Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-03-02
MoNTPELIER. Feb. &c, 1870.


on the subject of /" Woman Suffrage" and
allowed even an :" old woman " to speak
therein, will you give place to a few words
from another old woman, if, indeed, you find
them worthy of your acceptance?
l offer no plea for the cause-that resting
In far ADLER hands than mine-but do wish
to ask of our d" intelligent Christian women :"
a more patient consideration of those remarks
made by the women of the Convention, +"
which have since been SO frequently stigma
tlZed as 90 unwomanly.''
How we differ Listening with close at
tention and deep interest to the addresses,
and failing to be 8" shocked" " disguised, ="
or g Mortified began questioning my own
sense of propriety, trying to discover if re
ally my sensibility was growing less as my
years increase. After some determination
and earnest thought, l am still unable to
convince myself that such was the fact !;
therefore | speak
Conscious of the same purity most low
ingly allow, nay, know to be inherent in
thOse women who differ with me, and yet
own to heart throb of pleasure sufficient to
send a warm flush to my faded cheek, that a
woman could and dared to speak of mother
hood, its perils, its pleasures and its powers,
in so tender and SO sacred manner
Should it not ever be thus considerations
spoken of? Is it not a state of God own
ordaining? Are not the life giving functions
ar,EI
considered, may not a woman speak of them
in argument or exhortation, even in IA pro-
miscuous assembly, without fear of the
censure Of - Christian women"
Deprecate, as we certainly should, any I'm.
due familiarity in the use of this liberty, vet
may we not hold it in that high and holy
sense that shall wholly extract from the
sneers and the smokers of the vulgar their
effectiveness and their point? Or need we,
like Peter, an especial vision to show us that
what God has mado is not " common or I'M
clean? 3"
Again, how we differ But l am not alone
in my view and estimate of those particular
- sa wings " of the " women of the Conven-
ton There is . concurrent testimony"
abundant, too, that Mrs. Lucy Stones allu-
sions to mothers perils endured since the
birth of Cain-tO mothers pleasures, in all
ministrations of love and service to their
children, to endure so long as mothers en-
dure-to mothers powers, if conceded to
them, of helping to form those laws which
shall remove from their children the terrible
-,
which all true mothers will ever strive to
bless-to . the baby at the polls were all
rery ,romdniy, rery mofheriy.
And more, the " termagant, the - female
monstrosity, in Mrs. Livermore many
failed to see but on the contrary, there APP
peared an ability to lift herself and her asso-
ciates far above the SCOTS and misrcpresen-
tations of their opponents, that was not
& unwomanly,' but grand.
God help Us. the - Christian women Of
Vermont" in all our thoughts and words of
one another, and all others, to remember the
command, e. Do unto others as We would that
they should do unto you"
And although it is no new thing for Chris
tian editors to hold opposite views of the
same subjects, is it not a matter of some
surprise that the editor of the Watchman
aud Journal is fOuad on the t0rong side Of
the Rights question
! a man, always remarkable for hts respect
I ful and assiduOus attentions to the ladies
| gallantry which seemb to fail not with com
ing age-m ght we not, very natural y, have
supposed it would be to him only pleasur,
to render them all possible service in theil
/ cause, to give them all needed direction wher
! success shall have crowned their efforts, and
| finally TO escort them, one or many, to thu
polls Why not to Freeman's meeting as
well as all others? Truly he, of all Chris
tian editors, should have been the Woman s
cham pion.
And not less remarkable for his entire and
untiring devotion to the Ant-Slavery cause,
rom his earliest years of public life until
| God gave US our " exceeding joy" the
Emancipation Proclamation, why sees he
not in this % movement" with all its unfor-
tunate attendants, if such it has, only fur
Their development of that spirit of progress
which for more than eighteen centuries has
lowIy but surely gained ground, only to
bless?
May we not confidently trust that ere long,
much less than twenty years." he will
awaken to that old cry, which has come to
many a soul which. earnestly endeavering to
do the Masters work, had mistaken its way
-" Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me"
CHARITY.