The New York herald., 1871-01-11
LECTURES LAST NIGHT.
MEMS RlsHTs.

Anna Dichinson's Opinion Of tho Lord Of
Creation.
Alarge audience listened last night at Steinway
Hall 10 Anna DlckInson's exposition OF mems rights,
she did not suppose that she was the mouthpiece
that men would select II they had their own way, yet
she stood the platform as the defender OF mems
rights Men have right to love; but give and take
Is The law. and man has right TO ask any better,
purer or truer love from O woman than he IL pre-
pared to give 10 return. man mas no right to
purity and truth unless be can give an equivalent
She knew that she was only an outside barbarian,
yet spectator OF battle often give better de-
scription Of IL than the participant. She believed
that love sgnined companionsnip, friendship, SINH
larity Of pursuit; that was not mere fancy, an
episode, but
THE CONSTANT DEVOTION or ONE SOUL
to another. Society teaches otherwise. take y
wife, Tom and reform." says father to his sou.
"All right father whose wife shall taEeSr Aman
wastes himself and then settles down 70 ne the
ylrtuous head OF family. Have men right TO
pure love after such lifef II a man brings gold ne
sS to gSa 10 sn ns Oass as arSss
be their wives because they are tired of knockin9
sy hSs y 4, sS"es orS Ser ouss ws S SS sp
they put But hef Kahai% AM AMI ask % for love. Have Have
they right TO what they sskf Men do not always
yes they innocentiy believe thai she cannot exist
Without them because she consents TO marry them,
They learn better after little, Men marry for all
rlage sacred, ana then datter themselves that
WOMEN ALWAYS MARRY FOR LOVE,
But she also has her reasons or hdolence or OF
luxury II she breads 10 be an old maid. and accepts
the first oer for fear that she wont have another.
the freedom Of selection and are eascased 10 alse
s5andards stan " the sentimental preaching 81 Inc day
s women w and
they want little clinging vines 10 twine round the
flowers to put in their buttonnoes. They don't want
woman 10 stand on her own leet and survey them;
1t makes them feel altogether too small. Here the
speaker showed In her Wholesale way how society
forces the rich grl TO marry for an establishment,
the poor girl Tor a home, aud the ambitious girl
for tie means OF gratifying ambition, and pictured
In heart,rendine way the grief Of The disappointed
vases" when some crisis In their lives makes them
need
woNANLY SYMPATHY
ana help, and a true, strong, womanly heart. She
protested that the woman VINO has the most scalps
and not she who is thoughtful aud correct and true.
A disappointment In love she considered much more
picks up the broken threads and goes on somehow;
but man whose heart has been won and
thrown away loses iath 10 everything good.
she would not feel nattefed il she were a
man to have woman accept her because
she wouldn't feel battered either, 10 be "looked up
TO" by pgmy; but to be selected by woman q
Judgment, heart and taste, that was worth having.
Men select prudent excellent women-women that
will make aood mcthers-or they select Marthas,
instead OF Marys, and thsn when they don't find
them equal 10 their heart needs, they think they
have right 10 go elsewhere. Anna Thought other
wise. She considered that II man chooses such
women he must make the best OF II. She be-
lteved III honemakers, not in housekeepers,
and she believed that II required the broadest kind
OF a woman to make home. Most wives would be
GLAD To-LIyE IN THREE ROOMS
II the husband would bring into those rooms what
he brought into their fathers pariors before mar.
rlage.
Miss Dickinson closed her lecture with
picture so strongly ana boldly drawn,
and with such colOring OF pathos and
generous passion that all sympalhies were
tor the moment at least with the eloquent speaker.
She spoke OF brutal man and a sweet, strong de
voted, tender woman of the fading OF nope ana the
incoming Of despair: OF true, loyal hep
offered to the wife; OF the revenge oil
the husband upon the .'brave lover
who prOnered the help, and pronounced that This
venge was murder Ill the deepest sense. She de
scrlbed the trial Of the murderer a series
OF abomlnat1ons and said that the verdict meant
nothing less than the absolute ownership Of woman
by man. The Lecture was frequently Interrupted
by applause, and some wretcnes who dared TO Mss
were uncOmpromisingiy stigmatized as murderers