Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-23
tGatohman s. journal.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2s, 1870.
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The Woman Campaign.

The campaign for Female Suffrage is no
o nearly over A few small towns remain
be baggcd by the lesser Nimrods of the gre'
hunting party that have been beating Oh
Vermont covers for two months past TIL
Il sound Of their guns dies away in the distance
and one or two Of the great editorial propl
S cts Of the new Revolution like the Ne'
York independent and the Springfield RI
m,5iicqn, hail their return to their old camp
ing grounds with paudits to them, and vol
Icy of scurrilous cpithcts and adicctives an
a few rounds Of abuse against us Two o
three Vermont papers that incautiously pa
the foot into this great movement" hav
found out their mistake, and learned that tn
thoughtful and intelligent women Of Vernon
are not willing to furnish backs for them L
ride into political power. Our own peopl
have generally become thoroughly sick Of 4
revolution" that but the fcwcst possibl,
women would see rcyolye, and have swung
round the circle from Indifference to positive
dislike and disapproyal.
We cannot be mistaken in the tendency Of
public sentiment 4 few women Of gentle
culture and breeding have accepted the new
dispensation under false hopes, because they
are sincerely DESTROYS Of anything which they
imagine will increase their usefulness and
healthful social influence few men hon
cstly, and few who feel incapable Of success.
ful political competition with their fellow
men, aud less than q half dozen papers whose
chiyalry has betrayed their Judgment into
running tilt with the ordinances Of nature
and Providence, and given them the roputa-
tiou Of Bayards for gallontry and of Quixotes
for wisdom, are all the trophies that this
grand movement can boast For the most
part, the women of the State have refused to
listen to the inspired call to 90 up higher"
They have heard the invitation to assert their
rights have listened to the promises Of in
creased power for good which such assertion
would give them, and the call has not touched
their hearts nor reached their Intelligence.
The temptation to sovereignty to be rulers
over all the glory Of this world kingdom, has
been resisted, nay, has scarcely been felt
Eutrcnched in their circle of vital and SUI
preme duties; absorbed with rights that Gcd
has given them conscious Of the dignilies
aud powers and beauties that belong to their
ordained sphere and which would be lost
should they quit their appointed place and
work, the persuasions and eoquencc Of the
accomplished advocates of woman's enfian.
chisemont have fallen UNDECIDED and almost
unheard. Once the "mother of all living"
was deceived into an unholy graspng Of &c.
estial rights, and fell into the loss of all
things, save the infinite mercy and love of
heaven. Her daughters wiser than their
mother was, for they have had "a nearer and
more faithful teacher in Him who was the
promised Seed of the woman, have felt that
Paradise could not be reganed by "a repet-
ton Of the folly that lost it, The wisdom
which was the inheritance Of the fall has
opened the way to deliverance by other means
than the assertion Of unnatural rights. He
who was Graded in the lap of Mary, and once
rebukcd her impotence at the tardy move
ment of His omuipotent powers, has taught
them that their glory lies in such relation to
man as the church has to her Lord, and
that faithful discharge Of their sacred and
suffering and loving offices, will give them
more power aud influence to lift the world
upward, than all the sceptres and dadcms OF
political sovereignty which the world could
put into their hands or place upon their brows
For these reasons, deep, instructive, never es-
tabished by arguments never to be over.
thrown by them, lying imbedled among the
vital iututions Of womans soul, the daughters
Of Vermont, having listened to the song Of
the relormers have said, We will not Law of
the crown Of true womanhood to take up
the implements Of lesser manhood. We |
would rather serve in Gods kingdom than
rule the Empire of the world The sanctuary
of true womauhood shall not be protaued with
the tread of political hucksters. Some Of
them have spoken in our own paper, with
strength and ecarness that make the adyo-
Gates OF the movement wonder that so much |
intelligence and force in their own sex should
be arrayed against them Aud their word
to the reform is stronger than any man would
choose TO utter Retro SataRas.
As we have more than once said, we should
give the ballot to women if they desired it.
though even then we should not be deceived
as to its influence and results. We should
rather live iua fallen world, fallen twice over
with woman, than in the garden Of Eden
without her, She has ledus where she pleas.
cd and she always will, The Adam was new
er yet made who would not walk straight out
of Paradise with his Eve, even though he
knew he left peace aud length of days behind
him, and had a weary way of thorns and briars
and cursings before him, Nor is this mere
galantry but it is the expression of that in.
herent principle aud law Of sex which binds
the man to leave father and mother and
heaven itself, to go with the woman. He loves
her as Christ loved the Church, aud would 20
with her through all her wanderngs. 1t is
the law of his manhood, and he would no more
resist it than the stars would resist their or.
bits. And it is because this is so, that we
have more than common pleasure in the fact
that the true women of our State give so gen.
eral and hearty negative to this miscalled
reform. 1t is not the Free Press, nor the
ArgHS, nor the IPatchmaR that have made
this campaign unsuccessful, but it is the wo.
men Of Vermont. 1t is the intelligence and
virtue, as We forwarned these reformers, of
The State, that gives them this decided and
conclusive ropuse.