Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-03-01
Number 15

horse, well knowing that in any emergen-
cy they can be resumed
As civilization and wealth have increa
sed, marriage has become less sought,
while emigration, combining with this and
other causes, has greatly increased tho
humber of unsupported women. The ball
lot is not SO sure remedy for th. result
ing evils as the opening of new avenues to
Independence, such as are suitable to wo.
man, and there arc many. Erery woman
should be trained to some profession by
which she may earn home and income,
and thus she will not be tempted to mer.
cenenary marriage or debasihg vice.
If civil society ever reach that perfect.
ed ideal Of intelligence and virtue predict
ed by Revelation. all men will seek to es.
tablish family. And thcn-if every
department Of the family state be carried
out by well educated and wel-paid wo.
men; it the schools for young children
be in the hands of women, and the offices
of the higher institutions Of education be
shared equally by men and women; if all
institutions for the sick, the insane, the
criminal have Offices equally shared by
men and women-there will be no women
remaining to engage in political affairs.
If this be SO, the attempt to introduce
women to general civil management and
offices tends to rob the family state and
the institutions of benevolence and re-
form Of some of their most important ma
nagcrs.
1t is probable that the advocates Of fe.
male suffrage are not aware that their
success would involve an act Of oppression
on q large class of benevolent and intelli-
gent women. This class are those who
feel that women are suffering great wrongs
and disabilities, but that the true remedy
is not in tempting them to assume mans
but rather to increase the
honor and emoluments Of all employmepts
that sustain the family state, especially
by increased'scientifc and practical train
ing for these duties. They feel that wo-
mans true profession demands as much
intellectual talent and as much scientific
training as any Of the most honored pro-
fessions Of the other sex. For woman's
duties more is required in varied direct
ions, and less in extensive investigations
in some one direction, than is needed in
most professions for men; 50 that the ap-
training of women would tend
more directly to secure a well-balanced
mind than courses heretofore marked out
for the other sex. Woman's profession
has been dishonored by the neglect of the
scientific and practical training for its
high duties, and, as the consequence, its
sacred and difficult ministries arc wildly
neld by the ignorant, the incompetent, and
the unscrupulous. r
In this view of the case, the most I'M.
Dortant effort which women should unite
10 secure is to raise the honor and emolu.
nent of their own profession SO as to tempt
and accomplished women to seek
t, instead of leading them out Of it to
manage public affairs. Opening the hon
,rs and exctements Of political Life would
operate as most disastrous drain on for
,es now so much needed to sustain the
lonor and duties of the family state. At
he same time it would impose increased
md oppressive responsibilities on nobls
lass OF women who already feel over
axed. For, should the destinies of the
public commonwealth, be placed under the
control of women, this is the very class
whose intellect would be most severe
y taxed. To them these enlarged duties
would be an uudesircd and oppressive
,urden.
And it is hoped that the fathers Of the
epublic will not enforce such Obligations
N this class Of women, unless ii is made
lnmstakesbly clear that majority are
Wiling TO assume them.
There have teen some topics introduced
uto this discussion which have no neces.
airy connection with it. AS,
Whether il is not as proper for woman
o speak to an audience as to sing in choir
II whether Scripture does not
warrant her acting as religious teacher
whether she may not enter ANY lawful
business that will defend her FROM power
y--all these queries may be answered
lffirmatively, and yet the common-sense
principle be binding, that general laws
md customs should apportion the heavy
md outdoor work and civil government
o secure the lighter and indoor work 10
Homant as best adapted to the qualifca-
lions Of the two sexes. There are emer.
yencies when men must tend infants aud
mend clothing and when women mutt
hold ploughs and command ships but tho