The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-07-10

eody upon his loot without feeling acute pain.
Both gentlemee, However. exhibited the NJ
most Coolnea throughout, xnd not nervous
tremor from first 10 last could be detected 10
either.
washsDgteo Meter.
BIZ GRACE GREENWOOD
When raid thai in the doll langor Of OuI
Summer collapse ve felt none Of your fercs
N rth~rn exciiemente, should have except.
ed the Anthony suffrage case. That touched
,sesriy il not deeply. The ark Of the holy
political covenant resting heTe-:he sscred
mules that draw i, being stabbed in the CAPT.
tol for half year Al 4 ume-tbe wOman who
has laid unsancii6ed hands upon il, il nsur.
alIy regarded with peculiar horror. ] did
MOI take exception 10 the Times artice oil
June 10 on this case. 1t vas mild aud cour.
teous in tone, and the view taken Of the
Fourteenth Amendment plea seems 10 me
the only sound one. certainly do not want
TO get into your political preserves by any
bubble or dodge. / VISIT my right there
freely granted and guaranteed, and will b
POLITELY treated when | cou,e, or l Won'l
say. The promised land Of justice and
equality is not to be reached hy a short cut
lear We have large part Of the fmty year:
Of struggle and Engaging before us yet.
An, pretty sure that our Moses has not ap
reared. l think he will be = woman. Often
the wsy seems dark, as we'll ~ long. when
see 40 E.uch iooling wiih the great question
Of wou,sn's claims TO equal educational 3D.
vantages with men; to j''st remuneration f0'
good work, especially IN teaching, and fan
credit for her share in the patriotic a"d be-
neyolent enterprises Of the age. do not say
that equal pay for equal services will neveI
be accorded to wOmen, even IN the evil ser
vice. till she has the hall0t to back her de-
maGd; but what is the private opinion oil
many nigh Government officials. do no
nv that wou,an's right to be represented, al
well a. taxed, will never he recognized ~ .
logical practical result Of the democratic
principle till the Democrats come in power
But il may he 10. The Gospel va tirs
offered to the Jews, but first accepted by the
Genti!es.
In YOUR article, far as it vas in spirit, you
failed to touch upon two points which sirucs
nae rather painfully. Ii seens that Judg.
Hunt, after pronouncing learned, and,
suppose, a sound opinion, peremptOrially
ordered the jury to bring the defendant IL
guilty.. Now, epuld not Twelve honest, In
telligent iurynen be trusted to defend thel'
birthripht against one woman? Why such
zeal. such more than Roman s:ernness:
Again. in the trial OF the inspectors Of cleo
lions, whv were both JUICE and jurymen 50
merci.ul? No verdict Of guilty Was ordered,
aud the council Of twelve who had seen fit u
punish Miss Anthony by tine OF 500 and
costs, merely mulcted in I! modss' sum oil
SIS each defenceless ieiendent aiming
against light. Was it that they considered
in their manly clemency the fact that women
have superior facilities for earning money;
,r. did they give heed to the old. old esc,ise,
1.-The woman tempted me, and did reg
isler?'
l, surely ia strange that snch severe penal
ties should lie visited on 9 woman, for 4
|; ut and only indiscretion In the suffrage
line. when a msn may rise up on election
morning and so forth, voting and to vote.
II he be of an excitable and mercurial
nature. one of the sort Of citizsns which
sweet ireland emp,ies on us by the county,
he may sportively fit about among the polls.
from ward to ward, of the Metropolis, sEd
no man says to him nsy: he may even travel
from city to city. With free passes
and free drinks-who treats Miss Anthony
making festive calls, and dropping ballots
for cards. and no disturbance comes OF it-ke
il neither fiued nor confne.i. So, it would
seem, "a little voting ia a dangerou, thing"
Say what you will, the whole question OF
woman's status in the Stale and the Church,
in society and in the family, Is fpil OF ateu-d
and mOnstroas sHSpolies
We are 20 responsible, yet irresponsible
ve are idols, We aSs idiots we are every
hing. We are nothing. We are the csTyatides.
bearing up the entabiaiure OF iila temple o;
liberty We are never allowed to enter. We
nav plot against q government, and hang
for il; but il We help to found and sa tain
government by patriotic Effort nnj devotion,
nv toll and hardship, by courage. Loyalty.
and faith; by the sacrifice If tho-e nearest
and deares, to ia, and then venture TO eia'cs
at the crumbs that fall from the table where
our Meyers Jonathan, Patrick, Hans and
Sambo 81. at feast, you arrest u, imprison
rs, try W., 6ne ", aEd then add injury to
insult, BY calling % old, ugly, and fanaiicai.
One il fvreibly remiu.led Of the sermon
Of the colored Lro,her On womac, tbs h-sds
= which discourse we're: "F.rs'ly, What
am woman? Secondly. Wbar did she
come from? Thirdly, Who does she be-
long to? Fourlhly, Which way sm siss
gwIne tor
tn. law and the Gospel have settled the
'ssecond:y.' a-d thirdly" WHman csme
nom man, aud he,ongs to him i.y III. mort
but '.firrt,y' and ''iOurthly" rc;,.,!n ~ pa.'
found and unsoIvsble g:.s';nm- a. they
we're before the E hiopisn Divine sres!.i
with them. But perhaps th.s troa''io''s aud
I,erplexed exisienc. j. our "be al! and en'i-
,lI;" that in the life beyond man may fore
rlo,e ,hst old mortgage and reabsoTb woman
;..;o his giorifed and all-suf6cient being.
haze meyer believed with Miss Anthony,
hsi the Fun.teeni;a amendment was going
10 help us. have never ACCENTED crit in
rtaer o. her III. or;e-; hut believe ~ and
accept her a. a woman Of intense convictions
Il high courage AMI c,nst ,ncy and ] don't
ike 10 h.ar her r;diculed AMI abused. II
,nytiins can MAX" me think masn'y Of my
,o:;nx bro;h ers III tn. I'se--. u IL the way
hey petit as.I Ess,rr SI.in b. An'hony. F."
,hama, bovs! Never chc uf you will make
he man sl,e j.. Even soUie OF or Wash
ngton editor. turn aside from The iair game.
Provi ience, IA III insc-u able wisdom has
,.oyidr,I 10, them in the Board Of
Public y nks, to vent tier viriuons indig-
ration aud u, ,niy >c.Hp al The woman they
ire determined shall stand IN perpetual
,illory in the market place Of this great, fee
York Times.
II DOuss Ahsus %.
Miller pretends TO be in doubt a. 10