Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-23
level with man legally politically and
socially.

level with man legally, politically and
socially.
THE LECTURE.
With slight hesitation and apparent
embarrassment, not unbecoming, Miss
Couzins, after few predatory remarks,
plunged into the propositions arranged
as the groundwork Of the lecture. After
reviewing the fimsy objections made by
men to the woman's rights movement,
and answering many Of them in an argu-
mentative and successful manner, the
lecturer assumed as fact that woman
was by nature the equal Of man, and en-
titled to the same legal and political
rights. A humorous and pleasant refu-
tation was made of the arguments OF
those who feared for the family circle,
the domestic felicity and arrangements
Of the household, and the fate OF the
nursery, should women become voters
When the fool, the illiterate, the idiotic,
the ignorant, the foreigner, those who
are without property and the negro
could cast votes and WELD the destinies
of the land, Miss Couzins thought the
intelligent and virtuous women, owners
Of property and those interested in the
welfare of our country, should at least
have the same privilege. The lecturer
advocated the principle that woman
was entitled, in Justice and Of right, to
the same remuneration for her labor as
that received by man for similar work.
This proposition was applauded by the
audience, it being to every mind most
reasonable and just.) The mental and
physical ability of woman to work was
amply illustrated from the history OF
great women Of the past and present.
Miss Couzins, in meeting the objection
that the polling booth was no place for
ladies, insisted that at present such
places we're located by men either in or
near some grocery; but when women
were permitted to vote the booths would
be surrounded by statuary and adorned
with flowers, presenting SO attractive an
appearance that all respectable men
would vote at this place in preference
10 the other. The lecturer denounced the
idea that Victoria Woodruff was fair
representative Of womans rights. In
deed, Victoria was rather snubbed and
repudiated, for some good reason, as the
champion par excellence of the move
ment. The Woodhull-C laain style did
not meet with the appreciation OF the
fair lecturer. (The communism and
free-loyeism Of the Woodhullers, could
not be sustained in logical or reputable
grounds The countries where women
we're permitted to vote--England, France,
Russia, Austria, Italy and Germany
we're entitled to praise; but America,
the land of freedom, refused woman iai-
right Miss Couzins referred TO the reg
istration of women voters in Memphis,
and hailed it as the dawn of freedom.
In conclusion, the lecturer advised her
sisters in Memphis to unite and insist
upon their rights, for the day was dawn
ing, and deliverance was rapidly ap-
proaehing-a deliverance from unjust
legal disabilities, fastened upen her sex
in olden times, in the middle ages, and
in feudal days when baron and
femme" meant master and slave.
At the conclusion Of the elegant and
interesting lecture, number of ladies'
and gentlemen approached the stand and
rendered their compliments and thanks
to the fair advocate of woman's rights.