Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-24
Vermont Daily Transcript,
ST. ALBANS, VT:
FRIDAY, July "a, 1868.
Revolutionary.

proposes that women shall enter the
trades and professions, and compete on
an even scale with that terrible anita"
zionist of humanity known to natural
lists as man. In some way, it appears to
Mrs. f. Cady Stanton, the masculines
Of the genus homo have got the upper
hand In the organization called society,
and rule the gentle females with a
rod ofiron, SIR" Like any being hav-
ing good share of the milk of human
Kindness Mrs. Stanton espouses the
cause OF the dear weaklings, (whereas
man would espouse the weaklings them
Selves and puts her knightly lance,
quill, in rest for tilt against the wrongs
of organized society.
1t strikes our mind forcibly that Mrs.
Stanton has not read or reasoned much
about that portion of the world which
lies without the limits of the United
States. or she would see that, so far as
giving women chance at trades and
professions is concerned, the most FEAST
BILE plan would be for them to emigrate.
What could be better than the facilities
furnished in Holland which enable
women to draw canal boats, thus maxi
ing the saying almost true, that "beau-
ty draws us by single hair? Or the
freedom which enables women in
France, and Spain, and Italy, to devcl-
Ope their muscles and complexion at
work in the fields on an equal with the
"bearded pandoor," man? Or which
permits her to weigh out tea or sugar,
and draw treacle, and deal in meat at the
greasy market, and dispute (what a
blessed privilege y with men over the
prices and the payments? All these
privileges may be had in foreign coun-
tries, if not here at home, at price
cheaper than that of soap, which is
"cheaper than dirt" as everybody
knows, The price, as is apparent, con-
sists in loss of some of the feminine
graces. 1t would seem that they, and
not eternal vigilance, are portion, at
least, of the price of liberty.
Mrs. StantOn's paper has been gently
reminded by the male press that women,
when received into the employments
usual to men do not pursue them with
success, for not "business,' as we term
it, but matrimony is the sine qua non
with them. To this Mrs. S. replies in
the last number of the Revolution "a fol-
lows:
"That is exactly what we propose to
remedy. BY educating every girl to the
virtue and dignity of self-suppOrt, she
will concentrate her forces and talents
on some trade or profession. What
Rosa Bonheur, Harriet HOsmer, Anna
Dickinson, and Maria Mitchell have
done, in spite of cOnventiOnalisms, in
the face Of public sentiment, many more
women will do when everything is done
for their encouragement in these direc-
tions."
To this the New York Sun replies:
The Revolution evidently purposes
to "remedy" the natural desire Of
women to have husbands, and families,
and homes of their own.
But what is liberty without security
in its enjoyment? 1t is only the shadow,
without the substance and so Mrs.
Stanton proposes to secure the substance
by loosening the hold which man now
has upon woman through that old
fashioned relation called "the marriage
relation" She says:
"The wisest possible reform we could
have on this whole question is to have
no legislation whatever. The relations
of the sexes are too delicate in their ma
ture for statutes, lawyers judges, jurors,
or our public journals to take cognizance
of or regulate. There is something
mOnstrous aud degrading to both man
and woman, for two persons to live to-
gether as husband and wife, where there
is so much antagOnism as to admit of
violence on any occasion whatever"
Why Mrs. Stanton! What do you
mean? 1t seems to us that this is moth
ing more nor less than an effort to turn
humanity completely out to grass, and
hasten "the winter of our discomfort"
1t is indeed revolution and we do not
wonder that the late Democratic con-
vention received your woman's rights
resolutions with peals of laughter.
Probably many of the delegates had
heard that "rights" Of the kind claimed
were exercised with mo legislation
whatever" even in the city of New
York, and not to the credit of the city.
We give Mrs. Stanton credit for not
knowing i'm all its breadth and depth
what she is driving at and that is the
only cover which charity can throw
over such unconscious shame.
LEATHERN MEN.-Mr. Henry II.
Tuckerman thus discOurses of the
"Leathern Men" in the August num-
r 49,. n