Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-11-29
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!, / ~ Mrs. Luck STosE RIAcKwg,tsI af'eesken
Friday evening fesf at Military Hall in this city,
course of three lectures on hcr favorte topic Of We
nun s.Rights The audience was good in point o.
numbers and better in other respects bat stiH not
so large thegencrally Recognized abHtyof the lee
turer, should have commanded For this therelnight
have been several reasons. Tho notice was Brief,
part nperect and moi well understood at that
Oar people too, are very properly growing cautious
OF female lecturers. They have been invitedso often
TO stento puerilt;cs aud nauitics from such sources
that they getting tired of it, and the spirit of gal
antry which prompts them 70 listen and tolerate, s
sorely t,ieisand rapidly oozing away Aud newsIa-
per regulations becoming objects of great susi
cion. We oursolf familiar are with neassi,a
pers md the mede By which complimentary notices,
none too well deserved, find place iu their columns
have hcen nevertheless surprised TO find how often
the subjects of extravagant and reported eulcgun
sink TO The level Of contempt in ther performances
one of orr greatest and that OF our citizens
in this respect occurring not more than two weeks
since in the ease of ono of these perpatec lecturers
WHO Lad compiled for exhibition small volume Of
newspaper puffs of her own wonderful powers. All
was not rush on this occasion But the further
fact that the audience Increased in numbers every
evening, being much larger the last evening than tie
first we consider tile most substantial compliment
which can be paid to lecturer, and is abundant eva
idence that for once aleast popular expectation has
been fully met We havcno doubt if Mrs. d. should
find it in the way of her mission TO visit US again,
with reasonable notice to our people, her audience
would be doubled or trebled. 8 -
As lecturer she certainly possesses in high
degree the ability both to instruct and please;
and in the strength of her thought, the clearness
and eloquence with which it is enforced, and her
self-sustaining dignity, is herself the best and
most forcble commentary upon thedoctriles she
teaches. When all women are like her, not ne
cessarly in their capacity, but their self-reance,
@omans rights will be an easy achievement.
To tic fundamental doctrines of this Woman
Rights movement ne heartily subscribe. Rights
pertain neither to sex or color but to humanity
alone; ard wherever we find humanity there we
arc not only willing b,,t anxious should be pos
sessed, exercised, and enjoyed all the rights we
feel necessary for our own wcllbeing. Weknow
of no other safe rule of action Any other rule
of action, persisted in, viii inst as surely reduce
us or our children after us to servitude and de-
pendance, and its refusal now does those to whom
| it is refused ,ai s a's
What the extension TO females of the lcga
rights possessed by males, and the removal of the
many restrictions imposed by custom upon the
independence of the female as completely as tho
male, would ultimate in, in DETAIL we know not
IL Al
crs, Legislators, militia captains, lawyers doctors
| or what not, nor do we care. We presume i
would have no very different effect upon then
than it has upon the other sex. Itwould simply
lenable them to realize what is desired viz: al
opportunity TO use all their powers to the hes
advantage, which of course could result only be
MEDICALLY for them and the whole of humanity
| Doubtless there are among females as anon,
males, those TO whom liberty would prove only
a license for folly; but that the concession of a.
the rights now enjoyed by one half of humanity
and by that half deemed very essential to it.
welfare, would ruin the other half If possessed
by it, we do not for moment bclieve. On The
contrary. with the frmcst reliance upon the Iii
vine instincts of the female even more certainly
than of the male, we arc sure that the remova
of all barriers to the OK crcise of those power:
and gifts which they possess equally with Tic
male, in correction with all the duties of life, pro
per inthemselyes to bcporformed, would have II,
other effect but to expand their virtues and in
crease their usefulness, vastly to their own wei
being and thai of the race. ea 4lss ras,sn
4 Toplace all humanity on q common level o
rights is our desire, for which we are willing t,
labor. And we trust the time IS not very distan
when in all such matters, those who are strong ant
hold in their grasp to dispense the rights of 9th
'ers will propose 30 other test than simply, ''asI
and yc shall receive aas fs