Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-03-08

Judgement in the churches. Hundreds of
our churches are nothing but mutual in
surance companies for miles against fu
ture fire, and they are in the main made
up of people well to do and for people
well to do. They represent slices Of soci-
ETY.. and not society as whole. / cx-
pect to see women voting for School Com
missiouers and Ju' tices of the Peace soon
er than for deacons and elders in the
churches. But l believe that they wilt
surely in the lifetime of those here be vot-
ers in whole or in part in things pertain
ing to the whole community, and | verify
believe that they will prove to be adapted
to the settling of those questions on which
we have voted so often, and SO often, l
think, ignominously.
1t is said, Why not ask for the im-
provement of women? Why not enlarge
the industrial openings? Why strike for
suffrage? Because in America suffrage
is the golden key, in the hands ofpoverty,
which opens more defences and opportun-
tiles than any other one single usuage.-
Women are weak, and are crushed en- ac-
count of their weakness. They waste
moIe under the sttritions of industry
They are less hardy, less able to take care
Of themselves. When they grow old they
are mo ruthlessl y cast away, and if any
class needs armor for defence and wea-
pom Of offence it is woman. With all
their excellences, l cannot fatter them.
1t is too true that woman's mind runs up.
on things trivial too often. The girl gets
the accomplishment and the boy gets the
education in the old way. Woman is
simply born to be married. and the chief
end of woman is man, and once she is
married and settled, that is about the end
Of expectation. They laugh AMI they gig.
gle, and they are full of little repartees,
und the baaus 60 and see them and do
the same thing, ard come away and say,
What silly girls" we make them silly
by elaborate neglect.
Give woman opportunity, give her NOR
al nature the sense of responsibility, let
the thought Of lif, overshadow her as SOL
EMMY as it is made to overshadow man,
let her feel that the times in which she
lives and the welfare of the whole commu.
nifty rest in part on her shoulders, on hcl
feet, her judgment, her heart, and you
will find that woman's mind will respond
to this new kind of culture. She will
grow up more sober, deep and earnest
and her conversation will be more like
mans conversation, full of matter.
urge the suffrage for woman also on {
ground deeper, if it were possible, be
cause it is the natural right of woman tt
vote. l hold that every living being ha!
the right to an influential voice in deter
mining the laws, the magistracy and th'
policy Of the community in which his life
his virtue, his affections, his property ant
his family are dependent, whatever MAJ
be the political machinery which bear
upon these fundamental principles.
The lecturer then reviewed the scvcra
objections to woman's suffrage seriatin,
and disposed of each one by ridiculc O
argument, as they required. He dispose,
of the arguments that husbands and wive
would be led to quarrel if they voted, ant
the other that it would make no differ
ence, for the wives would all vote witt
their husbands together.
lie thcr turned to the consideration 0
,heir influence in politics and the inau
ence Of politics on their natures. II
declared that it was the curse of our poli
tics that it is all He.politics.
In New York, he said, they could sen,
to Congress all the men that were foreor
dained 10 eteunal damnation.
Without presenting any new argument
, ot finding any new objections TO assault
, he dealt very happily and with mos
convincing cogency with all the old ones
and the audience listened as closely an
, applauded as warmly as his audiences a
ways do.
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