Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-31

he IS now on, or was, when last seen, II
will not be great while before he will
let his hair grow long, part it in the mid
die and stand forth under Cady's banner
an acknowledged champion. But Van
derblt has never 'Gent'' Cady and her
crowd much money without good security:
The Doctor may be assured OF that; and
IL the concern is dependent on Beecher 10
furnish the shrewdness to run 1t, and on
the money the shrieking sisters are able
to oele out of Vanderbilt, an application
| for the benefit of the bankrupt law ought
to have been made before the provision
went into effect requiring payment of
| fifty cents on thedollar on all Indebtedness
But to be serious on the subject, l have
no sympathy with, or federation for.
this determination of desolation." and /
enter my protest against any and all ef-
forts to make it stand in the. 'sholy places''
of the land, and give it responsibility in
institutions when our daughters are being
educated. For, in my humble Judgment.
all the Cady Stantons, Of both seres, in
Europe and America are setof pestilent
agitators, regardless of social order. and
fatally bent on mischief" To INDULGE in
quasi commentator of cause, the lead
erS in which openly and unblushingly de-
nounce the marriage tie as fetter which
the tyranny of custom has imposed upon
the sexes, and laugh to scorn the sacred
relation of husband and wife.
should not be suffered to pass
unrebuked. Beecher may have given
IL ms allegiance and Vanderbilt his
money, but where is the genteel, high
souled, cultivated a0onaon in all this broad
land who has not turned from it with IN
utterable loathing9 Dr.. Kelly might have
added to Beecher and Vanderbilt the
name of Bishop Simpson, of the Northern
Methodist Church, who has also given in
his allegiance to the 'good cause, and
has, if mistake not, gone so far as to IL
cense women to preach; and in this has
gone step farther than his Divine Master
ever went. But does the fact that man
high in authority did this unseemly thing,
cOnsecrate the act2 Nay, verify. A
woman in the pulpit is a moral monster
woman bedraggled in the cess-pools of
political strife is miserable and disgust
ing caricature upon her sex, whatever de-
moralized bishops and empirical states
men may say to the contrary.
Society could no ruder shock; the
real interests of the female sex, no dead
lier blow, than would be given and in
flicted by the success of these insane de- |
lusions. If all our women were Lady |
Stantons and Lucy Blackwells (and we
thank God they are Motif all our
preachers were Henry Ward Beechers
and Bishop Simpsons (and we again thank |
God they are noD the delicacy and femi-
ninity of the one and the sancity of ..the |
other would not be worth preserving. In |
the Northern States where this woman's |
rights mania has ragged (thanks to the |
good sense of our people it has yet to !
cross Mason & Dixon's Line and take i
TOO0 the true women are moving against |
it, and sending up petitions by the thou
sand to Congress not to grant the right of |
suffrage to the sex. In the opposition of |
the true women of the country, is to be |
found the best guarantee of its certain |
and ignominous failure. Some men had |
rather be thought original than right
they must be sensationed or nothing; but |
all such will find that withdrawing such |
hideous monsters as this woman mania, |
in this latitude at least, is neither popu-
lar nor profitable. x.