Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-05

Scured WITH DARK, angry anu threatening
clouds the smiling and glorious face of the
heavens.
Not till that golden era in the history
of the human race, when woman shall ex-
perience in her nature the most luxuriant
development of the super-feminine virtues,
when she shall tenderly gather into her
bosom, as maternal iaffection folds the Of
Tending, repenting child, each frail, fallen,
sorrowful sister, can woman justly and
consistently complain of man as a tyrant
and usurper and in such age, woman
having assumed her true sexual relation
ship with man, such complaints will for
ever cease.
This is the key and the only key that
will turn amid the intricate wards of the
subject, and open the portal through
which women may escape from her fanci-
full wrongs, and at the same time enter q
new and richer, and brighter field of social
existance, in which the super-feminine
virtues hold unquestioned and unlimited
sway.
The dangerous error into which she has
fallen has grown ont of want of realiza-
ton of her own natural powers. She has
been inclined to look on the picture life
and to recognize man as the chief and
most important actor.
She has seen the victor wreath worn
only on the field that is trampled and torn
| by the contending iegions of the mascu-
line elements of character. She has be-
come inamored with the rush, the plunge,
the tremor, and the roar of the cataract,
and has forgotten the silent, shining, and
mighty Office of the sunbeam.
She does not to-day recognize the truth
that weakness, gentleness, delicacy, devo-
| ton, beauty, grace and chastity constitute
| in themselves power more potent than
any other in social life.
| So she has allowed the dark spots of
perverted inclination and ambition to
| dim her glorious native brightness till
she now stands terrible spectacle of
ruin, half Opaque, half rayless, as the
central orb of the great system of social
| life.
The objections to the proposed reform
may be generalized in single proposition,
viz: vicious unnatural attempt to root
out of human nature the manifest natural
differences, physical and natural, between
the sexes. An obliteration of these diff
ferences will inevitably produce the fol-
lowing disasterous results. First the de-
molitiou and abolition of the social fabric,
Home. Second, an utter Discrimination
on the part of the female to fulfill the
functions of maternity. Third, a social
system founded on the principles of brutal
lust, convenience and expediency.
The social fabric, home, being founded,
as has been shown, on the manifest natu-
raj differences in the constitution of the
sexes, it naturally and logically follows
that an obliteration of such differences
will destroy the fabric reared thereon.
The dissemination of the female in married
life to fulfill the function of maternity an
ulcer in the present existing social system,
that owes its existence almost entirely to
the present female suffrage movement
is an accursed and damning plague spot
on the civilization of the present age.
When quite large minority of the fe-
male sex in our land, that are within the
pale of wedlock, to escape from the cares
and burdens Of maternity, or to use their
own words, E'to escape from the tyranny
of their husbands, and to secure their free
dom and natural rights in society,"" DELHI
erately and perseveringly seek to murder
their own living unborn offspring, it is a
social condition well calculated to inspire
dill uIlSGdItu COI6ClCL1t Will CiIlOAlCLo Vi
horror and alarm.
The leaders of the present female suf-
frage movement are beginning to openly
!, wink at and sanction this horrible crime.
: Mrs. Stanton, one OF the most distinguish
ed leaders of the present female suffrage
movement, recently affirmed in open con-
vention that woman had a higher and
nobler mission than to spend her time
upon sickly pulling children" What
a doctrine to be urged upon young wife
about to become a mother!
Could public opinion count the tempta
tions that are daily thrown in the path of
the medical practitioner to commit the
crime of child murder could it understand
why such large sums are annually spent
IN advertising pUisUus and nostruu1s to eff
feet the same end could it clearly see
the altar erected to Moloch in the midst OF
the nineteenth century, on which are heap
ed to the skies, as offerings to the worst
power in hell, unborn murdered reasons,
whose worth to the human race and to
etority, God can only can know, all effect
{ ed through the vicious criminal attempt of
a certain class in society to destroy the
natural manifest differences, physical and
mental, between the sexes this class, in
stead of being courted, patted and ap-
\ plauded in the parlor, on the rostrum,
and in the public, would be regarded as
the worst foe to virtue, progress and civ
ilization that the ages have ever known.
l What, [ ask, would be the effect upon
civilized society, should the present female
suffrage movement triumph
Utterly root out of the female character
the super feminine virtues give to every
woman a hybrid-a proto-masculine char
acter make her universally incapable Of
! fulfilling the function in her native sphere
Of activity, vet capable Of mourning the
profound contempt of man as rival and
competitor make woman universally III
clined to escape the function Of maternity,
through the crime of murder perpetrated
upon unborn innocence whet the brutal
inclnatioDs and passions of both sexes to
the most exquisite edge, for promiscuous
and unbridled qualification, by dragging
their higher capacities and affinities with
unnatural and morbid inclinations aud am
billions, and complete the scene by the
abolition of the social fabric, home, and in
the mass of infamy, ruin and chaos that
society would present will be found the
answer
From this point, standing upon the sum
nit of the subject, we should be guilty of
objectionable delinquency if we failed to
bestow hasty glance upon the character
and the aims of the leaders of the present
female suffrage movement.
What the fangs OF the loathesome, poi
sonous reptile are to the deadly wound
they inhct, these leaders are to the disease,
corruption and pruriency that are to-day
making sad havoc with the constitution of
society.
Ignoring the diferential, physical and
mental endowments Of the sexes, assuming
that they naturally occupy as rivals and
competitors, the same field of endeavor
and usefulness assuming that the grand
function of human life is made up of strife,
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