Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03
A Letter From New York..Woman,s
Position.
NEW YORK, Jan. Oath, 1870.

progress it has made. Saturday I attended
the weekly meeting of the Woman Suf-
frage Association, corner Of Broadway
and Twenty-third street, and the array OF
intelligent, interested faces of women
there assembled in search of light, afford
ed significant comment on the existing
state of things which has compelled wo-
man to take the question of heu right OF
suffrage into her own hands, IN hopes OF
finding the aid she requires to redeem
herself and posterity from the evils which
stare us in the face in all directions. The
woman question raised terrible muss
with poor Adam Through Ewes pertinac-
! ity il search of knowledge,) and has
feaEfully agitated the breasts OF his male
descendants ever since. II would seem
but reasonable to infer that since woman
began the muss, through her innate love
of knowledge, she should have the oppor-
tunity of turning that knowledge to it's
legitimate account in finding the remedy
for the evils she is accused of bringing on
Adam and his poatority. To effect this,
she must be free in, all directions, even to
casting her vote on the side of right and
morality !: fer evidently without her aid
in that direction, man will remain
plunged to his eyes in the muss to the
end OF the chapter. I think he is getting
his perceptions awakened to this fact
from present indications. 1t would seem
that the only hope for the future is in
getting woman to think, and the surest
way to effect that end is by giving them
the right to express their thoughts by the
ballot and holding them to their RESPONSE
bilities as citizens Of our country, with
common interests at stake, to cast their
influence on the side of right and moral
ity. No woman who is mother, to
whose care is committed the eternal well
fare of immortal souls, and who feels that
she is responsible to the Eternal Judge
for her account of that stewardship, would,
through any temptation, cast her influence
nature lies the means of redemption for
the race, and it is only through her igno-
rance of the right way of fulfilling the
holy duty devolving upon her as the mas
ter of man, that all the evil results, and
man, as son and husband, is what he is
to-day-an ill-regulated unhappy victim,
sprawling out in all directions after what
he ought to find at home. There is that
in man which instinctively turns to wo-
man to save him from himself, and Just in
proportion as woman meets that demand,
will she reap from him what she has
sowed. II she is in herself true wo-
man, worthy of his love and respect, no
claim of hers on his God-given manhood
will ever be dishonored. A problem
which has disturbed my mind for year
or two past, was settled the other day
during a visit to the school of Design for
women at the Cooper Institute, AS
my eye rested on the innumsrable
studies of anatomy for the practi-
cal education of the female pupils,
some 200 in number, and heard of the
lectures on physiology every day for their
benefit, also the opportunity afforded them
for attending at the dissection of subjects,
I saw the dawn of bright future for
woman. The great obstacle to refosga
with women exists in their GsEeZ, ignor-
ance of the laws which aaXe-a, taair own
bodies, and the bodies OF. thsir sons and
husbands. With, reference to the physio-
logical laws Which govern man, experience
proves tup too surely, that women are
lanontably ignorant, and how can they
deal with that suble essence, the ina
material in man, which they cannot see,
when the material which they can see, is
an UNEMPLOYED mystery to them. AS II
took in the sense of the admirable pro-
directions, and listened to the assurance
of DR.. Kimmer, The, idea struck me
that these women could never under any
circumstances be the future mothers of
such degenerate specimens OF humanity
as one sees whichever way he may look.
And here rests the question of womaA's
final emancipation, through her glosfoas
motherhood every man reflects his
mothers characteristics. He ia soalmitted,
to her care in a plastic condition, that she
may mould his future, and ne is just what
she makes him, pitifua botch if she is
ignorant, well-balaRaed man IT, she is
wise. When woman understand these
immutable laws of God and brings her.
self into harmony With, them, instead of
being as she is in herignorance to-day at
fierce war with nature, then, and not till
then, shall ,s.an bend the knee in worship
at the shrine of true womanhood, and
be to woman. just what in her soul she
feels he was designed to be, the other
half of,hersels, the conserver Of her rights,
the interpreter of her needs, and the pro-
tector upon whom, next to the great
Father of us all, she can rely, neversto fail
her in her utmost need. And now, as a
mother and a woman, let me implore my
sister W oman 10 see TO it that their sons
and daughters are taught by them in their
earlier years TO knoao Themselves, and to
understand the duties that devolve upon
them as members of the great brotherhood
of man, which by Gods answering law
must stand or fall together. J.D.L.
AID FOR THE DISCHARGED NAVE
YARD WoRKMEN.-The Secretary of the
Navy win be speedily authorized by Con-
gress to draw temporarily from some
other fund of the department antil the
passage of the regular appropriations bill,
SO that the work in the engineering and
construction departments faay be allowed
to proceed as usual. This news will
afford world of relief to thousands of
mechanics who had despaired of obtain
ing further work in the navy yards this
winter.
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