The Portland daily press., 1869-01-16
DAILY PRESS.
ND.
Saturday Morning, January l6, 1869.
Woman Suffrage.
PORTLAND

| OTHER OBJECTIONS DISPOSED OF.
But women are inferior to men, the female
being always inferior to the male 1t is the
man that wears beard the lion that carries
a name, the male bird that sings and wears
magnificent plumage, &c. &c &c.
Partly true and partly false. "Wherefore
send me beard.ess boy?' said the Dey of
Algiers to an English Admiral, who demand
ed redress. eff it had been supposed that
wisdom was in the beard" said the Admiral,
"His Majesty would have sent you he
goat" The queen-bee, that governs the
whole commonwealth and has thousands OF
husbands, is said to be female. 1t is the female
with bids OF prey, she being the larger and
stronger and firmer, that rules the roost; it is
the mare that is most valued among the
Arabs who are capital judges of horse-fesh; ;
and Flora Temple, and Lady Suffolk, and
other celebrated racers, were all shes; Eliza
beth of England, Maria Teresa Boadicea.
and ever so many more earthly monarchs,
conquerors, rulers and statesmen, have al
ways passed for women, &c. &c. &c. Are YOU
answered?
But it women were inferior-if it were all
true-what then? Are the weakly, the
beardless, the ieebler of intellect, or even the
unidentified - short of helpless idiocy =
among males, denied the right of suffrage?
Let our lawgivers answer. Are all men
equals in bodily strength and in intelIectp-
apply the same law and how many men would
be allowed to vote?
By what standard are we to measure
woman? By the man standard, or the woman
standard?
In the beginning, it is said-do you be-
heve it, you who deny the equality of wo-
man THAT "God createdsman in his own
image, male and female created He them ?,
Which then was the inferior? Subordna-
ton domestic subordination for certain
purposes, and to certain extent, without
which there would have been no peace in the
first families, followed; but was this the SUBJ
ordination of soul or intellect, of under
standing or consci ence?
Identity is one thing-sim ilarity another
and inferiority still another. Similarity, not
identity, was the law. Whence therefore the
suggestion of iIferiority?
Because men and women are unlike. does
that show which is the superior? Man. tried
by the woman-staniard, would fare no bet
ter than woman tried by the man-standard.
if difference implied inieriolity. There is,
| and there can be no common standard for
both, any more than there could be Tor fruit.
age and flowers, mountains and rivers, or
| birds and beasts. Each must be tried by its
own standard, by the perfection OF its own
peculiar and characteristic nature.
But the little leaven is working every
where and all these will soou be acknowledg-
ed truths, and the whole lump-the very
word for our puipose-wil soon be leavened
with common sense. Meanwhile, to show
the truth, If no. the whole truth, about the
estimation in which women are field, not by
| the hen-pecked, nor by those who are afraid
TO trust their own wives and mothers, daueh-
ters and sisters, let me give two illust rations,
adding that L am constantly meeting with
men had never suspected of being with us,
able, distinguished and leading men here,
who declare that we are right, and that they
have always entertained substantially the
same views-or if not always, for many years.
| But to the point.
| nave now IN my possession a very clever
| French caricature, representing a man and
woman walking in smart shower. The wo-
man is stepping along dantily on her toes, in
thin slippers and muslins; the man wears a
great coat with two or three capes, and high
boots, and carries large umbrella, which,
while it protects him entirely, pours stream
OF water down his wite's-she must be his
wife-down his wife's neck. TUNES jamais
contente," he says, looking at her over his
shoulder, while she works her passage through
the gutter. And so other men saw TO all tn.
women about them, ii they ask for resogni
tion OF equality, or a share in the commonest
privileges-"Go to! You are neuer satisfied
Only week or two ago met with the fol-
lowing paragraph, which proves to demon.
stratlon now women are regarded by men
notwithstanding all their professions:
On Saturday an accident, which mioht
Auoe peen dttended aotth sad results, took
place in this city (Paris). A bricklayer. bav-
ing lost his balance. tell from the sixth story
OF house to the street Fortunatelu. two
women, who were chatting on the sidewalk
received the falling man on their heads and
broke his fall. The bricklayer was taken ur
safe and sound. he bystanders shudde1ee
to think that, but tor lucky chance, the ac
cident would have cost him bis life. The t,cc
aconaen aoere instantly killed.
Beautiful, exceedingly! And how conclu
sive to show the relative worth of women
and men-two women being equal to one
bricklayer by the price current.
Dec. 81, 1868. JOHN NEAL.
P.S. Shall We begin the New Year with 9
resolution to be jast-God helping usp AL
IN favor OF the proposition will say Ay. The
| ayes have it, God save tha connrnonmoal.h