The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-10-24
iE pREsHDENrEAs CAMPAIGN.
A word to Women.
BY MARY A. LIVERMORE.

BY NARY A. LIVERMORE.
! 1t is idle or controver: or disguise the
fact that the New York Tribune has
| been the 5itterest foe TO woman en-
| flanchisement tnat this country has pro
duced. 1t has been more than this. :
| For, If women have been the giddy
slaves OF fashion, aud have given them
selves to display and !rivolity, the Iil:
bune has made hot haste to open its bat
teries OF ridicule upon them. If they
have struggled for self support, for eQua
advantages with men foI industrial train.
ing, equal pay for equal work, equality
before the law, they have been met by
the Tribune with levity and detraction.
and very rarely with hearty words Of en-,
coura gement, unaccom panied by taunt
or an insult.
Is it strange that TO day the progress
Of D!r. Greeley to the White House is
opposed by an overwhelming majority Of
women who have been readers of the
Tribune, Whether believers in woman
suffrage Or not? For it is not possible
to insult a body of women as numerous
and widespread, as noble and as useful as
those who in this country ask the rig hi
| Of suffrage without all womanhood feel
ing the shock and tingIipg with the sense
OF outrage.
All over the land women are pressing
forward with eager desire for the larger
opportunities of education so freeley ac
corded to man in colleges and uuiversi-
ties. They are finding their way into
mployments heretofore forbidden them,
and are asking that they may be allowed
to define their sphere Of work, as men
do, by their taste and capacity. They
are restless under the tyranny of laws
| founded upon the institution of slavery
for ''the Law Of the status of women is
| the last vestige of slavery '-and they
are seeking larger liberty Everywhere,
! all these classes of women are watching
the progress Of the suffrage movement
| with friendly interest, for they compre-
hend that it includes and uuderiies tie
special privileges which they lack and
crave.
Thus it is that small army of wo-
men, silent as far as public speech is
concerned, but mighty In their influence
with the men of their acquaintance, bar
Mr. Greeley S way to the Presidency
Because they have made no public de-
II monstration against him since his .dou Bile
nomination. let it not be imagined that
they are idle. In no one Of the twenty
Presidential campaigns of the country
have women taken the general and earn
est interest they do in the present. And
among all the women of my own acquaint-
ance | am able to count secen only who
| are not strongly and earnestly in favor
of General Grant reelection
For myself, if Mr.. Greeley believed IN
woman suffrage as entirely as | do if
the Cincinnati and Baltimore Conven-
! tions had Incorporated an out and out
woman suffrage plank in their platforms,
| and if the Republican Convention at
| Philadelphia, had been utterly dumb on
the subject, MY face would be set like a
| flint against Mr. Greeley ana his party,
and should work, as [ now do, with all
my might and main for the success of
| the, other. her my political creed EN-
braces pi0fe than belief in womrn suf
! frage. lb Includes, also, negro suffrage :;
such reconstruction OF the South as
shall make it safe and comfortable for
| Northerners and negroes to live there
perpetuity of the Constitutional amend
ments; reform in the civil service Ia
| Dor reform common schools and com
| pulsory education; payment OF the ma
| tionai debt jdst as the country agreed to
| pay it, when in sore distress it went in
| to the market to borrow money And to
these | may add an abiding disbelief of
| the Southern Democracy.
t. The success of the Democracy, from
| the very character of the men who are
| its leaders, and the ignorance Of those
who are heir followers. will throw back
at least four years every phase Of the
1 e ]
| llcanism, whether the party intend 1t or
not, and because it is the party of pro
kgress will inevitably carry this reform
further up to the high-tide mark Of sue
cess.
So, dear women, do not les us stop to
| Wrangle over the fourteenth plank of
the platform adopted at Philadelphia by
the National Republican convention. It
is. a timid recognition Of US, and that is
all. Taken as it reads, it means very
little. That a great national political
convention remembered US at all means q
great deal
Let US work for the success Of the Re-
publican party with influence, pen and
voice, priyatel y and publicly, with fa-
theirs and brothers, husbands and sons,
lovers and friends, in season aud out OF
season, to-day, t1.moroY, negt week,
pers'stentiy, until the morning Of the
first Tuesday Of November shall dawn.
And then let every women Of US see to
it that the men OF our households and of
our acqualntances go to the polls and
vote the Republican ticket,
For we must never forget that this is
the last phase of that awful struggle
which in 1S6l5 swept women out from
the quiet anchorage of home into hospi-
tals, on board hospital transports, and
| into the Sanitary Commission, With
| the unhealed wounds of our heerts.
which can never cease to ache till heaven
gives back into our embrace our gloriied
dead, We cannot ignore the fact that
this is the closing scene in that tragic
drama whose bloody acts have rohbad us
of our beloved, and made the South
billowy With their graves; the closing
scene if Republicanism wins, and not