Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-04-26
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Mr.. EDiroR i--if you will not deem it
f" boarding the lion in his den," l would
just like to aim few "paper darts" at
even "your reverence" to pay for that
sly editorial in the NEwsDrALEK Of April
9th. Was it random shot When you
said the advocates Of woman suffrage
"here, had all gone to their holes "?--
Perhaps time will show you that the few
lyceum debates OH the subject, and the
few articles given us in the NEwsDEALER
are all dropped in the sea of thought, and,
like little pebbles dropped in the great
ocean, dropped and forgotten, yet pro-
ducing little wavelets which shall widen,
and widen until the whole earth is en-
eircled, H.0
And that extract from the Woodstock
Standard, did yeu mean to frighten u.s.
knowing, as YOU must know, that in all
our language there is not another word
from which our sisters in the Green Mt.
State shrink with such dread and loathug
as from that foul, wicked word--prostitu-
tioh7 This did that editor of the STAN
dard know also, and for that very reason
did he drag it into his editorial to cast
in the face of timid women, hoping it
would prove au efectual gag. He over
did the work, for VT all know the north
road will sooner lead to the South Pole,
than a firm Christian obedience to the
voice of conscience will lead to imihoral-
ity. go .r.H
"Afraid Of a covert attack oh the mar.
riage relation" forsooth and do you not
know, most cautious of editors, that, al-
though we are taught marriage pertain
eth to the earth, yet, nature and religion
proclaim It's divine origin, therefore il
hath no need to fear the covert or open
attack Of any pen in Christendom fol-
Truth will bear any amount of sophistry,
and tuine off victorious at last, " None
but the guilty depreciate, the lightning
flash of free debate" o.. . .a.
Again. / ask, is this fair specimen ol
womans freedom in Vermont We look
across the Atlantic to monarch-ridder
Austria, and there behold $4,000 womer
voting without harm to mind or morals
while here in our own free land partisan
prejudice may elevate a libertine to higf
honors, thereby endangering the morals
of our sons, the purity of our daughters
yet no loyal mothers vote may count a
gainst the immortality. Is not there ,
fetter placed on the conscience of wo
man?
We are told we must not 60 about preach
ing more purity iii political lifei fo' tina
is out of "our sphere; We must not vott
against RIGHTEOUSNESS, It's out Of ou
sphere ; so We writa against slavery, i'm
purity or howerever our conscience ma,
. dictate, freely, fearlessly, for this is th'
one avenue wherein, we are told, womal
should be heard and straightway VIC arr
met by shocked editors, who garblc ou
thought, picking out exccpts, and holding
. us up to ridiule; laying upon our should
ers witkedness past and to come, even Il
the very immortality we are moved t
preacn and vote against; making lou'
protesations against our views. sayiuI
they lead to 'folly and licentiousness !;
forgetting that no class Of men in all ou
land do more to vitiate the tastes Of ou
people. then patison editors, as they lsu
to the skies wolf IN sleeps clothing whe
he is their pet candidate, disGguring thci
sheets with foul aspersions Of their oppc
nent's character, even though he be
Christian man; until, 10 many communi
: ties. the young too often regard virtue a
meaning = our party and vice the oppo
site. - I'LL. bes 4os,..a. .....l
B 10 wad some kind fairy the giftie 81
To see ourse's DIS ithers sic u.s."
} What good | ask will it do, or has it don
: for praying mothers to frown upon gam
: bers, or refuse the libertine . scat Q
/ their table, SO long as men vote for thes
same offenders, and the plaudits Of editor
. bring them high appointments as thsi
3 reward,
9 Agains how many dollars docs it TAX
: to buy d license to dissipate our sons, an
I make drunkards Of our husbands 7 Wha
f loyal mother would not rather pay pol
y tax. even though she never soiled her fl
r gers with . vote, than thus to replenis
D the nations treasury at the fearf'
cost Of 'taipiDg the soul Of b
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