Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-05-04
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WOman's Rights.

WOman's Rights.
Mr. EDITOR: In your issue of the Goth
inst, the editor of the New York Iadepe's-
dent sends out Card Extraordinary, to
the American People" on the subject of
"Woman's Enfranchisement,v asking
every person in the United States friendly
to this interest" to send to him a list of lal
DESTROYS to promote the object of his
Card, which "is to know to whom to
send important documents"
Woman's Rights is the hobby which
restless agitators are riding at Icesent.
The stroDg-minded are pushing the matter
with vigor, and entertain high hopes that
ere long the women will everywhere enjoy
the right of being men. What Christianity
has done for woman does not suffice for
these reformers. The Scriptural notions
seem to them Anticipated in this enlight-
ened age, and they will be satisfied with
no such doctrine as this: i will there
fore that the younger women marry, bear
children, guide the house, give none occa-
sion to the adversary to speak reproachful-
| ly.n Tim. .: 140. "Wives, submit your
selves to your own husbands, as unto the
Lord. For the husband is the HEAD of the
wife, even as Christ is the head of the
Church. "-Ephes 5: D. 3.
That they may teach the young women
to be sober, to love their husbands, to love
their children, to be discreet, chaste, keep
ers at home, good, obediem to their own
| husbands, that the Word Of God be not
blasphemed.n Titus 2: As. Let the
women bear in silence with al! subsection.
But | suffer not woman to teach, nor to
usurp authority over the man, but to be in
silence. u Tim. 2: HIP.
Such teachings to the wise of this world,
may seem to be degrading to woman, but
they assign to her the place of usefulness
and honor for which she was designed, and
and she is sure to suffer in the end if she
would presume TO understand her mission
better than her Maker, who would have her
loved and honored.
In addition to the above Card, y and our
structures upon il, the following from the
Central L. b. a, of Pennsylvania is re-
spectfully submitted for the eye of your
readers. relative TO a lady delegate to that
body: WHEREAS, Some surprise was eX-
pressed at the appointment of sister dele
gate to this body ResoIUed, That we re-
gard such appointment as proper, and we
will welcome our sister to a seat in our
body, ;" assigning as areason that they were
''last at the cross and first at the sepulcher."
What will that association do with Cor.
"A: 1876. Let him that readeth under
stand.
This evil Is eliminating rapidly, The
last extract places it in the Church with
laudaton. 4 few rapid revolutions of
years will bring to the surface, in the pull
pit of this land, its true element, Free
Love" Then, Mr.. Editor, our sex, once
honored with native equality will he hum
bled in the cess-pool of human degradation,
with the plague-spot of infany written
(. upon our foreheads, as signal to drive the
footsteps of virtue from the Shiny paths of
our deep and damning abandonment to all
good.
The pride of our sex has been tiattered
by deep, designing men, under the delud-
. ing phantom of elevating Us in our sphere
as the ,oedkel' UesselS, but my honest con-
victions are, their object is to captivate and
seduce. Personal feelings and pride of fe-
male character prompts the writer TO affirm
that no female having just regard for per-
sonal womanhood would not only not de
sire "enfranchisement,n but would scorn
I the institution as degrading to thesex.
MARY JANE.
Williamsburg, Knox county, April, 1870.
TtIr FEEEfvr OF A STATESMAN WRITING