Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-03-03


Proclamation, he quoted scripture" let
oppressed go free"
The commandments coming direct
from God himself Gays, F." Honor thy faith.
or and thy mother"
do not think ever saw an angel of
woman, but than don't reside in Mad-
ison.
1t is said woman should not vote be.
cause man does. The only PARALLEL in
absurdity would be the converse of that
Woman without man is not equal to
herself and ricc versa Paul said, Meth.
err is man without the woman Never
saw man yet I'd trust by himself.
neither woman Where one woman
INDUCES in Illicit pleasure hundred
men do. Were woman on par with
man in sin and immortality it would be
really frightful Grimes that are consid.
cred small in man, and passed over
slightly by society, are considered great
in woman and sinks her to infamy. AS
the Italian proverb says" mems mortal
sins are venial, womens venal sins are
mortal
In Queen Elizabeth's days men invari-
ably took the part of women in the Drama,
No theater would think now of doing
the same Time brings its changes
You say women should not step into the
dirty pool of politics" Its being dirty
should urge them the more to 60 IN, so
as to clean it out Do you know how we
conduct elections in n. Y. A crowd go
out into the country, and find spot of
nice green turf into which they drive
lot Of piles or pegs and draw chain
through holes in the pegs, put a couple
of men (2) stripped to the waist in the
ring thus formed, and the best man of
the two we send to Congress. If women
couldn't improve on that pray don't
give them suffrage What caused the
Revolution? Taxation without represen,
tation. But says some one, woman is
putualW represented in the persons of
fathers, husbands, brothers, &c. Virtu-
ally represented That is what King
George told the colonists, that they had
virtual representation in the English
parliament But did not the fiery and
eloquent Otis, whose words seemed to
partake of inspiration, declare, and the
colonsts sustain him in his declaration
through the fiery ordeal of war, that
there was no such thing in constitu-
tional law as virtual presentation, =
| stood in the Internal Revenue Office
in New York lately and seven persons
called to pay their taxes four were men
and three were women.
NV friend Wendell Phillips told me
the other day of a man, poor as Jobs
turkey marrying widow with hundred
thousand dollars, in New Hampshire,
and when he died it was found out he
had made will bequeathing to her her
o,cn property on condition she should not
marry again Another case. At the
death of man in one of the Western
States, it was found that he gave the
custody of child get unbora to per.
son three thousand miles away Upon
hearing of which hi widow turned paler
than the corps itself in the coffin. Two
hundred years ago women could not tess
tifv in court
AT one time it was unlawful in Con-
nect,cut for woman to kiss her babe on
Sunday. Go to the library at Florence
and you will find over 10000 volumes of
books by women-she is the "Massachu'
sets" of the sexes. Woman's sphere is
in the family it is said. What coDsti'
tutes family2 Step from the sidewalk
in New York with me down to that cell
lar, and what do we see ? Seated around
cheerful and bountiful table are half
dozen happy children, and the father
at one end and the mother at the other,
happy and cheerful, but all depen-
dent upon the father We take our leave
and what do we meet next, but the mor-
tai enemies of that happy family-sick'
ness, want and poverty. Give the two
sexes in that and many another family
and equal chance in life, and they will
be enabled to drive away those enemies
of their happiness.
"But," says some one, 'woman has in