Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-05

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our columns are unusually crowded, and
we are forced to make an extract from
this address, instead of Inserting the
whole. As we hsve done The best in our
power, under the circumstances, our
friends in Greene must excuse the omis-
sion.
The political questions, at the present
time, are calculated to call forth the
sympathies, and arouse the energies Of
every feeling heart. and especially Of
those possessing christianity. Perhaps
some might say. that ONE as politi-
clans, assume the masculine, instead Of
the feminine; to such we would say, you
have driven us to this extremity, as a
last resort for our W safety. l would
ask. are women capable of vindicating
christian principles, and acting in &C.
cordAnce with those principles, and also
of influencing those committed to their
care, to moral and religious acts II
they are not. then they are not account
able beings, and occupy the same place
as our modern s~piritualists while asleep:
and let them do or say what they will.
are not subject to the verdict of any
court or jury. But if on the other hand,
it is admitted that they are capable of
exercising moral and relig Gus influence,
then they have something to say poIiti
cally, for politics at the present day,
stand upon two separate platforms. One
is Christianity. and the other In6delity,
or the opposite of Christianity. one holds
tina. all men are born free ard equal,
and are endowed by their creator with
the i~naliegable rights. of life. liberty,
and The pursuit of happiness. The other
degrades men, and places them if posi-
bic, beneath the brute creation, drprives
them of life, liberty and all they hold
dear in this world. One is for extend
Ing The light of education through our
land, and world, sending the Bible and
missionaries 10 the benighted heather /;
thereby making men better morally and
~religiousI.. and consequently happier.
The other denies Them the light of edu-
cation. consequently the Bible to them is
a sealed book.
Deprived of all the means Of grace,
they go down to the grave. a poor. be-
nighted, oppressed, people. and this state
o! heathenism is found in our own repub.
lie, under the American banner of liner
ty, and under Democratic administra-
ton. What /! women 10 be held in 81.
lence, in matters relative 10 the safety,
the morals, the temporal, and the eternal
welfare of their children {? Think you
a mother can be silent while she beholds
her sons growing up to manhood, and
perhaps destined to meet the same fate
as a Sumner, or those murdered men in
Kansa~ ; or what would be far worse, TO
see them following in the footsteps of a
Pierce, Douglas, Atchison, or a String
fellow, speaking lies in hypocricy, hav
ing their consciences scared as with a
hot iron, hands stained with innocent
blood, and hearts, harder than that of
Pharaoh. exposed to the wrath of an Of
Tended God, and justly doomed to eter
nal death. Even before they sirive to
manhood. they may be taken from US,
and sold into bondage. II would be no
worse than what has been done ; in view
Of our own responsibility, as mothers
then, we cannot. nayl we will not peace
fully relinquish our W rights, in secur-
ing to ourselves and u pOsterity. civil
and religious liberty.
In all the works Of creation, God never
made a living being. that had the power
of speech, to be a mental servant 10 man.
The brute creation were made for the
service of man. but they were not to be
cruelty treated, for the scriptures informs
US. "that a merciful man is merciful TO
his beast Go, ask the slaves at the
South, and they would tell you, that
they would delight to be their masters
horse, or his dog, rather than his slave
Friends, is it not truly distressing that
men, in this enlightened age Of tie world,
in a civilized and chrislianized commu.
nifty, holding the high Office of Judge.
Post Master, and various other important
Offices, should go for the support of the
Pierce administration. and are unmoved
by the brutal conduct of the Missouri,
ans. They are perfestly satisfied that
peaceable citizens should be murdered,
women rsEished, all kinds of Wickedness
p~erpetrsted, far SURPRISING in crime, the
barbarous and unciyilized savages.-
When men have become thus dead, to
shame. to humanity, and to all decency,
have not we, the sOomen of these United
States, sufficient aus for alarm in view
of our own future destiny? When God
created man, he gave him powers (phys-
ical, superior to those of our sex, and
be intended that he should use those
powers in defending and supporting Us.
as well as the oppressed and dOwnirod.
den, Of whatever color or nation. But
instead of that, We see them reducing
Gods image to a chattle, to be sold at
the auction block, breaking up the con-
troll Of parents, over their own offspring,
separating mothers at q returnless dis.
lance from their children, depriving
them of their own earnings, and CON-