The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-13

hint OF divorce or "afinities" Ca very
hateful word, by the way) They simply
ask that woman, the subject, Shall be her
own ruler; shall be the queen of her own
realm; shall give the martial law, and
be everywhere free to regulate her
own life in accordance with her own
highest idea Of truth, and then, when she
shall find in man her ideal of nobleness
and purity, she will
''stcep her soul
In one pure love that will last her long"
If woman were free from helplessness,
free from timidity, from compromise,
they wo1ld be good enough and strong
enough to love one and all human beings,
from the richness, the fullness, and not
from the poverty, of their natures; thus
free, their love would 90 out to the
wretched drunkard, to the outcast of
every type, to the Pariah of their own
sex; by the power of such love, 50
large and free, is the world to be re-
deemed
This is. tree love. But you say woman
enjoys the right of self-ownership till she
chooses to marry. Every woman depend
ent on father or brother knows better
than this; and l know that oftentimes
these chains, though of gold, have been
so CALLING as to drive woman, while vet
a child to the arms of ahusband, who, while
lover, paints marriage all c0uLeur de
rose Not two months since, a woman
thirty years wife, wrapped in an India
shawl, rohed in velvet and lace of almost
fabulous value came to me for advice ;
holding out her little jeweled hands, and
lifting her fearful eyee to mine, she
asked. "How can be freed from this
bondage (worse than deash) to a man
who knows no law save his own base
passions?" This is only one Of many
The written statute does not, indeed,
require any woman to marry in the alb
sence OF love; but when man by his
bestiality has turned her love to loathing,
it does require that she shall live on with
him, and endure only such tortures as
poor woman, a mother can know, when
she finds her children with an Inheritance
of evil passions intensified by the very
adherence of her soul for vices which, in
the innoc' nee and purity of her nature,
she never dreamed existed, until revealed
to her in marriage.
The horrible crime of infanticide has Il
meaning in it when practiced by wives.
Can the editors of the Tribune Sc, it only
in the evidence of woman's frivolity? II
you cannot, then 60 with me and listen
to histories which will curdle the blood
In your veins, and wiring from you o
little pity for the gay butterflies you are
30 in the habit of sneering at.
assume to speak for women as the
confidant of hundreds in all parts of the
country, many Of whom have never met
Says one in letter just received: "You
have struck the keynote, and the old
tyrannies are trembling for their power,
not at the ballot-box, but at the fire.
side" Says another: II am glad of that
point made about free love. What
nisnomer, what a shameful abuse of Ian.
guage The last point to be yielded is
the person OF woman. Men fear more to
have US vote on account of the expressions
of an individual, than any effect we might
have on party questions" These are
among the gentlest and truest of our
noble women; many who have never.
been identified with the movement write
very strongly, more strongly than should
care to publish. Now, IS not your claim
to know the opinions of the pure women
OF the country, just little assuming
Let me ask one or two questions: Have
yeuj watched by the bedside of a dying
wife, diseased, murdered by the faith
lessness of her husband? Do you know
OF no men who find it for their pleasure,
to leave their wives evening after even
ing alone, while they amuse themselves