The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-12-17

1t is reireshing to be assured that their
fathers and brothers love them. and that
they married their free choice But there
are two fatal objections to the first clause
of the count. In our widely extende
country, it Is but too true that there are
mary thousands of females who do not
have fathers Giving. brothers, or sons
that The husbands OF very many have
gone hope to the abodes inhabited by
angelic natures and where unminged fe-
licity forever booms,' and that to not
few, husbands have never come down
from thut happy region. Now. cur Sis
tcrS have made no provision for those
large and very dependent classes. would
they not better have the ballot, so as to
assure themselves some protection? 1t
! is most lamentable fact TOO, that from
these classes, our penitentiaries - our
Homes Of the FriendleSs various Flee
missionary institutions. ard other places.
sre supplied with their victims
In the second place. am unacquaint-
ed with any reputable treatise an ethics.
that enfoIces vicarious duties. In the
matter Of per sonal duties inseparable from
our humanity, each one must paddle his
or her own canoe must be clothed full
ly with ins:rume ntalities adequately to
meet those dutiss-for the due performs
| ance of which each one is, and of right
ought to be, held responsible and accoun-
table propria persona, in his or her own
proper person. cannot conceive of any
| duty of women that innocent voting
would interfere with.
is it not barely possible, seeing the
| condition OF women constantly changing,
| that they are not performing all that God
intended for them? and that the 10Th
century is not yet perhaps the MILLIONS
UNI, for women. after alp
THAT our present duties fill up the
whole measure Of our time and Abilities
can in truth be said Of wonderfully
small portion of the sex, and it is too
feartUlly true that "our husbands are not
always one with u.s.
What right, pray, have our Oterlin
friends to say that the present time Of
the 10Th century, has witnessed the 'gol>
| den heights for women reached.
Have they had revelation to this eff
| feet:
9TH. we gre content that they repre-
| sent us in the cornfield, the battlefield,
| and at the ballot-box and we them in the
| school. room, at the ire side, and at the
cradle; relieving our representation to b.
| thus more full and impartial than it could
| possibly be were all women allowed to
| vote
| To this exclusiveness. most solemnly
protest in my turn. | am not willing that
MAN should he crowded from the school
room, the fire side or the cradle. Ifmors
men than do so, would make mere equal
joint>representat alton at these points Of du-
| ty-both sides would be in much heal
thier moral condition, and l certainly
know no adequate reason why women, II
necessity or circumstances require, may
| not take turn at corn husking. AS re-
| CARDS the battle field, after woman shall
have secured the ballot, and had the laws
Of property better regulated, she will be
| equally able with man TO hire substitutes
| il drafted! and if her resources in that
| direction fail, why mans charity-his
great masnanimity-his gallantry, can
come into play. So we see her condition
| will be full of expedients, and finally, If
| necessity colnpeis. she can soto the font
and in various capacities, as during our
late rebellion, sho can give efficient aid
to our armies. But then we don't pro,
pose having war as . necessary luxury OF
our social requirements, and besides, when
woms get to voting-ail their seIephic
influence will lie in opposition to ali such
barbarlsms, and what a great and subs
stantial gain hat would be.
The 9th article, is merely an embodi-
ment of all the others, and gives no new
point. Homo.