Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-16
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RUTLAND, THURSDAY MORNING., SEPTEMBER 6

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voice. there her power is immense, &C.
cording to his own concession. Might she
not exercise # in schools, seminaries, &c..
TO 4 disadvantage, and with a damaging
effect upon he'boys and young men who
would thus come under her sway Might
they not become" contaminated with the
idea that they were born for something
else besides to rule, and command, and
exercise final authority and supreme do
minion before the time had come for them
to ~sink the sceptre Of authority" beneath
her dominion Shst as the twig is bent
the tree is inclined s'lf
Mr.. D. does not approve of assumption,
especially Of the false kind-that is right,
especially if demonstrative argument is
attempted. After some talk about the
the creation of man and woman, and about
Christ being the. Word spoken of by John,
he finally decides that man is created in
the image of God, and woman in that Of
Christ. What is this but assumption /?
The simple declaration is that they were
both created in the image of God. an
the image of God created he him !;
male and female created he them" Jesus
exemplifed certain qualities and attri-
butes of the Father. If woman exemplifies
the same, why is it not of her Maker, in
whsoe image she was created, as much as
much as Of Jesus, our sour elder hrother?'
He says much of mans ruling by force
aud will. What force Brute foroe-
animal force Rather by the force or
power of some attribute Which attri-
butte is best as a ruling force? Accord
ing to Jesus, the prominent attribute in
the Father, as well MS in himself, and the
one of all others to be desired in human
beings, is Love. God is Love- Then TO
rule BY force of love is best. Very good.
By this Mr.. D. says women are to draw
all men to them. Would it not be
well for men to take lessons of her, and
try to draw their fellow-men towards
them, instead of dragging them after or
driving them from themselves by the force
of some other attribute, WHICH, by the
speakers account. must be peculiarly
masculine one Z
The family" is the only natural rela-
risn Of mankind. Why? Because this
masculine force is there exerted to drive,
not draw. God draws all men unto him
men to the family home. What keeps
them there The woman, for there he
"sinhs Lis soeptre cf authority beneath the
dominion y the gentle being who was
created TO preside therein"-that is, the
the force that draws or wins is finally
more effective than the masculine force
that drives. That is rational aud nutural
In the kingdom Of force" force of what
attribute !? "tLe woman by nature is not
the equal of man." No matter for that if
ultimately she is to .'draw all men INTO
herr In nature as in Scripture, the one
sex conplemen,s the other, each the half
Of perfect whole, with all the perfumes
and fragranses OF the garden, and the
homo IN the womaus half uf tue sphere,
ard al tho battle axes and implements of
war and punis shment in the half filed by
nan. Curious aud rather Inoongruous
halves one would think to create "per-
feot whole" Certainly this might be ''a
mortal blow at the unity Of the family"
and is truly not an inapt likenese to the
putting of vitriol on your watch to cor
rode and destroy all its delicate adjust
mcnts and move mcnts.'
Now, Mr.. D, does your ACTUAL expert
cnoe warrant you N advancing the
doctrine that there is no place on earth
for woman until man has made her n
home What kind of home did Adam
ever make for Eve? \ pretty sorry one,
according to the account. God made for
both very good one, had they been SEN
sihlc enough to have been satisfied with
it. How many ricn go alone as pioneers,
"to turn the wilderness into a garden and
u home Which lab,rs most to make
the home dcsirable-thc hnsband or wife Z
How with incorporate, proAigatc, spend
thrift husbsnds-.home makers And |
opine that the number Of such is not
few.
Now. if the "force" attribute in the
woman is the most desirable, the most Cod
like, and To ba Tho u.o.t effective i'll tho
end in the family relation, why not in all
social, civil. and government relations,
since all arc for ":he conservation of the
family r And if she is created for final
dominion why should she not exert
moiety Of dominion in the society and in
the government !? Has Mr.. d. really read
history to the effect that female rulers
have been permitted to reign as a neces-
sary evil to fill gap in the line of male
descent And that their reigns "most of
them have been lamentable failures Z"
How many of the hearers and readers OF
his speech have read history to the same
effect
He talks a good deal of the conversa-
tion between his Satanic Majesty and
mother Eve, which, according to his tel
ling, run mostly on female suffrage Moses
record, but brief conversation between
them, the purport Of which was that by
disobeying, not her husband, but God,
in smau thing, she should thereby Sc
cure to herself very great and desirebls
uood. Now since God had never prohib-
tied her voting, Of course this disobedi-
enco could have had no connection with
that enormity. Tnen is Mr.. d. assuming
truly aud fairly that this was tho
case
Again he says Evo went alone, pointing
70 thi. first caucus, at which tho arch
was TO be principal spokesman,