Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-03-08
Miscellany.
What Stands in The Way OF Fe.
" male Suffrage.

'Gcnesis," replies one. But what has
Genesis TO do with this question? How
does it stand in the way? We have yet
to learn that in the days Of Adam and
Eve this matter came up for discussion.
But" it is said, there was principle
established then which finds record in the
book of Genesis and settles the question
beyond all controversy, and for all time.
If we presume to inquire further and
more particularly respecting this princi-
pie we are triumphantly referred to Gen.
lille.
But is any principle adverse to female
suffrage here established or even hinted
at? We trow not. Woman's share in
the natural and inevitable consequences
of transgression is here put down. A
curse falls upon both tempter and tempt
ed, but who will be bold enough to affirm
that this forbids woman to vote in the
18th or any other century?
Suppose it does declare that Eve shall
no longer be the equal, but the slave OF
Adam, is it thereby implied that her fe-
male descendants throughout all time
must feel the full force Of this judgment,
and never seek to be freed from it?
Eve is to bring forth her children in
sorrow. Is it here implied that no remote
descendant of her should use the means
which modern science has put within hel
reach to mitigate the pains Of alturi
ton?
For mans sake the ground is cursed
but what tiller of the soil since the time o
Cain has not sought, by every means il
his power, to redeem the ground from
his curse2
Who presumes to cast Genesis in th'
path of modern agricultural implements
And who will say that the daughter
OF Eve should not seek by every legiti
mate means to be freed from the SLAYER
which bound her? who was first in tn
transgression?
As matter of fact, in our own lam
they are already free from any such ot
lection, as is implied in the words "An
he shall rule over them" The women G
suitable age who have no husbands an
are not likely 10 have, may be numbere
by hundreds of thousands, and those VIII
have married know nothing of a state c
seryitude. Exception is made in rcspcc
to the unfortunate ones, who took brute
instead of husbands, by which "orign'
transgression," they experience the fu
ress of sorrow which belongs to that ours
from which every daughter Of Eve right
desires delivcrance.
And who dare declare that any prope
Interpretation of Genesis will cast stone
at the woman who seeks to be redeeme
from the curse of the fall and became wht
her creator designed, and desires her nj
to be the slave, but the help-meet Of man
1t is fully admitted, however, that a
this--like Genesis itsclf-has nothing
do with female suffrage only, with such
statement may come the question, whetl
er, in order to become in the most con
plete sense the help-mcet of man, woma
may not claim the right to vote.
But upon this whole matter Mos
maintains most profound silence. Let I
then be content with this silence, and
the discussion now going forward cease q
further efforts to press him into the serv
ccs of either party. rm
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What stands in the way Of female su
frage?
"Thc teachings Of Paul" cries a
other.
Let us put few plain questions to ii
modern expounder of things "h hard to
understood"
What occasion did Paul have to ref
to this subject2 AT what period did
express an opinion respecting itf
which of his epistles is he moved to P
a single word pro or CON, either by p
mission or by commandment Of the Lor
"But," tits replied, "what be did VT