Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-09
New Lights.

hl'iiin Tie past week, certain parties,
congregated i'll New York city, have been
''cutting shines" calculated to bring the
female sex, generally, into disrepute and
contempt. We refer to the notorious Lu-
cretla Mott, Lucy Stone, Mrs. Nichols,
Mrs. Rose, Harriet X. Stone, ct al
-'strong-minded women as thew are
termed in derision. The females of the
concern have evidently far more brains
than their male companions, Garrison,
Wendall, Phillips, Burleigh, and others
Of that iik. So long as their rawlings are
confined to efforts nonlinally in behalf of
abolitionism, f0urierism, and, so.called.
woman S rights, they can do little harm.
But, on this occasion, these women in
brooches, and men who, at least, should
be, II they are not, i'll petticoats, have
taken the liberty to mount the temperance
hobby in their unquenchab!e thirst for
notorlety, which is at the bottom of their
neyer-fagging efforts to keep themselves
before the public. The time-honored
leaders in the temperance cause very
properly refused to permit them to seen,
10 lead i'll the annual demonstration of the
season to come off in that city. So they
got up whole Worlds Convention in
name, though it was, of course, nothing
moro than gatheringof women and men
who arc voted by society, everywhere,
out of the pale of general intercourse, be-
cause they impudently set at nought all
the rules of common decency in their
walk in life. If those interested in the
temperance reform submit to the impu-
dent pretenSions of these crazy folks to
play exclusive leaders, their cause is done
for, at least until these disgusting un-
seXed women and men are forced. nv
public opinion, to hold their peace. In
most cases, the she 'uns among them are
starcheI, grabbed and disappointed old
maids, or matrons whose disagreeability
at home have driven away the men who
had been so foolish as to marry them
Being full of fierce passions, they seek a
vent Tor the surplus of bile and prejudices
which restraint imposes upon them, in
round abuse of all our institutions. Jea]-
ouSy is at the bottom of their rampant
didoeS
Ihey are women Of genius, talent, and
IN some cases, Of attainments-of parts.
which but for their * disappointment in
lie might have rendered them comforts
and ornaments to society, rather than
positive nuisances and bad examples in
the way OF intoxicating the greatest and
most beautiful female virtue-modestv
As argutiers-clap-trap logicians they
are much superior to the men playing
second fiddle to them. These women
they scOrn to be called ladies-generally
entertain great contempt for the institu-
ton OF marriage, holding to the proprietv
oil divorce whenever the parties may agree
10 separate They never fail to exercise
Their undisputed right to snub the sniff.
ling fellows who aid ana abct their anuu-
al displays Of absurdities, immodestv.
atheism, blasphemy and transcendental
tanatacism- The disease is progressive
one with hem. 1t first appears usually
III the shape Of pro-temperance twinges,
and then goes through the stages of abo.
huonism, spirit-rappings, clairvoyance.
iourlerlsm, platonic matrimony, woman's
rights, &c, &c. However, before they
get through the first two or three of these