Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-28

Shall receive some severe thrusts from
your hand is no more than I expect. and
NJ more than | am prepared to meet. In
using your efforts to externlinate Slavery
and lntemperance, and promoting manv
other good objects, you shall have nv
most hearty cooperation, and my feeble
support, but in going for women's rights,
IN the new acceptatioD-and ultra non-re-
slstance-neoer, Yours, truly,
RYLAND FLETCHER.
R MARK
1t was not my intention to go into the
discussion of this subject myself, at pres
eht and do not now design to pursue
IT 10 any length, discovered, on the
part of some who are afraid females viii
not be kept in due subordination, disoo.
sltlon to push the discussion,-so I open
cd the columns of the Telegraph, think
ing that some of its readers might es-
TEEN it privilege to say something on
the other side. And it is known tothose
who are acquainted with me, that hold
to Tree discussion of allsubjects of import
ance' 1t being truth only that want, be
that where it may, and require of me
what it will,
hold, as well as my brother Fletcher,
that males and females have each their
appropriate spheres of action, somewhat
indicated by their physical powers and or
CARNATIONS. 1t needs no proof that there
are physical labors that belong, in gener-
al, more appropriately to men-and that
there are others that belong to women
The outdoor labors manifestly belong
to the former-the indoor to the latter
| DO not apprehend any need of instituting
any physical government in relation to
these matters, to be enforced by violence.
If reason and the Christian religion-the
law Of love-may be allowed to do their
legitimate work, they will regulate these
affairs between the sexes most happily
There are always exceptions to general
rules. There will always be individuals
who will be getting out of the spheres
that belong to them. But | have yet to
learn that this is peculiar to the female
sex. 1appeal to brother Fletcher him
self, and ask him whether he has oftener
seen mems rights encroached ON by wom-
en-, than women's rights encroached on
by men2
|, too, will rejoice, as heartily as my
brother Fletcher, that any of nv breth-
rem, on either side of any question, viii
resort to the Bible for instruction and ties.
stimony. Show me the teaching of the
Bib)e-the mind Of the Spirit-and you
need do no more. I ask brother fetch
/ er, then, what he thinks those women did.
who were" fellow-laborers" with Paul
-"those women which labored with him
in the gospel 2" [See Philippians ". 3. ]
In what did their labors consist2
One thing that | wants, that brother
] Fletcher, if he can, while undertaking to
apply has scripture rules to the govern
ment of women, should define precisely
what they may do. and what they NAV
not do-hoW much truth and knowledge
tthey may acquire, and how much they
may COMMUNICATIVE mediums Of &C.
lquisition and communication shall be
-open TO them, and what shall be closed
againstthem. He probably would no
object to their writing books, and newspa
per articles. Would he then, allow then
I to read those books and newspaper arti
Ecles! Not before men, L suppose!
is to be presumed that he would not OBJ
4 iect to those books and articles being reac
by men! 1t is not to. be supposed tina
he would object to females talking to fe
males, but no doubt it would be abomin.
liable, and awfully heretical, for them tc
presume 10 talk to males, either by way
Of reproof,p of correction. . or of en-
! struction in righteousness y They SHOULD
pray, no doubt; but they must never pray
in the hearing of men In moral ant
religious movements and operations, 70
: the benefit Of the human family, be woulC
T allow them to be helpers" so far as fin