Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-24

clusively by men, the education of theil
own sex has been bettr cared fol
than that of the opposite sex
Women have been taxed 10 sup
port colleges from which their sex
have been carefully excluded. and while
chronological, scientific and agricultural
schools for boys have multiplied, no cor
responding provisions have been made fol
girls. From the Urinary school to the
high, votes determine the character o.
teachers and teaching, and mothers al
well as fathers should be allowed to ex
press their views of these in the same au
thoritative manner, viz. by the vote.
"Another good to come of woman's vot.
ing is, that she will refine and purify
politics. Shall the woman who stands
before the hooting, whistling and cheer
ing of boisterous crowd, and filings al
the feet of Christian gentleman the
charges of coward and . liar, teach Us
refinement 2"
This question is supposed to refer tic
Mrs. Livermore's castigation of a certain
"Christian u gentleman" at Montpelier,
who, making foul charges against woman
suffrage and its advocates, which he
vainly attempted to prove, deserved much
more severe treatment at the hands OF
this grand champion of her sex, than he
received. To all those seeking further
information on this point we would sug-
gest the reading of an article in the
Woman's Journal of Feb. Goth, entitled
"Dr. Lord and Woman Suffrage"
"IIet no woman think she can stand
too near the dirty pool of politics" and
escape the oontagion of its foul vapors
let her not think to purify its unwhole.
some depths by putting in her stick,
though she stir never so vigorously or
wisely. Let her keep her place up in the
pure, clear, mountain air, at the sources
of those streams that go down to form
the troubled sea with all its dirty pools.
When her duty is done there, and not till
then, shall we see politics purified by her
influence"
This method of purifying dirty pools
would just suit some of our inefficient
sanitary committees. They would rather
enjoy keeping their places Gin the pure,
clear mountain air, at the sources of those
streams that go down to form the
troubled sea-" But we know that while
the man is doing his duty up at the reser-
voir on the hill. no degree of faithfulness
on his part will make the "dirty pools" of
our city pure; for this clear water must
pass through the domestic machinery,
and our sanitary committee must risk the
"contagion of foul vapors," and stir both
vigorously" and "wisely," to secure the
general welfare, through we'll appointed
drains, &c. So woman will never purify
politics by keeping so high above them
that she cannot "put her stick" into their
"unwholesome depths" for it is contrary
to all the laws of nature. She is indis-
pensable at the spool" as we'll as at the
fountain"
sWe hold that there are some first prin-
ciples of morals and social order, as well
as Of mathematics and when We hear
such speech as the following "The
unmarried have some advantages which
the married have not, for az unmarried
woman can call her baby hes own, while
a married woman nnot,-after the first
instructive shame and shrinking, comes
the natural inquiry where there may not
be some inherent aeness in such speech,
coming from the Ups of an apostle of this
new dispensation.
To call it ostsonp harsher name, this
fearfully shallow estimate of very deep
things, struck us as the aatnaus Of the
whole Convention"
Substituting the word article for "con-
vention" in this last sentence, I apply it
TO its author. She has evidently known
little of the ''deep things" % wifehood
and motherhood, and must be deplorably
ignorant of the statute laws Of her own
State not to know that they deprive the
married mother of the ownership of her
child, while they give it TO the unmarried
mother and Lucy Stoae was pleading
for the sanctity Of shat most holy and
blessed relation c$ marriage in what
she said. Asking that the married
mother be nat. degraded by the law be.
low the uzsaapried mother, as is done in
every Staae ia the Union save New York
and Kansas, where alone the ownership Of
the 1aother equals that of the father
The statute law of Vermont declares
q the father of 3egitisaate minor child
and if the father be dead the mother, re-
manning unmarried, shall be the guardian
of such child for all purposes until anothe,
shall be appointed" 1.-THE mother of an
iUegitinaate minor child, while she shall
remain unmarried, shall be the guardian
of such child." Besides the law further
says, and father may, by his last will il
writing, appoint guardians for his minor
children, whether living at the time o
making the will or born aft srward. And
thus empowered bad men have deprived
Good mothers of children born aud unborr
taking them forever from their control.
ave have never considered ourselve
in bondage TO any man" continues u
Vermont friend which only proves her t.
be an unmarried woman, for every mar
ried woman in the land is in bondage tt
some man, and while men, az ii rule, max
this bondage light, it is nevertheless
fact, and bad men thess are, who are gla'
of their power over the women Thus mad
subject. l give no thasks to the law TO
the happiness of my married lot. hut IL
the blessed Providenee that gave me
husband far above il. in Justice and equity
40 shallow, thonshtless orators :! Re
member that You are talking to soul
that have felt, however feebly and imper
fectly, something Of the grand, blessed sig
nificance of those Old words, : shall b
satisfied when / awake with Thy Likeness
Nothing less than this meets our idea o
satisfaction And because we believe tn