Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-04
Mr.. Victorfa o. Woodhun.

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This distinguished lady and party ar,
rived last night ~unsnnounced aud took
rooms at the Peabody Hotel. She will
deliver g lecture at the Memphis Thea.
ter Sunday evening on The Human
Body, the Temple of God. and the True
and False Socially" That Mrs. Wood.
hull is a brilliant. gifted woman, capable
Of entertaining the most intelligent
audiences. none Wll deny. She
holds advanced views aud has
said some bold things quite startling to
ssdste people. She cleims however,
that she has been greatly misreprssented
and is making this extensive lecture
tour TO set herself right before the public
on account more especially OF her
young daughter. All she asks is q
hearing. and we have no doubt but she
will have a crowded house Sunday night.
We select a few newspaper notices Of
her. selected at random. The Chicago
Tribune. Saturday, October Is, 1875,
said:
The Mccormick Hall was crowded to
repletion last evening to hear Mrs.
Woodruff lecture. The audience was
largely composed Of women. The lady
appeared on the rostrum about q quarter
past s o'clock. dressed in a plain black
dress, white collar and cuffs, a bunch Of
roses on her breast being all the effort
at ornamentstion.
The Buffalo IN. " Courier, Decem.
Der 6, 1875. said:
Victoria C. Woodruff Iectured at St.
James Hall last evening on The True
and False Society" and notwithstanding
the very dissgreeable weather, the hall
was filled with q highly intelligent an.
dience. With such audiences as that Of
last evening, through an entire season, it
must be evident TO the casual observer
that advanced ideas," when advocated
boldly, are sometimes p%ecuniarily profit
able. Mrs. Woodruff has been roundly
abused; but the American people nre toe
most generous people in the world, and
the feeling is gaining that she has been
misrepresented and has been made to
suffer unnecessarily. Mrs. Woodruff
has persuasive ~elcqueDce, a fiery energy
and earnestness whose g%enuineness can.
not be questioned. She is a woman Of
great ability, and states her views with
singular clesrness and force.
The following notice recently appeared
in the Washington Chronicle:
short time since a writer, well known
TO many readers, bad o conversation with
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in which
interview the lady is reported 70 have
expressed herself in the following char.
scteristic terms:
Theodore Tilton need not have
sbirked an acknowledgment Of his $3.50
citation with Mrs. Woodruff. Victoria
Woodhulls acquaintance would be re-
6ning TO any nan. In her own charae-
ter and person there lie never anything
but refinement in word or movement.
She has u beautiful face-the ideal OF
spirituality. Victoria Woodruff has done
a work for woman that none Of us could
have done. She has faced and dared
men to call her the names that make
woman shudder, while she chucked prin.
ciple, like medicine, down their throsts.
She has risked and realized the sort OF
iguominy that would have paralyzed
any Of ne who have longer been
called strong.minded, Leaping into the
brambles that we're too high for US to see
over them, she broke a path into their
close aud thorny inierstices, with a
steadfast faith that glorious principle
would triumph at last over conspicuous
ignominy, although her life might be
sacrificed. And when, with a meteor q
dash, she sank into a dismal swamp, we
could not lift her ont OF the mire OF
buoy her through the deadly waters.
She will be as famous as she has been
Infamous, made so by benighted or COW.
ardly men and women. Theodore Til
ton was ashamed to acknowledge Vic
toria Woodruff; but in the annals Of
emancipation the name Of which he was
ashamed will have its own high place as
a deliverer." MIRA. Stanton, seriously
and with deliberate emphasis, said: Il
have worked thirty years for woman
suffrage, and now | feel that suffrage is
but the vestibule Of woman's emancipa-
toni"