The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-08-03

81 tie vote. &. 8en a8t Use Bad ual
would ta pas ~ where there are hiiy
selected nos The voting q walnea 4
woah IL The siliing q. men through
Ont the nation.
Nos. t8e laomcnt y9u bring into orr
pubae affairs woman Influence her
stronger mural seuhment. Der love O.
dIs.nterested kindness. her deep sad
incra5lcablo sentiment % purity Der
moral courage and faith 10 al that IS
good, her warnings and aspirations for
the higher, serenef, and more heavenly
truths and knowledge the moment
you bring together IN public a1alrs
wrile strength and female refinement
then you vii have Gods foundation for
more purity and public peace and
great moral interests and questions Of
humanity viii take the place u selfish
moss and miserable quarrelng expedi-
ents The principles will be discussed
and applied, and the legislation will
grow heroic again.
II women we've To vote there would
be an end Of innocent voting places.
-
II father and mother, husband and
wife, brother and sister, men and wom-
an, inspired by the sanctity Of patriot
ism, we're TO 90 forth together to vote,
do you suppose that your elections
would be characterized by the yulgari-
~ and violence which now detile them ?
What is there in depositing vote
that would subject woman to such
peculia exposure A woman, in drop
ping letter into the post Office, is
made more public, and is fall as much
indicate as in deposihng her vote
A vote is the simplest the neatest, the
most unobtrusiye thing imaginable
THIS white slip Of paper drops as quiet
~ and gently as a snow fake on the
top Of the Alps, but, like them, when
collected, they descend like avalaaches
Woe be to the evil which they strike
Let the man who is the most iastidious,
who prides himself most on his refine
ment, If he can, with the vote Of a
woman--a thing that Is 80 easy so sim
pie, but that would carry into hnman,
affairs power almost like the right
hand of the Almighty
To day the proudest throne on the
globe is honored by woman.
No person is shocked that she is at the
head of the empire. Every reason
urged against a larger liberty for
woman is illustriously confuted by the
dignity, purity and womanly propriety
with which Victoria stands before her
empire and before TIE world.
1t is only woman without title"
that must have no privileges, Woman,
in her own simple SELF with nothing
but what God has given her, plain,
democratic woman, is not deemed
worthy Of honor aud publicity. With
a crown on her brow, she may enter
parliament and govern empires. With
her own simple virtues, she may not
lift up her hand to cast vote. If she
represents power, state, an art, a
class, if she only stands upon an aris-
tocratic base, she is INDUCED. But
woman in her own nature, and repre-
senting her own self is disowned and
rebuIed Now, as a Christian demo-
crat, assert for her every right and
every privilege that aristocracy accords
to her
Geo. W. Curtis, in the New York
constitutional Convention, says
cit seems to be thought that if
women practically took part in politics,
the home would be left bowling
wilderness of cradles, and chaos Of
undarned stockings and buttoDless
shirts. But how is it with the men ?
Do they desert their workshops, their
plows and offices to pass their time at
the polls ? Is it credit to a man to be
called professional politician ? The
pursuits OF men in the world, to which
they are directed by the natual aptitude
of sex, and to which they must devote
their lives, are as foreign from politi
cal functions as those of women. To
take an extreme case There is moth
ing more compatible with political du-
ties in cooking and taking care Of
children than there is digging bitches
or making shoes, or in any othor hec-
essary employment, while in every su-
perior interest of society, growing out
OF the family, the stake Of women is
not less than men, and their knowl-
edge is greater. In England, woman
who owns shares in the East India
Company may vote. In this country
she may vote as stakeholder upon q
railroad from one end OF the country
to another. But If she sells her stock
and buys house with the money, she
has no voice in the laying out of the
road before her door, which her house
is taxed to keep and ply for, And whyp
In the name Of good sense, if re-
sponsible human being may vote upon
specific projects, may she not vote up
on the industrial regulation OF the
State +? There is no more reason that
mon should assume 10 decide partici-
patton in politics to be unwomanly
than that women should decide for men
than it is uEmanly"
The position Of women in regard to
the common schools Of the State is the
most absurd and unjust that can be i'm
agined. She must always be the chief
instructor Of the young in point Of time
and influence, She is their best teach
or at home and at the school And her
share in this eyer-expanding work is
becoming yaster every day. Woman as
mother, sister, teacher has an intell-
gence, a comprehension 81 the educa-