The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-17
Those Ninelnnd Women.

Those Vineland Women.
From "Brick" Pomeroy'S NJ Y. Democrat.
They voted. Yes they did. And they have
told OF it. They have sent the canvass to the
newspapers, and want to be counted in. Put
'em in. They'll do for a certain kind ofpolitioal
arithmetic. They go to swell the aggregate
when fellow wants to get up big figures. 1t
is no worse than to first count the whole adult
white male population of State, aud then
assume that one-half are disfranchised, and
after counting them in once as a part of the
whole, then add them in again under dis.
tinct head. In this way a State which has in
all only 200, 900 adult white males can easily
be shown to have 39000 of the same class
who ought to vote. This kind of political
arithmetic is of all things conceivable the
most charming. 1t is fully worthy of the
imaginative gentleman who wrote up the
;slbows of the Mincio" for poor Raymond
one night, and has furnished the Herald
rich theme, for these dozen years, when it
wanted to be little malicious on the Times
And Raymond has borne it like a martyr,
saying never word.
But reUenonS q nos mouton. Let US return
to these women. They have succeeded to a
certain degree, in unsexiDg themselves and
they are probably lightly set up by it They,
no doubt, think they must now wear the
breeches, at least half the time, putting the
petticoats on to their husbands, aud leaving
them at home to tend babies, wash the dishes,
bake bread, etc, while they go out on to the
streets and into the shops, talking politics,
and advocating woman emancipation. They
| say niggers vote, and why shouldn't they
! The poor deluded dears don't they think
themselves any better than niggers Must
they do things because niggers do themP We
are afraid they haven't well considered the
bearing of this question. They might do things
which would be very shocking. We fear they
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they were to follow out this argument to its
logical result.
But, seriously, what an unwomanly feeling
this is, which prompts cur female humans to
aspire to positions which God and nature
never intended them to occupy-never fitted
them for. Those who thus step out of their
appropriate sphere are exceptionable, ill-or-
ganizsd beings, at war with the God that
made them, and striving to trample on His
laws, as revealed in His holy word and
stamped upon their mental, physical, and
moral organizations. The trouble with these
few restless spirits is, that they want to be
men. But they can't be. They are women.
God made them so, and thus they have got
to remain TO the END OF their days. Then let
them be content to be women. II they will
get rid of this monomania and become true
women, they can, in good, virtuOus, legiti-
mate way, become the mothers of men, and
mould their character, and in that way iniu-
ence and guide society to a far greater and
more beneficial extent than by unsexing them
selves and pitching into politics. nice
thing 1t would be to see our wives and daugh-
ters on the stump, wrangling on politics in
public places, electioneering in hot CANVASS
and yelling and squalling and pulling and
hauling at the polls on election day.
This morbid desire to do in society and in
public affairs all that men do, shows that
these misguided women do not recognize any
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men and women. Contound and destroy this
distinction, and society would lose its chief
charm, domestic life its order harmony, and
happiness, and the cause of morals receive the
ssverest blow ever yet inflicted upon it.
Where would this kind of thing end, If
encouraged and made to prevail There are
different classes of duties in life, to one of
which man is adapted, and to the other
woman. They cannot change places without
the whole order of society being broken up.
They cannot mix up and perform those duties
unfortunately and promisouously, without
producing great disorder and bringing on fear
full evils.
The kind OF spirit manifested by these
women will in the end lead them to
regard it as degrading, and unworthy of such
bright ethereal beings, to wear woman's
crown az wives and mothers. Good gracious
Won't we be in bad fix when it comes Il
thatH Hold on, now, this won't do. Thil
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mothers OF Israel used to regard it as q bless
ing, and the highest glory Of their sex, to be
come the mothers of men. And, remember
| the 'jewels" Of the famous Roman mother
: "the mother of the Gracchi." Tut tut
Let's hear no more OF this. Be women. b
, good.
What do these people want Are they no
j treated with all the respect that mortal coul(
, wish Are they not the objects of chivalrou
courtesy! Are they not loved and cherished
in the domestic circle, and cared for with tn
| utmost tenderness Does not man toll an
struggle for them far more than for himself
Are not the laws just and liberal toward them
and is not every amelioration granted that
needed for their protection What NOR
: would they have II they be just-minded, tru
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8 That they are not satisfied with all thi
a shows that they are miscreationS-that the
4 are yeaIniDg for a masouliuity which natur
1 ! has denied them. They are encouraged in