Litchfield enquirer., 1869-06-17
pr. Bushnsil ssI. woman,s Suffrage.

Fridays SH Hartford Poss contains a crit ioue of Dr. Bushnell,s forthcoming work against female suffrage.11 It is hardly fair
 to judge Bhm upon svidsncs mainly hear heaa.
 say; but. if the extracts given are fair spe- cimens ofaDr. aBushnell's style of reason- ing, the book viii fall far below the gene ral expectations so Nevertheless, we find i'm i'm portant facts admitted against woman's present ssphers::ss 2a.'Thers is . terrible ennui upon them a want, of motive, op.. portunity, possibility (which would even make it pardonablep pto break out in almost any sort os resolt or widest sadly 2 z have on hand, ,llnhs .isays again, sssssa vast overstock of single women, dying, as it were, of ennuf, suffocated in the feeling tsaE tpfs i gpssjaG asS ssd hass ss.s;Sy sssI put; but what is the. remedy? | Here vus wv are forced to take the language aofp Dr. Bushnellfs admiring critic: Female edu. cation, drass.itha subject nature.'' and the grace of women, g, all to be cultivated on some improved plan; in short, frivolity,i fashion, or tbsa eternal polishing of tools. she is debarred from using, We cannot believe till We sse it in his own words, that such is Ds DsBpshhetls plan for womans life. Waiare yfurther cpnYinced that he has justsmviemsiaofs shHr snecessities, 8 from what he ssysi regarding eIprofessions. He saos ro osee:ssa.t;ss p,tl,r,l,;n a,rss
 doctors. aficelawgeraa sclarksmof courts,, &c. nor eseaiiwlsa the afgament carries hlm towafas ths, pull pfitt, does he shy, badly Unlike -tAat sPiessed v inpocsnt,a Bishor Potter, he does not propose that woman should be drained to do the Clergyman $ parish wDHk, and let him take th e, pay. This phase dftthe qaestieh suggests a qneer case hog S. 4 M rsssa Van ggsf i
 preaching JaiaM aMethlQ9idlfsts Canrches, 1 wit
 wonderfnsnpDtse and ef feet, I.cony nyartins X many, it fsGsa ;;Laal a Methodist Confei. ence is i8i ssssassi5ah ddssbating whether tiif letter ofsthss aaYhl leibwoparpits men to, be conyert6SSy1oA ysaaolss sshiastfaiioaE cs Ica
 Whatever may be Dr. Bs.aa.sll.s uews oi mellaR asb fi,ilassf on thag . gEeai EEseaifrags $ qaestossilai adahxsiacct etiDa sn i aI tlIa first plaSes' clai,1sssH ncks tie reang ite thhhdssiissaln nstpp pp yslcal strength tly,, man is srastiy .shperion. and the base ir in his voideand the 'shagson iis faee,i and the swing 4na sypya q his is shoulders rep: p resent a. .ReEsonalityin him thai has ssoin., attributsS6fsshuads. But hthere isIan.a look of thunder in the woman. Her skirs Is too iaelg wogsn. tooriwonderfuily deli, cate to es'she rugged housing of thunder.'a
 If by,tss tnnpnder,s is meant Innete physical force -pogeEain hehassanlt and batter, ' line-thent theabull dog should be aenfran.. chised, for bis pluck beats hand Buti, moral stta6a is meant the arsssr rsyersn,d nd zen, , tleman is all wrong. Compare Elixabafh with the common run of English mon. arohs.- Js1lsAes, Chafls lssies,a ssies and thsse lite: Dickens and q George Elliott r the two, h., !, living noxelistss malss and fsmalss in hieh-, est repusSadaid i'd whsreis the sfhnndsr?sl
 If DfBpshnslf suftageg visss is;n m are cor. or, rectly presented in thaSR Roskp he seems ops posed n0tsoaly.soi iwomsn,s voting, but e anybody Voting. He falls fonl Of the Declaration of Independanoe. and suggests the c@iasse as the sbaat mode of sselecting rulers sDstylesof fconsesvstis rather morea plucky ahsn spopaAr, xsls xs shodld guess. sasii
 We cstnot help ! few xlords of comment. ,a,,ass on 1ne 6eiioEing portion of tho .Posf,s crit. ,clsm ;+ Next comes tho oomparisor .of historical yomen xitA men: Isabala f,,,f.] oi FerdiSaqd q spsin. , and slissb.sS h KY a1) Engiand. are called np and -nade D, - swer whstAef thsir power, Bas l3or,snss,...s h.
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