The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-07-12
CorroUwoop FALLS. Juue "a. 1867.

CoTroNwooD FALLS, Juns "a, 1867.
ED1roR News: I had not intended to
have noticed Eskridgs's article, as
thought among all decent men and rs
spectacle women il was It's own answer.
Besides l felt little fattered. de gave
me a Woman's name, and Immediately az
dsd: "In many respects they women
are our superiors. They possess a degree
IF in,sIlioence TO which men cannot at
tain I suppose that is the reason Esk-
IL. ,ivss me the name Of "Sally."
Rnt Il Was not for this that l took up my
nan. Il has been charged that the Inn
partial Suffrage Association bad Eskridge
employed TO blaekguard all respectable
women into the support of Woman SUI
frage. l wish to contradict the report.
YET we feel under obligations TO Eskridge.
Such articles do US much good. People
see the argument, or rather the want of
argument in opposition. and one paused
TO say, "Weli if that is the argument
against Woman Suffrage, shall vote for
it," hope Eskridge will write another,
and that the Topeka Leader aud Home
Journal will copy. Now look at the ar
gument moment. Il like pellicoet gov
eminent. A few dried up old Elm-peel
srs who disgrace the petticoats they wear,
and with whom a decent man can't live.
The reign of Freelove, when everything
will be held in common, so common a
man wouldn't prize anything when be
got it. His wife would become the
common property Of the whole prosliiu-
ted race. These petticoated old Ewes
whom kiln-dried lightning would glance
from, and whose faces would prevent
dog from biting them. A few old spin
stsIs in petticoats, bosted political brawl-
ers," and 30 on, Gd minimum. There is
but one source from which such stuff EN-
anatss. 1t is the language of the "pimps;"
1t comes from the brothel, ard the bawdy
house; it is the strumpets speaking
drought their male presentatives; it is
the wall Of the bawdy and prostitute TO
be let alone. Virtuous Womtn never have
but little Influence in politics. A lobby
OF prostitutes is said 10 run the President
and almost run Congress. The idea OF
virtuous women at the polls to them. Ii
IS like the appearances of the Saviour to
the one NE Eead Of in the Bible, who cried
out with loud voice saying LET US alone;
hast thou come 10 destroy us; We know
thee who thou art; the holy one of God. -
But these unclean spirits may continue to
wreslle; it will be of no avail; women are
going to vote, and when the vir,uous wo-
men go 10 the ballot box and vote, the LAM
guage to such as these will be "hold thy
peace and come out of him (politics J
Ii the Virtuous, true women of this
nation could once put their ideas, their
opinions of the bawdy and the women OF
ili.fame, upon g piece of paper and put
that paper into the ballot box where its
influence would be felt, should begin to
have some hopes for my country. To
say that II the opportunity were given.
that virtue would stay away from the polls
and the low, vile women, with their male
friends who support them, are to control
the country, is = slandsr upon the virtu
Gus women of Kansas and the nation.
When women are allowed to vote and that
iseue is made, not , Virluous woman will
be absent from the polls. We are told
'Tesist the devil and he will flee from US ."
but EskrIdge chooses to frighlen yirtuous
women from the ballot box with the cry
OF odd glinters in petticoats, petlieoated
old Ewes, dried-up old Elm peelers." So
long as VIRUS can be kept out of politics
with such sneers, SO long the prostitute
Is safe. am sorry Eskridge should have
made such charges, or rather INDUCES in
such sReers against some of tho best wo-
men in the nation, for l unhesitatingIy
Say it is the most intelligent, moral,
best women Of Kansas who desire to vote.
Weakness will not long be regarded as
one Of the female graces. Lucretia Mott
minister of The society of Friends, is
President Of the American Equal Suffrage
Association, a regular sold Elm-peeler,
as Eskridge would say. In the society
of Friends women have always been re-
garded as the equals Of men. They have
women ordained ministers, women elders.
overseers, &c. Also business meeting
of women. / notice in the proceedings
of the New York Yearly Meeting this
year that certificates of the following
ministers from other yearly meetings were
read. Among the number ] fnd the
names of Sarah E Yarnsy. Of New EGG
land Yearly Meeting; Jelnima G.. Shat
well, Philadelphia; Deborah @. Thomas,
Baltimore; Edith Griffith, Caroline E
Tolbort, Abigail B. Kelley, and Mary
Elliott, Ohio; Mary II. Rodgers, Indiana
1t is such women as these that Z kridge
calls "petticoated old Ewes, old Elm
peelers, old glinters in petlicoats, whom
kiln dried lightning would glance from"
DC. In old times We had Miriam the
prophecies, the sister of Aaron, and De-
borah, prophecies, the wife of Topi-
doh. She judged Isreal at that time
was in fact chief justice of the Jewish
nation 40 years. "And the children of
Isrssl came up to her for judgment"
If Eskridge's ideas are correct, what an
cold Elm -peeler, pettiooated old Eve, old
glinteFa in Petticoats" she must have been.
"Kiln-dried lightning would certainly
have glanced from her.
But have no heart to follow this rain
of argument. Women have the same
intellects as men; they have the same ac-
countability to God; they are punished
for the violation of laws the same as men.
If a woman steals she must 60 to Jail the
same as a man; she is taxed the same as
man to support the government. The
question Is, shall she have a voice. a vote
In that government. Those who insist
on representing women at the ballot box,
ought to carry out the idea, and if a wo.
man steals represent her in Jail; if che
commits murder, let them represent her