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

and the bluebird fit and sing than in that
mothers arms does taat little child laugh
and crow-and now the dark river sweeps
her to sea with all its foulness Might we
not as we'll stop bowling and compliment
ing, and request the gallant editor to take
his seat, and ask ourselves, whether when
we drink with enthusiasm "Heaven's last
gift" she is not most likely to be cared for
and elevated by our cups or 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 concede to them the same
right to be physicians as we do to any long
haired, dissipatcd, 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
Mrs. Patten steering ship home; when
we see a woman ignorant and poor, escap-
ing from a 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 in vain fer greater heroisnl, and pray
that she may be enebled to 60 back and
come again seventy times seven. Great
applause. at the close Of which we 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. ii.
| The right Of these women to do these
things was where Washingto,,'s right was
Is a man talking in public foolishly, So
physically CT worse, more to be respected
than d 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 be so. If bearing arms be
the test, the replyis that many liaen 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. Y ou have to look on the
cloth Of the parlors and not Gil the slime Of
the grog-shops, for the cause of your bad
government When l voted for President
I entered i linc with ten or twenty men,
and in ten minutes I had done all l could
to make Mr.. Fremont President. Zap
plause. Is it improper for woman to
spend half an hour at the polls and highly
| -, Il g.. &o lo,.
ture room OF church, to hear prurient
poems in play OF see the pretty spectacle
of an opera? Unwomanly for woman to
drop ballot in box; but quite modest
and lady-like to whirl in a polka in the
arms Of u 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 go to the theatre and lyceum,
who will one day go with their wives to the
ballot-box, just as firmly believe as do
that women arc quite as well informed in
political subjects. [ believe that women
are as intelligent as their gardeners, or as
: those Of our fellow-citizens who land here
r ignorant of our laws and customs, but
: whose eyes are annointed with political sight
by the tobacco spittle of the City Hall. ]
know how busy and dangerous is prejudice
in all its different forms; but it is our duty
to keep ourselves free from prejudice, and
to call our friends around US with sacred
hospitality, and be ever generous to every
movement which tends to the welfare and
elevation Of our common humanity "
[Great applause.