Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-17
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clining to attribute such inventive powers
to one OF the sisterhood. was especially
interested in the article entitled SIS 1t
Best p in which he accuses Lucy Stone
of asking two very foolish questions, IN
stead of answering a sensible one. With
peculiar adroitness he avoids repeating
those questions, but quotes portions
which suit his purpose best, and replies
in such q vague manner as to render IL
difficult to ferret out any sort OF reason
through such heap of rubbish.
In the second place, owing perhaps to
the lack of lawyers acute perceptions
we fail TO see the common sense" IN the
question which he so kindly offers Lucy
Stone as a substitute for her second,
namely lis it right for pies to come
out of the oven palatable and digestible
pies ?" Afterwards, making a weighty
addition to the moral obligation OF the
food mentioned, he leaves this branch OF
the subject in such an unfinished state,
that appropriating his figures we are led
to reflect that however good an article OF
food pies may be when properly cooked,
we find them quite unpalatable and in
digestible when served up raw. Having
thus totally annihilated Lucy Stone leav-
ing her nonentity, and the whole sys-
tenn which she upholds, IN datlc'tS0 NOR
It's: Caesar is still ambitious, and rallies
his powers for general descent upon the
advocates of Woman Suffrage. He begins
by substituting another and quite Wis
ionary question of wings and railways
discovers unheard of parallels, arrives at
unexpected conclusions, and at last, be-
coming hopelessly entangled, he realizes
the obvious necessity "ef common sense
instead of common nonsense"
Next he asks some one "to set about
telling how woman may be educated to
the ballot, and insisting that she shall be
so educated before she is allowed to vote
Now we thixk one important step has
been gained, if any person urges that ed
ucatienal qualifications are essential to an
intelligent suffrage, whether male or fe-
male, black or white, now let him ask
for information as to how a man may be
educated to the ballot, and insist that he
shall be so educated before he is allowed
to vote again; for unless he admits the
propriety of the last there can be no
reason in the first. His idea that if wo-
J, Exy EEpaon-Vannof-
ers'' will vote often enough to annul our
votes, is as novel as it is startling. | take
it as sort of threat to intimidate the
faint. hearted; however, some one will
doubtless be fertile enough in expedients
to devise method whereby these ambi-
tious ones may be limited in their desires.
Still, doubt if his suggestion reflects
much to the honor of his brethren, and
yield the point at once, that pure
minded woman" of New York or else-
where is no match for an unscrupulous,
vicious man. Fortunately, there exists
another class of men who live above this
undercurrent of chicanery. @
1t seems quite remarkable that the op-
ponents of "Woman Suffrage" did not
send "H.," or some Other representative,
to "the late Female Suffrage Convention,
that with their sound arguments they
might put 10 shame Lucy Stones dull
generalities and inbeciitios." In short,
abandoning the Coward STYLE" why did
they not come up and discuss the subject
Has it been better to resort to vile acousa-
tions, gross misrepresentation, and what is
still lower in the scale, thrusts at the
character of persons who advocated the
movement? These are weapons which
the high-minded ignore. We ask if their
use in the present case is honorable ;
One man being asked why the oppo-
nents did not take a public stand and
argue it down, said, "Oh it wasn't worth
our whilo-a mere waste of time; of
course we couyd have siIenced them, but
we want foemen worthy of our steel
This reminded me of little story of a
pigmy, who, being pursued by a giant,
crept into an opening scarcely large
enough to admit one of the giants fin
gers, and there contented himself with
shaking his tiny fists and piping out with
his shrill voice, "Ah! Mr.. Giant, if
were to come out I should give you ter
rible beating, but it isn't worth the while
scorn to thrash one of your size"
On the day of the convention I became
an unwilling listener to a conversation be-
hind me. A man, after making comments
upon the several female speakers that
would scarcely repeat with pen or voice,
was asked by his neighbor: "Well, what
of Garrison you were always a staunch
supporter of his" "Oh Garrison-why
Garrison--yes Garrison-means well but
he is rather in his dotage; and the fact is
these monomaniacs have beset him and so
wrought upon his feelings that the old
man fancies be is working out great re-
form, when really he has outlived his use
fitness But VIC must remember what
he has done, and not condemn him for his
childish babbling." I turned and looked
upon the face of the speaker, which, al
though it bore unmistakable traces of intel
l9ct, was fast becoming soulless in express
sion in consequ ence of dissipation, and !
said to myself, "How fitting that it is left
for such as he to speak thus lightly of that
noble veteran whose years have been
spent in the defense of human rights.
Happy would it be for this man if to-day,
in middle age, he possessed one-half the
vigorous manhood of soul and body as
Wm. Lloyd Garrison" ...... ..
Thus from the streets, from the shops,
from the stores, come waited to us these
babblings from those who are neither in
their first nor second childhood, but men
and women who, hiding behind their
thick walls of pride and prejudice, reso.
lutely defy reason. Now every
man and woman ought to have an