St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-05-27

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his seat, and ask ourselves, whether when
We drink with enthusiasm "Heavcn's last
gift" she is not most likely to be cared for
and elevated by our cups r by wholesome
regulations in our laws and workshops
AS honorable men we must concede that
every human being has natural right to
do what God has given him the power to
do within the limits of the moral law. We
must certainly conccde to them the same
right to be physicians as we do to any long,
haired, dissipated, sallow boy in spectacles.
When we see women like Florence
Nightingale watching the sick and woun-
ded; women like Grace Darling going on
to the stormy sea to save mems lives when
a Mrs. Patten steering ship home; when
We see woman gnorant and poor, escap-
ing from q land Of slavery, and yet going
back seven times at the peril Of her life
after three Of her own flesh and blood, we
look i'll vain for greater heroism, and pray
that she may be enebled to 60 back and
come again seventy times seven. Great
applause. at the close of which VIC heard
hiss, when the applause rose again, louder
than before, and for three or four times,
till all Kisses were completely drowned in
the storm Of applause.]
The right Of these women to do these
things was where Washington's right was.
Is man talking in public foolishly, So
physically or worse, more to be respected
than !, woman who asks the right to the
money she earns to buy bread for her star
wing children, and that it may not be sto-
len from them by her drunken husband -?
The State must show that women are in
competent, and by what authority they are
determined to he so. If bearing arms be
the test, the reply is that many men are ex-
cused, and many women, in days of trial,
will not be excused. I do not suppose that,
if the polls were to be opened tomorrow,
many but the ignorant women would avail
themselves Of it. They would do as the
men do now You have to look on the
cloth of the parlors and not on the slime of
the sro!5-shops, for the cause of your bad
governments. " hen voted for President
[ entered line with ten or twenty men,
and in ten minutes had done all l could
to make Mr. Fremont President. Zap
plausc] Is it improper for woman to
spend half an hour at the polls and highly
proper to be crowded for hours into a lee
ture room or a church, to hear pruricnt
poems in 4 play Or see the pretty spectacle
of an opera? Unwomanly for woman to
drop ballot i'll box but quite modest
and lady-like to whirl in polka in the
arms of man she never saw before, and
have her check famed by his tipsy breath
That there are children now in some cities
who will now 90 to the theatre and lyceum
who will one day 90 with their wives to tho
ballot-box, I just as firmly believe as dc
that women are quite as we'll informed in
political subjects. I believe that women
arc as Intelligent as their gardeners, Or as
those Of our tcllow-c citizens who land here
ignorant of our laws and customs, bu
whose eyes arc Amounted with political sig hi
by the tobacco spittle Of the City Hall.
know how busy and dangerous is prejudice
in all its different forms; but it is our dut,
to keep ourselves free from prejudice, ane
to call our friends around us with sacred
hospitality, and be ever generous to ever,
movement which tends to the welfare ane
elevation of our common humanity
[Great applause.