Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-10-19
SO bound to their wives. The theory

selves, not to make themselves strong
md then to give what aid she could.
woman was a mother to his chill
1ren, not her own. Her business was
10 be a wife and mother, and not a
woman. That theory was as rife in
The highly cultivated city of Boston as
it was among the God-forsaken heath
en- in the desert plains of Salt Lake.
John Todd's theory, a theory not on
ly found in John Todd's mouth but in
the mouths of millions of people in
was that the only duty of
woman was that of motherhood-not
at all a matter in a spiritual or men
tai sense, but physically. This was
a theory entirely approved of by the
Mormons. Stripped of all sentiment,
of all glamour, of all delicate words
and exquisite sentences, such was the
real state OF affairs in Utah. 1t was
being stated that women were in fa-
vor of the system of polygamy. They
were. So were the women of Turkey
and Persia in favor Of their system of
selling females from the shanfbles. So
were the women of this land in favor
Of being considered the weaker and
irresponsible portion of mankind. She
had got into conversation with the
first wife of a Mormon, who had been
legally married in England, and who
then loved the man of her choice dear
ly, and could bear that no one should
come between them, but who now was
so callous, so stolid looking, that she
apparently did not care how many
wives her husband had, or if she cared
at all about the matter it was that the
more he had the better she would be
pleased, and she had drawn this wo-
man into conversation and painted to
her her happy English home, and ask
ed her if she had any idea of her hus-
band ever taking to himself another
wife if she would have married him.
Then she saw the real woman her
heart springs had been touched and
she wept bitterly. Women bore the
system; they did not love it. Speak
ing of the Mormon women led Miss
Dickinson to speak in lengthy man
ner of American women. She did not
see why women should be borne down
by trammels Of custom and antiquity
as she was. She (the speaker want
ed to see women as well educated as
men who claimed that privilege be
cause they were going to some pro
fessiOn. Had men ever any duties tC
perform that could compare with those
of women? Did not woman form tht
character of the human race, and fol
such work as that she required, if any
thing, finer tools and more skilliu
hands than man? The absurdities 0
custom She has seen men enjoy them
solves among the Sierra Nevadas o.
= horseback; she had seen that the,
could leap on the horses back, anC
could move freely in the saddle, ridin3
fearlessly by the side of great prec
pices, but she had seen that not on
these things could woman do. |
would be decidedly improper for he
to vault into a saddle. She must wa
tor assistance, and then must be pull
ed and pushed about in hOrribl
l manner, and then afterwards mus
] have help in going down or up hill
! when gentlemen were of course yer
/ ready to assist, aud smiled and looi
5 ed pleased, but at the same time vote
: them nuisanccs and bores. And the
D women could not 90 Into dangerou
/ places because she was so seated 0
a a horse. Miss Dickinson had trie
; both ways. Unjust the same way di
d men and women 90 riding through th
Il world. Man was allowed every Iii
: erty, but this was not the case vii
g womcl. She wanted to see noble
IL types of womanhood and of manhood
1t such types as George William Curt
IS on the one side and Elizabeth Barre
: Browning on the other. The womt
+ were not satisfied with their preSet
n condition, and their dissatisfaction d
u not arise from any women 5 right co
he vention, or anything Of the kind, b
N it was the march OF the age. The tin
d was coming rapidly; the boats h;
= entered the stream, and in them we
te such women as Miss Anthony, Nj
e. Stanton and others, who led the va
n and the banks were surrounded
he men who laughed and jeered, just
Il, they had long ago laughed to SEQ
Ks Phillips and Garrison. But tht
Or scorn would be shortly turned
to praise, as was always the case at |
p success of anything. She counsel
ID women to be sure OF her own self
ne spect, and since God had made heI
le little lower than the angels and crow
NJ ed her with glory and honor, let tht
as see to it, as God himself command
m that no man take their crown.
NV SUDDEN DEATH.-Last Sunday the l
ne atives and friends of Mr.. Q. F. Wiley
or this town, received the sad intelligence
cd the sudden death of his wife Abbie (Sc
- ers) Wiley. They had for many years
''e sided in San Francisco, had been spend
s" a few weeks on visit to their parents
re Danville and vicinity, and were on til
ot return trip, via Pacific railroad. On
"' morning of the % of last month, when n
as Sacramento, Mrs. w. complained of fl
10 ing i'll, and rapidly became worse, so a,
mo- be unconscious. On arriving at Sacram
to about noon, she was conveyed to
NV house of her sister-in-law MRS. Lyon,
ut lieve) and expired in a few hours.
ell cause of her sudden death is attributed
-, the bursting of blood vessel in the he
The deceased was about 35 years of /
70 was a daughter of Mr.. James Somers
In this town, was an atfectionate wife and me
i'm er and leaves doting husband, one
-. about five years old, and many relati
i"' and friends, both here and in Califor
~, to mourn her untimely departure.-N
lal Star.
ms -
en- WAS IT A JUDGMENT "A well-tC
by farmer. living on bottom lands below L
,ca low, when the water began to rise
~ Monday, got help and hauled his corr
ZIG to high ground, making the remark
va God or the water could not reach it nc
ere Feeling satisfied with himself, and ST
sh lIa a ms less ioIet4a'e th n1 wei
led and find eveTv ear of corn gone. The W
co. had risen till it had reached the bank,
led then washed away both bank and cor
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