The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-09

broke IL to the hope, ruthlessly rent the beg
carly account Of else empty boxes full fraught
with the future OF femiAinity, and scattered
their conseorated contents to the winds. These
budding aspirations SO cruelty crushed must
give us pause.
Let no man marvel that It was in Demo-
cratic State alone that trampled sex could
make even an effort to shake off the shaokles
of centuries II is in the Democratic COM
munities OF New York and New Jersey alone
that women's rights have ever had even
promise of vindication. II was but the other
day that five Roman matrons of Mount Yer
non, in the county of Westchester, and
almost within the shadow of the City Hall of
New York, greatly daring, offered their votes
to regenerste the administration of public in
structiOn, and il is in the conservative city of
New York alone that any organized efforts
have ever been made either TO support women
who are trying to support themselves, or to
lit up those who fall. And IL is because the
Democracy is the party of progress, of intelli-
Rence, and of liberation, that, in those popu-
latons where it is strongest, women are per-
mitted by public opinion to assert themselves
in ways that wOuld excite the horror and the
hootings OF the bigOts Of Boston and the Phari-
sees of Podunk.
The ingratitude which the sex shows, as
evinced in the political complexion of the wo-
men of Vineland and of the woman of Newark
not from of old true and even a truism, that
women cling closest to the men who treat them
worsti Is not the cOuptsnRnce the World has
given them, and the cold shoulder which the
Tribune has turned them, a conclusive femi-
nine reason why they should oleave to the
Tribune and despise the World? If our course
had not been dictated by considerations far
higher than mere expediency, We would have
assailed them with ridicule and with invective,
and they would long ago have come flocking
to the obdurate bosom from which, because it
yearns for them, they turn away.
1t is this peculiarly of the female organism
that makes us to dread, on behalf of the
Democracy, the day which shall usher in the
suffrage Of the sex. The conservatives of the
country are unanimously and VIGOROUSLY
fond fathers, indulgent husbands, dutitul sons.
Must we change all that, or must we bear to
| see our loved ones driven by conservative
kindness to the ranks where frown the horrid
| fronts of Kalloch and Hover Must we Sir
Pandaruses of Troy become and by our sides
wear steeH Then, radical, take all. But no
| 1t is written that Jephthah killed his one fair
daughter, whom he loved passing well, rather
than violate his vow. Be 1t ours to show thai
Hebrew heroism can be emulated in this land
and time, and that we too can stifie our atlec
tions in the cause of our country. We, too
| will be Brutuses-and Rrutes.
Let the household of every conservative
citizen, then, prepare itself to be transformed
from happy home into scene OF horror and
of havoc. Women you come into polite;
not to bring peace, but sword. Look tt
have your feelings narrowed in Fifth avenue
and your heads broken in the Bowery. LearI
how sublime a thing it is to suffer and b
Democratic. The time of the weeping o
women is come, and the voice of the broom
stick is heard in the land; and not many
months shall elapse ere the ideal of th'
prophetic John Phoenix shall be PRACTICAL,
! paraphrased wherever woman has a vote, an(
of every hamlet it shall be true that
All night long through the sweet little villag
Is heard the soft uote of the bootjac
And the delicate squeak of the victim.
AS she's beiEg shot through the window.
We dislike the prospect, we shrink from IT
we abhor it. But it is plainly our duty, am
Our duty we shall do.