The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-04-14
Female suffrage.
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AZ. INC EudoT OF tNe CWCWHuu UuSeUt'
lsee by your paper of Yesterday that
your Columbus correspondent has light
I'd upon something which he evidently
considers good thing, in the shape OF
s'memorial signed by LII citizens of
Lorain county, which was read in the
House to-day, aud was listened. TO with
profound attention by every member
present" 1t was a remonstrance
against the movement to confer suffrage
upon women.
Your correspondent gives fews.of
the names signed TO the memorial, to-
wit: Mrs. Professor Dascomb, Mrs,
President Finney, Mrs. Prof. Morgan,
Mrs. Prof Ellis, Mrs Prof Shurllelf,
and Mrs. Prot. Smith, OF Oberlin; and
Mrs. Judge Ely, Mrs Col, Gates, Mrs,
Gen. Boynton and others, of Elyria.
Your correspondent is assured by the
member who presented the memorial
that 1all the ladies are OF similar charac-
ter and respeCtability TO those nam
eds'8s
S0then, if that is true, none Of them
belong to the class ofpoor widows, with
large families, who have gone to Ober-
Ii TO educate their children, and are
starving themselves at the wash tub.
or perchance are earning pittance by
keeping boarders, 10 sustain themselves
and their children; none belong to the
class Of sewing women, who work many
hours day and every day, to sustain
a cheerless and precarious existencei
none Of them are OF the large class Of
women who have no parents, brothers,
or husbands to sustain them by the nu.
merous occupations open to the men,
for "they are all of like character and
respectability, of the wives of the
Presidents, and Professors, and Judges,
and Colonels, and Generals which are
enumerated
Here let me say, Mr. Editor, that the
eminent ladies' who have embarked in
thelcause of woman suffrage have not
pre.eminently in view the wives of tho
Professors, and Judges, and Generals
of the land; but rather of the less for.
tunate women who are the great major
ity in every community who are de-
pendent upon their own unaided exer-
tions;a and let me say, further, that in
my opinion a petition signed by doz-
en- women who are thus dependent and
needy is entitled to more weight in
connection with this subject than the
remonstfanCes of dozen scores ofthese
"wsIl-to.do" women, the wives Of the
Professors, Judges, and other notabili-
ties, who never knew want, and are
not able to appreciate the hunger and
sorrow Of the poor and needy.
Say these fair remonstrants against
woman suffrage at is our fathers,
brothers, husbands and sons who repre-
sentus at the ballot box" &c. But
howlabout the thousand-and-one wo-
men in every community who have no
fathers, brothers, husbands aud sons to
represent them at the ballot box, or aid
them at all in the battle of lite1
In our great contest with oppression,
10 the days ofslavery and of "chivalry,"
we occasionally met with black man
whose good fortune had raised him
abovelthe condition of his fellows, who
had 90 sympathy with his brethren In
bOnds, and no word of cheer for those
who labored for the emancipation Of
the slave. We always considered such
= one avery mean man. ..'.a.
ThBwomen who signed the remon-
straHee in question are all doubtless ex'
cellept women in their conditions some
of them | know to be such. But they
altogether mistake the case in suppoS-
ing that they or their class, are the OBJ
iects Of the great movement in behalf
Of woman suffrage.
Editorially, you seem gratified, Mr..
Editor, that ''the society recently estab-
lishedin Washington by Mrs. DahlgFen,
is finding allies in Ohio" Undoubted-
", The movement of Mrs. Admiral Dahl
gren, at Washington, twill have the
sympathy of all the wives ofall the Ad.
mifals, and Major Generals, and other
H6norables at the seat Of Government.
But how about the thousands and hum
dreds Of thoueands. of women all over
thu land, whose husbands and sons
were swept off by the war, and left
them dependent on the cold charity of
the woridi And the other hundreds
andlihousands who have no husbands
and brothers and sons tocomfort them !
AN OBERIINIAN.