Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-04-02

Nh. EDiroR Permit me, though q
stranger, and from the other side" 70 say
= word in reply to your distinguished Core.
spondent. Laurentius, on the, TO him, "vex-
ed question of "Woman's Rights" Ny
dear Sir, Your Communication Of Feb. 9th
has thoroughly convinced me "that oil is no.
true which superstition saith, neither have the
mighty in arguments the most faith" That il
= woman has . right to vote, she must nece.-
sarily hold Office, necessarily enter the ranks
Of the army and perform both the duties OF
politician and soldier, expose herself to the
hardship and drudgery Of political and mill.
tary life, for which, you say, on account Of
her being the weaker vessel, she is both
mentally and physically incapacitated, BY 30
means follows, any more than il follows that
every man who votes is necessarily an Office
holder, soldier, or military officer. All
voters are not qualified either mentally OF
physically, among men, to hold Office or
discharge the legitimate duties of . soldier,
and the objection SO far as the rigAt,o vote
is concerned in this respect is as applicable
to the one case as the other. Moreover there
are ten thousend instances where men, who
have the right to vote never exercise that
right, never mingle with politicians and are
IS unknown to the official and political arenas
Of our Country IS ifthey had never lived in it,
and who yet WELD the migh.iest influences
for good over the history and destiny of our
Nation. Wendell Phillips fer instance, born
and bred within sight of Bunker Hill, from
whose eloquent lips We have so recently
heard recited the Per'ls Of the hour" who
Is himself the noblest embodiment Of Ameri.
can culture and refinement. the life long ad-
vocate Of the " Universal Brotherhood" of
man, the fearles champion Of woman's rights
and human progress, never he ID &C Office or
polled vote in his life, and yet what man in
the Nineteenth Century has done more than
be has to overthrow human bondage and
oppression and 70 sustain our government in
passing through its recent 6ery and terrible
ordeal. Now, Mr.. Laursntius, would you dis.
franchise such An one because be does not
vote, or withhold this boon Of citizenship
because he will not condescend to be an Office
seeker or an Office holder, low lived pot
house politician And why then withhold
it from . womani Does possessing the
right to vote make Mr.. Phillips any less :
gentleman? Would il necessarily make .
woman any less ladyf Laurentius seems
to fear that il woman obtains the right to
vot, the cause for Boosting that in this
country 1t least woman is not made the slave
Of the male sex, will be removed. This re-
minds me Of certain General in command
on the Potomac who boasted in one Of his
dispatches to the War Department that be
had made thirty different If not successful
attacks upon the Rebels, which our Martyred
President afterwards explained, BY saying
that Zone score and ten ofthese were wind. !"
Lauren.ius, you require the needle more than
you do the pen. Do you not know, Sir. that
il is the easiest thing in the world for us
Yankees to boast7 In our grandiloqnen.
fourth Of July spread eagle speeches We used
70 boast Of being free republic free
people" &C., when ct the same time great
e. than Egyptian bondage existed in our
midst, and il required the aesh and blood
Of four millions ofour own race and country
men to satisfy the hunger, to aPpease sls
inexorable wrath Of the Slave god.
Your boast is Is equally unfoanded, -
grossly absurd. There is no civilized No
ton on thc''facs Of Gods earth, where woman
in proportion to her intelligence and caPa>
bilisy i greater slave, has less privilege
accorded, lsss protection afforded her, OF
whers she gets % poor eonpsnsasion fos
ths came amount q bssias ssd services
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