Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-06-14

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In your issue Of April 10Th, IN. c. X
claims to reply 70 my former articles, but SO
far from being . " settler" as he intended
it 70 be, it merely shows the weakness Of the
aide he advocates, and excites pity and com
| miserstion by persons who have the right
| use Of their reasoning powers, to see gentle
man descend 10 such a low aud senseless
string of yerDosities, and then to call i; argu
! ment, aud una nswerable at that. About a
quarter I. { his article is thus occupied, and
then be lays down the proposition that,
"Neither the Domestic Happiness, nor the
peace and tranquility oi the family circle
| would be at all diminished or invaded but
on the contrary increased aud intensih ed by
granting woman the night to vote" How
does N. G. K. know this? There are many
things that look well ut y glance frou. one
standpoint, and look quite ditfereh; from an
other, and not work at all in practice. He
then goes on TO say THAT women has her
Political as well as her religious principles"
Granted. The woman vino has not Is no,
worthy Of the name. Again be says that,
they viii and do talk on the subject of Ioli-
ticts rs we'll xs On other subjects that inter
est them, no man who knows them viii dare
to controvert.'. presume not, especially if
he was ever 50 lucky as TO st,eLd an old
fashioned quilting. The Egh, 10 vote there
fire, so far from breeding, or fostering dis
seasion, or augmenting the difficulties be-
tween husband and wife, would act as the
most powerful means Of absorption, by gis-
ing to the wife - we'll as to the husband .
normal channel, through which she could
silently, more peacefully, and more effect
ually give expression to her own political
aud patriotic principles" The true channel
through which woman can give expression
to her principles, is the minds Of her children,
and this is good criterion 70 judge by. II
. woman cannot govern her children she is
unfit tor self government, and if she governs
her children well she has no time, nor desire
to meddle with the strife Of politicts. In
educating her children properly the influence
Of her principles is brought 10 bear on the
Body polite, more efsectually, peacefully,
and silently than by her casting . ballot
directly, aud with this to recommend il she
has the supreme satisfaction of feeling in
her own mind that she has fulfilled solemn
duty, while that Of voting is doubtful 70 say
the least Of it.
He next treats Us to touch of the pathet.
ic in word tor the m uch abused woman
who has drunken husband, or else is .
Copperhead, and also fur those whose broth
ers aud suitors are of the same class to the
last, my advice would be, to give them the
mitten st once, aud to the Others to deal
gently with the erring and strive to turn
them into the path Of sobriety and honesty
in politics. He adverts to the ballot box as
the Columbiad Of American liberties, and
American citizenship Perhaps it is, but the
public Press is Swamp Angel that will
knock that columbiad into cooked bat. |
would say that woman has "the same rights
and opportunities to express her political, as
she has 10 express her religious views" that
is through the public prints, By the education
Of her children, and the influence sbe has on
those with whom she associates, with these
opportunities every right minded woman is
satisfied and like the gifted wife of John
Adams refine and elevate her husband, BY
her purity and her good sense, and bring up
her children to be . comfort To herself in her
old age, an honor and blessing to their
country, and noble example Of virtuous ex.
cellance to the whole world.
Her honorcd SOD, John Q. Adams, is .
notable example Of mothers influence.
There are some women who stump the
country, spouting politics, and woman's
Rights, but is the sex honored By them ?
Are they bettered BY their spousinS? Only
in 90 far - they are looked at in contrast
with those unwomanly specimans, and hus-
bands and children loves . gentle wife or .
fond mother better BY the contrast. That
husbands and wi,es might have different
views of politics and religion never pre-
tended to deny, or even doubt, and that they
will continue to differ, husbands and wives
Quarrel on both subjects, while whole families
who differ may live together il peace, If not
in harmony, also believe, and will expect,
rs long rs they continue to be human. That
Woman's Rights are perhaps not so we'll
regulated IN some respects as they might ]
will not deny. but do deny her right to
usurp authority over the man or to claim in
Law making and administering an equal
right. God in His infinite wisdom has Civ
en- her in this respect au inferior place, and
has imprinted . nowledge Of it in her very
being in such indelible characters, that she
has to lose her inmate modesiy, yield to the
force of prevented Judgment and in fact
totally unsex herself. ere she clutches at the
right TO rnle, and it is trampling on her in.
alienable and God given rights to force her
out Of her natural place. Women has now
the opportunity to throw her characteristic
purity into the vita's Of our national life, in
the shape of honest and virtuous sons to make
and administer the laws, and gentle loving
daughters as helps meet to cheer and en-
courage them, and to bring up generation
that will make our laws as near perfection
as human nature can reach and make them
in perfect harmony with Gods laws, 90 that
every human being can have their full rights
and gil the place intended By their Greater.
LArRExTlrs.
Littleton May 2sth, 1867.