Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-11-16
correspondence.
8 For the Newsiealer.
Criticism ON Horace Greeley's No
lions of WOman's Suffrage.
Isoe Newsletter Of Oct, 10th

quite TO peurile for me TO waste my paper
and ink in comments.
Notion 5th.-You say, 81 affirm the
right of woman to do whatever she can do
WE'LL" etc. On the right track, there,
Brother Horace.
Again, II would have her work BY her.
self, or with companions of her own sex"
Why not go a step father, and say like
the Shakers, she should eat only 'with
companions of her own sex?" For years
7 worked in a room wherein were scores
of both sexes, and without ever hearing
or dreaming of "gross Irregularities and
corruptions," and with as much purity OF
soul as | could have had spending my
time on embroidery and fashion-plates, IN
the parlor at home. Woman, when dire
n ,"s StY sagPGs5fbr each trial.
eacb coarse rebuff she meets shall put
serve to make her soul grow purer ana
and stronger.
Tn Notion 7th-You say, +" l wish the
: women of our country and Of each State
would choose their wisest and best to as
semble as delegates, consider the needs
y and wrongs of their sex, and memorlalise
&c Cong, ess,'' etc. That's just like man
II awkward way of doing things. Let me
At .ol, Won orr wisest and best have some
N thing to do Of more Importance, than meet
s. inc, talking and memorialising Congress
We and think they will be far more likel,
en- ., to walk quietly to the ballot-box NheneNYe
tn they hear the still small voice Of conscleno
~ whispering snow is the time 60, for"ar
all and do your duty" and there deposit
OF vote, and then as quietly return to the
'c- own Efe-work, leaving that bit OF paP'
M to work its own destiny upon the fate
d. the nation; leaving also the meenn
az, talking and electioneering for man to &c
'n0 Again, you remark, And beng Gle
1r- otad on comm tees with such men as th
en- would find therein" All, then, |, seei
OF among the best and wisest men OF our
TO tion. even members of Congress, there
10" those to be found not pure enough Tor
'lon mans associate !! .
we And yet, let me ask IS there one "
ives is not petted and lionised and smiled VI
row. hv woman? nay, more, is there o. g 20 VIII
Inc YOU do not yourself extend the hand
z4o fellowship ? even to that arch-tra'tor
Davis? or has yours already become Coz
and impure? if 50 how can you assoc
. ~ consistency, is thy name Horace GreeI
H Wv. 8th.-Again you say, "Of my Sc
}" 20 children but two remain, both girls
s"'o that accounts for all your old fogy pr
'i'' dice. Had you living sons ready t
''0"' drawn into the whirlpool OF political
sipation the mothers fears would
Has teach you why the wisest and best VIC
"i'ii' Of our land ate arousng, not to the q
''aN' of voting, but to the necessity OF IT.
D. '"o can it be otherwise when they sec
anu best and brightest of our youths draw
D"A' to vice and dissipation, just throug
this political chicanery at which you
also Is not my sons soul worth just as
u cat in Gods sight as my daughters?
i''enu must | sit in anguish at home, anC
''''"'' that son ruined, when my vote may
10 s'' rumseller, or gambler out OF office
TO oe- women vote will there be such an
"'00N of vice and crime, in high places, as
now is y Then, will libertine and
derer be rewarded by an appentm
Minister to some foreign court? l
~ not, for woman looks not to party,
s resi- purity; and that is the very reas
O'Clock many men oppose their voting Me
S fami- have some pet sin they wish to hid
es, his l.now that woman's purity and keene
tn him ception of the right. will never alloy
with sins in official stations; and her I
years. vote will do more towards purfgin
zen an elevating the nation, than all the
e next reform societies, temperance societi
f license laws, as enforced by man.
world has yet seen.
eF' Pure minded men throughout ii
:. ii. know this, and, Beecher-like, II
at his reaching out hand Gus, saying, .
alt past sister, vote with us; we need your
uprooting this great fraud, in ba
that monster vice"
i"r'- Your borrowed troubles portf'
y Pia'e, Notion 9th are to be laughed at.
He had -. n,;,h those Tim
having h ~ ! eam ,ears AGO. cried O
Iie III, don't free tho negroes the North
'Y V'Ht'.''S'0 throngod with them They viii '
"" ~ marry our girls Y and who dealt OF
! money er sarcasm than yourself for that
- leaves worrying clasp The Negro wa
because it was his God-given rig
III. r. free, and let us not fear TO trust
i House, ''iu'"o0' ~, - r.oa,ou
- IN want meat nicely cooked why not
We ". L. uanrsnlf and gee hnW Won like /