The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-06-24
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRA.
TERNlTY.
A lecture for Gentlemen

A lady friend desires US TO puDlisn
the following, for the benefit of the
gentlemen
Women howl and snarl like profane-
ly minded cats-that is, some women
-do-over the political inequality of the
sexes, as though the poor, silly things
hadn't already more than eLo1gh to
de-what with tending to breakfast,
dinner and supper, shopping. keeping
their husbands linen and moral alike
unexceptionable watching that tie
mslKet-women don't cheat, and the
chilren don't catch the measles or
other bad habits; keeping tracks off the
doorstep and strange hairpins out OF
their lords vestpockets; making over
last years dresses, and "economising"
new bonnets out of the household all
lowance; preserving fruit in the 'Fall,
and virtue from a fall keeping the
bread and their own tempers from get
ting sour minding their own business
and their neighbors' besides-on week
days-teacbing in Sunday school, and
flirting at evening meetings on the
Sabbath.
As if that were not enough without
"wanting to vote" Why, if every man
in the world were to come and otter me
the highest Inducements to vote, l
wouldn't do it No, sir there isn't a
man on earth who could induce me !!
1 don't care nickel penny for polit
ical equality but do wish that there
was little mcreIsociaI equality between
man and woman
It irks and angers my sense oil just
ice to see husbands going to places,
and doing deeds, the which, if their
wives were to do, they would be inn
molated under Madama Gruddy' s Juga
gernaut car, and burisd by theNscandal-
mongering grave diggers of seciety,
beyond the ultima thule of the CON
ventional dale, before the victims had
time TO shrek one prayer for mercy.
Why should there be one morality
| for men and another for women
Don't we all go to one Heaven or one
He'll, or are there separate comPart-
ments for ladies =
1t would be comfort to know 1t,
but the teachers nowhere teach US so,
| and we poor, little, blundering, wonder
ing geese of the world, can only know
what men, of their wisdom, see ut tell
US.
And they do tell US that the first
man in the world laid his sin upon his
yife,s shoulders; but they never have
said that God accepted that excuse-
that he gave the man leave to do evil,
while the woman alone bore the burden
of punishment. God punished them
alike, and turned the ''grand old gar
dener aud his vile" both out OF their
situations, at once
As both had sinned, both were made
to suffer, and they went forth together,
Eve weeping clinging to, and embrac-
| ing the man who had strivcn to throw
all of the punishment upon her weaker
shoulders. Adam was content that
Eoe should be bletted into nfght-should
sorrow-should die, so that he only
went free, and verify, I say unto yeu,
the ssold Adam" fingers still in the
souls of his sons, to this day.
And yet Adam was much the better
able of the two to endure hardship; Tor,
as the Persians aud Arabs say, Eve was
only little thing, some three or four
husdred feet tall, while Adam was "a
foe figure of man, six or seveprAun-
dred feet high in his stockinSfeet.
If you don't believe ny statement,
Jus sep over into Asa. Minor, and you
can sec their graves for yourself.
(You will haverno difficulty whatever
in doing this, for they have convenient
ly locate3fheir private cemetery in hall