The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-25
shall be made manifest to all men, MS
theirs also was.

tnelrS also was.
Our brother says God gave head
ship to man, that he might be, first,
legislator, second, au adjudicator, anc
third, an executor. The first aal seconC
of these, he could not delegate, but tn,
third could be delegated TO another
Hence the woman can be joined to tn,
man, and have his name, his honor anG
his endowments, such as goods etc
The man is never named after the wo
man, or endowed by her.
Touching mans "neyer being named
after the woman, or endowed by hei
with goods etc." 1t is notorious truth
in this aud every other country, and
through all ages, that male fortune
hunters, seek aud marry heresses with.
out the least love for them, for the sake
of the rich endowment of property they
get with and from them. For illustra.
tion l will not 60 into the realm of fic.
ton, but will present the case OF the
Rev Divine who officiated at my own
wedding. He was graduate of ODER
lin College, at the time of his marriage,
without means of his own, and took for
a wife lady of considerable wealth, a
neighbor and acquaintance of mine, who
in obeisance to the then laws vt O.lv,
endowed him with her house, farm, per.
sonal property and herself, accepting as
an equivalent, his protestations of love,
and promises that all should be right in
marriage. Not long after marriage she
had occasion to go to the County Seat
on business, and asked for her team, her
husband refused, alleging as a reason for
so doing, that he wanted to use it him
self. Her business was urgent therefore
she insisted, and a quarrel eusued, in
which, with his fist, he felled her to the
floor at his feet, made use of the team
himself, and went on preaching "Wo.
men obey your husbands, keep silent in
the churches, be rcsigued,' etc And
the lady found as thousands Of others
hav found, that in marriage, she had
sold her birth RICH; for mess Of pot.
tage. Nun. SO: S-l1. And every
daughter that passed an inheritance in
any tribe of the children of Israel, were
married unto their fathers brothers
sons, and endowed them win their in
heritance, that it should not reno. :
from one tribe to another, g, but every
one of the tribe of the children of Israel
shall keep his own Inheritance"
Touching names, Divine authority
does not impose upon the wife her hus.
bands name 1t is Abraham and Sarah,
Naomi and Boaz, Moses and Mary, ali
the way through both the old and new
testaments, and the wifes assuming the
husbands name is of modern data, es.
tablished by law of custom for conven-
fence.
Our brother says: But to give
honor and dignity to man, it is necessary
that his agent woman to execute his
commands, should be elevated to point
that would keep that honor untarnished,
and that dignity unimpaired," and as
God placed man at the head of the fam
lily, as its law giver, adjudicator and ex-
ecutor, and as the law-making power
cannot be delegated by man to woman,
without new relation from God, nor
can the judicial power, but the help.
mate or executive can be delegated to
woman the man who does not recognize
this is unworthy o. manship, md the wo-
man who forgets it has no respect for
Christ Thus he shuts woman out from
all active life, granting her position only
as mans subordinate in the family gov.
eminent, and 1ooms her to bondage
more blighting than Egyptian. ANY
one reading the brothers letter entire,
who did not know better, would be iusti.
fed in supposing it to have been written
by one who existed anterior to the
Christian Era, and long since become a
pillar Of salt, or an Egyptian mummy,
as it outbreathes strong odor of an an
tediluvian age.
Show me penny, whose image and
superscription is this upon the penny,
" Cazar, Render therefore unto Cezar,
tc.,-and unto God that which is God"
OF one blood God made all nations of
people, and has stamped his own image
and superscription upon every human
being. And his daughters as truly bear
his image, as his sons, and every condi-
ton in life, whether of bondage or free
dom, affects woman in the same ratio,
for good or evil, it does men. 1t does
not require new relation of men and
women from God" but it does require
recognition of their old natural, and
present relations, to establish woman in
possession, with liberty to make use of
her own God given attributes. Truly
man cannot delegate to her the legisla.
tive or judicial power they already L.
here in and are natural to herself again.
Every principle in nature, although for
the present they may be silent and un-
seen, are operative with view to final
recognition, and why should not woman
attain to recognition as free agent and
responsible being, capable under God of
controlling her own destiny,
AS whole, mau is womans son, wo-
man, mans daug hter, man, woman's
brother. woman, mans sister, man, wo.