Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-02-25
Woman Suffrage Meeting at Rut-
land.
SPEECH OF MIR. GARRISON.

We copy the 70 lowing report OF the
speech of Mr.. Garrison at the Rutiahd
Woman Suffrage convention, ON Tues
day, as made by the Rutland Herald;
Mr.. Garrison next addressed the audi
ence, and said that when in Scotland
they wanted TO draw off dog from the
chase they traied ar d herring in his
path, and the remedy was said to be Ell
fectiye. So was the remedy resorted to
in the case of upbraiding Woman Sut-
frage. Many Of its opponents resort to
the red herring trick, but they do not
meet the question in fairness, dealing
generally in SANDER, and its advocates
are thereby prevented from giving the
statements consideration. In regard to
DR.. Lords attack, in the Montpelier
Watchman & journal, he had the paper
before him. He was familiar with such
attacks against the abolition of slavery,
when the aboliionists were counted
amongst the scum of the earth and vile
" slande red, that those in bondage might
| 60 down to their graves without the hope
Of deiverance. The writer Of that arti-
! c.e, Mr.. Garrison remembered, had no
| troubles of conscience as to the marriage
relation which he now deemed so sacred,
when in the times Of slaveocracy, he saw
married women sold on the auction block
to the highest bidder.
He had then no qualms Of conscience
when he saw the marriage relation brok-
en- down nd Sodom and Com, ah ele-
vatel. Suppose an advocate of woman
suffrage is free lover, the allusion 10 the
fact is but Scotch red herring. Such
charges did not meet the question. If
there were those connected with it who
were not right in other matters that had
nothing to do with it. On the matter of
marriage we had never allowed women
to have a voice in saying what shall be
the laws Of marriage and divorce. In
regard to depriving women ofsueh rights,
the more we do so the more we take issue
with what God has done, and so become
impi0us. 1t is not with men we quarrel,
or women, but with God He was struck
with the parallel of the condition of the
woman now aud the former slaves. The
same inconsistent arguments were used
against the amelioration Of the condi-
ii ms of both. The slaves we're punished
for crime and the argument was that
they were inferior by nature, yet they
were contented and happy with their lot.
| So now it was that woman were alleged
to be contented and happy with theirs,
and don't want suffrage. But they should
have it, and men were beand to grant it
them. ST. Paul was quoted by its oppo-
nents as an argument against this re-
form. He was quoted as in favor Of
chattel slavery. It was strange that
charges were laid 10 Paul, as by no other
OF the apostles or disciples could these
men attempt to prove their doctrine.
He must have been a queer apostle,
if his name could be SO used as against
every moral reform. But we got rid of
slavery, and Paul will never again be
quoted TO prove its divine origin, and
then. as now, believing that all govern
meuts derive their power from the con-
sent of the governed, he advocated hui
man freedom, Paul or no Paul The
rights Of human being are his being,
; and we had no business to 20 to any book
to find his rights. We do not come to
battle with the Bible. It was, as re.
, search had to him demonstrated, old and
$ new testaments, clearly with US in this
; movement. But in either case. if he
thought the Bible sanctioned aggression
: he would put it beneath his feet, what
: ever might be claimed for 1t. If such is
e proved by any book, it is bad for the
book, for the man remains in the image
of God. Mr.. Garrison closed his re-
: marks by inviting discussion with any
one who might be present and dissented
: from his views, saying they would en-
G deavor to relieve such from all difficult
ties and perplexities on the subject, and
> that the meeting was such thata freedom
J was guaranteed to all to make dissen-
sions. So convincing, however, were
: the arguments advanced that none had
: the hardihood to meet him on the issue.
: = Unmarried men are excluded from
D juries in Illinois when breach of promise
t cases are on trial
+ A younggirl of ST. Petersburg muir
;. dered her lover the other day, packed his
body in trunk, and sent it by express
to his parents at Moscow, completing her
barbarity by marking it c. o. d.
= The Providence Press says that a
a gentleman oftnat city took his five-yeal-
III r.