The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-03-27
:. NEW SERIES--VOL o NO. 81
yyo,.,er, ana Politics.

, Mrs. S.Yisshelni writes the following let
I ter TO the editor of the Pittsburgh Coninler-
! ci9t. iu reply 70 q recent article in bis pa
| PER. - - - = -, - -
! -ESIR: In justice I'd cause, much better
\ used to Tidicule than reason, give me space
/ for some reply to your late remarks under
the head of Pitch Of Politics. = Inyit Z
you state that Antoinette Brown, in mem
oralisiug the LcaislatureE Of Kentucky to
/ grant the right OF Suffrage to wopen, snr-
ges, ss = motive, that ythslt votss would
nentraEze those of the negro. Ion think
this wicked, and strangely conclude that,
| therefore, the influence Of women, through
/ the ballot box, would not be good. EsgG :
| Can yon refer to the time and place
at which Mrs. Brown. Blackwell was chosen
| resentaiive? That little band who wore
! hloomers and ds6ed the ridicnle Of badboys'
are, perhaps, thfrlast that could be- set up
as representing any one. Iywould be. dih-
! cult 10 persuade ono man or woman in q
thousand that any person Of average COM
mon sense would render him OF Gefselfs
liable to street mohbing tor the sake of any
dress; and up to this present time no one
! Of the women Of that band has Sriginated
an idea, orput an old thought into an i'm
proceed dress. They are simply the foam
! thrown up by the heaving Of that ocean OF
| discomfort which has its ebb and flow, In
| the heart of every woman who thinks and
| must, therefore, feel the injustice Of tho
laws under which she livessssr.s--.-
! a'Tbefe Is not one woman who is agreed
! that all she can acquire, by her labor, serv.
| ice. or act, during cOyertnre, shall belong
| to her husbsnd; not one who is agreed to
! the law of c0rerture itself; not one whc. is
| agreed to the law which deprives her of tho
power to secure to her, children, at het
| death, any portion OF the estate her in
dustry and economy mey have contributed
to accumulate, Eot une Who is agreed to ths
law which leaves thst tate to her 'sncces
| sor, with the probability Of her children
| being turned ont. No woman is agreed to
the Law which authorized a man 70 arrest
and take into custody. without legal process,
his slave, bis apprentice, and his wife. r.
There are several nther things on our
statute books. placed there by those respec-
| table old Anglo. Saxon ancestors Of ours,
the days when Alfred the Great was King,
these is the law which attaches still fur
ther penalty 10 marriage by depriving .
married woman Of her-oatuaal sight 10 tho :
custody Of her child THIS universal; diss
content, or rather the lGvss which cause II,
are the reason for the necessity OF the elec-
tive franchise for women. Her right to il
does not depend on tho good conduct of !
any. one Woman, or band Of women. The 3
influence Of women On cur general politics. d.
or for what party women will voto, is not
tho qnesiin. know that tfs old Miltonic
idea that she is Heaven last best gift to
man. Is so ingrainad into all our model Of
thought, that few would ask. any change \
for her. without trying to prove that such
change world benef:: him.
at is universally assume that men ara
so surremcly selfish. that any claim Of jus-.s
,iec ma t be unhpard unless backed by, an
appeal TO ,hst re6bness; and 20, the plex
that ie,nalc suffrage win rebound to the
welfare. Of man, has boen prominently
thrust forward. 1t may be correct and It
may NOT vet, woman has natural tight 20 Z
a voice il msking the laws she is taxed to
support and compelled to obey, and on
which must always depend, her lite and
every thing which makes life dear" ~
JANE g. SWISSHELM.