WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION AT SARATOGA SPRINGS.

The New York 's correspondent, concerning a Women's Rights Convention at Saratoga Springs, supposed that should be "like shopping wood;" and, therefore, concludes that it "is not ." For such a style of oratory, or chopping logic, with pump-handle notions, I suspect Mrs. Rose, Mrs. Blackwell, Miss Brown, and Miss Anthony to be totally unfitted. They have, I presume, never heard of this sublime standard of eloquence. R. G. P.'s singular assertion, that those ladies "make awkward business of oratory, and can hardly manage their hands, person or voice gracefully or effectively," is, however, either a gross falsehood or the result of his lack of taste and judgement. To please him, they must probably adopt his custom of bracing up the body with prop-like arms, supported by spread hands resting on a pulpit-board. I know but one clergyman (Doctor Nott) who stands properly, and of course, , when preaching. Most of the revend gentlemen apparently lack (unlike Senator Sumner, according to Mr. Jay's commendation) .—Even the author of Deacon Giles' distillery, perhaps from , sprawls out, at Saratoga, like a galvanized frog; although, when occasionally rising to an , he looks again, who, in days or yore, dared to rebuke vice, especially its rum traffic.

Every person who was present during the two days-Convention, or at any session of it, knows that the ladies to whom i have alluded, were not only graceful but argumentative, earnest, eloquent and effective. Four better debaters, not merely in manner, but matter, and self-regulated enthusiasm, cannot be produced. I speak positively and confidently, after having heard, almost daily, for a half century, celebrated orators, lawyers, divines, and statesmen. Instead of "pleasure in hitting others," those ladies promptly replied to interrogatories in the manifested by questioners, and frequently "answered a fool according to his folly." Was R. G. P as a catechiser in that category? Disbelievers, and even doubters, concerning Woman's Rights doctrines, were repeatedly invited to occupy the platform. That courtesy met no response; although some pigmy newspaper editors have published in petty, whiffet-like paragraphs, stereotyped objections, which had been thoroughly refuted. Those carpers, too, characterized Messrs. Higginson and May as "weak-minded clergymen." What sagacious observers of character, conduct and capacity, such typographical wiseacres must be! Of such stupidity there is no complaint; but there is inexcusable baseness in disregarding public speeches, and petitions, and resolutions, which constitute the Woman's Rights platform, or specification of claims for redress of grievances, and confounding marriage or, founded on equality, with the Ceresco-association, whether misrepresented or correctly described by an irresponsible committee, reporting to an exasperated mass meeting at Rippon. I disbelieve and wait until proof shall have been adduced; because, within my recollection, similar accusations were urged against camp-meetings and love-feasts of Methodists, who were nevertheless, as they are now, virtuous. Yet Mary S. Gove Nichols must not be mistaken for Mrs. C. J. H. Nichols, who lately removed, with her family of , from Vermont to Kansas, and is a worthy communicant of the Baptist Church. The latter is truly a as well as a advocate of Woman's Rights, preventive of concubinage and promiscuous sexual intercourse, which the enemies of humanity not only do not oppose, but endeavor, by , to increase and perpetuate.

If the Ceresco system is so atrocious, (as thus represented,) it, with all its excesses and abominations, is ascribable to the present unequal and oppressive condition of woman, deprived of her natural and social rights, and therefore usually incapable of self-culture, and self-respect, and consequent self-reliance, which are the only security for moral sense. So the Bastile-building oppression of Feudal despotism precipitated the first, and most ferocious French revolution, and must be deemed accountable for the ensuing anarchy of , and its massacres perpetuated by Robespierre, Maratt, and Danton.

had misnamed (and instead of control mankind) that monster tyranny as republicanism, and thereupon denounced by the People; and yet constitutional has not been abandoned (however much it may have been abused by slaveholders) for . Nor will , as defined in the Saratoga Springs Convention, be disclaimed because that phrase has been improperly and meanly applied to alleged , which (like existing New York institutions) at Ceresco, depriving woman of her just and inalienable rights, demoralizes man, and degrades the matron into a harlot.

LUKE LICHEN.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, August 21, 1855.