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Show si:LK(jri:i). A ft E IV tilOC ESSIO.V. Tho ultra tulvouutun of WomanV RigtilM ure getling donpetiite. They ure Weary 01' waiting and reaolvetl uu liero io nieusuies. At least Victoria Wood-hull, Wood-hull, of tho Grin of Woodhull & Clul-Iiq Clul-Iiq is for at a lato convention of the strong-minded in iSew York sho indulged in-dulged in thia portciitious tlueat : il'e will lane our rightn. Wo say ho longer by your leave. We havo besought, be-sought, argued, and convinced, but havo not tailed : ami wc will not fail. Wo will try you just once mure. U the very next Congress reiue wonion all the legitimate results of citizens,hii; if they, indeed, merely so much as fail by a proper declaratory act to with-dr with-dr aw every obstacle to the most ample exercise of Uio liancliLso, then we give hero aud now deliberately notice ol what wo will do next. There is one alternative left, aud we have resolved on that. This convention conven-tion is for the puriiuoe of this deelara tion. As surely as one year passes from this day, and this right is not fully, frankly aud unequivocally considered, we shall proceed to call another convention conven-tion expressly to frame a new constitution constitu-tion and to erect a new government, complete iu all its pans, and to take measures to niaiuiatu it as effectual!) as men do theirs. If fur people to govern thcnisclvc.-is thcnisclvc.-is so unimportant a matter as men now assert it to be, they could not justil) themselves in interfering. Ii, ou tUe contrary, it is the important thing we conceive it to be, they can but applaud us lor exercising our right. . Wc mean treason, wo mean secession, seces-sion, and on a thousand times grander calo thau was that of the iSouili. W e are plotting revolution; wo will overthrow over-throw this bogus .Republic and plant a government of righteousness in iu stead. Mrs. Stanton was a little more diplomatic, diplo-matic, lieferring to the belligerent Woodhull's proposition, she wittily said : "If it is impossible to bring our fathers, husbands aud brothers to terms to secure us iu the rights of citizenship, cit-izenship, we shall then be obliged to avail ourselves of the last rk'ht of secession. se-cession. That idea was very well set forth by Tennyson in his "Princess." i'he women decided then to get rid of their oppressions, and lbuud a college of their own; so they went outside aud built up for themselves a grand college, and got everything in magnificent magni-ficent working order women professors profes-sors in all the chairs of philosophy, taw and mathematics. All went ou finely until one morning they discovered discov-ered that one-half of their pupils were men. Iam afraid it will be just so in our new government." Applause ) Mrs. JJr. Walker the lady who asserts as-serts her right to equality with man by putting on man's habiliments also took a hand in the debate. Without eudorsing Mrs. Woodhull in terms, she declared that as "all women couldn't get husbands, some of them would have to go into politics !" |
