The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-29

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:
VICTORIA G. Woodruff is younger
heroine than most Of the foregomg-having
come into the cause after some of her elders
had already become veterans. But her adj
vocacy of woman's right to the ballot, as
logically deduced from the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments, has given her ma
tional notoriety. If the women's move
ment has Joan of Arc, it is this gentle,
but fiery, genius. She is one of the most
remarkable women Of her time. Little UNI
derstood by the public, she is denounced in
the most outrageous manner by people who
do not appreciate her moral worth. But
her sincerity, her truthfulness, her up
rightness, her true nobility of character
are so well known to those who knew her
well, that she ranks, in the estimation of
these, somewhat as st. Theresa does in the
admiring thoughts of pious Catholics. She
is deyotee-a religious enthusiasts seer
of visions--a devout communicate with the
other world. She acts under spiritual infiu-
encc, and like St. Paul is mot obedient to
the heavenly vision" Her bold social the
cries 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 mo-
raj integrity rises to the full height of the
highest.
ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, sis
terly confederate of Mrs. Woodruff, is
rapidly earning the best reputation in the
Beecher family. Her courageous-I will
even say heroic-advocacy of woman's en-
iranchisement, including not merely wo-
mans political but social freedom, is new
proof that a Calvinistic education, if once
the soul which it narrows gets broadened,
furnishes an intensity of moral conviction
and enthusiasm which makes its pos
SCISSOR competent to perform great
things. Mrs. Hooker is covering 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 sim
gular that Mrs. Stowe, who does not know
Mrs. Woodruff, is writing furiously and
unwarrantably against her in the Christian
Union, while Mrs. Stoves sister, who does
know her, is acting bravely as Mrs. Wood
hull's chief co-worker. When Isabella
Beecher Hooker joined the woman's cause,
she brought to it an army with banners !;
and hope she will be able to do as much
for woman as her sister did for the negro.
might go ON and mention other notabili-
ties. The apostle whom just quoted, you
remember, made high-somding catalogue
of the names of Gideon, Baral, Samson,
and others of whom the world was not
worthy. In the same way could put to-
gether, like strings of pearls, the names of
twenty or thirty brave and noble women,
scattered in all parts of the country, and
variously laboring for the Acknowledgement
of their sex. The ladies who occupy the
thrones of Europe are not the equals in
brains with these and other women who
figure at the principal woman's rights con-
ventions.
Victoria herself is not more queenly, nor
Eugene more imperial, than some of these
stately wives and mothers, whose names,
passing beyond their own homes, have be-
come household words throughout the land.
These worthy folks have their faults
of judgment, others of taste, others of igno-
rance, and others of obstinacy. But if there
be, as DR.. johnson thought, s'failngs which
lean to virtues side," such are the foibles
Of these noble women whose utterances
sometimes are rough, and whose actions
occasionally are rash, but whose purposes
are always white as the light.