political SSs whe Wsned
subserye their interests, oil favored Woman sur
sidercd the subject at all and she ssued that h would
be long time before majority OF women would favor
IT. Many ns hp now et no immediate
might organize againtt II should occasion require The
the press generally opposed 10 woman
Suffrage and when oil these elements combined would
make powerful opposition In closing, she referred 10
the liberal laws OF NewYork concerning woman, and
said it better to ask male egslatorto change
rather than To ask that woman be allowed 70
assume civil powers and make her own laws,
MRS LvgRMoRE's DEFENSE
Mrs Ivermore said that she wished Miss Beecher had
considered the abstract right question: for II the women
had the right she thought they ought 70 go ahead,
no matter how long they might have to walt She
thought women would gain by the ballot, and showed
how many more Offices and avenues OF labor had been
opened 70 by the agitation. She described, In
humorous manner, the occupations OF shop tending
cooking millinery, and dress making which men were
monopozing in greater or less degree She thought
canvass OF the Beecher family would show what the in
teigent women thought on the question. Women
were interested In war agriculture, and other matters
She said she could clergymen who favored woman
suffrage to match all who might oppose IT, AS for Full
ton she said they could afford to pay him TO keep on
talking for made converts for them and last Winter
his seaking against Woman Suffrage secured her IL lee
turo engagemcnts which she should otherwise have
missed She argued that women had voted inteligently
In Wy oming and would exercise the power dsereety
and wisely
Miss Beecher then had read plea for the education Of
women, and the endowment OF Colleges for women to
which Mrs. LyermOre said she would offer objections.
Mrs LyermOre had the advantage Of personal delivery
and made fine impression. She seemed TO take the lead
IN the applause and in the corridor gossip after the argu
ments lshed,