The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-05-21
A TRUE WoMA MS Views.
Susan n. Anthony and Mrs. Stanton IN bad
Csmpapy-Plain Words from a Plain We
man The womans Rights Movement
sIimed with Frec-Love.

Susan n. Anthony and Mrs. Stanton In had
Cempapy-Plain Words from a Plain We
man The woman's Rights Movement
sIimed with Free-Love.
To he Editor Of The SUI.
SIn. II grieves us To the soul when We see sucn
respectable reformers rs Susan and Mrs. stanton
strike hands with the dsgraced intriguantes Of the
Tribune ofNe against that unhappy man hcFar
land, who never harmed Any one half much as
himself Mrs. Stanton Is keen woman. and wink
u as good "a a blow to her apprehension. She
knows very well that the TSibunss persistent mis-
representations OF her and her colleagues In time
past not the work Of Horace Greeley, but set
Of women who took advantage OF his seniiy, prowl-
ed about the once, and climbed into the editorial
chair while he was quoting Noses aud the Prophets
and Gen. Jackson against the Free-Trsders. Their
hearts were widowed with envy, and they never
failed 10 improve their opportunity to let nv pol
soned arrow. For instance, last summer Mrs Stan
ton called q Convention at Newport, just In the
height OF the fashionable season. Determined TO
have the ear Of the frisnpus, she carried the war
right into Africa 1t secured to stroke Of genius
worthy Of Scpio Aricanus himself And then, with
her admirable tact, she dressed herself with taste
and elegance becoming the occasion. In Rome, she
Was determined to do as they did and to that end
wore a Roman scarf tied transversely across her
shoulders. For this, some hanger.on In the
Tribune once gave her sumptuary lecture,
took Miss Dickinson TO task for wearing
long train, and scolded Mrs. Paulins Davis
for wearing her antquaed blue satin dress for the
hny-eleventh time. Mrs. Stanton Is such Talley-
rand that she affected not to the feminine claws
sticking out OF that malicious article. What did the
venerable author OF EAsy Lessons for BEGINNERS In
Protection" know Of scarf Roman or otherf Then
his clumsy masculine intellect could never have In
vented another favorite mode OF attack among his
followers They never would call her anything else
than Mrs. II. d. Stanton. Whyf Because that was
way Of ignoring her triple name, in which, after
the manner OF all strong minded women at this day,
she delights to incorporate and preserve her maiden
name with the surname bestowed by her yrant
| husband. Elizabeth Cady Stanton II sounds
| grand--in perfect keeping with the detested Roman
| scarf In the name OF taius valerius Joyius Do
| cletianus, we should Ike TO know why Elizabeth
has not as much right to cubic name s"E n
us the cat was nearly out OF the wal!eti They
helped, moreover, to foster that element OF private
spite in the woman's Suffrage Party, which. after be-
ing corked up for two years hzzing and leaking
out the sly, burst forth ut last In the Cleveland
| Convention.
ton to know. And now, after working ruin and
| death In q household, tie cabal find themselves
| overtaken by disgrace aud exposure. Mrs. stanton
and Susan Anthony rally their friends, call a meet
| ing and cover the confusion OF those bad women
| by making their shameful quarrel their own They
were coyeTtly hostile TO the Reroietoa editors, and
ridiculed their distinctive claim TO the vote. An6
now, Mrs. Stanton Is going to imperil that claim,
which was as free from faint OF moral suspicion as
| mathematical abstraction for what We fear for
| the poor reward OF gaining few blasted char
| aciers who instinctvely hate her.
We have know aud loved Mrs. Stanton. She lie
| good woman. We refuse to believe she would en-
dorse such an utterance az this: LET no weakness
| OF osrcv possess you" aud others equally diaboli-
cal II necessary to point out TO her, who Is com
Pete mistress Of that the sentiment Of the let
t.rs signed Luis scarcely more atrocious than their
style OF expressonf trial for murder with all Its
hideous revelations, never unearthed toad OF
| mixer blackness than those letters IL Is hardly
worth while to nveigh against the wickedness OF
bayoneting a weak woman into deseruon OF her hus-
band, but the whole generation might take solemn
warning In English competition from the perusai OF
! "Lgs gushing epistles, They are the finest speci-
mens Of dprevalent variety OF bohemian sbberish
word known to the lexicon OF bosh They abound
| In pseudo transcendentil slang.
| Somebody is full OF fruit ana core"
Her fate cries out. and informs her she wants to
know someeody.reallv TO &c, at him."
IAN her heart flows out TO her."
| Yes, her fuency amounts to n disease. Was ever
anything more strikingy characteristic OF certain
class OF scribblers' Acres OF just such nonsense
when The writer ceased awliie from plotting, aud
had the Distinguished honor Of riding to Cali ornia
| In car with Vice President ColfaS,
Mrs stanton has put her & / init. Her pronun.
! ciomiento was all wrong. Society does not compel
takes tna, stco Of her own free will but il docs
seek TO restran her Thereafter from va-abond loves,
richer man WHO may ' offer himself 10 say
nothing OF the morality Of such procedure,
| there IL NJ least not a'om OF tho
heroic in It, It Is simply the instinct o.
a rat In sinhi.s ship. II IL such
vulgar Gin, toc-not among women eiher, so much
mca. We saye known OF many women who
committed ~, whose husbands, unlike this one
quietly surrendered TO more fortunate rivals; bu
| how many more have avail themselves
Of easy divorce TO of with the old wife III
| the new. Cruelty and hatred have Thi
| was not Of man versus woman, but manl
| against one.
| We earnestly hope Mrs. stanton and Susan An
| thony will not comprom Use the purity nnd integrity
OF their Plea for the ballot by eonsorting With Free
| Lovers for ~e have admired aud reVered them
| which Is more than the FreeLoyers ever did:
| IIcl WHITE