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WOMAN'S BIGHTS.K number of the females who arc engageda the advocacy of what is popularly called “Woman’s Eights,” held meetings at the Court House in this city yesterday afternoon and evening. The meeting in the afternoon 3 free to all. About two hundred people, mainly females, attended, and after waiting ntly from 1 o’clock till 2 o’clock, the “Strong Minded Women” arrived, bearin' baskets full of pamphlets, 'documents am newspapers, and took possession of the Judge’s Bench. The ladies sat down very quietly, laughed and chatted with each other cosily for a while, and then very deliberately “laid off” their hats, furs and other superflu-This done, Miss Susan B. Anthony—one of the most earnest, able and indefatigable of the female Reformers of our day—rose and stated the objects of the meeting 3 told of what the S. M. Women were doing and had done in this State; how many meetings they h-id held; how many signa-s they had procured to Petitions to theLegislature for enactments concerning what they claim to be their “rights,” and know e their grievances and “foul wrongs;” toff of their prospects and desires, and theij hopes; and having done this, spoke eloquently in advocacy of a number of publications spread out before her. and called upon all present, at the close of the meeting, to step up and subscribe for them. In this tion she took occasion to remark, that actual wledge of the real aims and movements of the “Woman’s Rights Party” could not he obtained in any other way than by perusal of the publications which she so earnestly reccommended, because, as she averred, it 3 of the political papers to unce every new truth We felt particularly complimented at this gratuitous remark of the speaker, andess, will all our brethren of the Press, shrewdly and happily calculated to induce the political press to “go in” for the advocacy of all that the S. M. Women els and all they ask for.This done, Miss Anthony proceeded to leliver her lecture. We regretted that 01 luties called us away, and that we were u: able to hear her through. Miss Anthony a prepossessing looking woman, of dark cor plexion and good form, and dresses with much taste and richness. She ignores the Bloomer costume, (by the way, we saw 1one wearer of that costnme in the room, t she was very flashily and ostentatiously rayed, and was far down in the West horizon of life,) and affects jewelry. Her roice is full, clear and musical, and she speaks with confidence and fluency and the ease that is the growth of both and of practice. She evidently the manageress of the concern, and does the hard work.Mrs. Stanton, lady of Ex-Senator Stan-•on, whose father addresses her Elizabeth Stanton, Esq.” wheu he writes er, was present, and, we learn, spoke briefly 1 the course of the afternoon. Mrs. S. lady of good education, fine accomplishments, much talent, and writes and speaks well. She presides over meetings of her with much address and dignity.In the evening an audience of about persons, admitted at twelve and a half cents each, assembled, and the exercises 2 interesting. Miss Anthony again ap-pealedfor subscribers to a “Woman’s Right’s “ ,ny good thingsabout sundry and divers pamphlets that lay piled up before her like the dead before Sebastopol ; and then she entered upon a longand remarkably well sustained argument inr of placing woman upon a political and civil equality in society with men. She advocated the claims of her sex in these particulars with much torce and cogency.— e plausible and her illustrations apt and “taking.” While many of the positions she assumed were open is, yet not a few weiMe. She pointed out a number of laws relink,andshould be blotted fi’um its Statute books.ie control over property of aU kinds th;a do—that she should vote, be elected offices, serve on juries, sit upon the judicial Bench, go to Congress and the State Legisla-re, have a potent voice in town meetinj Common Councils,c., c., and, for aught ’ nry, be elected Preside of the United States.Mrs. Stanton followed Miss Anthony in address nearly an hour in length. Our female-friends exercised their inalienable prerogative of “much speech.” But what they id was worth listening to. It raddle. Mrs. Stanton’s addresi markable for its higli intellectual character s eminently original in conception, hold and masculine in the positions assumed and the facts stated, and replete with undeniable truths—especially whenever it bore upon the faults, fallacies and abuses of domestic li and the downright villianies that are prac-n the nursery and in the rearing of ii fants. This portion of the speech affected s deeply, for it carried us back to a very early period of our existence, which is filled up with souvenirs of positive outragesugly pins,that wo.get their points in the wrong place; sudden and squally attacks of stomach ache: ened peppermint; unlimited paregoric; Godfrey’s cordial; cold bathing, picra, mumpsmeasles, chicken pox, sprue, epsom saltsschool days, geography, arithmetic and thlt; birch.Mrs. Stanton exposed the weaknesses and failings of her sex, and the monstrous faults and follies that constitute so much of, various phases; and she did this boldly, faithfully, and with an unsparing hand. Her illustrations, deduct!n and pathos, were all admirable; and her defence, at least, of the rights of woman, and her appeal in behalf of herisidered socially and politically,were pow-ul, stirring, and,in some respects, convincing. When Mrs Stanton sat down, we e “seized and possessed” of very strong admiration of her talents and oquence, and were almost persuaded to sub-ribe to her doctrine of the perfect “equali and identity of the sexes.”i physically plaii tellectually handslt;contour, physical proportion and features,Miss Frederika Bremer. If she had what-you-call-ems, c:waistcoat and boots, we should very readily have mistaken her for the Rev. Dr. Be-tfits,” as presented and advocatad by Mrs. ANTON and her co-workers, we “beg to fer.” Evils there are, and serious ones, too, which, doubtless, weigh heavily upon •man in her sphere; but we have no faith believe that the exercise of the right of iffrage, or possession of the other “rights” that the Strong Minded Women claim, would remedy these evils. Certain laws may he enacted, and certain existing Statute's n be repealed, to the great and just benefit of woman. Beyond this we would not go.— We should be sorry to see women voting, or :ting as Inspectors of Elections,Constables, Police Magistrates, Mayors, Legislators, Judges, Grand Jurors, canal Commissioners State Prison Inspectors. Acting in such :apacities, and filling the public eye in an official station, would rob us of all that we e, and love and revere in Woman. It her sphere to be a “public man.” possesses one inalienable “Right,” however, which our “strong minded” friends do not to recognize—the “Right” to stay at home, and be, in all the relations God and : intended her to be—a woman.she 1mblesShe denounced the needle as the greatest ;urse ever let loose upon the social ixistence, and was particularly severe upon ruffled shirts, stiched bosoms, embroidery all kinds, c., c. We do not profe “posted up” in reference to such matters we could not help noticing the fact that the fait speakeryin addition to the rich dress and costly jewelry that she was arr5 a beautifully “worked” collar about her neck, and that her elaborately embroidered “under .sleeves” were absolutely fault-s in style and elegance.—But this is none of our business. Noneof those heathenish monsters called men hs subjects.In relation to the subject of “Woman’
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Auburn Weekly American
Auburn, New York, US
Wed, Mar 21, 1855
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