Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-02-09

ment when such women are our representatives aud
that politics will not be appreciably purified when
the charges Of coward and liar " fall 81 glibly
from female lips. However, every woman to her
taste. We will be con tent with substantatug
the statement, that many of the advocates of this
movement have thrown scom upon marriage and
upon the Divine Word.
When these women were about ~ start out on
their mission and effect political organization and
force this question upon the State, II. B. Black
we'll, who sat upon the platform with Mrs. Liver
moro wrote an article Of counsel, published in
tho Woman's Journal Of tho 9Th Of January.
In the course Of II he snys " some Of the adyo-
Gates Of womans equality hold latitudinarian
theories on the questions Of divorce and mar
riage." 60 They insist upon dragging in their
peculiar views. Noone can cstima to the damage
the cause of woman's reimbursement has al
ready sustained by the failure Of its advocates to
limit themselves to the main question" Here
we have one of the members of the convention
which assigned to Mrs. Livcrmoro the duty of
pronouncing our statement utterly aud absolute
ly false, advising beforehand the members Of the
Association TO cloak their views on the subjects
Of marriage divorce and theology We need
not have gone far for our witnesses.
Still further, one Of the female speakers of this
meeting proclaimed the following sentiment
&" Unmarried women have some privileges that
the married do not have. An unmarried woman
can call her child her own. but married woman
cannotn We are at n loss 10 understand the
meaning of language. or the nature of words, if
such sentiment Is not indicative Of a lurking
hatred Of marriage. Such words could never have
fallen from the tongue of pure woman who held
To the sacredness of this institution. They were
a straw on the surface of the Convention which
showed which wav the deem. under current was
flowing
About the time of the Mcfarland tragedy. a
Womans Rights Club met in New York, and in
discussion upon il, the lady orators of the club
indignantly detained apninst the law of inyio-
late marriage. They said, one and ALL that
" Mrs. Mcfarland was woman mentally formed
10 outgrow her husband, that he was not her
proper mate, and that she was justified in taking
her proper mate. in order that her own develop
ment sbould not be thYarted - Mrs Livermnre
will find reports of this in the Nation orDec 10th
and other n Y. papers. Cananythinp more conclu-
siyelv show that the bns aoninst mofringe which
marks this new reform. is one which will make
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prominent advocate of Female Suffrage in Great
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