Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-19
THE AND THURSDAY AUGUST 11sa

oorrode and destroy III IL delicate adj
justments and movenents This, cir, is
the gospel as given by Lucy Stone. It
brings not peace into the family, but
sword. It's language is that the family is
not one In flesh, nor in sentiment, feeling
or interest, in name or in destiny. It is q
mere voluntary association of equal human
beings, only with slight sexual differ
ence, not affecting the fitness of each to
fill the Offices and to perform the duties
Of the Office. According to this modern
gospel, the family government established
by Jehovah, founded on nature and ap-
proved by the common affections as well
as the common sense of the world, must
be torn to pieces by discussions arising
from divided vote, in order that woman,
grown wilful and ambitious, may wear
the habilaments of men, may control the
caucus and the convention that she may
in peace prepare for war, and in war di-
rect by her votes the movements of armies
aud navies. The husband and wife have
two parallel-not united-paths in life, so
long as they can agree-divergent if they
cannot. Nothing is to be had or possessed
in common. Each must carry his or her
own pack, eat at separate tables, sip their
separate coffee, lie each upon his or her
own bed, or another's at pleasure, and
each carry a separate account. The
children must have divided head and a
divided duty, and thus discord. hate,
spite, and all the woes of discussions will
be introduced into this place of peace and
order, and turn it into anarchy and bed
lam. This, Mr.. President, is the result of
the new gospel of free love and woman's
rights, carried to its logical end. Is it
not plain, sir, that it is so ? Is it not aw-
full sir, to place unsanctified human hands
upon the Divine ordinances Of the AL
mighty? Think you, sir, He will suffer
them to be destroyed ?
Mr.. President, am asked at this stage
of the discussion if there be any rights
which l accord to women One who thus
ton of the meaning of the word. Yes,
sir, | accord TO woman not only the right,
but the duty to fill the sphere for which
she was created. l deny to the planet
Venus, the goddess of beauty, the right
to fill the orbit of Saturn, the god of love !;
but l accord to her the right to move in
her own divine orbit. / do not want to
see discord and confusion introduced into
the motions of the earthly bodies any
more than | desire to see il in the heav-
enly.
The report of your committee on suf-
frage reprerents our wives as baing under
our feet, and we are frautically asked to
step off their necks and permit them
10 stand at our sides, which means, when
Transmitted from its sublimuted nonsense
into solid foolishness, give her the bal
lot Sir, our wives d0 stand in freedom
at our sides to-day but not equal in stat
ure or in physical strength. While her
limbs are cast in a delicate mould and her
skin is "a soft as the silken violet, the
limbs of the man are framed for war, a
heavy beard covers his square cut chin,
and his body is shagged, like the lion,
with hair Before bis cxcrted strength
she would be crushed like the moth Ic-
fore his stubborn will -ha would be
powerle,s a. the prey in the talon- Of the
eagle But, on the other hand, before
her divine love, eKertei in the appropriate
sphere OF woman. this monarch OF the
physical world viii he moulded in the
spirit OF hi- temper and obedience 70 the
Likeness and image of Il ftwning and
obedicut babe in tho arms Of this angelic
being An |, thnu. denying ~ woman
any place in this poor world Of ours Sir,
each sex is supreme in the sphere made
for each, No painting, no statuary which
should represent the man in any other at
titude than that of command, which
speaks through the strength Of every limb
and feature, would be true to nature, or
would please the eye Of either sex. Any
painting or statuary that should give TO
the woman any other than "A delicAtely
moulded frame, a spiritual countenance,
an upward, meek, and conhling look,
would oxritc anyfhing tut disgust ia the
behuldrr Of either sex. Bat If the new
gospel prevails, the p,intiu-- and 81 a {
aries of the past must be thrown to the
moles and the bats. No more wo-
men represented at the sepulchre of the
Saviour weeping because their dear Lord
at the grave of lazarus no more
forms Of female loveliness kneeling with
hands clasped in prayer, under
the protecting arm of Jupiter Tonens.
All this is to pass away. and in the
place thereof il To be the woman spouting
politics TO the men from the platform, the
woman leading her cohorts side by side
with Capt. Rynders to the diyinely ap-
pointed caucus. The woman, with one
fist lcvelled at her lord and master, and
the other lcvelled at the ballot box. In
short. the woman. no longer in the atti-
tude OF lovlincs-, but in the attitude OF
deformity and uHliners. And we are
profanely asked, sir, to lift up the ever
lasting gatos OF revelation and nature.
which God has shut against this movement
and let this thing Of deformity and de-
vastation come in. Shall we do it, in the
face Of the wrath Of almighty God
Mr.. President, what / have thus said
contains the substances Of my argument
against this iniquitous proposition. A
few observations will serve to close my
discourse, by way Of improvement of tie
text
i. We cannot fail, sir, TO perceive that
this movement has its origin in unchast-
ened ambition for the high places of
worldly honor. The love Of Office has de-
PRAYED the moral sense and blunted the
otherwise keen sagacity of our people.