Litchfield enquirer., 1871-06-22
woodhull and woman's Rights.

Litchaeld. Thursday, June s2. .1S7
 Woodhull and woman's Rights.
 The gentle rain of ridicule which till c late fellon the Woman's Rights moyemen has changed within few months past to perfect hurricane of denunciation. For tn occasion of this sudden spell of weather " have not far to seek. The place made va cant by the tlnaccountable subsistence o George Francis Train has been filled b. Mrs. Victoria Woodhull. She starts pa pefanominates herself for the presidency and does what in her lies to make goot canse odions by loading it down with he personal follies and immoralities. She i c Yepfesentative woman to the same exten that Train is a representative man and no . whit further. They are both the extrem est living instances of an insane love O notofiety for notorietys sake. only Mrs Woodhnll happens to be in full blaze jus nov, while there is little left of the Trair rocket but it's stick.
 The remarkable success of this remarka ble woman is chiefly owing to the unwea' fled exertions of the N. Y. Tribune and other journals opposed to woman's suffrage. When certain ladies concluded to present their cause before Congress. last winter. Mrs. ". invited herself to be of the party. Thereupon the papers announced her as the leader of the movement; continually psraded her name as the best exemplar oi the Coming Woman, and created the inn pression that to her had been confided the chief management of the whole enterprise. Nor was Mrs. Woodruff wanting to herself; she did her best to increase the notoriety created for her by the Tribune ct al., and diffnsed herself over almost as large space in every public demonstration as the judi. cious Train could have done. Her pape, and her speeches were a perfect god-ssnd to the Tribune ct aL who in return made her the most notorious woman in. the United States, which was exactly what she wanted. The demonstration reached about the pitch of human shriekiness when a woman's sui. frage meeting was held in New York which subEaitted to an address from Mrs. Wood hull, and did not expressly endorse the Seventh Commandment, as we are told all moral Womau's Rlghters ought to do. since the Woodruff eruption.
 The substance of this horrid develop. ment of the woman suffrage ''iniquity," is simply that woman or two who favor that reform. advocate, also, the totally irrelevant notion that the marriage contract should be dissoluble at the option of either party thereto That any large number of Amer ican women could be brought to favor such doctrine we cannot for moment believe. Inthe first place they are as body far more moral, far more generally committed to the Christian idea of marriage, than men Moreover interest combines with inclina. tion to hold them to that view. The wife is now, and always will be in many res. poets, the weaker party to the marriage contract ; and consequently is, and always will be, the party most likely to suffer from its dissolution. Such system as Wood hull & Clafin's Weekly advocates. would lead to the exact social conditions denoun. cd by Christ at . time when the Jewish system of polygamy had been succeeded by the Jewish system of divorce when Jewish husbands had learned to accomplish thepurposes of polygamy by the more eco. nomical process of repudiating the older wives before taking new. The natural ten dency of equal suffrage and marriage laws would be on the other hand, towards the perrnanency of the marriage relation. Our Connecticut statistics show this most con- Clusively. The most strenuous advocates of divorce restriction are the women oi Connecticut; yet the figures show regular. ly, year after year, that two wives, are granted divorce from their husbands, to one husband that is granted divorce from his wife. Such phenomenon can only be accounted for by the fact that,i case oi difference, the marriage relation, as now constituted, becomes utterly intolerable tc the wife. Equal laws would effectually stop one third, and probably one half, ol our divorces. and give permanency to the marriage relation it can never have under tho present system. That there is now ani then Woodruff weak enough to imagin. that woman's virtue is compulsory only that the first use she would make of free dom would be to plunge into free-love-w. might naturally expect ; and to the yer, large family of city sub-editors who seen to entertain similar opinions we would res pectfully suggest that they burn their By rons and frequent the best female societ. within their reach.
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