The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-05-19
For the Republican.
Woman's Rights-.NO. g.

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Mr.. EDIToR:-As none Of your lady
readers have responded to your invita-
ton to defend the negative of the ques-
ton, infer that they are all aciM me
on this subject; and think sir, that in
requesting "some mother" to enter the
list against woman's rights you have
appealed to exactly the acrong class of
persons.
If there is a woman in the world
who feels like putting her hand into the
6usiness-6oe and adjusting the public
machinery, 1t is the mother,-she whose
happiness and whose life often, depends
on the well-being of the immortal
beings to whom she has given exis-
tence;-she whose agonizing solicitude
has often sent her imagination forth,
wandering through heaven and earth
in search of some dutidote for those
legalized temptations which mans
avarice continually spreads in the path
way where her children must tread.
If there is mother who will oppose
the movement in favor of female suf-
frage, it is simply because she has not
considered the subject, and does not
foresce the result of such reform
Thoughtless young ladies, who have
not yet actualized their ideals of life;
may, with their incxperience and birds
eye-yiew of things, start back in modest
horror and declare that they "cannot
see what these woman's-rights-women
do want to make themselves so ridicu-
lous or,n-and the young mother per-
haps who has not yetlooked beyond the
frolicsome childhood of her boys may
wonder what good would come of
women's yoting,-it is not to be expec-
ted that such as these can see at a
glance why it is unjust that every litter
ate, unprincipled, intoxicated yagatond
should so to the ballet-box, while =.
most intelligent, virtuous and patriotic
part of the female population are COM
PEELED to stand on the same political
footing with black slaves of South
Carolina.
1t is not to be expected that young
ladies whose souls are deep in the
mysteries of Godey's Fashion Plates,
should be conscious that there is field
for woman's enterprise where her feet
have never yet trod a field more worthy
of her aspirations than her present
frivolous pursuits.
No! it is only an experience of the
bitter realities of life, which can awaken
women to sense of her wrongs; it is
a mothers intense solicitude for the
safety of her children which first aroused
her to the conviction that she is szdue,
that she is deprived of those human
rights which are so dear to the breas,
of man and which she might if per
mitted, employ to guard the morals o
her children. When she has expended
her wisdom in precepts and warning
and has seen all her hearth-stone labor
overturned by fathers bad example
when she has striven in vain to VIII
back a husband from the path of vice
when she has humbled herself to plead
In tears with. the trafficer In human
woes and he has only Knocked at he
'eHtreaties; when she has g turned ant
turned sHd found no ray'' Of hope.
then she discovers that it is man no
God who has fettered her hands-sh,
fsels her imprisoned faculties strugg!in.
fer freedom, and the great bug-bea
custom which has SO often frightened
her inexperienee, subsidies into harm
less shadow. sTiisasa5sit +
1t may be asked,-what guarant,
have we that woman will make an
; better use of these rights that ma
doese answer-your guaranty Is i
the strength of her affections; and i