Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-01
THE WOMAN QUESTION.

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TIE WOMAN QUESTION:
DR.. Holland delivered'a a lecture in thesMusic
Hail. Boston, a. lew evenings since, and was
fayorabIy received. He said: ,s.: ezA
AS mans work was provision, and woman S
work dspensation, there was no place where
woman was so healthy and happy sat the
head of house and home. She was not intend
ed to be independent OF man. The reduction
of the number Of marriages would be the sad
: dest thing that could befal us. 1t needed
man and woman to make a whole man. =
There was no great. humanity outside OF mar
rapa. And it was curious fact that women
loved their husbands best when ruled by them
with sweet sternness.
Woman contravened the policy Of Heaven
when she studied those professions or learned
those trades which untitled her for marriage.
Therefore her wages must necessarily be small
er than man s, which he received for skilled
labor, and outof which he had his family to
support Woman's labor should be only ASA
temporary means of support, and, therefore,
not SO we'll paid as mans DR.. Holland did
not think the increase OF woman S wages would
abate. the social evil. ( Vice would revise its
!, tariff as often as virtue The honest proprie-
tor could not overbid the procurcr. w Woman's
] only safety lay in home and marriage. These
we're the only reliable safeguards Of public
morality. After all, the American women
were the most fortunate on earth. In no
country were they so tendery revered as here.
Women could travel anywhere with no prOtec-
ton but her womanhood's sacred shield.
He did not once deny woman's right to vote.
He simply questioned the necessity Of it. The
old argument that if a woman possesses the
right to vote in railway corporation, she
should have it In the State, he dismissed by
saying the two cases we're not parallel Gov
ernment that protected the individual had a
right to claim some Ut his money to protect
and benefit him anew. If there was no. such
thing as MARRIAGE woman might claim that
man had no right to assume superiority and
government; but by the law Of nature she is
bound TO trust In him. Marriage modified the
relations OF men and women to the State
Woman helps govern the State when she gov
erns the family and educates the future states
man for were the family destroyed, the State
would sink to barbarism.,
If the family life were perfect, it would'be.
useless for women to Vote--for they would SIM
ply double majorities; and itwould be sad
politics which now exist destroyed. A hus-
band and wife, walking arm: :in-arm in perfect
harmony to the polls to cast votes intended to
cOunteract each other would be a miracle
When woman could show herself better quail
fed than man to vote, then she: should have
the vote, and not till then. 1t s,l.a i }i91Iastl
Let the whole world crystalize into families.
Every woman who chose her husband exer-
cised her right of suffrage She elected her
legal and moral representative for life, or dur
Ing good behavior. ! lsslls. & IA
"A PcTURE-The New York Commercial
"arepublican' journal, paints a picture thus:
When the resolutions (offered 9by thatgrea
calf from Qhio) of impeachment were present
ed, there was no pretc4t or shadow OF justlhca-
ton for them The impeachment committee,
after prying and fishing tor eight months, was
compelled to admit that they had. caught Moth
ing, and consequently had nothing to report
But although when Congress adjourned the
impeachment game was confessedly played out'
It has been revived The fever RACES just now
piruently Thad Stevens being i'll, and Sen
ator Sumner taking care of Crushed Women !,
IN Kansas, Speaker Colfax is engineering i'm
peachment, Having no grounds or acts on
%Shlcht TO base the movement, the Speaker is
Tree to imagine as many provocations as the
case requires And as he is playing for the
Presidency, with Chase and Wade distanced,
he trumps high-so high that the Evening
Ptost while enjoying the. abuse of the Presi-
dent, gently admonishes the Speaker that de-
Sencles if not proprieties belong even to stump
defamation p
It is curious, and if not so expensive, it
you'd be amusing, to. see how many presiden-
tal candidates the war has made, and how
sharp set they are, knowing, evidently, that
Als IS their opportunity. #ltwas so easy, dur
ae the war, Tor second and third-rate men to
get into high places that we have ssscommo-
aly OF Candidates for President. A year
iFo sg halt the y. S. Senate and third of the
house OF Representatives expected translation
10 10 the White House. Outside of Congress,
Ghlet M Justice Chase, Horace Greeley and Wen
Ial "a! Phillips entered the lists Each rider in
1Sls 20 race had his. color and rode his hobby.
me Chief Justice planted his colors with his
oSa hand at Charleston, and struck for uni
Ws ysrssl negro suffrage" in the SOUTH. Senator
W.la WMaae77a division Of property, so that every
T TacS :, man shall have an improved farm
"a taaddols Stevens eoniiscation. Gen. But
.saI., Isat Mr. Greeley prohibitory liquor anc
soaa system that will raise white population
~, intellectual and social equality with the blaot
Superior race .ss. A..
= lDut, alas! for these aspirants up Jumps
''ant, and knocks en-. all down.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS ! ~
! ABOUT fifteen thousand dollars worth Of sto
sbnlp property has been found in the lott OF ;
iiaIlea isa ~, the village sof Little Neck, Lon!
des.a daaa; Ihe thieves had been pursuing thei
tp'eaatlons tsp in the neighborhood for nearly