The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-19

force q adiuncts and attribute TO IL That 10
the Characteristic. Hut - society unfolds and
develops more and more, the questions rise
from these original forms, and become mof.
Al, Intellectual, ssthetic, and ethic. Nov
woman is peculiarly adapted, BY instinct sne
intuities, to, and her whole line Of thouSne
adapts her TO the highest upon all e..
shetic and ethic questions. Queshens o.
education are more and more in vogue.
The questions of to-day are questions OF NOR
Atty, questions of labor, questions OF tae Ten
thousand sufferings of human society; and all
thess ass beooming lAgialetiya questions.
Those are the very questions which the
voman's mind u peculiarly organized to
Judge Of, and to Judge wisely. We need her
i;pdsmset Whethes woman need 70 vote Qy
mot. men have need Of them. Society needs
to have them. The corrective influence OF
woman upon the political spirit, upon tho
morals Of politics, i no. 70 be IN uAecnsid.
cred; for civilization il nsver u1onosexual. It
ID the interchaaging influences Of the two
sexes that at last induces civilization. NOW,
public affairs arc sel6sh sor1id, coarse, mean,
and unjust; and they viii continue TO be 30
iuxf 10 long a they lie alone in the hands OF
man. All that which has taken place where
ever woman has mingled her influence with
man. in the school, in the church, IN the
neirhborhood, in the civilization OF society
At lsrse, and in refinement, Is mainly that
which will also taan place when woman
comss and miugles her influence IN public
affairs
"But il is said that if woman should exer-
else the right Of suffrage, it would destroy her
delicacy. Il would certainly correct the indel-
icacy Of man. But what is the effect OF enlarg.
ed intelligence and enlarged action2 lido not
Ask that : woman, on stepping into the whole
realm of art, into the whole kingdom OF litera-
ture. into the whole province Of religion, and
into the domain of the suffrage, do not ask
that she should undertake to be q man. We
have 20, enough Of men. Ths whole Of my
plee depends uron this, that the woman IL to
come to these various tasks, bringing her
woman's nature. 1t is, that added to the
yirile tendencies of man, the feminine tens
denotes of woman will help to make her
tertium q,id, the true man Of the future. She
is 10 come to work, not bringing strength;
il is fitness we want; not bringing passion;
it is sentiment we want; not bringing nre
and edge thrusts; We want influence.
We want in woman that which abe brings TO
the school-she goes there as \ woman that
which she carries to the church-she IS there
as a woman that which she carried TO the
camp lis there place which, II anywhere,
would utterly detenorate woman more than
the camp? Tell me, We who have sent sisters
there--ye that when horrid war WAS resting
on the land, sent down these ministers Of
nercy 10 cheer the homesick, to bind up the
wounds and take care of the sick, to minister
to the wants of our sons and brothers who
we're patrlotically standing for the flag and for
the nation-did woman deteriorate and be-
come unrefned in those ministrations? or
did she not, by the very functions she there
performed, stand more gloriously beautiful As
a woman9 [Aapplause. And do not tell
me that any duty that carries in it inspiration
of conscience, inspiration of purity, is unfit
for a woman s hands. She will be all the no
bier and the finer, and none the less good, be-
cause she will be 90 mach stronger