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

rison, been called low company by DR..
Lord of Montpelier, yet lawyers, judges
and the ablest newspapers advocate the
measure. We must espouse the cause be-
cause of its principles. He believed it
was right, and went on to tell how he be-
came converted to it, which was that in
writing an article in opposition to it, he
became entangled in the meshes of his
own arguments and found he was wrong.
He believed all would, upon argument,
become so convicted. AS regards virtual
representation, who, he asked, repre-
sented the 10000 more women than men
in Massachusetts,, and who the 10000 or
$4,000 more women than men in New
England? There is no such thing as one
person representing another. As to why
women did not more generally ask for
suffrage, he answered that the degrada-
ton of their present position breaks down
the respect they should have for them
selves, and they are content with such po-
sitions as their lords and masters assign
them. Woman suffrage would make our
social condition better, and would elevate
woman. He spoke of the inefficiency sf
the law, in the instance of what he de-
nominated the hired-girl system. If
we hired man for six months
we GOULD hold him to ful6ll his
contract; but if we hired girl
she could do so or not, and we had no pro-
the hands of woman, make her legal
voter and you uplift her and make
her responsible person. Then we will
have a higher state Of society. He would
like 10 know if adding power t. good in
fiuence, made it any less good. We of
Vermont are traditionally fond of liberty.
The history of our legislation for the last
25 years was coMtinued series of adj
crown it by an act which will elevate and
enoble woman Let Vermont, then, lead
the nations and take this step
Mr.. VIM. Lloyd Garrison followed by
saying that if this movement did not en-
counter slander and defamation on the
one hand and ridioulo and contempt on
the other, it would only prove that its
friends were not engaged in any radical
moral reform Therefore be was not sur
prised nj the disposition to nI4lisn us. As
to the Montpelier libeler of the good men
and women engaged in it, he believed /
that there were many Lords, yet he did
not think the people OF Vermont would
allow the one resident at Montpelier to
Lord it over their hearts and consciences.
How shall we settle the matter of equal |
ity2 Some things may tax the meta
physical powers of the mind, yet he
could not see how there could be chance
for argument on anything MS plain as this
To whom was the sermon on the noun
tain delivered Men and women Then
they ,tra equal. To whom did the golden
rule apply? Men and women Then
they are equal. For whom was the cru
elf xion on Calvary? Not men alone,
but men and women! Then they are
equal. If we are equal before God, does
equality begin in reference to our daily
duties? He thought not. There are
those who say the claim of suffrage for
woman is n novel claim. So is every new
claim. So it was with slavery. But that
it was new, did not alter its justice. That
began with the creation of man. This
movement has attained wonderful and
vigorous growth, and instead of bringing
around its standard, the Montpelier
slauderer would say, the low and the vile,
such Glasses are universally found to be
its opponents. On ths other side of the
Atlantic, as here, the noblest men Gad
women have come forward and are giving
it the benefit of their best energies, and
the cause was gaining ground. So long
as oppression existed there would be an
uprising against it. We are often asked
why woineG 90 not ask for it. They do
more than is believed, for laat year 10000
women petitioned the British Parliament
for the right to vote for members of Par
lament and he thought the naxt PArlia-
ment would grant the women of England
the right to do 50. Then again there
were many women who, if they said all
they felt on this subject, would find their
homes made uncomfortable for them by
brutal husbands or other relations, and so j
they kept silence. We were working in
the interest of great TRUTH, and all must
unite and carry out those great principles,
in the name of God, without whose as
sistance we can expect to accomplish {
nothing.
The meeting then adjourned to 7.30
p. n.
EKEMING SESSION.
A large audience, numbering nearly aix .
hundred, assembled to listen to the clos
ing exercises of the convention. The
first speaker was Rev. William G. Walker .
of st. Albans, who delivered his lecture
in reply to the lecture of Charles !;
@. Dewey, Esq, in opposition to Woman =,
Suffrage.
Mr.. Walker said: A few weeks since a
legal gentleman delivered
in Academy Hall, st. Albans, lecture
against female suffrage; the greater part ,
Of which was an elaborate attempt to
prove that the Scriptures gave to woman
one grand right, and that was to love and
obey obey being the greater half
He declared the assertions of that part +
Of the Council of Censors whe were in /
favor of female suffrage to be "sublimated t
nonsense and solid foolishness." | do not t
to reply by any such "solid" mode I
of organization. I may not be able to a
present 80 finely turned periods, such t
beautiful flowers of rhetoric, nor so per- 8
feet and complete an exhaustion of the f
adjectives and appellations of Webster's n