The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-07-13

From the Golden Age we clip this notice
of two very prominent American women
whose work in the future of the country will
not be unimportant 4.5df
VICTORIA G. Woodruff is younger
heroine than most OF the foregoing-having
come into the cause after some Of her elders
had already become veterans. But her ad-
voeacy Of woman's right to the ballot, as log
icalIy dcduced from the fourteenth and if
teenth amendments, has given her national
notoricty. If the women's movement has
Joan Of Arc, it is this gentle, but fiery, ge-
MUS. She is one Of the most remarka-.
Bile women Of her time Little understood
By the public, she is denounced in the most
outrageous manner by people who do not APP
preciate her moral worth. But her sincerity,
her truthfulness, her uprightncss, her. true
nobility Of character are so we'll known to
those who knew her we'll that she ranks, in
Theresa does in the adaniring thoughts of
pious Catholics She is devotee-a reli-s
eious enthusiastic seer Of visions-a de-
yout communIonist with the other world
She acts under spiritual influence, and
like St. Paul is 'snot obedient to the
heavenly vision" Her bold social theories
have startled many good souls, but anybody
who on this account imagines her to stand
below the whitest and purest of her sex will
misplace woman who in moral integrity
rises to the full height of the highest.
ISABELLA BEEcHER HOOKER, a sistcrly
confederate of Mrs. w oodhull, is rapidly
earning the best reputation in the Beecher
family Her couragcous-I will even say
of woman's enffanchise-
ment, including not merely woman's political
but social freedom, is a new proof that a
Calvn;stic education, if once the soul which
it narrows gets broadcncd, furnishes an in
tcnsity of moral conviction and enthuslas m
which makes its possessor competent to per-
form great things. Mrs. Hooker. is cover
ing the State of Connecticut with suffrage
tracts. Lyman Beecher wonders at her in
his grave, and the living pulpit of Connec-
ticut is doubtful whether her orthodoxy be
wholly orthodox. But it is somewhat sin
gular that Mrs. Stowe, who does not know
Mrs Woodruff, is writing furiously and I'M
warrantably against her in the Christian
Union, while Mrs. Stoves sister, who does
know her, is acting bravey as Mrs Wood
hull's chief co-workcr. When Isabella
Beecher Hooker Joined the woman's cause
she brought to it an army with banners; and
[ hope she will be allie to do as much for
woman as her sister did for the negro.
| might 81 on and mention other notabili-
ties. The apostle whom just quoted, you
remember, made high-sounding catalogue
of the names Of Gideon: Barak, Samsoa, aud
others of whom the world was not worthy
In the same way could put together, like
strings Of pearls, the names Of twenty OIL
thirty brave and noble women, scattered il
al parts of the country. and variously labor
ing for the reimbursement of their sex
The ladies who occupy the thrones of Eu
rope are not the equals in brains with these
other women who figure at the principal wo
mans rights conventions ~, .f..oa
Victoria herself is not more queenly, no
Eugene more imperial, than some of thes
stately wives aud mothers, whose names, pass
ing beyond their own homes, have becom
household words throughout the land. Thes
worthy folks have their faults-some Of judg
ment, others Of taste, others Of obstinacy.-
But if there be, as Dr.. johnson thought
E'failings which lean to virtues SIDE" sue
are the foibles of these noble women who's
utterarces sometimes are rough, whose action
occasionally are rash, but whose purposes ar
always white as the light 9Af9lf.