St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-02-28
WOnndR's WrOngs.

ans Wrongs A counter Irritant," lust
issued by Messrs. Ticknor 4 Fields, is
destined, says the Boston Advertiser, tc
create quite as great stir in the world
as any of her former efforts.
The work seems to be prompted by
certain essays on "Woman's Rights
by Rev. DIR. John Todd, which, with
sundry commentators of them for ''feli-
city OF thought and expression" have ex-
cited Gail Hamiton's honest wrath and
she tears their logic and retoric alike to
pieces with great deal of wit. Perhaps
the most notable specimen of this is her
remark on DIR. Todd's faculty of con-
tradicting his own statements, as fol-
| lows:
Indeed his eXpertness in the latter
feat is so great that he may be said to
have introduced a new form of PROPOSE
tion, the Kilkenny categorical, PROPOSE
tlons which you have only to set side by
side and they Immediately set each other
up"
The following paragraphs will well il
lustrate Gail Hamilton's slashing style OF
dealing with an opponent. The words
in quotation marks are cited from DIR.
Todd's essay:
You have sewing machines almost
numberless, kitting-machines, washing,
ironing and churning machines but |
never heard of one that was the emana-
ton of the female mind. Did you ?....
| suppose this power was denied you, lest
1t should take you out OF your most i'm
portant sphere, as | shall show
Il suppose" So, then, DR.. Todd's
revelation was fragmentary as well as
that of st. Paul who was obliged to inter-
polate, "to the rest speak l, not to the
Lord.
1t might be said, if the question were
OF invention, that possibly one reason
why women have never been inventors i
that they have never been artisans but
the matter is truly irrelevant. Granted
that women cannot invent granted that
the sparrow killed cock robin what OF
it What connection is there between
the power of invention and women's
rights ! Woman's right means. perhaps
chiefly. the right of suffrage. Does DR..
Todd maintain that inventive power is
necessary TO the possession of the excr-
else OF that right Does he mean to say
that no man shall vote for town officers
till he has invented sewing machine
q, al the inventions of our age-steam
and tclcgraphing and female non-apph-
cant>-l never heard of one that was the
emancipation of DR.. Todd's mind. Did
You Shall Dr. Todd therefore be dis
tranchi>cd
But, says DIR. Todd, with equal per-
tincncc, You cannot compete with
men in a long course Of mental labor
Your delicate organization never has anc
never can bear tanother happy gramat.
ical touch 1.-THE study by which YOU can
become Newtcn>, and SO forth. Nc
woman has ever stood by the side OF Phi,
dia- or Homer, and the girls best train
ing @iveS her less skill on the piano than
/ her brother attains with no training at
all.
A@ain, what OF it : When DR.. Todd
SAYS 80 neatly. And even in cooking
and IN millinery. Us is well known, men
must and do stand ut the head of these
occupations, We may infer that millin-
cry and cooking ought 10 be given up to
mrn-a proposition in which | heartily
concur when he asks, Did YOU ever
know Il woman who could endure being
u teacher till sevcnty-tive, As men often
do - We may say under the rose. "and
might III some cases till sevcntv-tivt
thousand, for all the fatigue their teach
inc need cause them - but how does
it all stand connected with women:
rights - DO Newtons and Raphael>
alone choose rulers and discern principle,
and pass judgment upon laws How
many Millions and CaHovaS does Dr.
Todd reckon in his congregation and how
cheerfully do the other members yield tt
them a political monopoly ? If DR.
Todd should ever come to the conclusion
that he cannot equal Shakespeare, will h,
at once propose to give up one-third OF
his salary, and his whole right of fran
chise