News story on SLC women assembly and the "brains and tongues" of Mormon women.
"The Mormon Women in Council," The New York Herald, January 23, 1870, 6, accessed April 9, 2022
The meeting was held in the old Tabernacle. It was, perhaps, one of the grandest female assemblages in all history. The audience was non-masculine, and the speakers one and all were female. We refer our readers to the speeches and the resolutions; and we venture to say that, whatever may be the individual reader's opinion of the merits or demerits of Mormon institutions, it will not be denied that Mormon women have both brains and tongues. Some of the speeches give evidence that in general knowledge, in logic and in rhetoric the so-called degraded ladies of Mormondom are quite equal to the women's rights women of the East. . . .After reading this report we have come to the conclusion that there is a spirit in Salt Lake valley which no legislation can crush.