Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-11-10


The following resolutions OF the Connecticut
woman suffrage association we're reported b.
committee. Of which Mrs. Rocker was chair
man, and we're unanimously adopted At the
meeting Of the association in Hartford
Re,olre3. That the claim msde by ZONE Of the
opponents of woman suffrage, that the marriage
relation will in some way become impaired If
women are eufranchisei, is not only unjust so
far IS it attributes desire for such result to
any considerable number Of advocates OF woma
suffrage. but is utterly unphilosophicsl and al
suri The hearts Of women will always be in
their homes. The best condition Of the marriage
relation is, and always will be, more important
TO the happiness Of women than to that Of men,
and when women have the right to vote, they
will vote down overwhelmingly every attempt
BY legislation 70 degrade that relation, or to
render it in any manner insecure, or open the
door to any allowed violation Of its diguities and
sanctities They also may be relied upon to con-
denim with equal emphasis the attempt, which
has so many advocates among men, to license
prostitution in cur cities
Resolre4, That we renew, therefore, the resc-
luton passed unanimously, two years sgo, by
formed" That il sdyocating the opening to
woman Of this larger sphere, we Do no; under
value her relations a wife and mother, than F.
which none can be more worthy Of a true woman's T
love and pride; but it is only by full develop /
ment Of her faculties and wide range for her ,
thoughts that she can become the true compsn-
ion of an intelligent husband, and the wise AMI
inspiring educator of her children
This declaration is strongly put, and vas
doubtless sincerely adopted by most of the mem
bers Of the not very numerous body which
passed it. But it's supporters will find it hard to
maintain, in face Of notorious facts, its first az
sertion that it il unjust 3" to attribute to "anY
considerable number of sdvocStes of woman Euf
frsge,'' desire to impair the sSnctity Of msr-
riage. Ii lie but few days since a letter from
Mrs. Hooker to Mrs. Woodruff was printed, in
which Mrs. H saluted Mira Woodruff as the
- queen " of the suffrage movement, and endors-
ed her, in terms Of high compliment. Now
Mrs Woodruff makes no secret of her ideas On
the subject Of marriage. She sdvocAtes them
boldly in her paper. 10 its last issue, replying
to an article of the y, Y. Tribune, she says,
sditorially;
If we find Two souls who love each other &C
,ording to the laws of God, which are Natures
avs, that to as is marriage, whether the legal
ceremony has been performed and the certificate
signed, sealed and delivered, or not.
But if Mr.. Greeley insists upon having legal
orm Of marriage, let the parties to it be their
,wn judges, whether it shsll he 90 for life. or
or twenty, ten, FIVE, or even one year, and do
Iwsy with divorce altogether, and thus abolish
me Of the worst disgrsces that has fastened
Upon our civilization, but msds necessary by the
,igoted sticking for legal marriage for life
Is it, or is it not. " impsiring' the marriage
elstioa to make it an arrangement for d" ten, {
i've or one year," between the parties 1t s
0 make it such that the "queen - of the VIC G
nan suffrage movement declares that she de- /.
Tres the ballot for her sex. Nor does she be- ,
ieve that her followers in that aim, sre incon- S
iderable in numbers, or unrepresentstive in
h.racter. She says, in her Weekly:
When Mrs Livermore and the rest Of thAt
lique say that 150,0 readers Of paper which
ivoca,es suffrage earnestly and persistently, /
re not representatives Of the movement, and, in
act do not belong 10 il at all, simply because