Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-03

despair. But such profuse quotation Is
no proof that they are right.
u I very well remember that DIR. Fuller
of Baltimore, in his great controversy with
DIR. Wayland on Slavery, quoted scripture
quite as profusely, and fully as much to
the point, in defense of that abominable
and unchristian institution, as has Mr..
Dewey against female suffrage.
Passages like men, are to be weighed,
not numbered 'Cursed be Canaan" is
fully as binding law as "cursed be
woman" If we read the third of Genesis
Alright, poor Adam was cursed about as
severely as mother Eve II Eve was de-
ceived by the serpent, Adam was deceived
by the woman both fell, both suffered.
This scene in the garden, said Mr.. Dewey
was the first political cancas ever held,
and in which woman cast the first ballot,
and thus brought all this misery into the
world. This cancus and ballot in Eden
is beyond our limited knowledge
Bible tells us nothing of the kind, and
where the gentleman obtained his infer
nation we know not.
The Bible tells us that they partook of
the fruit that they might be wise beyond
what God had intended and this wisdom
was denied to man as well as to woman.
We do not understand that the eating of
the forbidden fruit brought any radical
4 change in the relation of man to woman.
The relation iii which they stood to each
other was not changed, only intensified.
There was subordinate existence be-
tween Adam aud Eve before the fall but
it was strictly physical one, correspond
ing to the sphere to be occupied by the
sex. AS mans sphere was mere directly
connected with physical manual labor, so
WAS his physical organization specially
adapted to it. In this respect he was the
lord OF creation, because be was thus to
overcome it A. wOman's sphere was diff
ferent in this respect, her organization
was made oorrespondingly delicate, the
physical organization of each correspond
ing exactly to the physical demand to be
made upon it.
Adams sin made his hard sphere hard
ar still and woman's weakness was made
the more apparent by the sufferings of
maternity, and the increased severity of
man, consequent upon his fallen nature.
Man alone was not complete. God said
it is not good for man to be alone. So
God formed woman, made her bone of
his bone, and flesh of his fiesh," u creature
having the same attributes, like soul,
the same longings for immortality, tho
same capacities to love, to hate, to accept,
to refuse, and also an Independent respon-
sible personality, to be blessed if she did
right, to be punished if she did wrong.
He then proceeded to discuss each of
Mr.. Dewey's positions, representing able,
and logical refuting arguments, which we
will not elaborate for publication, lest we
fail to present, the well-written and care
fully considered arguments in such form
as to mar its proportions. He concluded
as follows:
Fellow citizens this improvement is
soon to be presented to your decision, 1
beg of you to lay aside all prejudice ridi-
cule and act in this matter candidly in
the light of facts and principles. Let me
assure you that it's not from female suf-
frage, as Mr.. Dewey asserts, that our gov
ernment stands in danger of being over
thrown, but it is from the corruption and
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ask you to look into the faces of your
wives and daughters and let me know if
they are not as capable, nay more capable,
of expressing an intelligent opinion at the
ballot bog as the herds of ignorant
Americans and foreigners who vote en-
naaSSe according to the beck of political
wire pullers.
The ballot will not fully correct all
woman's wrongs any more than it corrects
all of mans, but it is her right, it will be
to her stepping stone, it will be to her
h elper and defense.
l demand the ballot FOR Zonan because
the spirit of the Gospel demands it. de-
mand it because our constitution says "no
taxation without representation" | de-
mand it because a common humanity and
intelligence demands, because honor and
honesty demands it. Idemand it because
it will purify government and because
the good of society demands it. I demand
it as God given right.
The throbbing pulsations of earth's
,;lltnoo & fattora1 hoopfa olosp ha
day fast approaching when every human
being, without regard to sex or color,
shall stand equal in the light of freedoms
day holding the ballot, not as symbol
of muscle or brute force, but as the en-
blem of free manhood and a capacity
for self-goverpment.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was then intro
duced. She said that in bidding farewell
to the convention she could not refrain
from refuting the charge of free love that
is often charged npon the friends of fe-
male suffrage. She proceeded in chaste
and frank manner to refute the charge,
and to speak of the home relations as they
should exist, and in concluding, said that
the audience assembled before her remind
ed her of the great cartoon of Hogarth
which she once saw, on which were repre-
sented Luther, Erasmus, Melsncton and
other of the fathers mentioned in Chris
tian history. The effect produced upon
her in looking upon the assembly before
her produced higher and nohler sensations
than that of the picture of the great ar
tist. She saw something more than the
mere representation. She saw the power
and pathos of womanhood from the babe
to the aged sybil, and their presence
seems to say to US, Save us from life of
folly And after an earnest appeal for the
in behalf OF women, ehe bade