Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-10
WOman's Suffrage Convention.

a On Monday our columns were crowded
= with important local matter in such 6
ts manner as to forbid publication of the
# entire proceedings of the Woman's Suf
frage Convention at Montpelier We
4 give below the concluding portion of the
n proceedings, as taken from the st. Adams
Messenger. After the reading of William
Lloyd Garrison's letter the proceedings
:. were as follows:
: On motion of Hon. Heman Carpenter
d OF Mortified, speakers were limited to
7 twenty minutes, and in the evening the
S five minutes rule was, found necessary.
s Mrs. Ada q. Bowles of Cambridge,
+; Mass, Mrs. Margaret G. Campbell of
: Springfield, Mrs. D. Hathaway of Boston
t and Gordon Iversohn, Esq, of Proctors-
vile, Vt, were the principal speakers of
| the forenoon. We cannot attempt any
report of their. addresses. They will
g speak in different parts of the State DUR
ing the campaign and the full text is bet
ter than any abstract-especially any that
5 our crowded columns would allow us to
present. Mrs. Bowles is ready, pleasing
and rather effective speaker Her ora
tory, like that of most women, is little
less perfect than we should expect to see
from men, but her arguments are well
put and sensible, her illustrations gener-
ally apt and forcible, and her resources
never failing. She held her audience
we'll, often moving them to tears, or con-
vnlsing them with laughter, and at the
same time, as appearances indicated, ac-
complishing her object by convincing
their minds. She is the wife of a clergy
man in Cambridge.
Mrs. Campbell was introduced by Mrs.
Stone as one of the "workers" in the
cause, whose special effort has been to
reach the popular mind more through
personal interviews, the circulation of
tracts and petitions, than by public dis
cussion. And yet she proved no uninter-
esting speaker. A modest, matronly lady |
of forty or little more, her whole bear
ing was the furtherest possible remove
from the pictures that have been held up
to us of ''agitating women" and was
strongly suggestive of the appearance
which the coed and unpretending women
OF Vermont may make when they discuss
the issues on which they are to vote. Her
line of argument was different from that
of Mrs Bowles, by arrangement undoubt-
eddy, and we believe it is the decision of ]
the Executive Committee to engage them !
to speak together in the canvass
Mr.. Iversohn, who now halls from :
Proctorsville, is not unknown in Vermont. I
He is colored man, and as we remember t
his history, he was born in Massachusetts,, I
literally educated at Copenhagen, Den .
mark, admitted to the bar in Toronto. >
Canada, deputed a secret agent of our
government at the South during the lat t
ter part of the war, and since then en- s
gagged mostly in lecturing on historical =
and political subjects. He spoke with d
force, fiuenoy and eloquence, treating i'm v
partial Acknowledgement as the fruition. r.
in every temporal sense, of true Christ 81
anity. This line of argument was sus- :,
'alned by numerous scriptural and his o.
,orical quotations, and was pursued with tt
'uch convincing force that he not only bt
won hearty and prolonged applause from Of
he audience, but received the special con- al a.
of that gifted writer and
loble Christian woman, Julia Ward W
Howe. je
During the afternoon and evening, Mrs. 81
Howe spoke twice, from written notes % %
Ter literary reputation and her excellent m
haracter had made her friends, who did ho
OF need to see her her in order to admire. an
hat she justified expectation need not
e said. With her profound research, her
parking originality, her elegant and l..
assical diction, she enchanted all who
ere not too obtuse TO comprehend, and :.
,mehow, the "heretical, unchristian and -.
angerous doctrine that if put in practice
going to unsex all our women" seemed
lose all its terrors in the presence as O.
ell as in the arguments of this womanly
oman. ie"
NJ, g.. 49,, ,, :, -, the
oke again, the latter two or three times, w.
ID with good acceptance and effect noi
MS brave but gentle little lady, who has /
bored for twenty five years in the cause ven
liberty, is but just beginning to be hit
lderstood. She pleads for the right for hit
e rights sake. Dreaded, maligned, APP to
auded, thanked-it is all the same with OF t
r. More complete self .abnegation was Spi
yer seen, and yet a living individuality mel
right and of responsibility is the doc OF
ne of her faith. If the affectionate re- JOIN
I'd in which she is evidently held by The
r co-workers, and the respect and plaud- T
which greet her from an intelligent opel
1ltory, may be taken as an indication, can
n, as Mrs. Bowles beautifully said, will
lie Stone which was rejected by the as t.
lders may yet become the chief of the peoE
ner." he !,
During the day the WatcAman and
nadI was issued from the press, and W
er the adjournment for tea an editorial liver
lcle which it contained, against woman ing,
frage, attracted considerable attention. larg,
he evening Mrs. Llvermore gave it her subj
9nuon. Like recent former article show
he same paper, which our readers will thort
ember that we reviewed, it pro- spen
nded certain heterogeneous for the He Q
vocates" to answer. Mrs. Livermore the
led to them seriatina and at length, ery G
ting every one in the spirit of candor of tb
answering it with the plainest COM ippi
sense and the most invincible logic. larly
after disposing of them she paid the form
'eets of insulted womanhood to an ture
u portion OF the article In which the tradi
CTS IN TINS movement were accused OF Lyce
ally advocating irreligion and free love. Mr..
in anger but with lofty indignation ment