Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-01-17
Correspondence Of the American.
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS.

nNtOiNt ~ AN iNy iOuOs
Holidays Lectures--Nelc Church. Poll
tics.
DEAR AMERIc AN Christmas and New
Years have come aud gone, aud we arc
settling down into the work Of another
year. Our Christmas tree bore us some
valuable fruit. Not all Of it grew on the
bra nc hes, for they were too slender. A
beautiful silver butter dish and knife, o
silver napkin ring abarrel of fue apples,
some valuable clothing, and some table
comforts, were kindly give US by our S.
). AID friends. Such things make US
feel good natured.
just how We have no stirring political
news, but in the way Of lectures we are
doing we'll. Miss Clara Barton. Emerson,
DR.. Newman of New Orleans, Josh Bll.
lings aud others, have been here, while
have been permitted TO hear Bishop
Simpson. DR.. Hayes aud Cough ut
Bloomington. Blind Milburn, Nasby,
aud several Others, are yet to come.
In Church matters We proceed sotisfac-
toiily. We have sold our Church anu
Parsonage to the o 5. Presbyierans, and
will give possession Of the Church in
May, and the Parsonage in October. We
need more room for our 5 5. and eOngre
cations, and have secured abeut eleven
thousand dollars for new Church. We
will increase it about five thousand, and
put up a nice Church next Summer.
In regard to politics, may say that /
was somewhat interested in your Pennsyl
iuburgh letter of last week. l confess
| do not understand it fully, but that may
not be because oil the number oil words the
writer uses. but because | um dull of up
prehension. AS my remarks were not
clear to his mind, let me explain don't
much like to contend with u man who be
leves that women have "but one virtue
required by free government, and that
their passions trench 80 closely on their
reason" John b Cough says man who
speaks i'll of his mother, il either a bad
man or had bad mother. " hat the fsmi
nine relations OF q. h. ). are, | cannot
say. i can only say that have more
confidence in the virtues and common
sense Of the ladies' than he seems TO have
Suppose, however, he is right; then women
should vote, for negro suffrage appeals to
the heart, to the conscience, TO the dictates
Of humanity. Women bong all heart,
would vote Us the dictates Of humanity
would prompt; therefore would vote for
impartial suffrage Until the coIoreG
people can vote, they cannot defend them
selves, aud the women would do right from
the heart aud not from political motives.
Ii may be true that the masses OF women
do not ask TO vote, aud but few il any
,oould vote, il the privilege we're granted,
save when some great moraf question was
before them But few would care for
cllire; very few would engage IN politics.
But when question affecting their homes
aud ll,ile ones, such as the temperance
question, was TO be settled. they would
speak with voice that would wake the
echoes, aud would drive such fend from
earth. Let the question OF the Sabbath
be before them, aud ssk them whether the
principles recognized Us the basis Of our
civil aud religious liberty shall be subver-
ted by thUse who have no right among US
save by courtesy, and u response il no
Ordinary tones would be heard. The
women are not yet ready to have the
fourth commandment trampled under foot
by those who do not care for our religious
institutions, bought at the infinite price of
blood and suffering Their hearts would
be ns true to Gods word as the needle is
TO the pole, while Into mere political ques-
tons they would not care to enter. We
need them on the moral side
| guess know something Of Germany,
even though do not live IN pennsy lvania.
burg, What matters baptism, 1T the life
Is wrong beyondY What svails Church
mem bership, if il does not teach that
drunkenness and Sabbath breaking are ex.
pressly forbidden In Gods wordY What
are the facts? Who Ill our jsils2 Who
are our drunsards2 Who are our open
Ssbbath.breakerR Are they chiefly