The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-06-05

passed UNDECIDED. If members had the
fear Of those most concerned before |
their eyes these things would not be.
But the greatest lion In the path Of |
this reform is the assertion that it is in
consistent with religion. The Bible is
called in g. to do duty" as it has IN
times past In favor of slavery, polyga-
my, and nonarchiaI despotism. yield /
to none in my respect for that book, but
it seems to me that those who really
reverence its teaching and seek inspira-
ton from above, remembering that the
letter ''killeth but the spirit giveth
life, must see that Gods government
of the world is one of gradual continu-
GUS progression. st. Paul, IN his most
inspired moments, had glimpse of the
future destiny of women, when he ex-
claimed: There is neither Jew nor
Greek, neither bond or free, neither
male nor female, for We are all one in
Christ Jesus" If one book more than
another teaches us that the promise to
the two sexes of the life that now is and
that which is to come are equal, their
hopes identical, that each has to play
its own part in the advancement of the
truth which is so vital to both, each to
be a helpmeet for the other, that nei-
Their is the man without the woman nor
the woman without the man, F." that book
is the Bible.
"All arguments in favor of female
suffrage, say some of our opponents,
Z" are based upon this pernicious doc
trine of equality" Nothing of the
kind. Inequality only affords to a gen
erous mind an argument of overwhelm-
ing force against increasing, by artificial
means, the natural difficulties under
which women labor. The fact that
they are weaker is another reason for
protecting their interest the belief that
they are mentally deficient should be
followed by more earnest efforts to Sc
cure for them n better education and
higher training. If women are so es-
sentially different from men, all the
more need to hear their opinions re-
speeding their own concern and the
more we acknowledge this, the less
right we have to hand over, to those
who see things from different point of
view, their education, subsistence and
employment, and to deny them the vote
which ensures a fair hearing from mem
| bers of Parliament, who cannot disre-
gard with impunity any section of their
constituents. The old argument that
operatives were represented by their
employers never convinced British
workmen, and has now ceased to affect
the legislature. Why, then, should
representation, which is repudiated by
every class of my countrymen, be con
sidered sufficient for women?
And lastly, those opposed to this
movement tell us that if this reform be
pressed to it's ultimate issue women viii
lose their modesty. love of home an6
children, and become unsexed. In spite
of the deep gulf they place between
men and women in former assertions, il
becomes impossible, at this point, t.
make them believe that women VIII re
main women to the end of time in spite
of the franchise. It is my deep belle
in the characteristic differences of me1
and women which leads me to plead fol
the honest cooperation of both in al
that pertains to the interests of human
ity. 1t was not found good for man t.
live alone in Paradise, and it is no
good for him to work alone in anything
which relates to the social progress o
the world and while politics may b,
looked at on one side from a hard ant
low point of sight, it must never b,
forgotten that they also include al
those subjects of deep intellectual
pleasure which alone make life wortl
having, and from which women canno
be excluded with impunity.