The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-09
THE LECTURE SEASON.

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Mrs. r. Cakes Smith on the Dignity of
| Labor.
The above lecture delivered yesterday evening at
eight o'clock at hope Chapel Broadway, The audience
was not very large.
| The Lecturer who, coming forward, was loudly
cheered said I'm presenting to the audience opinions
very unpopular in themselves, emsnstng from uomans
mind nothing but deep conviction of their truth
tains me My assurance however, is based upon one
single fact in the human constitution and it is this
the mind of is naturally adjusted to truth just
the eye is adjusted to light We love truth better than
fasehood, just love light better than darkness
! Such being the constitution of the human soul
l present my opinions with less hesitation. You
will examine them, you viii bring them to tine
test Of sound reason and good judgment, and
you will knew in bow far this accords with this
divine element do not expect that you will at once
adopt these opinions but the time will when this
viii be the common faith OF the world, for it TO
me but mere trusms You say that government exists
by the consent OF the governed Now women have given
no consent and therefore not bound to allegiance
You that taxation without representation is tyranny
but taxed but represented and tnerefole
they should at least decline taxation You say that
every male member Of The repubic twenty years OF
age is entitled the rights Of citizen. hip contend
that citizen comprists all persons of full age
and found mind without distinction Of
sOGr By your eqas s s, Ecu 60 on to say
and II too dark be must property TO q certain
snuupt, or he IL no citizen The citizen mat.
she may be must not vote a. all Why! Because she is
incapable ofjudgmenD oh no Boys derive their ffss
teach ng from the mother. every demagogue sill tell
you when h gets that part of his speech which
appeals the fair x he every ching to
his mother Mothers wit, fathers wit is proyeroa
The mother attend to the representation because
the baby may young ma ter get his head knocaed
This same mother may 70 balls and theatres bat she
incurs much more risk visiting such places (Cbeers
speak OF voting ana particularly Of the rights OF Citizens
because these uudersy all others and because
WINGED that the Industry Of mus be warped unit;
the IL recfgnlZ,d cltlZeu ana she can right
wrongs Of her only through the ballot box raise
herself from her tossme life by giving her power
conpete with men in every field Of labor to which ike
him, her facuet may tempt her Make her a citizen
endue her With eli these privileges and you may
yeur associations for charity your hospitals for ipd
gent widows who have better days, and she will
take care of herself l. there any rea on why woman
should be disfranchised! That she may be Of sound
mind j. acknowledged by the present Legislature by
which she is recognized in New York at Least hold
property Could not our sapent Law makers have
that tie next step must be that she will be represented
Ii taxation il tyranny to man it must be to woman Our
fathers took their starting point from this and why
should not their daughters DO the same? and IL be
true 10 ourselves ana true to our country woman will
fuse 10 be taxed until she is represented do not look
upon the ballot box the acbe OF human but TO reiress
wrongs. The objection to wOnans voting The OF
family duties i not tenable Women should not marry
until they twenty five years old and very
mary at all and seine become widows in all Of which
cssss they might vote, without detriment to the domestic
relations The principal ground Of repugnsne after all
lie the absence OF precedsnts Women had before
presumed much But the world is growing older; we
have experience from the past and akst for what
Is worth. We must learn from perence the necessities
OF the times and enc Of the necessities Of times
Thu doctrine OF woman's rights (Cheers) Some.
time since the editor of one Of provincial papers
with lorg article upon mans wrongs aud
be called upon al men who sympsthizet with women
who the wrongs Of womsp-to vote for certain man
who upheld protective tariff, because in this view
men would receive higher average wages / will say
nothing 81 this time to the tariff for II Is out Of my
line present but this editor saw at once that these
wrongs must be redresed by the ballot box lie
the threshold Of the truth and he should have taken
a tttp further and said that women must vote-they
must redress their own wrongs at the ballot box Justice
cannot reach ha by proxy IL she had committed fault
the Law would not punish her husband In her stead IL
she steal, her husband may pay the money but II Ii
true that the law will not SEND him to prison in her
place Our personality in spite Of the law he
vote and contribute her power to the removal Of griev
fanoes and she should endsovor by every means in her
power mako labor honorable to the BY making 1t
rem lucrative All creatures rise in the tcale OF being
lust In proportion they held to responsibilities and
there is truth in human science which must even
tuay be acknowledged which is ths. every being has
right any and every amount Of freedom that he Is
able to derive long II does moi interfere with tho
like right In another In the earlier history of the
country discourse occurred n e. the table q
The principal argument against the right OF the majority
TO rule was that the cultivated and intelligent
few ss compared with the uncultivated massos the
minority being the wiser portion, ought TO rule and 1t
was at length determined to put IL 10 the vote. Upon
putting the question whether the majority should rule,
the whole table rose, excepting Mr. Paine Upon their
taking their seats he and saidI rise In the name
OF the wise minoIity' leave you TO apply the
dote. Our destnies fixed when fathers turned
ther backs upon lords and priests and kings and de-
ciIto that every man such unto God and we were
Dspuzeo 70 what we are by the blood OF 1870, for all
creatures Know their afnitythe free with the free the
great with the Rrestsnd monarch allied with
the ten nor N. fiec dcnizen with the shscked bond
man. enc ,nefs,os We 'ay Tbs, man freedom ~ ro
occupation u wnmeby for dom ain Va very much en-
crescbfd upon by the other SIX Ren Ike toerl lib
du sermons rather than strfy he masses with ttuns
speeches. and they Invariably endoaYOr TO dodge tbd