Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-03-27
{ New Series. Vol. 5, No. So.
Old Series, Vol. 81, No. So.

Y was ever more needed than the suppre
I sion of dram drinking, considering th;
t there are other tahings worse in the special
: ty, but not so unive.- .-sal and this dral
2 drinking is the scourge of the househoult
t and 1t comes with special wei ut on w
: men, as being least able to take 'are
themselves. 1t is kind of evil that b,r'
dehed legislation we have made laws re
strlcting it, and we have lost in some re
spects and gained in other. and now. un.
der the providence OF God, there has arisen
a moral cyclone, perfect tempest of infiu.
ence. 1t is one of the fruits of the aoita-
tlon OF the question of woman's rights. |
never troubled you much on this subject
though am devoted at first, middle and
last to the cause of rising woman, and she
is coming on a line of equality. People
say What have you gained by it? This
movement could never have taken place
only for the agitation of this question.
Il am not sure but We are going to have
this whlrlwind come here and change the
creed OF those who do not believe in wo-
mans speaking. So much moral power as
belongs to woman has right to be heard
even In other places than the household.
1t is true the place for the candle is in the
candleStlck and the place to shed its light
is in the room but if the window be open
shall the light not go out to gladden. some
poor wayfarer ? So woman's place first is
In her family, but if she has no family is
she to stand in everlasting waiting? Is
she to be a gun forever loaded and
never fired off? Laughter. The first
sphere we admit to be the household, and
when in the household her domestic rela-
tions require her to be public, has she not
a right to be so ? 1t is all Phariseeism. 1t
is conceded woman may say all she wants
to, but she must not say it with her
tongue. l tell you if Dante had lived in
our time, among the punishments he would
have invented for the demand, he would
have thought of sensitive, pure, proud,
high strung nature, beguiled with the SEM
blance of love into wedlock, see her idol
turn into clay, and be obliged to spend her |
life with fiend, hog, week after week, |
month after month, year after year. 1 tell |
you there is no other hell needed You
can't imagine suffering greater than that |
Have they no right to destroy the destroy
er. This was not a thought of beforehand /;
it came by inspiration. There never was
thing more noble than this. Everybody |
ought to pray that there shall be great |
good done. observe that all great unac-
customed movements, acting from enthu-
siasm, die away. 1t is certain kind of
faith, that sees no obstacles,
but ali this power tends to be excessive and
exhaustive. Now it is a great pity that
this power could not be economical, and
last longer length of time. i am afraid it
will be like fire on the prairie, burn away
and leave no sign. 1t is different with re-
vivals of religion lin which L most heartily
believe,) philosophers may criticise as
much as they please, but at the bottom
there is philosophy in true revival of reli-
gion. The divine influence rolls through
and spends itself, but while the
sparks are gone, the embers are left, TO
orb be q nEoyision for another blaze. Now,
ing behind it; it IS much ifhtes L tIs5 nas n9s9-
fire, l greatly, fear ; for want of some or
ganizatiOn it would be like the aurora light,
unless it be transferred. If it could be put
into churches then you will have associat-
ed it with great permanent religious Or
yanization, and think it much to be de-
sired that such a movement should be as
sociated with churches. But there is ano-
.her point to be considered-the right of
woman to pray down mans liquor. The
question is this-have women who have
mothers hearts in them, sisters hearts in
they not right to beseech,
with all entreaty, to lay aside the infamous
.raffic? You must not suppose the evil is
going to be stopped it never will be. Eve
" man has somewhat in his nature of
ion and of the swine, and it stays: you
nave got to fight man by man. Whether
hat benign influence will come hither
say. If done, it must be done from
he soul. We must not do it here because
hey are doing it out West. But you can't
abor for that without laboring for revi
yal of religion, for temperance is John the
Baptist and after him comes Christ. Il
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