Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-16

there are connected with it "persopal
rivalries, growing day by day in bitter
nesa, breaking ont in family feuds that
last for life" Under such considerations
would not the exercise of a natural right
be more satisfactory and oreditable than
the exercise of this unnatural one? Or,
rather, would not the just and impartial
exercise Of this natural right be more de-
sirable in its results? Suppose a trial
should be made Of universal suffrage and
its real fruits be ascertained by actual ex-
pertinent before it is SO bitterly de-
nouncedp Will not the people know if
they have warmed viper to life in their
own bosoms, and, unlike che man in the
fable, can they not cut off its head when
it begins to sting them? ,,
-. The. natural lay OF TIE, SEX woman y
shosld, likes any other law, correspond to
the condition of the thing or being to
which the law pertains. Now the na.u-
rl cnntlitiou of iwomRn, according to the
strict letter Of the Mosaic account. and
which Mr. D. Will Of course chserfully
concede, was =" an help-meet for Adam
Meet that ia, fit, suitable, proper, quail
Hed. Nor was this condition gainsayed,
or reversed, or nulliAed, after the trans
gression. A fearful penalty was pro
nounced upon the pair in consequence of
the transgression, but think any un-
prejudiced Judge y ill decide that, that Of
the man was worse than that of the wo-
man. md that he would in the future
really need help quite as much as she
would. And accordingly .he ren,ained
after the transgressioa as she was first
created, u kelp-mest for man.
Now II the Consequences of mans
voting are as fearfnlly shocking as Mr.. d.
describes them, the love of office has
depRyed the moral sense and blunted
the otherwise keen sagarity Of our peo-
pie. 1t ia this bane and may be the down
fall Of the republic. This love of office
should pe ogad,eated from our young men.
And who. could better do iE than our
mothers, our wives and daughters - l
do not in ths least doubt the correctness
of his statements, for he spenks from an
ex xporience Of which | am entirely and
thankfully ,gnoran, say If be il cor
rect, then, if III any one thing more than
another man needs help, it is III this mat
ter of voting. Believing this to be tho
fact, iH accordance with her nat,i. al be-
nevolence and sympathy, woman, freely
and unselfshly, comes forward and ten
ders her best assistance in his great need.
And since man is in such terrible di-
lemn.i, a,co,ding The adlnitted word Of
this Websterian e4pounder CT ,uau's pes
Gu lar rights, would not lac Ohio man do
well to seize hold of the hand (thc wo-
mans so generously extended 10 his aid,
and try if he caunot thereby reach more
agrceablc and desirable tcITd fyma!
Drowning men catch even at straws~ II
he finds up"t trial that she u helping
him to marshy rather th,n firm ground,
he can easily jump into the water again
Ho cannot be worse of TIA IN the descrip-
tion now makes him.
But to be- candid: | believe with tho
speaker that woman may allay much Of
this excitement She may allay the pas
sions Of man with her own sweet nature.
Ever since her creation she has been in
ono way and another exercising her inlu
ence upon man, but not as yot to the ex-
tinction OF the Taoe vi Hyndor not as yet
to the destruction Of the present inherent
evil Of tho elective system of government.
She is aware Of this, and that she may
help to do this, as we'll az to remedy the
legion of evils with which the existing
system of voting is fraugbt, she now de-
mands a share-her right-in the elective
franchise. And that this demand is not
confined to q "few eccentric fernalos, and q
class of politicians who can hope for no
repute in treadiny the old ways" Mr. d.
can easily satisfy himself by reading the
reports of the common daily affairs, not
only in these United States, but in Eng
land and on the European continent.
Whoever guages his estimation OF the di-
mcnsions and value of the woman's suf-
s. 1,ono,nont hv What be sees in MI.
n,s ea;.,a - .a;,hhorhood or in the
S. g. . IS vsrmon, Vii End himself s,dlv
- t,n,, il III. renkonin.
Mr.. d. would gallantly concedo to
woman "a controlling voice in the mauage-
mept Of the schools and semiuaries of
learning" &c. Why would not acting
ego far al Ia proper" in suoh spheres, rem
der her "a thing OF deformity and devas-
tation," place her ia an attitude Of defor-
nifty and ugliness, ~ much As II she e1-
erciped a controlling voice in other