Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-02-27
[For the Ellsworth Americana
characteristics of our day-Female
Lecturers and their ideas"


his article, with the heading quoted
above, first met my eyes. Has his
mouth rcsained its original dimensions
after the commissions Of mirth into
which he was thrown while contempla
ting the ridiaalous." and funny
spectacle of female lecturer:
Friend lchabod, regard the Wo-
mans Rights movement as being COM
pletely annihilated by your ridieule.-|
Those s'strong- minded women, and
weak minded men" will undoubtedly
hide their diminished heads when they
shall hear read your article, as, of course
it will be read in the principal cities OF
the Union. How they and their sympa-
thisers will blush to the roots of their
hair, and look frantically for knothole,
when they learn what you think OF
them .
g oh wad some power the giftie gle us! ETC.
There are, to be sure, men of finished
education, and undoubted intellect who
advocate this cause there are women
talented, educated, and accomplished
who devote all their time and energies to
the work; but-Ichabod says that it is
:. ridiculous" and cannot succeed, and
Iehabod falls into commissions of laugh
ter over its absurdity. Why. one glance
from either Of those men or women who
are the apostles of this work. would
wither him and his prying sympathi-
sers!
He is very merry over the "old maids
who are such useful auxiliaries, accord
ing to him, in this movement. To this
l have but to say, that among those la
dies who took part in the late conven-
ton at New York, there was but one
unmarried lady, and l would like Ichabod
to prove her an old maid. He will have
an opportunity to judge of her age when
she lectures in Ellsworth, as she will dc
in March. Why, the ladies interested
in this movement are in such demand
that they can't stop to be old maids.
A II your nonsense about the weaker
SEX" is most arrant nonsense. We
would develop woman physically, till
she can bear her weight on her own
feet, without lolling, and leaning, and
hanging upon some man, who is laugh
ing at the same time. We would have
our girls not masculine, and coarse, and
rough-but strong, and healthy, ard
self reliant able to earn their own liv-
ing, and not obliged to marry some fool
ISL fellow as soon as they are in their
teens, because they don't know what else
to do. We would have our women
throw off the character of gossips, and
mere wearers Of fnery, which the major
ity Of men give them, and which the
majority of women deserve, and have
something to think of and talk about be-
sides their next neighbours new cream
pitcher, or their own new hat, or the
:. shocking things" which They say
about somebody. We would have them
when they wish to marry, choose some
sensible man, and not espouse pair OF
whiskers, or vow eternal fidelity to a
pair of patent leather boots.
As to precedent, young mani take
it you are young man rery young
one) as to your precedent" l say-we
are creating one for future generations to
look at. How much, think you, would
have been accomplished in the world. if
people had always waited for precedent:
1t is what coward is always looking
for.
Now, Ichabod, allow one who wishes
you we'll, who thinks you have much to
learn, and cannot, by any possibility, do
any injury to the cause which you at
tack with your penny trumpet, to give
you little friendly advice and inlorma-
ton.
People who are possessed of intelli-
gence, and any common share Of good
breeding and information, never laugh at,
nor condemn a movement or opinion
which they don't understand. and have
not tried to understand ; especially when
those who are UNNECESSARILY their super
iors in every way, pronounce in favor OF
such movement or opinion. To do 9TH
erwise, is a sure mark of ignorance, and
can have no more effect upon the cause
which they attack. than the barking of
the puppy. to which you referred. lad
spse the moon, which moved on just q
though nothing had happened.
If yoa wish to form an opinion on
this subject. examine it seriously, like
4 good boy. With all the mental powers