Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-16

let woman vote and there would he as great an
improvement in politics us their reading has
made in literature. We are only asking for
Formally, however; women are already Mt the
helm Of thought, and the idea she has conceived
ten thousand stupid dotish voters 60 up and
vote for. The omnipotent pen is in her right
hand; she is using the power already. But it
is never wise for power to be concealed. Let
it be above board, open. visible; it is more
honorable and safer SO. The intrigucs of French
women two centuries ago made the Empire at
one time success and then again failure. Here
the interruption by the yell$, Kisses, cheers, &c,
were continued for some minutes Our fathers
settled it long ago that not wealth, nor birth,
nor the sword, but brains should govern
They weighed men not by their avordupois
weight but by their brains. [Cheers and cries
of ''Sit down." times up" &c,l Mr.. Phillips
pictured young wife educated without pur'
pose, with no example Of right before her,
brought up boy, plunged by her master into
that brothel of social and official corruption,
which men call Washington, weighed down by
the glare of fashionable vice that came in with
every great name-who at last falls AT the
trial not one considcrate word is offered for her.
With malignant ingenuity by the lawyers, every
judicial atrocity that has helped to make woman
a slave is reproduced. In that group of infamy
in that circle of inqusit on that we call Court
the houestest name is that of the lady who
sat by; and so you will hold twenty years hence.
| When woman is held the equal of man, when
her temptations and her education are weighed
in the same balance with his, Society will look
back upon that nightmare trial and so pro-
nounce. Kisses, yclls and applause. The
noise coming mostly from one quarter, there
were loud demands to "Put him out" Don't
put him out. Let those go out who believe
with me and disseminate their faith. Let those
stay who disagree with me-to them want to
talk. That disturber had n mother-he may
I'm va q Iyifa-ho Inov hOVe StorS For them |
plead. They may be suffering from the rigors
of laws in making which, they had no hand,-
crushed, cowcd condemned with half our race
to trifiing or to something worse. Let him stay.
| [Sensative and no disturbance My idea of
American progress is not petty organization of
white States to make money out OF cotton and
corn. The American idea is not that one class
shall protect another, not that one shall make
laws for another but that each shall be at liberty
to take care of ITSELF They can do it, TO hang
II man is n brutal act, but to hang woman is
murder. [tIisses.l You may drown me with
hisses but you can't drown the uneasy con-
science Of the press and the struggling thought
of the State. Taxes and representation, Tespon-
Sibiiity and voting are the correlatiyes, of Anne
rican law. Woman has had no hand in making
the laws that hang her, and if you hang her you
commit murder, Ia gentleman asked, Then
| why hang foreigner who cannot vote herc?
Because when voluntarily he came here he gave
assent to our laws But woman is born here,
and has no right to make the laws which she is
to suffer by. A voice in the gallery-"ls it
right, Sir, to hang a nigger? The questioner
differs thus from the man who was put up at
auction in Carolina to day. The one is black
outside, he is black within The one has u
black skin. the other n black heart. The one
born slave, risks death. creeps into box six
feet by four, and rides four hundred miles to
obtain liberty. The Questioner, if he had been
born slave, would have covered like spaniel,
and been whipped. The Carolina slave is n
man; the oueStiOncr who would insult m op.
pressed brother, is brute. Sensation and
quiet Responsibility is n great educator
| To night you and | are educating each other
more than books could do. We are learning
| federation. The Anti.Slavery men had taught
this community more liberation in twenty years
than it would have learned without them in a
century. Go to Brussels, and I'll show you one
thousand girls working themselves blind, and
| going into hospitals and on the street. Go with
me 10 u fashionable church, and I'll show you on
! the boSomS of fashionable Christian ladies, the
same lace that has filled Brussels with prosti-
tuteS. Civilization is not n matter of any one
country or one cline. When God creates II
power within one, that power it is right for him
| to eXeecISe.
| If n woman can write novel, God meant her
to write novels. If she can net, play, preach,
God meant her 10 act, play, or preach. 1.-THE
tools to him who can use them The common
people insisted on sharing legislation in France
in the days of the Revolutions; the aristocracy
were afraid it would ruin the country. But the
common people took their share in legislation,
and that's the reason why Faance to-day, though
her throne is filed by usurpur, whose imperi-
al robes stiff with the blood Of her best
men, and her corruption has madei her morally a
ruin, dictates to all Europe. This woman ques-
ton is universally wide. Give woman the rights
that belong to her, and you double at once the
power of your thirty States. The question
touches the safety Of cities-involves progress.
literature, art, rcligion-but he would not con-
sent to detan the audience longer.
The presiding officer then pronounced the
meeting adjourned.
SENATOR WILSON DEscRlBED.-The Boston