Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-01-08

WoxAN'S Rs6urS.-Lacy Stone, the we'll
kuown lecturer on Wo1aan's Rights, deliver
81 : course in the Town Hall last week, dur
ing which she iisabused the minds. Of many
who had looked upon her very name with
prejudice She is evidently an accomplished
woman, with eAsy and refined manners, crc-
ating favorable impression wherever she
made aeQaainiances. Ue@views msy be best
understood by the following synopsis Of one
q he- LECTURES;
The State q Ma;rimony, the lai y said.
waS governed ~ bogus laws and bogus leEIS-
-2gl21. just a. Ills state 81 Kansas was In
th= farmer st2.e women were claSSed in the
same category with minors and idiots. They
have E5E tle right 70 make s. contract: they
cannot co1t-u- tlalE own earnings: nor have
i1@F eTen th@ right - claim their owB cEil-
d.cE- This vas ECrs than the Border kut
5aUs from Missouri had attempted 70 pat
upon the F-es St4fs men n Kansas. Egen
taking the most liberal view Of il: eTen sup
posing that custCB imposed upon the hus-
bands al the cares and aGLisIies Of the State
q M4lrlmouv. and relieved rhs wife of care,
II! and responsibility. It's influence would
only be Is crush and 5ensan women. The
l2t.eY O. nUI desire : cage eFen Il is bars are
gil3ed.
The bogus laws Of tie State Of Ma5zi-
aoEy j. not evan recognize : wife : legal ex
is,eEea. Il consequently naturally follows
thai she las 10 other existence and THAI she
beooraes mere nsooiy. j woman even
loses Ter name: she taxes the name Of her
lord 1ad master and becomes merged into his
property. Like g slaTe size takes the name
of tie man she belongs =. The slave j Mr.
Douglas au2 he bse0mes CGE-e Dougias; II
hs L Mr.. Brooks lie becomes CoEss Brooks.
and gets cgte3 al ths same.
Woman, Mrs. Stone cgDten2-si. was
subject Eot 3 peer: shs mus; plv taxes, bat
sa= shall not yste; she shall u tried bat net
oT her peers: She Is lot sur equal, IS The
cry 4 msn everywhere. If the position q
.E.EEs ware % d changed, how nan would
rail; i msp lad = ask their wives fer money
- spend. O foT permission - Yis;: their
friends. wha, elaHar would 5e raizst.
Tie lecturer then proceeded :. consider
tae s8iie-I ss1uca-5aua5,g' S1e waa.ai wo-
neH admitted 70 A45cTer, Yale. OF Princeton,
wasu she esass - gasa knowledge a. those
great seats q learning. S.le did NJ: EaHI
the best women excluded from their doors
wusa tie neanest apologies fg- men were
permitted ~ en;er. Let & woman apply fpr
admission 70 .hese Colleges and ask Tor kn5wl-
edge. and she would lie referred 70 her hus-
band. whom she knows very well cannot tell
her. Mrs. Stone tlg1glE this an - ust
system. which tended - ce.erio-a;e woman:
and ut only her bur tie race. as UE i she
was rendered less fctei 70 rear her children,
and ins;il into them high thoughts and noble
principles.
Women are rat even a. wa3 q study
their own diseases in an7 hgspi-z. II -h= land.
She j. shg; cut TOO from al irritable em-
. pigymants. unless sue chooses 70 brave the
prz5u1ices of the word an1 defy sEe@Ts and
insults
Like the negro. who can only l.e waiter.
0g keep : 1arbar's shop. woman can JUly
ioilgw :ae most meniaI pursuits. Ts - sure
. she EIay preach; but j; Is only IN pulpItiess
/ clurcn where no salaries ere paid. The
Qaakers allow women = preach. but they D27
10 salaries. In other churches her province
is = get % fairs and Tea PARTIES T. pay ?
/ chandeliers and new carpets when the church
neeis reftging. Shs j. * Ter this kin& q
business: but tor nothing than ans pr-iis re-
suits frOu- The lectGrer continued IN til,
strain +, some llGe. pointing out what size
conceived n be the wrongs done wcwl1 by
syc-ety, and urging Aer sisters 70 Join with
AcT ~ demanding . repeal OF the bogus laws
AMI bogus customs which r7s.Gyc :leu. She
iil ut wan: her ssx = imi-ate the exam pc
Il Nr- Mieawte-. aRi wait patiently fer
Something e ;arn up l.: wamea demand
;tsIr rights n -igAI earnest AM men viii
award them.
Mrs. Stone, IL conclusion. said neither sex
nor colcr give any exclusive right. Human-
ity IS the only aristau7acy. When women
tnslst upon the rights Of which they have
been r1l.}.af .5-g thy Mill TuE r.-ara ~
earth, for there Is good viii among men.
''During the course q the lecture rha ,alv
referred 10 natrsmony IS a condition into
which women were driven 5y the inevitable
laws of Providence, aud = men a. creatures
whom women must ike. eTen though their
Laws are unjus, 20 her"