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ITEMS.oimliHt.s ngonts toTlOMALtMT.,M\ Hr tub 'our otUro, it, througli.US85!:“RIOnTS OP WOMANMooting oi* tho Suft'rngo Associ-ulton on Satiutlny. .?An!KonS:.'Ownliulm.ilonru'i.hUrttngo,.!M8P.l'oiUUlU..Hvc»w«lil\MTS.mst bo ymcntmpveas IjUSUtlg ■} regret utporn-TllOXY lO lilC-1 mnu-Tho llrstquiirtorly mooting brliio Lora 111 Woman’# SnllVngo AssobliUlbii was hold at thb l'bwu Hat], bit Saturday. The mooting was balled to -Order and’ presided ovor by, Dy. Gnis \vol t. The atfondenco was fair iti numbers, and in poiut of iulollJgouoo compared favorably with an equal number of persons that could nsActnblo for any other purpose in our midst,Tlio following olUeers wore u I be ted*: lt;I’rcsidont—Dr. G riswold.Vice President—Mrs. Ban ndon, 11. D,. Secretary—Airs. Judge Boynton. Tivnsurer—Mrs. M.B. Shophard. Executive Committee—Mrs. N. S. Tqwushond, !Mrs. R II. Dibblo, Judge HOyuton, 11% Loran Taylor Mrs. It. Jleddingtou, Mrs. W. 1lt;\ Wooster, Miss L, Smith.Tho !VrOtn tho taport submitted by tho Treasurer, Mrs. M. B. Sm:i‘iiAiii, w learn that tlie Association numbers in membership fifty two names. This list includes a small proportion of the adherents to the cause, and. embrace only Hi© names of individuals who active in the Woman’s Suffrage rouiont. Tho llmuico of Hie Association, as exhibited by the report, is as follows:m ben hi fiflooft pi-in lit lire-, a*, the oi-(iiuiUntlnn,,., t| i.iui xlA-il'-n flirii 1 Vicloi‘s lecture 12.60'leu-iuiei-. book utitl I’uMagu,. uO-iUI,60I ended . Ad-for,d * lost nis by uimnl'i it hastheaixty-1:1:1,1:, ternal r vent;fiveit off and\flet* transacting rotlno business pertaining to tho Association, tho president in trod need to tho assemblage Judge W. W. BoYNTOfti who proceeded to address the meeting. The major part of the (fudge'» remarks wa based upon legal propositions. lie contrasted tho statute regulations concerning rights between men and wdmcn, and the rules that existed under common law regulations. Ho cjted the advancement for womanV beuctit made from time to time by statute enactments, and referred to existing laws of several of tho ^tatoi? relative to what rights are acquired and ren trie ted hy Mich enactments, in the control of property and guardianship of children. Notwithstanding that much and favorable progress has been made to bring about an equality of rights, he desired that further progress should be made. The first proposition examined by the Judge was that, By the original contract of government, the price of protection hy the united force of individuals is that Of obedience to the united will of the community. This united will is declared in the laws of tho land, 11 nd that united force is exerted in their due and universal execution. [4 Blacks tone, .*17^.] lie then dwelt at some length upon the followiiigpoiuts: 1—The obedience that is required i-, individual obedience, and each person is only misweWible for his or her individual violation of the laws ; hi id the protection given him or her individual protection, and is the reward of such obedience. 2—lie, 01 she, who Is required to ruudor such obedience to the laws of the land has, or should have, the right to participate in making those laws, if of suflicient intelligence. 3—Any respectful reason giv-orf to exclude woman, is as'eon elusive against the man. -1—At eighteen, a girl may make contracts entirely binding upon her; may sue and be sued, and engage in all kinds of business. A boy can not until he is twenty-one years of age. This he regarded as an admission of tho gill's superior fitness at that age to look the worlil in the face, and raises the question, Why is she not as fit to vote as ho ? 5—A son and da ugh lor arc on tout into the world from the same household—he twenty-one, she eighteen ■s of age. In respect to their civil t»j they are entirely tho same, save in. tli is, he is armed (with tlio ballot for liis protection, anil she is disarmed. This being the case, wWt argument, he ask«, can Justify this in vidimus discrimination.At the conclusion of Judge Boyisj-i\’s remarks, Dr. Gihswom) spoke for 11 few minutes, contending for an equal itv of rig]its for wbiilan now denied Vo her by the law in matters of the care and guardianship of children and the control of property. Tlio discrimination the law makes between man and woman ItfS regards as unjust, nrbitr and edutrnry lo alt right. The laWs Should bo so chuuged As to not only extend to woman those rights of equality she is now deprived of in the maudge-Dcut of affairs pefidining to’ her individual interests, but in regard to the ballot, of which, lie thinks, she Is so unjustly denied: He is of the opinionthat to extend the right Of duffrago to females would be the inauguration of higher morals in govcnucntal affair Mr. Cams ins, of Obcrlin, was introduced to tho audience: lie look hold of the nluttcr more in a spirit of mounting a 1 lobby than that of mooting grave questions and tho presentation of argument thereby dcinonstating to a hesitating public tho necessity and rijfsit of yielding to the demands for female snfl-’ago. 1 fc whiidcrou from point to point, ndulgcd in the same 4‘glittering generalities” as were worn thread-bare upon tlio nogro quest ion, flo’atrid oil on the Declaration of Independence, and finally planted liimsclf upon tho untenable position that suUVago i? a natural and iuheront right. Durihg his re 111 arks lie produced resolutions adopted at a mooting held in this place fourteen years ago .voring woman’s suffrage.In the evening .quite a largo audience assembled at (ho Ilali and listened to a lecture by Dr. Towsrsinsso/ Wo hoard only a portion of his remarks. The nis, dout supporters Wore highly pleased, with his lecture. Ho spoke, from the stand-point that, “Tlio restriction of tho JVauchiso’is a wrong—-defend it if youWo 1 eultuVa last Sal frd wit Com pa well ujw ■gilhli Biu.iNi Koupisr a now t crests.'Tito few 1110 tended l The bi Works porvlsic 1.1 email Opornti vorso c sary mu busiuofci chinory this mai Planter; inrgfcr si the man In ad corn pla dor tho i till orilc panv lullQUO illll]Tho viUi chine g: who use tlio trial with the ccivcd t cheoring popular! pi ex Mo addition of (his p citizens branch o here as ti only in bi tifu I tow tioii nhd labtishm to over business mnnd l’o»tt.7Tho president announced that Mrs. LrvF.RjroRJi-Juis loft ft promise to deliv-a lecture bo fore the Association sometime during flie coming summer.
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Elyria Constitutionalist
Elyria, Ohio, US
Wed, May 04, 1870
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