The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-08

| -OAA buSu6 particularly bO~u10hb IS the women
OF America, and after all America owes its dis
! covery TO q woman; and may we not accept
tnlB as an omen that IL Is here in this country
| sne - 70 nnd her fullest and freest expansion9
|, ,,s am IN iaYor Of giving every right 70 woman
naai, snet is designed for her by nature and oy
tnat have no sympathy with equal rights as
We hear great deal about universal suffrage
IN these days, and 1t is strongly urged that the
Tigntt 70 vote ought 70 be extended 70 women
consequence? right TO vote for office inn plies
right TO hold office. And what then? Gointo
E1or you e1ty ana iook ~ sne political blackguard
the politicians, the office-seekers. / mean not
the statesman, but the politician: Look at him
"a toady sycophant double-faced and waxen-
nosed Ask yourselves, would you have woman
step down into that seething, swelterIng vat of
corruption? Would you have her portray her
modest worth, her angellical sweetness and
purity, the true and benign influences that she
exerts, let her remain in her proper sphere. II
is against the law of God for woman to rule
The Bible says:-"Man must ruleo I have no
sympathy with those who would take q woman
out OF her feminine sphere to put her in a mas
The speaker then referred to marriage. He
said that unhappy marriages often result from
too short acquaintance, and related great
many anecdotes of married persons, which
excited "a great deal OF laughter. There are
often venial marriages., sucn as marriages for
money. The speaker had heard an anecdote of
a mnI down South who married a rich widow
with large number of slaves. When the
minister asked him If he would take the widow
to be his wife, he astonished all by saying, Yes
The man who marries a woman merely for
wealth will find in the long run that he has made
terrible bargain His life will be one OF gilded
misery, and in old age will be like the crag on
the bleak side OF q desert mountain, where the
cold and chilly moonbeams sometimes glitter
and where no sunlight ever talis where no
radiant blossoms bloom, but where the storm
howls; and amid the sweeping, terrible storm
will be heard the strange voice OF God, saying
"Your garments are moth eaten, your gold and
silver are cankered, and is witness against you,
and shall eat your flesh as with fire." There
ar n he 81 tn m lxn mn
the sum Of woman's influence, three OF which
simply operate as power, but each point, in
eight cases out of ten, is irresistible. The first
OF these is modesty. The quiet, unobLrusive
gentleness of woman is centre of noblest in
terest.
Then comes in purity, gentleness, kindness
cheerfulness-eacho one by 1tslf EXHIBITS the ex-
istence ef female influence. These gentle affec-
tionS are to man what sunbeamS are to the
open flower. The speaker then referred to
Washington, and said it was his mothers
training that made him such good man; and
if mothers in general would train up their
children right they would be surprised at the
results. The goal OF yesterday is the resting
place to-day, and the starting point tomorrow.
The career of Washington is onward and up
ward, is like the flight of the eagle towards the
sun, until by the almost universal acclamation
of his countrymen he is elected the President
of the very Republic that his generalship has
won. Woman in America is different from
woman everywhere else. ASK the travellers
who wander through the most enlightened
parts of Europe, how woman here compares
with woman there and they tell you woman
on the average III America is immeaSurably
different in her condition, and better clothed,
better treated, has a better home is more re-
spected, and has less Of the primary curse rest
ing upon her.
Avenues Of industrial employments have
been gradually opening up to her to which she
is adapted, and which she is capable OF filling,
and there are a thousand employments which
are yet closed which ought to be open, which
will shortly be open to womanly competition.
There is one thing upon this point that we wish
to say, and that is where woman fulfilS the
duties that are performed by man, in all
reason and in all sense she ought to receive the
same remuneration. (Applause.) The only
reason that / ever heard for not doing SO was
! that of a man who employed number of
women, and the reason he assigned tor it was,
! that a woman earns about one-third less.
! Now, ladies, just eat double as much, and then
the pay will be corresponding. Laughter) The
| lecturer then made an appeal to The mothers OF
| babes to conSecrate them To Christ, and as they
! grow older administer to them the Oath-con-
! stltutional republican liberty; one and in
| separable; now and forever. The speaker con-
tinued at some length, ana concluded with q
| description of woman, from infancy TO old age
| and death, dwelling particularly upon the point
| where she enters into the marriage state, and
branchlet afe blanchlet has been planted in
! the Eden of life and at last they all gather
! around the death. bed, and then bid farewell
| to the one who loved and cherished them in
| youth.