St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-03-15
Notices of the Editors Lecture.
From the Minneapolis Atlas.

Church 70 overti0wlng The lecture was
just such one as VIC expected from the
brave hearted, slavery hating woman
She exhibited the piratical institution Of
Slavery in its true colors, and held it up
before her hearers in all its hidcous de-.
formities. Southern Chivalry' she showed
up to the very life. Low, sneaking and
brutal cowardicc ;mdcruclty, backed up by
armed mobs, or taking advantage of an
aaversary's weakness and inability to de-
fend himself, was the usual practice of
the genuine 'Chivalry' Having painted
the 'Chivally', she drew hasty sketch OF
the Northern Doughface,' and painted
him out at full length, dirty, craven
hearted wretch, who will sell his soul and
his country to the South for little Office.
The lecturer also scored down the
Republicans for not taking more decided
and positive Anti-Slavery grounds
On the whole the lecture was an able
interesting one, Astounding in far moro
truth that poetry
From the St. Paul Pioneer & Democrat.
! he Hall of the House Of Representa-
tivcs was well filled on Thursday evening
to hear Mrs. SIS lecture on s'Woman "and
Politics." Many ladies were present.
Geo. A. Nourse. Esq, introduced the
lady, who offered up'a prayer before COLI
mcncing her lecture.
Mrs. S. regretted that it so happened
that her lecture came on the same night
with that of Bishop Grace, for she would
like to have heard him. But this eve
ming had been the time fixed by her for
more than week, and she could not we'll
change it now. .'r.:.
The lecture was carefully written and we'll
delivered. We have not the space, nor is
it necessary to give connected report of
it. .,..:,.:
The leading idea was to show that ages
before the first woman rights convention
was held at Salem, Ohio, VIC men had med
died in politics, ard with credit to them
selves Miriam, the sister of Moses, was
instanccd as among the first and abltst
female politicians the world ever saw; for
she, with other female politicians, qucs-
toned the right Of Pharcah to STAY the
male children, and obcying hiyher law
saved her hrothcr's life, and thus delivered
the children Of Israel from bondage.
She also gave examples where the inter-
ference Of woman III politics had fixed the
policy of nations, and instanced Isabella
Of S"ain, who qucllcd instruction, cxpcll-
cd the Moors, and understood and aided
Columbus, in his efforts to discover new
WORLD, while kings and statesmen thought
him IN enthusiast and mailman. Marshan
a Saxon Queen, introduced trial by jury
into England; Matilda of Normandy );
Elizabeth and Victoria of England, all
were successful and able politicians and
their interference in politics had rendered
the world better
She contendcd that all great moral re-
formers, from the establishment Of the
Christian religion to and through our
revolution, were carried On by the aid Of
womcn-tcmalc politicians-an that it
was their duty and ri 5ht to meddlc in poll
tics.
Tbc great point of her lecture was to
show that it was the duty of wvmen in
this country to joi2 in the movement to
overthrow slavery cvcrywherc-in the
States where it exists, as we'll as to pre-
vent its going into the Territories.
She denied that the constitution upheld
or sanctioned slavery, and if it did, it was
a covenant with hell that no man was
bound to obey especially women,-and
that they should use their influence to
overthrow it, by preaching in public and
in private against it, That man, true to
his instincts, had so lcgislatcd as to per-
petuate The system by degrading woman
more than himself; for if the mother were
a slave, her offspring must be; but not so
if the father were slave and the mother
free; and that if children followed the
condition of the father, slavery would soon
die out, because the father of most slaves
were free men and that women were
religious]y bound to produce such result,
for their own sakes.
She said Buchanan and his adherents
held that the Constitution carried slavery
in all the states and tcrritories-that Doug
las and his adherents maintained that it
could not be disturbed in the states where
it exists, but might be voted on in the
territories, (but not against) and that the
Republicans went in for maintaining it in
the states where it exists, and thoug ht the
people had right to establish or abolish
it in new states.
She advanced no ultra ideas about the
rights and necessity of women taking the
stump to promulgat their views, but
thought that they could do as we'll by
working faithfully in private life, while
attending to domestic and social duties,
which were among their highest rights.
She made many strong hits and good
points, which were appreciated and APP.
plaudcd by the audience, and left favor