The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-19

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to govern both Church and State /?
If we do We must retrogado consider
ably, for the husband often seeks his
wife for counsel, and tho church has
allowed them to teach and pray, ask
all the questions they wish, and all
in the face of Pauls writing that it
is shame for women to speak in
public; and then Miss Anna Dicken.
son, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and
other no less jealous women, arc per.
mitted to use our public halls to
halangue the multitude in How
can such progression be tolerated by
those who are SO conscientious, lest
they might concede something for
hidden by the Bible.
\ Would not the best method of
arriving at u proper UNDERESTIMATE
in reading that book be, to read It
as wo read other works, by taking
into consideration the time and cir
cumstances, in which it's different
books, letters and epistles we're writ
ten, and to- whom they We're address
sed ii we do not so read them, they
cannot we'll be harmonlzed and in
stead Of finding them tho embodiment
OF beautiful precepts, wisdom and
immortal truth, wes,will see mass
OF contradiction, and soon find our
selves led off and tangled up in the
meshes Of skepticism and infdelity.
Tho rights Of women in times Of
the apostles according to history was
very limited, her condition under the
laws Of many nations was the worst
ofslavery itself. Under Romancustom
they We're not allowed to eat at the
same table at which men sat, then
how could we expect them to be
permitted tospeak in Enblic, to teach
or exercise authority over man. The
Apostles were sent to preach on
earth sgood will to man." had they
established customs and regulations
throughout the churches, contrary
to the customes and laws under which
they lived, how bitterly they would
have been presented, we leave the
mind to contemplate, as tho laws and
habits of those nations were at that
age of the world; SO it seems that the
Apostles intended to regulate the
discipline of tho church as far as
possible, and thus we find the ri O.
ccpts quoted.
We will now briefly notice the
last objection, which seems the most
pitiful of all, how one can shield him
self behind such barrier, is more
than we can comprehend, for all per.
sons that know anything, know
that women bear as much Of tho bur
| don OF government as men 10, her
wealth is taxed the same as mans
sex makes no difference. The wife
who owns ashare in tho little wealth
ofthc husband, finds it taxed to meet
national expenditures, taxed to pay
state and county officers, state and
county expenses; and even her mon.
ely is taken to hire teachers to in
struct her children, without consult
ing her who that instructor should
be. All OF this in u government
| whose boast is that it derives it's pow
| ers from the consent of the governed
whose machinery is worked by CAPT.
tai wrung from her toll as we'll az
I mans. ~
This last objection we have now
narrowed down TO that last plea VIC
blush to mention, that if she DO al.
lowed to vote she should work the
roads, and were il not that it was
mado by minister of the Cos.
pei OF some note, We should
forbear to notice it; we cannot oven
have charity enough to Tin such an
EVENT. exempt her from duties, which
we exempt ourselves from with much
readiness at a certain age, while we
possess twice the physical strength
that she does. Such Il matter is easy
adjusted and if it is the only subter.
tuge under which the opposition can
screen themselves without having it
demolished, it is certainly a most
miserable affair to get behind to as
sail great living principles, and
through mere shame for such of our
sex, we will leave them there in peace
and cover them up with the mantle
of charity. ARIsTIDEs.