Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-07-13

stood true soldier of His Cross. By far
more converts are shown to the repulsive
doctrines of the devil than have received
the signet of the Redeemer.
VIZ woman in any degree humanize the
vile horde that throng about the polls in
our large cities, by simple association with
them? Why can she not perform that i'm
pOrtant missionary work as well in her own
home, where her true undisputed empire is,
where she reigns supreme, where her lntu-
ence can be and is felt ten fold more than
in any other place? If she cannot check
vice at home, how shall she control it alb
road? Are not questions to the point?
Answer them, We advocates of female suf-
| frage. ...r-
| We are told, among other things, that
our present suffrage law is not democratic,
in that it denies the right of representation
where there is taxation hence woman is
| abused; therefore she should have the bal
lot How far would this remedy the mat
ter? Would there then be perfect equal
lty? In few unimportant cases-say one
to thOusand-there might be an improve
ment, where a female is doomed to a life
Of single blessedness to help make the laws
that Cypress her; but to those who are now
or expect to be-united to the present
lords of creation" the case could not be
bettercd, since man would still continue to
bear the burdens of taxation, unless those
who now clamor for female suffrage see fit
to 20 a little further and declare that woman
shall be equal with her husband in right of
property, which is just as good-if not bet
ter--sense than the proposition to give her
the ballot. The laws in respect to taxation
are not equal in other respects than where
woman is concerned. Minor children who
have guardians are taxed, yet they cannot
vote here is more injustice. Unnatural
lied citizens of foreign birth are taxed, yet
| they cannot vote Quakers can vote and
10 pay taxes, but they are excused from
military service; another manifest Unequal
ity. If our female suffrage friends are go
ing to remodel, renovate, or convert the
world, they had best turn it upside down
at once and leap into their modern Utopia
at single bound. No law can possibly
be framed so as to hit every individual
case. 1t is impossible in the nature Of
things, and man must have more of the Di.
vine wisdom and goodness than he now
possesses, before he can make things bet
ter. That happy dream may yet be real
lied, though we fancy the day that ushers
in female suffrage will not tend to bring il
to pass. Give the ballot to woman and il
that hour you destroy the peace of the do
nestle hearth, sink the woman in the poll
-ician and reduce man as the head Of the
family to a second position in the house
uold. Either the man or the woman mus
manage the farm, the shop, the store-ta
king the general oversight. One should
yield to the other; there ought to be nc
middle ground. Which shall yield? Mar
was made to rule the world, to subdue it, tC
reduce it to subsection, to have domin.
ion over it, as we are told in Holy Writ
that the woman's desire shall be to hel
husband and he shall rule over her" Tn.
Ill then the advocates of female suffrage
can present some stronger ADLER and Older
arguments than are found in the word of
God to confute their theories, we must no
he reckoned as one of their converts. The
behests Of the Almighty and the dictate:
Of common sense forbid the alliance of the
sexes in the government of the world. "NC
man may put off the law of God" Their
let us hear no more about breaking dow
barriers that are cocval with the creation
and which are part of the Divine econo
my, but rather let us march forward in The
correction Of old errors and old abuses
leaving the tender plant by our side to ad
wise, admonish and soothe in the hour OF
adversity-her true sphere, her proper vo
cation.