The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-12-03
Woman Suffrage No. 8.
RIcHMoND, IND, Nov. 80, 1870.
Editor Palladium -

RICHMOND, IND, Nov. 80, 1870.
Editor Palladium -
Among the ordeas to which is subiec-
ted every effort to subvert obnoxious
customs, venerable, not from their con-
formity TO reason, or to the dictates of
justice, bat solely from their age, in the
catalogue Of obstacles with which tt G
adoption Of very many Of the great inn
provements-the important discoveries
and the useful inventions that illustrate
our age-has had to contend, and in the
long lists of combats in which truth has
had to grapple with and overthrow err
ror. there is perhaps, none that has OPP
posed such discouragements, given the
advocates of truth such labor, or yielded
with such obstinacy, as the intolerance
Of religious bigotry. For the truth of
this observation, History furnishes album
dant evidence.
For the ordinary forms in which ig-
norance presents itself, some remedy
may always be adapted, but when the
unenlightened entrench themselves in
the mists Of my sticism, behind what ar e
supposed to be the teachings of tie BIZ
BILE, and surround themselves with the
panoply Of what they conceive TO be linn
its of moral or of religious duties, the
difficulty of routing them from their
strongholds of fancied security, at times
seems anything but invitin
In confirmation Of the justice Of these
sentiments I need only to refer to the
case of Calico, one of the first to ar>
nounce the true theory of the Solar Sys-
tenn, who was pursued with relentless
Wind ictiveness, and had heaped upon
him the proscriptiye anathemas of the
Catholic clergy, that were a disgrace
even to that age-to Harvey the discov-
erer of the circulation OF the blood, and
to Jenner, who first introduced vaccin-
alton. When the learned and accom>
plished Mrs. Montagu gave the influence
of her name in urging the general intro
duction into practice, of Jenner's discov-
cry, she was denounced with such bits
terness as almost to cause her to repent
of her philanthropy. She was accused
of interfering with the designs of Proyi~
dence, and doubtless, of 'transcending
the duties which God had imposed on
her.
When the distinguished DR.. Simpson
of Edinburgh, discovered and introduced
the anasthetic agen mt, Chloroform- which
has been the means of alleviating such
an untold amount of suffering-although
he had been deservedly popular and es-
teemed for his transformations Christian
piety. He too, was heralded as assum>
ing the prero gatives of the Almighty
as violating the plain teachings of the
Bible, and without question, as 'disre-
garding the duties imposed on him by
benefcent Creator For, said his accu-
sers, had the Almighty not designed
human suffering, he would not have
permitted it to exist This was truly
logical ~ reasoning, and almost equal
III clearness and in cogency 10 that of
the very respectable women, whose gilt
tering qualities of an anti-revoIutionary
Pronunciamento,' | will presently in
troduce.
1t is needless to cucumber this essay
with further instances illustrative Of my
position, your readers can easily supply
the thousands of examples which no
time can efface from the pages of history
1t is not the Bible, bu. to its misinter-
preted teaching, that object. My read
ing of the Sacred Volume instructs me
that the Deity is no espector of persons,
and that all--human beings--are equally
the objects of His redee ming grace and
consequently l infer, very clearly and
nationally as appears to my unillumined
intellect, that all adults, of sane mind
are equally entitled to the possession
and to the exercise of similar and equal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and equal
agencies-similar and equal facilities in
all respects-for protecting both person
and property and in impressing their
individualities, their influence, and their
knowledge on their kind, and for enforc>
ing due observance of their legitimate
desires, and of their peculiar necessities.
1 fully believe. with the 'protesters all
ready referred to, that Women are mot
inferior to- but the equals OF Men. Per-
sons, as we'll as things, may be, and often
are, equal and similar, though different.
If man has q stronger, more searching
intellect-woman's has a keener edge.
i his mental powers extend further
hers perceive quicker. If his is better
adapted to the heavier mind labor-he
is the more intuitional. If his nature is
coarser, more material-her's is more
emotional, enthusiastic, imaginative, spir-
ituelle. His rugged, matter>of- fact, un>
polished austerity, is supplemented by
her superior refinement, elegance and
grace. If he reasons inductively, from
effect to cause--from FACTs--she reasons
deductively, from cause to effect--from
IDEAS. In word each sex is the CORE.
lative, if | may be allowed the express
sion--the co ordinate--the supplement- of
the other. If men are the Horatios of
action--women are tipified by the Ham>