The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-11-01

frage Association" OF Lawrence
TO the WOmea of EaRsas.
| AT the coming election on The 5th OF
| November, questions of the greatest i'm.
portapcs 10 every citizen Of Kansas,
whether man or woman, will DO presented
for the action of tho people. Shall the
right suffrage beexteuded to the negroesP
! Shall the right of suffrage bo extended to
women2 q Y 'irA
The question Of the enfranchisement of
| the negro now mainly occupies the atteu.
tion of the Republican party. Cpon the
same principle, viz that Of equal rights
and justice to all, we ask the ballot for
women, and expect TO obtain il.
One great obstacle that the advocates Of
! female suffrage have 60 contend with is the
declaration on the part of many good aud
Intelligent women that they do not want
to vote. They say they are eontented with
their present condition, they have all the
rights thoy want, and do not need the bal.
tot; and they will take no interest in the
matter, except TO depreciate its agitation
| by women. Women Of Kansas, let us rea-
SON together Tor, little concerning this
matter. a..s'r i.t
Honored wives aud mothers, who, dwell
| ing at ease in the comfortable homes your
y
| not want to vote and W would consider it nj.
most reflection on yonr husbands to desire
such thug, do you consider yourselves
capable OF forming correct Judgment in
reference to any matter of public interest
| You read the newspapers and are familiar
| w tn the literature uf the day and pride your
selves upon your geueral information and
Intelligence can you then form Judgment
as TO the jusness Of any law, OF the char.
| acter of any candidate for Officer Were
any one to assert that you were hot capable
OF this, you would resent it as an insult,
But, say yon, we feel no interest in pub
lie measures, laws, candidates, &c,; our
s here, cares and duties are at bone. SO
| thought thousands of American women five
years ago i but war, as the result OF public
measures, laws aud candidates, called from
the henrthstones aud hearts OF these same
women, husbands, brollers sons, an5i slew
| them on tho field of battle--in crowded
hospItals--in rebel prisons, Think you
| the women of America then had no interest
in public measuresH Can il be that any
| woman who has given one of her house
hold to save our country will declare that
she takes no interest in the government
and affairs of that country COnsid, ,ra
moment whether you have any interest i'll
matters more immediately pressing upon
! our attention. Is it olany importance to
you whether the dram.shops be closed or
not Perhaps your husbands are sale
above suspicion or fear Of temptation; but
| those little sons playing around your knee,
| that yonng brother who is about to leave
the parental rool--when the hour comes
that they shall go forth into the world, is
It OF any concern TO you whether tcmpta-
ton IN ct them at every cornerH Said a
rumseller who is bitterly opposed TO female
suffrage. What more do you want? A
man cannot now get license to sell liquor
without the names of majority of all the
women Of tiie}YardY upon lis petition >.
| Very true f; but mark this---unless the wO-
men of Kansas obtain the ballot, that law
wi soon be bloled froIti the iStatu tAsbohk.
Again the women of Kansas now vote
on questions concerning the erection OF
schooLhouses and matters pertaining to
the facilities for the education of their
children. Where has this provision
wrought anything but good ? How many
school districts now have commodlous
school-houses because the women Of the
district who were mothers and wanted
schools for their children, optnuInbered the
men who, though large landhelders, are
not residents, or had no children aud did
not want schools Can II be that any
woman who has felt and welded the power
for good that the ballot gave her in this
respect, will yet declare that she does not
want TO vote ,1t .i..l ~ h-i.7ab su'r
If then, you are capable of forming opin.
ions on matters of public interest, and il
you admit that you are in some degree
liable to be affected by public affairs, in the
name of heaven, OF right, OF ghome--rin the
name of husband brothers, sons, can you
not-will you not give your voice III favor
of right and against wrodg ? Begin now,
If you have never doGe so before, 10 Inquire
into the character of our lawmakers, tho
justness of our laws, the regard our cOun-
try pays to the rights Of all. If you do not
feel the need of soa doing for yourselves,
yet for the sake of generatonsyet to come |
interest yourselves :" that our officers. may
be peace and our exactors righteousness |
If you are III circumstances OF ease and |
comfort, because shielded from every rude |
wind by noble protectors-fatlief, nus |
band, son--yet listen 10 the cry OF thous |
ands Of women less favored than yourselves, |
whose natural protectors, ss we style them, |
the licensed dram shop transforms into |
abusive tyrants, from whom they must be |
protected or who, being deprived Of hus- |
band and,faIher, ory aloudgof The Injustice |
Inflicted upon them in'tiieir dependent con.
ditiau by laws framed in1nnrigheousness |
Listen, we say, TO tlieir cry, and viii yon
moi desire, yea, will you Iot demand the
right to give your voice on all these qhcs-
tious IN the only way in which you can
eliecttially do sO--the use of the ballot2
Why, il weuld seem that every earnest,
plilahthTopc woman would desire 20 do
80, even were she obliged to go to the polls
in their presept condition, instead OF the
reformed nnd purified stale that VIII in
evitably result from the eulianchisemont !
of women.
The women. Of Kansas, who next to the1
P lgrim Rothers OF America haye endured
more privations and taken more active
part in public affairs than any other women
Of America, should Of all others have a
voice in controlling the affairs Of state and
framing the laws by which they shall be
governed. Say some opposers: The
good and true women would not vote, but
only the ignorant and yicious.o What a
libel upon the intelligence and
public spirit of the women of Kansas and
just so certainly as women obtain the ballot,
as far as the Intelligent aud virtuous ont
number the ignorant aud abandoned, will
the yole of women swell the majority ford
Just aud righteous measnres--for The moral
aud upright man -ilie mah who has never
imbrued his hands in bloodthe maa who
has never robbed women OF her viftne--
whose senses are never drowned in the IN
bowl. Whyl this is the great
moral question of ths dayi tits not that
the prominent opposers OF this measure