The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-06-02
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

! ulafy ANNIVERSARY week." 1t seems
that all the benevolent societies got NJ
for the enlightenment of the benightei
in that region, to say nothing of til,
Inhabitants of "Boribaghoola Cha,
and other distant places, hold thei1
anniversaries in the same week ani
make the city of Gotham vocal with
ohe common incoherent pow-wow.-
During Anniversary week" New York
puts on its best livery. The occasion
ranks in dignity with the reception OF
Kossuth, the ovation to Jenny Lind,
and the .tWore over Japanese Tommy,
and approaches in grandeur the enthu-
siastic assemblies which raised volun-
teers among these pious people, charg-
ed with the christian duty of cutting
their brothers. threats. There meets
the "Abolition Society" which has not
ceased to put forth it's TRADES against
slavery and shareholders, notwith-
standing the fact that the hold
er's Occupation is gone" and the slave
has been elevated above the legal sta
tus of the white man in every Ameri-
can state that ever tolerated slavery
There, too, meets the "Yankee Bible
Society" whose duty it is to furnish
bibles to the disciples of Confucius and
Zorooster, and never dreams of the
necessity of furnishing the truth to any
body under four thousand miles from
home. There, too, meets the "Tract
Society" p1ously devoted to the dis
semination of the dogmas of the "real
"reprobation" or "free- will"
among the contented denizens of some
tropical climate, who perhaps never
heard of any god but the fetisch which
receives his daily sacrifice. There is
the "Dorcas Society" making up gar
ments for little "picaninies on the
banks of the Jollba," while thousands
Of miserable women are crowded in the
New York novels with scarcely en-.
'ugh rags on their filthy bodies to hide
heir nakedness.
But we cannot mention all these as
;ociations for the benefit of those who
ire supposed to be so much worse than
he members thereof. The Herald,
With its ten-cilinder presses and quad
'uple edition does not pretend to be
lble to print or hold everything that is
aid or done during "anniversary
week." We will allude briefly to only
me bright particular Society, which
eld conspicuous place in the public
stimation during anniversary week."
t calls itself the "American EQUAL
lights Association" and processes to
ave for it's object the elevation of the
emale race to the position which in
ivilized countries has long been mon
polized by the sterner sex. This
ssociation has been gradually spread
lg among the Northern women, until s
'oman's Rights meetingsare held, and
,eeches made by masculine females, {
almost every important Northern
ty. We at the South are free from
~ such exhibition and can, there
re, afford to treat the whole thing
18th indifference; but it is not SO with
crthern men, under whose very noses :
ese brazen women have thrust their ,
fensive doctrines. Thoughtful men 8
ew the whole movement with alarm, +,
I'd think they see in it the gradual 7
piping of the foundation Of Northern y
male modesty, refinement and virtue.
long as the movement was confined =
the Lucy Stones, the Cady Stantons d
d other crack-brained fanatics, they <
ought it was harmless enough, but &
poison has spread among those who G
re born for better things, until i
ung ladies, some of whom are de- u
ibed as "being in their teens" r
Ike daily exhibitions of themselves
the rostrum, and cater to the cor A
1t tastes of the vulgar, the illiterate ~
the wicked. Hence it is not at all y,
likely that the Woman question: 90
i soon find its way into Northern D.
ltlcs as it has already taken it's place III
an important element in Northern 9.
gion and Northern literature. n
10 our mind the phenomenon is by
means an unaccountable one, and til
readily traceable to the peculiar pc
lper of the Northern people, and to til
distinguishing features of their or sa
airy social life. The Northern mind. wi
ether male or female, lives on ex- an
'ment. As the Northern man graf pu
his excitement by the forum, the tic
tings, the theatre and the battle
d, so woman's excitement must find
ent in some manner, which, while ".
lay differ in kind, must afford as M
'plete relief. The pulpit, the lee -
Groom and the sickbed may do for
lille, but these women will be sat So
ID with nothing less than the elect FIR
franchise, and share in the politi
Of this country.
this Northern female excitability VI"