The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-03-11
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

/ HOhAN CIE II AlUEs
wish to notice some of Guy Ham.
iltOn's points on Woman Suffrage rs
given in Il recent issue of the TRI.
UNE.
Since Guy has placed the issue
square before the American people,
it will therefore be necessary for US,
before we take sides, to notice some OF
his points. Guy asserts: ''It has been
pretty firmly fixed, if not by DEGREES OF
an all-wise Providence, Mt least by
the common consent and practice OF
all mankind that wOman's sphere is a
domestic one ;" and then concludes
-'as q self-evident truth" Guy, in his
self-evident truth, rather doubts the
DEGREES of Providence, but has great
faith in the common consent and
practice of all mankind. He might
further have strengthened his self
evident truth by referring the reader
to the practices of the entire uneivil-
lied portion of humanity, and espec-
tally to the North American Indians,
where the females are by these same
self-evident truths, the dOmesticsIave
1t was but few years ago that q
large portion of the American people
believed in 4 similar self-evident
truth, viz: that black man had no
rights that a white man was bound to
respect. / am inclined to believe that
Guy is of that faith in this natter
We infer from his article that one of
his great objections to Woman Suf-
frage is that woman would become
readers of newspapers-of history, de-
vOurers of Congressional matter to
the great detriment of her domestic
duties. In short, he claims that to be q
good voter, the person must be intel
ligent. Good. If Guys theory were
put in practice, many, very many of
those that stand ut the anvil, at the
work bench, hew down forests and
are builders of earth's iron girdle
would, in a political point, become
hors dc combat; then again, those that
lately became a imam and a brother"
would have to fall back to the days
when this was a white mans govern
ment, and crime to read Gods Holy
Book.
However, Guy has faith enough in
the ladies to admit that they may be
capable of exercising the rights and
privileges of voter-then asks "but
would they make a good ruler?" He
refers to some of England's most no.
bic Queens, Mary, Elizabeth and
Victoria. His TRADE against Eliza
beth will hardly pass for self-evident
truth. He compares Queen Eliza
beth with the reign of Alfred the
Great. Alfred was a great and good
man, Elizabeth was good Queen
both well suited to the times in which
they flOurished. Let us place the
Queens reign by the side of those of
her own day, for instance, Charles
the TX, of France, Philip, Of Spain,
Fred of Germany, We find her reign
the most superior. Guys charges of
the Queens debauches, blood shed and
cruelty will sink into insignificance
when compared with the butcheries
and prosecutions of the French HUI
guenOts and PrOtestants by Charles
and Philip. Professionalism was then
in its infancy, she fostered and pro-
tected it-she feared neither the
bulls of the Vaticann or did homage
to the beast at Rome; the seed sOwn
in her days, we at the present day
are indebted; will say to religious
and civil liberty-where those are
wanting we find the people about as
and bigOted rs in the
days Of Plus the ". Space and time
forbid us to notice his charges against
the present Queen of England-but
we think even Guy will admit that
her reign will compare very favOrably
with mighty Austria, or the great
France. But enough of this. Guy
honestly admits that it is to her benign
influence that We are indebted for
our best and most useful men-a very
favorable assertion as to her jntelli-
gence. Now i'm all candOr / ask-dO
or do not the ladies of this country
want the use of the franchise? If yes,
why not grantit? Wehavegive it to
an intelligent foreign population, we
have granted it to the pauper, to the
criminal, to the refuse Of all nations,
to large portion who have no love
for our country or our cOuntry's insti-
tutions, and finally we have given it
to a million who are unIettered and
but few years ago were the slaves Of
a bigOted chivalry. Neither do un-
derstand that Charles Sumner and
some others of the best minds he
presume to change the
sphere, neither can they, nor are they
going to compel them to vote or hold
office. But that the mothers of our
greatest men may have an equal right
with millions who are far beneath
them in equality, honesty and capac-
ity, and everything which is good and
noble. OLD BLOOM.