Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-10-14
For the HERALD
WOman's Rights and WOman's
Wrongs.


offices, mingling in political broils 2 Do
her wrongs consist of being deprived of
these? First, as regards military duties,
| would like to inquire if history bears
record of any war in which woman did
not nobly fulfill her part. If it is denied
her to march TO the field Of battle, and
lay her life upon her countrys altar, does
che not give whati'is far dearer TO her !?
She sends forth the husband 10 whom che
"plighted her troth" in youths bright
morning who has been her protector, the
sharer Of all her joys and sorrows since
Him, too, who possesses her hearts best
and truest affections, TO whom all her life,
cords seem bound, yet she bids him go !;
while her own heart is breaking with the
agony she tries in vain to suppress, not
here to share the long and toilsome
marches, the, hardships of camp, the hor-
rors Of prison, but TO continue her daily
rounds Of work and duty to care for the
little ones God has given her, fulfilling
the part of both parents, here to watch, to
labor, and to pray.
The mother gives her son, that dear
perhaps only son, whose little round
baby face she has so often bathed with
kisses and wit. tears, those little feet sho
taught to walk, the little form she has so
often rocked to sleep, and in later years,
the child whose mind she has endeavored
to store with good principles and useful
knowledge perhaps herself a widow, and
that son the staff of her declining years :;
yet she bids him go.
The sister gives her brother, that dear
playmate of childhood's sunny hours, the
daughter gives father, the maiden. her
betrothed wife, mother, sister, daughter,
sweetheart, left to mourn tho absence,
often death, of their loved ones, TO shed
lonely days, as well as anxious and sleep
less nights. If man in war suffer hard
ships and loss of life, does woman suffer
less than he
Is it not well known that all over the
country women are suffering wrongs
Yes, bitter wrongs, that would cover the
face of even the perpetrator with shame
however dead or rotten hi soul may be}.
were they known to the public. Many a
drunkard reels home to beat and abuse his
family many a rum-seller lives unpun-
ished, who has directly or Indirectly
wrought this misery many wife has
lrivoy, bar L,,e
his cruelty or neglect to seek shelter
elsewhere, to toll for herself, and perhaps
her children. Should she venture upon
the streets or in public places, she will be
grass widow thrown III her face, not from
the nobly gifted or learned but from
base, low, ignorant, depraved creatures,
who never arise to enninence except when
drawn with the halter
Does a woman have the courage to lead
a single life--for it takes heroine to dare
live an old maid-the name old maid is
for ever ringing in iher ;ear ; she is con-
sidered nuisance by old and young
Those same men whom she refused in
her youth, who would be glad even now
of a. chance to win her over again, will be
the first to call her so, as if it were almost
welded misery. In the late war who did
their duty better than the old maids, who
served as nurses in the hospitals Who
also in the family can take tho place of
tha,. ,,,hn .,n1x
maid have some whims and disagreeable
ideas, are old bachelors less miserable +?
Are there not working women, many
of them widows,) in cities throughout the
Union, sewing for mere pittance, to
keep starvation from the door, and their
children from beggary, the profits Of
whose labor is added to the wealth of
their employers; often, men who have
more pockets than brains, more self-con-
ceit than honesty, who reserve their
smiles for wealthy customers, their
and frowns for poor, almost
destitute women. Undoubtedly the rea-
son why so much of the small currency
presents such ragged and soiled appear
anoe, is that it was held 30 long by these
men before it could be paid for the work
that had been properly found fault with.
But ill-gotten gains will pave but q poor
entrance into Heaven, and their owners
will find it 80.
That these wrongs, and many more
exist, perhaps no one will deny, but will
female suffrage right them ? However
low and degraded q man may be, there
are women who are his equal, and fit asso-
cistes. The sexes arc not independent of
each other, the sterner sex are quite as
dependent ON ours. - we upon them. It
has mover bean my lot 10 form the 40
quaintance d > man who never had u