The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-14

Unnecessary, the local laws Oh inc otasoos ~ ovX
dent That they will be more effective body
of soldiers than they were before the war there
can be no doubt, because the young men who
will now compose the militia have been trained
in the field; but they will be force strictly
loyal to the government, which President Johns
son has assured them shall be conducted ac-
cordnr to the constitution, free from all anil
mosities or prosecutions towards the southern
States in consequence of their recent mis-
ON 'ded attempt to overpower the national
autbo rity, and equally free from any design
n ceutr, ,lize power in the government at Wash
ington. o.u r. :. 90 Grand ..
noh,s "a patrioti., that it has disarmed even
the bitterest secessi.,nist of the South. 1t 70
onlv from tive narrow minded Jacobins of the
North, who are disunionists at heart, that no
meets with shy opposition. The cavillngs OF
the Chicago TyibM ne and other radical Journals
however, are but an feather in the blast OF q
tempes. against the Vans which Mr. johnson
has inaugurated for tn compie'e restora"on
Of the Union in all it's 70, inner prosperity ana
glory, and which, please O. 10 anu tue WIN ~
the people, who sustain hint h VA" 0alfs ou''
The Womaa's Bureau-PrOpeA
ration Of u Female HEfilcD>
We propose the establishment Of - "omAn
bureau as a national institution, aL0 10 "
healthy outlet for the superfuous philsnlo re -
of the United States government We are noN
particular what department 1t is crga niaed
under, or whether the Secretary of War, o the
Navy of State, Of the Treasury or Of the fntea ZOE
has the honor of building it up. We shall ev N
be content if it falls to the share of the Posi-
master General. Perhaps the Secretary OfWar
ought not to have it, as that functiOnary already
has the honor and the odor OF the Freedmen's
Bureau, an institution Of similar but less rear
sonable nature. Altogether we would favor
giving it to the Navy. Old Welles has nothing
to do just now, and could attend to it. More
over, that department has an off-hand, summary
manner of dealing that would be Of great ad-
vantage. The persons who oppose women can
never be caught in the meshes of the law, OF by
the processes Of regular justice-they are such
eely, slippery fellows that they always go
through and get away whole. They must be
crushed by noble defiance of ordinary legal
methods; and the men of the Navy Depart
ment have happy faculty at that kind OF
crushing. The Navy Department, also, would
be apt 10 give the direction of it to one of it's
heroes, and the generous nature OF sailor
would be just what is wanted in the superin-
tendeut He ought to be gallant and hand
some. We will be quite satisfied if he is only
half as brave, as earnest and as simple-hearted
as Howard is.
This woman g bureau should be a tribunal OF
even-handed justice between our four millions
or more of poor women and all the persons
with whom they have any transactions what
ever. It should have general and particular
supervision of these poor women's lives. Land
lords, manufacturers and grocerymen should
be considered as its natural enemies II must
have power to decree divorce wherevera heart
less husband is in the way, or q drunken one
exercises his muscle on his wife's ribs. IL must
also have power to cast into prison any fine
lady taken on Broadway, beautiful with
embroidery and fine linen, unless she
can prove that the seamstress was well paid.
IF women are i'll and cannot work, or idle and
will not work, the bureau must in either case
be empowered to draw on the Treasury for
their support. This bureau would supplement,
If it did not supersede, the ordinary courts OF
justice. From its peculiar nature'it would be-
able to decide questions that courts could not
inquire into, and would be the very knight
errant of institutions. Nearly all the miseries
of women's lives lie in sphere that it is be-
yond the power Of ordinary tribunals to regu-
late; they hinge around soc ial questions that
courts cannot touch at all. Hence the sphere
of the bureau would be'a most extensive one,
and hence, indeed, the necessity for il. II would
settle all the points of womans rights. Under
its operation il would be impossible for any
woman any longer to he wretched, to want for
food, to wonder how she shall keep herself out
of the poorhouse and her children out OF the
State prison, or where she should get any OF
| the uecessares of decent life. In short, the
| establishment of this bureau would go far to-
| ward the realization of q millennium for female
humanity.
| This proposition is not Quixotic or Pick
| wckian. Let any one who ia disposed to
regard it in that light remember that the gov
ernment has now in operation one institution
| of the same nature, whose object ~ to do ior
the four millions Of robust niggers that remain
in the Southern States just what we
propose shall be done for four mid
lions of helpless white women, who
need il great deal more. No one con-
sders the Freedmens Bureau either piece Of
Quixotism or q joke-oi course not; and, there
TORE we protest against any one regarding
the Woman's Bureau in any ridiculous light
whatever. Is IL all right to feed hardy buck
niger and absurd to do the same for help
less white woman? Is II seriously right and
proper to put guardians over men whosare in
telligent enough to be trusted with votes