The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-03-03

hedges up the way. A woman no matter
how well qualified, cannot enter the legal
profession. Women complain of this
inequality before the l,w, but Mr. Fat
field denounces them, and calls their agi-
tation pernicious. We give the follow
ing bearing on this point, from the Win
sted (Ct) Herald OF January %, which
we commend to the special attention of
Dr. H.:
j Jessup Sherwood, of Fairfield, Conn,
Ia bankrupt-married maiden lady of
one of the oldest and most respectable
families, having a well-stocked farm,
priced at $4,000. The law made him
her trustee, giving him the right to all
| the proceeds of her estate during his life.
All he could make from it he could invest
in his own name, he being obliged to
give her reasonable support. He had
two daughters by former marriage, that
he brought with him, and clothed and
educated from her property. Mrs Sher-
wood had, by the decease of brother,
some personal property fall TO her, con-
sisting of notes and stocks. These her
husband demanded. She refused to give
them up. He had her brought before
the Superior Court, Judge Phelps, then
sitting in Bridgeport, and the Judge
told her she must hand them over to her
husband or 60 to jail She told him she
would go to Jail, and rot there, before
she would do it, and the law sent her to
the Bridgeport Jail, among common fell
ons, where she remained six months, and
her lawyer, /. M. Sturgis one of the best
in the State, could only get her out by
applying to the Legislature for divorce,
which he at length obtained. She was
set free, and what property remained re-
turned to her. Her husband and his two
daughters living on her property, in her
house, paying from her money counsel to
send her to Jail, and counsel to oppose
her release before the Legislature. His
two daughters were married from her
house, while she lay In jail with common
felons, and took such things from her
movables as he chose to give them to
commence housekeeping with The law
gave her no redress and the same law is
now in force in Connecticut, and the
same injustice can be. practiced by any
man contemplate enough to repeat it.
/ Do the above facts look as if woman
had nothing to complain of from unjust
and unequal laws? These yet remain a
disgrace and shame, not only to Connect
cut and her thousand lawyers, but to civ
ilizrtion as we'll.
again says the opponent of woman
suffrage, 81 assert that as many men
suffered from the effects of woman's tenn
pers as women suffered srom drunken
husbands" This statement is monstrous
and utterly false. 1t is vile SANDER on
women generally. 1t is amazing how
professed Christian minister could be be-
troyed into such an assertion. Of course
we know not what Mr.. Hatfeld's expert
ence has been, nor how much he has suf-
fered from the tongues of women but, if
he gets his deserts. he ao5W suffer some
from this instrumentallity of justice.
Men suffered from woman's tongue as
wives have suffered from drunken brutal
husbands Hundreds of thousands of
drunkards have brought shame, disgrace,
poverty, and untold wretchedness upon
their wives Those brutal husbands
have beat their wives, have starved them,
have broken their hearts, and in numer-
Gus cases have murdered them; in thous-
ands of instances have brought upon
those patient, devoted wives disease and
misery worse than death. Thirty thou
sand drunkards go down to the grave
yearly in the United States alone. Goa
slider how many years this destructive
work has been going on, and what a vast
army of this class have wives, and no
statistics can tell the suffering of
these women-the terrible misery they
haze endured. And yet, Dr. Hatfield
tells us that men have suffered quite as
much from "woman's tongue" This
charge on the women of our country is
atrocious
Again, says DR.. H.: "They claimed
| that the present sphere of woman's ACTIVITY
and usefulness were confined to two or
three callings." This is a false statement.
No advocate Of woman suffrage ever
made such an assertion. The complaint
is that the avenues of industry are not as
open to women as to men that the pro-
LESSONS and trades are not open to all
alike; that our institutions of learning
are not open to all classes, so that woman
may be as well prepared for business as
man and, that, if a woman wishes to be
a physician, or lawyer, or minister, or
merchant, she can qualify herself for
these departments of labor and enter up
on them. Is this claim Unjust?
Again, DR. Hatfield asserts that while |
the good women would not vote if they
had a chance, the bad women, the prosti-
tutes would all rush to the polls. This
Of course is mere clap-trap, and designed
to prejudice women against the move
ment. There is not the least particle of
proof to sustain the assertion. Because
bad men vote, do good men decline to do
so? Five hundred thousand of the best
women of cur country have petitioned
Congress for the ballot, and not one pros
titute has asked for the franchise, as far
as known. This class are opposed to the