Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-09
tance as reinforcement of the two private
 watchmen. They soon managed to seize and gag the latter and secure $65. 900
Preaching and Practice

f rage is becoming, we do not wish to bur den our readers with a too frequent discus sion of it. The appearance of very mo- table person in opposition to it. however, seems to call for remark. <I A few days since. the counsel of Daniel Mcfarland in his suit for reversal of the Indiana decree granting his wife divorce, withdrew that %it. stating that his client was in an insane asylum. For about twen- ty four hours we relented towards Daniel Mcfarland, till it appeared. further; that at the very time this 'ilie with circum- stance" was being useered in Indiana. Mo Farland was making his arrangements for a lecture in New Jersey on the novel sub- ject of "Woman's Rights and Woman's Wrongs" 4asH s@ < a2 , T Daniel McFarland's preaching from this, or any other text, would be worthless ex- cept for one thing. Like Robespierre's 8 essay against dpital punishment. it makes distinctly visible the awful chasm that lies between Preaching and Practice. McFar- lands theory of the true relation between man and woman is identical with that of Dr. Bushnell. All we propose doing at present is to supplement few Mcfarland texts. with the practical, Mcfarland appli. cation of them: 5ffa
 Hwoman is slave, she is very fayorite one
 The ''favorite slave" of Daniel McFar- land has shown us what that servitude is. Can anything in the annals of negro slave ry exceed it's horrors z1 .
 A bad woman is worse than bad man. Crime soils her sex more than 1t does the other. ;.
 New Testament teaching is just the op- posite; and is it quite modest of Mir. Nc Farland to speakat tall on the subject of
 Woman is not equal to man in size of brain or oody and probably the only point where she is
 Mcfarland preaching i; Mcfarland prac- tice would teach us that woman has most of the brain. and dn the humanity.
 Politics is most demoralizng institution, and women, like men, would become contaminated with it's corruptions. } EAf-e .rs fs...t
 Is not this about the summit of impu- dence? This cheat-the- -gallows proposes to continue the control he, and the like of him, have over our institutions through universal male suffrage, for fear the virtu- ous will be contaminated by contact with them and their corruptionsl Excellent women are every day marrying such hus- bands as Daniel Mcfarland; but matrimo- ny is "hallowed" institution, and they are not ''demoralized;" while, if women went to the polls. once 8 year. for the pur- pose of putting down just such scoun- drels, they would be contaminated! Tbat is the argument fairly statsd --
 Woman's principal calling in life should be to become prepared for marriage and family, and mans ambition! should be to be able to support his family. a,.lT ,yaA go.itg;..S.e T-5
 So you once persuaded lady, MT. Mo Farland; then you made her wretched by abuse; you threw the support of your fam. fly upon her. you perverted her hard earnings to the feeding of your various beastly appetitest; and when a man be- friended her, you killed him! And now you rise beforean audience of women and wives, and preach that Gospel of Subjec- ton which may thrust them. bound hand and foot, into just such a fiery furnace! We congratulate the cause of Dependence on having at last found fitting champion. 5 ... .5-.. ------------~~ 3 =say..r