The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-05-03
A WoNAK's VIEWS OF LUCY sToEp
AND FEMALE gTTrPR 4 rIT

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Error EsE5: AS yon are giving both
lsides OF tbs Female Suffrage question q
hearing, please insert the fsllowinp letter
Eof-a lady written from Baldwin City to
the Lawrence Tribune;
.sEe5roR TRIBUNE: Lucy Stone deliver.
ca lecture in the PfsshytsriRe Church
% TINS village, on. Saturday evening, / 5.
lnst'i s',h5eot. Impartial Suffrage. - Her
Fis"sfoi women Enn parallel with Der
views OF the gentlsRosa of Tcolor--.she
seal eely mentioned the one bat IN con-
nection with tbs other. Her critie:--,Sr
upon the laws Of New Jersey. and mat.
: ing the same sppiy to those of Kanssa
are UNJUST Her ideas OF man = t,vren,,1,
over Koman, lily comported with the dis
: g0stlRg sight OF .'sTong minded wo.
J man" driving over the country enliobt.
enlng the Kansas heather. Lucy fsilad
10 tell our. peopie little of truth but what
they already knsW. The Journal savs
Lucy has Grains, and foF that reason is
popular 10 LsswEence. Should It's editor
occasionally visit Baldwin City, and form
favorable aeqasintances, rs would End
that most of ourivfomen have brains, and
fully one dozsn OF them within cur lim$
its lack only the aad2city and impudsrce
TO be able 10 address an audiencs- fully as
creditably, if not in more chaste manner
and eloqUeDtiy, than did Mrs. Lacy.
Lucy Stone, of impartial suffrage no.
Etorety, travelling around under the an
spices of State Senators, ex- Governors
a1d Judges of Kansas, with Doctor
Blackwell, she the chief engineer of the
menagerie, reminding one forciblY of a
city lady, whose husband struck "ile,Y
promenading Bros tWsy, leading a poodle
by string, while the baby IF she has
any)is left with a foreign wet uu-se. Poor
old II. B., be only seems TO need callas,
properly lettered, to make the picture
complete.
Among the heart-rending and chaste
thing ~ gotten of by Lucy, was her be-
ing out in New York city, about 1s
O'Clock at night. and finding an abandon
ed and ruined woman lesning against q
lamp post, and having a long and famil-
lar talk with her. Query: How did Lu.
cy happen to be out so late st night?
Would IT rot have been better have fxsd
the hour at $50 or 9 O'Clock? .a
As woman, realizs that all the rights
which are necessary aud beneficial, the
State OF KANSAS has amply provided for
our sex. A true woman is represented
by her husband and sons, ifany she have,
and if neither then by those most near to
her whom the laws recoouizs as voters,
Woman voting will not reform the
drunkard, neither the profigate or licen-
tious, nor, withal, make good men out of
bad but would bring in its train eoarss-
ness, corruption, vice and immortality.
Nature has endowed her with feelings Of
acute sensitiveness. She is loved for her
etfeIninacy, her virtues and her constancy.
Place her in contract with the lewd, the
vicious, the coarse and the brawling. and
she would lose much of her self respect.
her devotion and constancy, aud .oonse-
quently, would be lost 20 her that love.
protection gaIlantry AID Difference which
indeed is part of her very being. She
could not dabble in the dirty pool of poll
itics without humiliation and disgrace.
So long as the curse of Eve rests so
heavily upon US, placed there by divine
", were it not better that we be cen
tented with our lot, amp rather cultivate
The finer feelings and sensibilities of our
natures, be domestic in our habits and
life, bear our children as by command of
God himself, make it the business of life
to look closely after and care for their ed
ucation, training, morals and habits, and
In this way make of them such men and
women as will be honored of the church,
society. the world, of God?
What higher aspirations can woman
with "brains," properly located, have,
than this? What prouder position in soci.
ETY. can she maintain than 10 be the wife
of an honorable man, one that she can
love and respect, taking her place conf
IDENTIFY by his side, feeling ard realizing
that she has strong arm upon which to
lean warm heart beating in unison with
hers, whose active brain and willing hands
are exercised for her support, and whose
study and aim is to relieve her cares, add
to her happiness, and causing the affec.
tons of her heart to swell up with graft
tude to the Great Giver of all good for
the wisdom displayed by him throughout
bis entire divine economy?
appeal to those of my own sex. Need
we become cold, selfish, sordid and heart
less politicians, under the hallucina-
ton of securing to ourselves additional
rights? No, No! Let the Lucy Stones
Antoinette Browns, Maria Child's and the
very few others-lhank fortune they are
but few-spread themselves over Kansas
or elsewhere, haraDguing mixed audien-
ces, if they will. I do trust that both
men aad asomen with "brains," in our
glorious young State, will not be deluded
into the idea OF giving their sanction to
this proposed political reform; and above
all, let not the great Republican party of
Kansas allow to be fastened upon it this
incubus of impartial suffrage" this
chimera of ''woman's rights" which is
only aUrong and that continualLy. While
designing politicians and scheming fe-
male amazons may so seek to cumbsr the
car of RepuSlieanism, the people Of Kan
sas need no such plank in their political
platform to insure to them success. They
need not tie themselves az party to the
apron strings of woman, that 'Thrift
might follow faWning.'' We hope they
will not become parties to the degradation
of our sex. We ask it not at their hands;
as woman we loathe and detest the very
idea, the opinion ofstrong minded Lucys
and A5igeils to the contrary nothWiths
TIE PEACH CRoP IN MIssoURI.-The
Kansas City Advertiser speaks of the
prospects of the peach crop as follows: