The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-03-29

i Mrs. S.isshe'm writes the following
feilsr to the editor Of the Pittsburgh
Commercial, ia reply tosa recent article
In lis paTe. -
Sra: In justice to 4 cause, much Essi6F
used 10 ridiculs than reason, give ne s
spaes for saus reply e. your late FsmaRka
/ aRd6E sae hegga Of :Pisch Of Polilias.s
i 10 II you state that Aatoinette Brown. ia
4 inen oralizing the Legislature of Kentucky
10 gTaat the tight Of suffrage to women.
/ urges as motive, that their votes would
ueutralize those of the negro. You think
I this wicked, and strangely conclude that;
therefore, the influence Of woman through
fthe ballos box, wotid not be good.
! Can you refer 10 the time aud place 1T
lich MIS-. Blown Black we'll was chosen
/ BY tie women OF Ibis country as their
I representative? "That little band who
wore boomers aud defsd the ridicule of
! bad boys" are perhaps the last that could
be set up as representing any one. Il
would be delfieuI. to pursuade one man
or woman in a thousand that any person
| Of average common sense would rendsT
him or herself liable to street mobbihg
for the sake Of any dress; aud up to this
present time no one of The women of that
band has orig mated an idea, or put an old
thought into an improved dress. They
are simply the foam thrown up by tbs
heaving ofthat ocean of disconteut which
has its ebb and h5W in the heart Of every
woman who thinks, and must, therefore,
feel the injustice Of the laws under which
she lives.
There is not one woman is agreed that
call she can acquire. by her labor, SER
/ vice, or act, during coverture, shall be.
long TO her husband not one who is
agreed TO the law Of coveratHre itseli-not
one who is agreed to the law which de-
prives her of the power 10 secure to her
children, at her death, any portion of the
estate her industry aud economy may have
contributed to accumulate; not one who
is agreed TO the law which leaves that es-
tate to her successor, VITA the probabiI;-
ty of herchildreu being turned out. No
woman is agreed to the law which author
ize man to arrest and take into custo-
dy, without legal process, his slave, his
apprentice and his wife"
There are several other things on our
statute books placed there by those re-
spectacle old Anglo Saxon ancestors of
ours, who ale Wild bears, and wore brass
collars. in the days BheR-iSftfred the Great
T wss King, to which women are not agreed
and one of these is the Law which ATTACKS
es a sill further penalty to marriage by
depriying married woman of her natur-
al right 10 the custody of her child: This
universal discomfort, or rather the laws
/ which cause it, age the reason for the ne
cessity Of the elective franchise for We
MAJ. Her right 60 itdoes not depend on
4 the good eonduet of any one woman, or
band of women. The influence of wo-
.man on our generl politics, or for what
/ party woman viii vote, is not the ques-
ton. l know that the old Miltonic idea,
/ that she is "Heaven's last, best gift to
man." is so ingrained into all our models
OF thought, that few would ask any change
for her, without trying TO prove thatsuch
4 change would benefit him. l. is univers-
ally assumed that men are so supremely
selfish, that any claim of justice must be
unheaId ualess backed by an appeal to
that sel6shness; and so, the plea that fs-
male suffrage will rebound to the welfare
of man, has been prominently thrust for
ward. Ii may be correct and it may not;
yet, woman has natural right to voice
in making the laws she is taxed to sup
port and compelled TO obey; and on which
must always depend, her life and every
thing which makes life dear.