The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-11

of them and lel.e them u Their fate2 No, mol Is
avenues for work and wages this class Of women, for
they are sapping the very foundation OF national virtue
and strength We may neglect them, but their sins viii
be avenged on US and our children TO the third and
fourth generation. With the ballot we would organize
from this class standing army for the naton-an army
women associated together equal wages as Inspectors
Of Streets, Prisons and metropolitan Police, commis-
stoned uniformed and paid Gy Inc ON ser brow
and sccprc In her hand would not woman
patrol streets at the midnight hour Win H.,
on The viii and bounty Of anotherf Give man right
over my subsistence, and he has got right over my
whole moral being Yes, would have organized COM
nanles of women 10 abae Drunkenness gambling, lIcen-
ousness: to watch and warn the young, the weak the
cnorant to counsel and comfort the minsl and the
Unfortunate; 10 look a'tr the order and cleanliness Of
our tenement houses streets and PRISONS and thus make
the mother the wife, the sister the daughter the omni.
prese mt rghtful power this moral realm Of life; no
longer slave where she should be ruler subject where
she should be queen. This Is no Utopia but vision 70
phases know It's needs and temptations; and none so
mighty TO save as they who have tasted the Dit
Of death Says Victor the debris ,Aa.s
chemical qualities that can alone restore the worn
lands In the Old World SO from the very dregs OF so
cioiy, through poverty and suffering shall come the
grandest virtues Of sefsacriGce and heroism that can
alone redeem the race" Yes while defends from
a foreign foe let woman save from ourselves Give
me The fifteen million votes Of the women Of this coun.
try and would be Hercuean task TO cleanse these
pools of vice and CRIME and ignorance from their
organize TO on the very vices that dragged
them perdition down. The customs Of darker age
have already placed woman by the side Of man In all
his amusements. vices and crimes Oft dragging him to
the lowest depths OF degradation In the full blaze Of
civilization, let US then demand that she be with him in
his highest moments in all his honorable employments
In the narrowed sphere assigned her under q
dynasty of force, she pershes alike for bread and
thought for love and poweri You all felt the potent
influence Of woman in the late war; and is not peace
endless Of selfish competition, Of weakness with
strength, Of vice with virtue Of folly with wisdomf
pitfalls and the battlefield she may do for the weak
errng in hauns OF depravity. Shall they who
lounge velvet couches, clothed IN purple and fine
nen and farng sumptuousy every day. tell they do
not care to voter They have all the rights o. cribbed
and narrow slaves Of luxury and seiashnes the crcum
Suppose 'you have all the rights you WANT look over
your garden WALL whore all is peace, beauty and fra
GRANGE, into the wilderness beyond where immortal
owers fading fast and gentle hands or loving
hearts there to raise their dropping heads speak
Vf to On no o a s sad
fallen, the outraged.of your sexf OH II rights were
transferable and could have the votes Of all who are
would gladly vote all day TO secure to every woman
work. and wages and educationto stem the fearful tide
q vice that threatens our VERY existence nee as nation
round the posf What my robes we're soiled, my feet
IN slippery places my cars heavy with the oaths Of men,
crucxion such as this one day the year could save
ten thousand women from more helish sights and sounds
their lives all through from stains that water wash
away not these blessings cheapy bought by sacrifice
so lightf AS Shadrach Meshach and Abednego walked
the lions den unframed So shall those whose lives are
link in the chain Of progress that binds the future
70 The uast walk securely through he bells % heaven
that i has done 50 much SpSssn Civilization boasts
blessing had house
could earn good wages there and preferred to the
The % s But
pose TO you Is not what advantages you and who have
friends, education and position shall secure for our
lint hat do fnre
womans Sphere and place her hand the ballot which
tion TO cv!l and political rights, 70 virtue and indie
pendence. i needs no legislation or pulpit elo-
auonce TO keep Ii: nsh n the sea the birds in the
woman where God designed she should DO. Have no
feaGs O. ys % little faith for everything in the universe
fy an ssa law wh iSs
s IN sS' and
mans true sphere. History tells Of many . brave
man. equal TO any emergency by land and sea- soldier
woman in Disguise see no reason why women should
not generally be clerks in stores and printing
roads, drivers Of carriages and stages II ne ladies can
drive two horses In Fifth avenue and the Park, with
on ns Osr So ST asS w may not "a
and stages have doubt they would be moro careful
than men of accidents and far more humane to thei
in streets and the courtescs Of fo everywhere better
observed. Rough ~ such a life might seem TO who
from Giensss poverty and Vice 70 health virtue and 'nr
dependence Better far 70 work for honest the
highway than to sarye In garrett or sell ones self for
bread IN palace What change there would be In oil
those dirty streets and dngy Offices down town women
were partners In busn sg-merchants bankers lawyers,
under government II Governor Andrew sent seven
hundred women To cvilze the men Of Oregon would Il
sOnaes 70 tie lowe part Of this cityi Il Is evidsn.
there il some new power needed 70 enforce order beauty
and cleanliness In every department. Of that busy hfe
tDA MT h<ao
feeling what Dissertation II Is that such William
Cullen Bryant Horace Greeley, and Theodore Tton.
should forge their thunderbolts In such gloomy dens
Those who have thought and written most wisely on
education demand that the sexes be trained together
We ask for the ballot as the key 10 all our colleges Of
law medicine, science and theology. Women OF pro-
perry have been taxed 10 build all these Institutions and
OF the stated In recent conversation asked Professor
Webster Of tho Free Academy, why there were no girls
sei either Eli or a. black boy from being admitted
there SO, trust shall soon class OF girls from
Twelfth street school, able TO pass the necessary
also asked Professor Dwight, Of The Law school,
why he did not advertise for . class OF girls He
In s. aS:ss & had sssa
have been revising the statute laws for the lat twenty
been adopted when the legislators q tho Empire state
have by their action admitted that women were better
Is too late for professor 70 ask girls have brains
enough to study law. We claim that woman should be
admitted into all law schools that she may look after
her property and plead for her In courts Of
justice she should DO advocate judge juror ~ well a.
criminal. Shall she be amenable TO law. imprisoned,
hung o, tho gaows while she has never consented 70
the law by which she 10 judged and denied the right
Of trial by jury Of her peersi In the church, too,
woman has place and power Bishop Simpson, In a
recent speech In this city, demands the right Of suffrage
for woman on the highest religious ground He says:
lie was ,tSrss with the ss.. fact IN .enssmplssns The
nation in modern times which called upon NE whole body Of
the people marshal themselves In the spDat work OF win
ming souls for Sod Nethodsm too invited woman 10 take
her place the Church Of God and tahe part In public
worship This thought smplned and sfusion made 10
the influence which Mra Wesley had In mouidng the mind
% her lie hc Bshop) believed that the great vices
large cities could be until the ballot
was put In the hand. Of women. "knd SIR, Is
because I them 70 have any part In the
struggle Of politics that would give MS two votes
above politics. IL the question of the danger Of
brought up the mothers had the power .bey would close
going away q these Averns and hsunts Of infsmy they
purity With viria. and with but thank god
and danshtersae TOO pure TO make eomprcm.e either
were not Inactive whom the national e.!stcnce was