The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-12
mns. LrvEnmoRE,s LECTURE.
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this time. TO make any extended remarks
upon that subject, but in attempting some
what of comprehensive resume of the
lecture, we must say that no effort of ours
can give an idea of the full power and
scope brought into requisition by the speak
er during her remarks. Tie lecture was
some two hours in length, and owing to the
llteness Of the hour at which it closed we
are Obliged to cut short what we otherwise
would endeavor to make full and extend
ed abstract.
The house was well filled, and the inter-
est in the speaker and her subject was kept
intact and quite intense throughout the
whole We consider Mrs. Livermore the
most effective lady speaker upon the plat
form lacking, perhaps, many of the
good qualities possessed in that art by Mrs.
Stanton, while having many Others of great
| value and force that are far in advance of
the lady mentioned or of others of like
| famous reputation Especially does Mrs
Livermoro succeed in touching the hearts
of her hearers by her trtc and interesting
illustrations and in enisting the sympathies
of a majority in the arguments advanced
She, also, does not fail when the occasion
seems, to her, to demand tito give evidence
of the great courage and vigorous stamina
that is apparently rooted deep in her ma
ture. and must come out.
The speaker was introduced to the audi
cncc by }. VI. Haven, Esq. who took the
opportunity TO state that the lecture by
Cough would occur on the 10Th of Deccm-
Der instead of the 9Th, as announced upon
the coupon tickets. lie also gave notice
be delivered by Hon. William Parsons, on
the evening of the 29th inst. upon
"Michacl Angelo
Mrs. Liycrmoie commenced her lecture
by referring to the work launched by Mar
tina Fuller, quarter Of a century ago, on
the subject Of "Woman in the nineteenth
century, and that as She the speaker,
opeled to ts titlc-page to glance at the
contents Of the book that had already
made so much clamor in the literary world,
her attention was rivetcd by the two mottos
which were inscribed upon the page, one
under another, and one contradciing the
other. The first was a familiar saving. en-
dorsed by Shakespeare, "Frailty, thy name
is woman The other read, 'the earth
waits for her queen" Tie first, said the
speaker, is synonym in the literary world
for ages, now brought again into actual cx-
istence. The other prophesed the grander
type Of womanhood toward which the
current seems to set
The speaker then referred to the history
Of six thousand years ago, when women
broodcd over a destiny of disability and
SeiVitude woman was not considered in
any way cO-workcr with man but subjected
to mental drudgery of the latter day
called the chivalric age when woman was
raised to an imaginary height far aboyc
men. So, said the speaker has the CON
ditlon of woman in contrast to man. yacil-
lated between the two extremes. During
the last hundred years the current had
set steadily in one direction; instead of
being made now a drudge and then doll.
woman was recognized on an equal social
footing with man. The world, said the
speaker, don't know to-day what woman is
capable Of accomplishing. Where women
have arisen to the standard of power and
greatness in any particular department it is
considered and treated as an exceptional
case, and is by common consent passed to
the credit Of men-they are called masct-
line women, as if God had not put into the
soul of woman a dormant power that could
arise and exert itself as well as that of
man.
The lady then referred to the latter gen
Grafton, when women were rcjoced over
and upon whom are lavishcd the best of
love and affection that now because de-
mand has sprung up for superior woman
hood, for better development of their
powers, the woman question is in the as
tendant She did not mean any particular
phase Of the question, but treated as
whole You are met with this question
everywhere in the papers it is talked over
increasingly; it knocks at the doors of
schools and colleges of all grades and de-
nominations it applies for acceptance TO
every trade, profession and business no
convention can be called but that question
is uppermost; it stalks up the broad aisle,
unlimited, undcsred. She illustrated this
statement by relating fact that occurred
at Congregational Convention in Massa-
chusctts, when the woman question was to
be assiduously kept out On organizing
the same it was found that one-half the
delegates were women, and the question
was before them Immediately taking two
out of the three days convention to decide,
This was true the same in England, until
now women who are householders and tax
payers are considered voters, provided
they are not married. The speaker illus
trated by stating that one lady, Miss Gar
rett, had been elected to office, running
thirty thousand ahead of her ticket. In
Germany the industrial question was now
in the ascendapcy Henry Wilson tells
rs of his visit there and his surprise
at seeing the women performing such
labor as animals do here, and on a scanty
pittance such rs no man is expected to live
upon here. The women were now asking
to be better paid and was one of universal
Importance there, Russia was referred to,
where girls were ordered home from their
public schools because they had interested
themselves in politics; Constantinople,
where the women, excited by the example
shown them by the Empress Eugene, were
rebelling against the use of the veil. The
Woman's Board Of Missions was also
spoken Of, as carrying education and en-