Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-19

world unto her.. The man TO RUE IN tne
kingdom of force and will; the woman to
rule in the kingdom of love, and meek
ness, and good works. Which is the more
honorable, the more influential sphere 2
Even as the law is merely the school
master to lead us to Christ, so is the force
kingdom in which man rules, only the
schoolmaster to drive man to the family
home and altar, there to sink his sceptre
of authority beneath the dominion of the
gentle being who was created to preside
therein.
The family, then, is shown to be the
only natural relation of mankind. All
human institutions, though divinely ap-
pointed, are merely conventional and
functional; and all governments that
have ever been erected by mankind have
had for their great end, the conservation
of the family. The family is the flower
and fruitage of the tree of human gov
eminent. God planted it, woman pre-
sides in it, but men water it and fructify
it, and guard it from the forces that 9TH
erwise would destroy it. Governments
are dykes, and buttresses, and towers OF
defence thrown around it. 1t is the cita-
del into which flee all the inhabitants OF
the earth, as the only place for security,
peace and repose. 1t is where the lives OF
all are for the most part spent, and their
happiness secured. 1t is the semblance OF
Heaven itself.
Now let us look into the divine ordering
of the government of the only natural re-
lation between human beings ever estab-
lished by the Creator, and for the preserv-
alton of which all visible human govern
ments are established. What saith the
divine record? For, l believe the time
has not yet come when | may not appeal
to the Bible as final authority, before an
audience composed of the legislators, and
the citizens of my native State.
The record is, that woman was made
for an help-meet for Adam, not Adam an
help-meet for Eve; nor yet Were Adam
and Eve made simultaneously as an help
meet each for the other. Such is not the
language. The woman, when made, was
brought unto the man; not the man
brought unto the woman. And Adam
said this is bone of my bone and flesh of
my flesh she shall be called woman be-
cause che is taken out of man. Eve did
not say this man is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh he shall be called
man because he was taken out of woman.
Not that she was not bone of Adams bone,
but it was not in her nature to give out
the authoritative utterance of the fact.
And Adam continued Therefore shall a
man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall
be one flesh.
This, sir, is the doctrine of the Holy
Scriptures, but it is not the doctrine of
Lucy Stone, and the leading advocates of
Woman's Suffrage. Every man born into
the world is born into it for the purpose
of filling the place of husband. Every
woman that is born into the world il
born for the purpose of filing the office
of wife. None escape this destiny save
by some exceptional law. The Scripture
saith they shall be one flesh Not so
saith Lucy Stone. They shall not be one
flesh. They shall be two-two in fesh
two in interests, two in government, two
in affections, two in supremacy of will
God created them male and female and
called them Adam. Lucy Stone and Dr.
Blackwell say, not so. ! am not flesh Of
his flesh, quoth Lucy. When the man
and the woman, having passed through
shall be dropped from the fam
lily tree, to fulfill, in turn, their mission
in the union of their seed from which
the place of the old, something like what
is observed in the law of vegetable nature,
the family tree which springs from them
is not to have united root, united
trunk, or united branches, and the fruit
thereof i not to he beautiful ~ rhc ,.te
and pleasant to the TASTE. On The CON
trary this family tree is t. be- separate in
its root, trunk and branches No union
of fibre, or of life-giving substance.
knarled protuberances, unsupported
branches, way ward inclinations, will de-
stroy the harmony of its growth, and it
becomes at last a monstrosity of nature,
by reason of departure from the natural
laws OF its existence.
Lucy says this perverted disposition to
rule which | feel stirring within me,
shows that there is a desire planted with
in me to grasp the sceptrc of force, and
therefore | was made to grasp it. BY
this rule, whenever the unchastcned am
btion Of man leads him to desire TO
therefore equally well that he was made
to usurp it. | will not therefore let God
call me Blackstone, says Lucy. The
thread Of my life aud Of that of my hus-
band shall not coalesce aud run a pleasant
Joyous river 10 the sea, with its waters
commingled, embracing and kissing in
gentle sweetness We will not carry our
worldly goods in the same basket we
will not place them in n common store.
We do not like this divine INTUITION. We
will not call our children Blackwell The
first shall be called Lucy Stone the sec
ond, DIR. Blackwell, and 30 on The con-
tract of marriage shall be contract OF
1t il contrary TO the natu-
raj rights of woman to be called the one
flesh that wears the image Of a triune God.
1t must be in two separate parts and so
each represent only one-half Of Creator.
There are no coalescing affinites between
them by which the flesh becomes one, and
reflects the divine image.
Now, Mr.. President, tho past is full of
examples for our guidance and warming
Lucy Stone finds her prototype in the
first woman that was ever made. Read,
s;r d;y;na historv with me for !, moment