Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (City of Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1853-1857, 1855-12-25


nv in her domestic relation. ives
this is anything but beneficial IN
There are no doterassd
believe, and, it may be, honek IN
that i. would be lettering socise
duce womsA into the political srsa
would slsysts ,hsm II 49, -
and in their social virtues. Thas ffS! ~
wronged every way. when thus deprived OF
,heir NATURAL RIGHTS.
.'Yes my friends says one OF the defend
ers OF Human freedom and wom.n's rights,
for they are generally associated, Woman,
lovely woman, the personlhcatios OF all that
is lovely. pure and yirtuous, sht that is all
of holiness on earth, she whose vatchful eye
and tender sympathy has alwaysbeen awake
TO the cry OF Human aunt, is, il the face of
the enlightenment Of the nineteenth century,
yes! while her face beams Within radiant
beauty of holy love, by the RUTHLESS WILL Of
man, because he is the stronger, deprived OF
her NATURAL RIGnr-1es rights which God
and natures God has youchsaed 10 her,
This is advocated with great zel. They seem
to think that the elective Franchise belongs
to the natural sciences THAT women have
inherited the right to vote from our father
Adam. That women are bora unto The cleo
tive franchise. That the gres object OF ere
alton was the exercise Of the ysing privilege.
That all there is Of life, is .allot-b box AMI
election day.
This may DO to make Talk about and to
get up a GRASD RALLY over' bus Is IN tact
without any foundation in trah.or good sense
Rights are twofold, natural and associated
or adv antitious. Natural Rights are those
which would belong to man, although there
were, in the world. 70 civil government whit
ever. Man has therefore, naturally, right
TO life, limbs and liberty The right 10 ne
products Of his own labor. 20 the use # light,
air and water: aud 10 the use Of the earth
as we'll as what grows upou II, SO long as he
may choose TO use and occupy the sum-
Bat this last mentioned nghi IS only PART
PAssu with the ac'ual want OF The properly
either from necessity or otherwise. There
can be no natural right Of property. The
right OF property as weIt as the other rights
spoken of deryabe from our social compact,
are, and can only properly be considered, AL
vANTITIoUs RIGHTS.
The natural right of a woman to vote then,
il truly as great as that Of man. The nights
natural Of women, are in every respect as
great as man. But to say that they are, or
ought to be, the same in their asso ,iatsd re-
ation, is as much as to say, that in SOCIETY,"
there is no need Of the womanly eIcmcns,for
society is merely political. II soclesyis, in
It's sum total, political, then indeed, may We
dispense with the domestic branch OF society.
1t must appear to every ore at glance
that the great object Of politicsis, in reai''y'
for the purpose and object Of securing and
preserving the domes';c relation.
We are hardly prepared yet for the idea
that the world is theatre upon which men
and women are TO perform political farces.--
They that think so, may go flor, and desire
% see womcu nal the champions OF pollti-
,al strifes.
Political rights are not natural rights
They, on the contrary, are accidental rights:
hen all this TALK about depIi.lng woman oil
those rsghts which she had by Inheritance,
and which no one should call IN question, is
hut so mach BALpgRDAsH. There never has
been discussion, since the question was first
mooted but the pro ninent idea 49, the wrong
done to woman by depriving her OF her nat
ural rights. We are always told when we
speak of the proper distinction, which really
exists between the political a1d domestic re-
lasions of society, that we are talking about
and not about tho real question
at issue. There is however, no question 70
discuss but that of sxpediency. What other
question can be involved z Society 10 but
m after OF expediency. What is society? Is
it not an organization for mutual beneit-sor
Is the question of franchise
anything but a question of social advantage
The only ELscrioS we have by nature. is that
which Adam had, whom he elected to cat the
fruit. It is plain then that no ar
gumsns, in favor Of women's voting. from any
natural right that she possesses, Is worthy Of
G.
Dossghty,s Party.
On Thursday night last, was the most ex-