The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-23
WOMAN CONSIDERED AS INFERIOR TO NAN

WOMAN CONSlDEhED AS INFERIOR
Yesterday evening at eight o'clock Yrs Cakes Smith
delivered lecture tho above subject ut Hope Chapel
Broadway. follows
Who shall be the great apostle Of women? Who shall
interpret hr to herself and thence reveal her to thu
world! Our books fun Of false dalneations The1
Represent man eu.my-ths perpetual foe to oui
Iurty-ard always subordinate vacilatng imbecile
mled by Affections and living In q world at once
and degradngfor love is no longer noble When
it has become Necessity creature whose only world
in the ctions lie nearly allied TO the lower creation
that she ceases be a representative Of womanhood
By education or inheritance she is diseased being
ut for the hospital Than the eside; better adapted
to HASTINGS prayers and andotss than the family altar
She is unworthy the Office of aernty and undt for the
holy position wife; for vile should be friend
seor and lover combined Yet this the affections Is
the only phase in which truly recognized in the
world. Our brothers have ignored all but the qua
liues OF nature iSat brings in relation to
themselves. They have ignored all that by any pos
sbility might bring into competition with them
selves They have tilted the world with codes Of laws
in which denquences have been carefully provided
with penalties they have burned US at the stake they
have butchered 10 wars; they have confined US in
dungeons. tortured us IN iSquistons and hung US ON
gibbers, fhout once saying by your eaye"-without
law in the law Our voice in legislation has
dumb every in tbs country owe his birth
to a mute; and have been VOWED in all the horrors
that have outraged the world With to
them Do not suy that the designs of God are visible
in all this DO not in your blaphemous conceit that
the Almighty that the mother Of the should
be q blind helpless slave disfranchsed mbecle and de-
pendent humbled and oppressed by the very being she
has nurtuied at her bosom The holy sentiment Of
ternity cries shame upon the word-the noble soul of
womanhood cries shame and the vast heart OF humanity
cries shame. (Applause.) II you applaud gentlemen,
l take it for granted you endorse my sentiments.
daughter, 1t does not matter that the world has no
precedent tojustfy what we claim We ask only Justice
in the sight Of God and man. Our people are
not such sticklers for time honored usagcs to set
up such plea-our whole history has been one OF
denial and rejection. WHAT chance said the lee
tuIer, even in day has woman to be justly and
fairly judged in her opinions with the press that modern
inquisition in all it's terrible power converted into
engine Of torture against her aud all the concet arro
gance and power the world up in to oppose her
(Appause) Ii is not Of TO day who disturbing
the republic by claims for we have only preserved
the watchword handed down 10 US by the women Of the
Mayfower Again, who shall be the apostle Of woman
hood? Are prepared to accept her, should she APP
pear would she be followed by persecution and oblo
guy. was the Christ! l know not-yet fear such
would be the fact No man not even Plato, has
written up to the true nature Of woman. No
man can interpret her, only far his
character in its highest approxmates to hers No.
question of inferority of ncompatibty in is
very delicate one Admit the fact, and you have as
signed limits to human deve opement Do not believe
that the Almighty designed to mate any creature with its
inferior If the popular estimate Of woman be correct
man should blush to encounter his daughter IN the
street applause and like the Turk never converse to
his wife In public Two types of womanhood have been
tinctly traced upon the wodthe passionate and the
maternal woman The final type issyet to be revealed
The lee then at considerable length and With great
ability commented the nature Of these types and
concluded her remarks by saying that ideal repre-
sentative woman had as yet been noWedged In the
world Jesus as the divine type of manhood IN its
human shape of and now We wait for the divine
the redeemer of the racethe woman perfect in
oil attributes; clear calm, courageous in thought, vr
ginal in sentiment. and spiritual in the highest Gap
plaufe.) The meeting then separated.