The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-11-19
Woman Suffrage.

RICHMOND, IND, Nov. z, 1870.
EDITOR PALLADIUM
Ina brief notice published in your last
issue, your readers were informed that
the versatile philosopher Of the N. Y.
Tribune, has been dispensing his notions
on the necessity and righteou sness, not.
as we might have anticipated in the lib
eral and enlightened Horace. of universal,
but of a restricted ballot.
What the strong points of his tribula-
ton were, we are not fully, nor indeed at
all advised, except that he would graz
ciousiy cordescend to vouchsafe his cons.
sent to enfrancbising woman, provided
she would agree to assume all the re-
sponsibilities appertaipiDg to the cleo.
tive franchise; and then, suddenly recall
ing what he had said, for fear his audi>
ence might number him among the advo-
Gates of the rights Of humanity, regard
less of sex, color, or previous condition
Of servitude, and, as if to exhibit the
contrarieties of sbsurdities that one ex-
centric philanthropist can Illustrate in
his own person. he adds but wo-
mans nature instinctiveIy shrinks from
the assumptio n Of those responsibilities
What those grave and formidable re-
sponsibilities are, your very short sketch
of the lecture does not inform US. We
are then left to call into requisition that
universal Yankee prerogative- guessing
Perhaps it can not better be determin-
ed what those fearful duties are which
the ballot imposes on those who exercise
it, than by inquiring what direful tri5u-
lations, the author of a Busy Life in
voked On himself, since he first deposi-
ted ballot.
He has become q very successful jour-
nalist-he has embarked in the avoca-
ton Of quill driver--and has doubtless
perpetrated some very silly illusions
which dying he could wish to blot GU.
--lls. has paid taxes-he has rendered
himself liable to be nominated and cleo
ted 20 office but we are not informed
that honors Of this hind have clustered
lick and fast around him or that he
as been oppressed with "responsibili>
IS, hence arising. How often he has
cen thrust into the jury box we are rot
dyised. Had the Democratic slave
iolder's rebellion broken out ten years
sooner than than it did, Horace, would
ave been liable to draft, and as it was,
ii defend the flag that valves over
ne land of the free and the home of the
ave-" But although the sage OF the
rribune is SO sle:i,les pugnacious-deals
epithets for the use Of which 20 or
lodox ritual can be cited as authority
. hurls vindictive phrases at some OF
MS fellow gull drivers, for the sanction
of which the Scriptures may be sought
in vain, and dishes them up in no "half
shell" style. but as embodied cuIprts and
villains. Yet We will wager the price
of q new white stove>pipe hat, that the
gentle Horace could not, by any possibil>
ity have been ind uced to enter the ranks
He has once been elected to Congress-
Mrs. Stanton or Mrs. Anthony, we haz-
gard nothing in asserting, could have
filled the place more ably and more cred
itably--they are both much better speak.
ers and much more coquet reasoners.
Mr.. Greeley has spread himself large
ly in the lecturing field, that he has Civ
en- utterance to airy sentiments-or en-
forced doctrines-or elaborated lessons Of
wisdom that will live after che has shut
fed off this mortal coil, /" is probl ematical
That he has serv ed his country NOR
usefully in this wsy-''in pointing
moral, adjoining tale" and in exhibit
ing himself as one whose vanities, follies
eccentricities and weaknesses shonld b.
avoided. We are not hasty to deny:
H.G ia tho benevolence of his larg
sympathies, in the exercise of that char
ity which suffers long "the bond o