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

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low The parallel out. And the serpent
said unto to the woman Eve, aye shall
not surely die; ior God doth know that
in the day ye eat thereof, thine eyes shall
BE- opened, and ye shall be as gods know
ing good and evil" And SO the serpent
said unto the modern woman, Lucy aye
shall not surely die, nor lose thy influence
in the kingdom of the affections wherein
thou vast made to rule over man; for
God doth know that in the day ,ye leave
the domestic hearth; when thou quittest
the practice of the lovely female virtues in
the lowly places of the earth; when thou
forgettest thy sucking babe, and resortest
to the political caucus, thy delicately at
tuned nature strung to the highest tension
of ungovernable' passion, and thou forcest
thy way to the ballot with the heat of a
six months bitter canvass, in thy heart,
and with it forcest down President and
councillors of state, and commanded
others to take their places then shall
thine eyes be opened, and ye shall be as
gods,-that is-as one of these men
knowing how to win BY the force of thy
physical strength and mental will, as well
as by thy softer, and more exquisite, and
more spiritual nature" Now see the sad
results of woman out of her sphere, and
fallen into temptation under the prompt
ings of her excited condition, in both of
these cases. And when the woman, Eve,
saw that the tree was good for food, and
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a
tree to be desired to make one wise, she
took of the fruit thereof and did eat.
And when the woman, Lucy, saw that the
tree of government by force of will and
physical strength, was good for the pro
lection of the family and that it is pleas
ing an army in the face of stubborn foe,
and Captain Rynder with club in his
brawny hand marshalling an army of
voters to the polls, in the name of equal
rights, she said, in the language of Juliet,
but not with the same meaning: "She
wished that God had made her such a
man" And now she only waits to par
take of this forbidden fruit, to have her
eyes opened to the nakedness of her situ-
alton, which no amount of fig leaves will
conceal from the mingled scorn and pity
Of the world.
This, Mr.. President was the first female
political caucus of which we have any
record. By fair intendment we are left to
infer that the woman attended that eau
equal right with her husband to vote
She went in the cool of the evening, in
the shade of the garden, and there
meet the great tempter, the father Of the
present attempt to produce, by the same
means, second fall, who was there before
her, and ready to ply her with an ingen-
ious speech on Woman Suffrage. Shall
she partake of the forbidden frnit is
the political question submitted to her.
Into her hands she takes a ballot She
has no desire to partako Of this fruit at
the first approach. Then the sly tempter,
opened he his mouth. In soft speech he
said deferentially to the woman: Hath
God so made thee with that delicate form
smooth skin, and spiritual face; with
those warm affections always attuned to
answer to the first note of suffering, as
the harpstrIng responds to the slightest
breath; hath He thus indicated to thee
that thy sphere is the kingdom Of love,
and that only by remaining in it shalt
thou rule therein but that thou shall not
taste of the tree of the kingdom Of force,
with its word Of command, and cannon to
execute; its ballot, and bayonet to en-
force ?" And to this the woman replies
eve may rule III the sphere OF the affect
ions, and have all its various exalted off
ces Of great and shining honor and glory
but the tree of the government Of force,
the command is both in seriptural Ian
guugc. aud In the voice OF nature, a. ut
tered in my -lrpder franz. my ETHEREAL
sway over man through ~ affections;
thou shalt not eat" But to this sensible
speech of the woman, the tempter replies,
by appealing to her unchastened ambition
She is told that she is the equal of man in
all respects shat they are not one flesh,
and she can fill his sphere as we'll as her
own That she will look the very chief
tain when mounted on charger and
waveing sword or cimitar, as uuch as if
she had been given a flowing beard, "A
brawny arm, an iron leg, and a marble
that nature has adapted for the display
of the qualities of masculinity. And the
womdn's vanity is touched, and her natu.
raj curiosity aroused, and she casts the
first ballot. This, in essence, was the
disobedience Of the first woman. She
voted to leave her own sphere, to act with
out her husband, and in disregard of his
divinely appointed head-ship. She met
with her fall in the political caucus,
where she went unprotected by her hus-
band, and being unsexed by voting to cat
the forbidden fruit, forgetting her duty
Of meek obedience to her husband, she
gave him also Of til. fruit, this fruit of
female suffrage, and he did cat And
40 from the first ballot thrown by "A wo-
man, in the very morning it may have
been Of the first day Of her creation, have
come all the woes that have fiiicted the
human race For this great offence, this
unhappy woman was again reminded by
her Maker that her desires should be un-
to her husband, and that he should rule
over her and that henceforth, in punish
ment for her disobedience, her SORROWS
and conception should be greatly multi
piled and in sorrow should she bring
forth children.
Here, sir, we see the first effects of this
agitation. 1t was a question of public
policy, lying out of doors, and beyond