The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
Horace Greeley on Woman Suf.
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Horace Greeley on Woman Suf.
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Horace Greeley has written q
letter to theodore Tilton, explain
atory Of his views on female
suffrage. The following para
graphs are very good-especially
the closing one, which is n blast
at Mrs. Woodruff, tho female as
pirant for President: ,
Nv. You are entirely, eminent
ly- right, MIR. Editor, in asserting
that my conviction of the proper
indissolnbility Of marriage is the
handspring of my hostility to
Woman Suffrage, and to the So
cial philosophy from which many
vainly seek to separate the Wo-
man movements. Though have
written or dictated very little of
what has, during the last ten
years, been printed as editorial
In the Tribune on this subject, it
is nevertheless true that nv con-
ception OF the nature and scope
OF the marriage relation renders
my conversion to Woman Suf-
fragc a moral impossibility.
I have but two left of seven
children, and these are both
daughters. l would gladly fit
them for lives OF usefulness and
honor, as beloved and loving
wives of virtuous, upright, noble
men, and mothers, il it shall
please God, of good, healthy,
happy children. If it be de-
creed that they are to be, not
such women as those have most
admired and reverenced, but men
with II female physiquc-power-
full in ward cancuses and nomi-
mating conventions, vehement i'm
Senate and on the stump, and
effective before ,juries in the trial
OF actions for Grim. c0M.-I pray
that my career on this globe shall
close before theirs is fairly begun.
When and where they shall thus
shine it will not be pleasant for
me to stay. aI,u. rr .F
MIR. Editor, l believe our coun-
trymen arc indebted to you for
having discoyered (perhaps l
should say inventeD me as q
possible (though most improba-
ble) candidate for the Presidency.
Allow me, then, to thank you fol
your early and frank delnonstra.
ton that l can in no contingency
bc counted on or hoped for us q
Woman Suffrage candidate. As
you forcibly and Justly say, there
IS not even II remote possibility
of my ultimately adapting my
self to this end. My difference
with your crowd is too vital, too
radical, to permit the most san
guinc dreamer to hope for my
conversion. / am growing old {;
my opinions arc tolerably firm !;
and the Advanced Female of the
Laura Fair type, who kills the
paramount of whom she claims to
be tho rightful affinity, and gives
the lie in open court to the wife
she has doubly widowed, is my
pet aversion. -,
But why should any mun be
the candidate for President of the
Woman Suffragists Logically
and consistently, I feel that their
candidate should be Il woman.
She ought, moreover, to be one
thoroughly emancipated from the
"absurdity aud folly" the "nar-
rowncss," and tho ''baleful CON
servatism," which T am now too
old to outgrow. Gould you not
find one who illustrates in her
own person and history what you
so .felicitiously term ''the liberal
thought Of an enlightened age p"
Let her be one who has two hus-
bands after Il sort, and lives in
the same house with them both,
sharing the couch Of one, but
bearing the name Of the other,
Ito indicate her impartiaiity, per-
haps,) and cause and candidate
will be SO fifty mated that there
will be no occasion, even under the
most liberal, progressive, enlight-
encd regime, to sue for their di-
Vorce. Could not one Of this class
be persuaded to overbear her
shrinking modesty and nominate
herself7
In Il spirit of hearty hatred for
Free Love and all its internal de-
ln$ions,
remain, yours,
HORACE GREELEY.