The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-16
Men and Women.

Oh, men that plan the stately pile
Where law and learning hold their sway,
And drive with subterfuge and vile
Your mothers from the door away.
Undo the doors In Gods high noon
An equal heritage have We;
Your cold exclusions out OF tune
With Natures hospitality.
Julia Ward Howe.
Miss Mary Ray renowned Christianity for
the Jewish religion, last week, ana married
Abraham Cohen. The ceremony was per-
formed IN Troy, n. Y.
The Unitarian Society in Peterborough has
voted to allow Mrs. A. w. Tucker, the wife Of
the pastor, to supply the pulpit. She has re-
lleved her husband from this duty at previous
times, very rauch to the Satisfaction or the
society.
Have you enemies Go straight on and
mind them not II they block up your path,
walk around them, and do your duty regardless
OF their spite. A man who has no enemies is
seldom good for anything he is made of that
kind OF material that is 30 easily worked that
every one has hand in it. A sterling cbarac-
ter-one who thinks for himself and speaks
what he thinks-is always sure to have enemies.
II it Is good argument against woman suf-
frage to say that women cannot be allowed to
vote because If they we're they would, in States
where they are In q ma ority, pass laws OPP
pressive to men, does it not show how absurdly
unjust the laws now are which give to man
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sex, and that the stronger one, to pass laws
oppressive to women in States not only where
men are in n majority, but also where they are
in large minority ?-Grand Rapids Post.
The following is from the pen Of that we'll
known Washington correspondent, Mary Glenn
mer "a AS soon as the gavcl OF adjournment
fell, to-day III came Susan B. Anthony, and
proceeded to shake hands with her friend, MIR.
Hoar, OF Massachusetts,. I like Susan. Her
jaw has the resolute grip it would naturally get
in lifelong tussle to have its own way. Her
eyes are large, round and gray, and look straight
at you. She hiss no end of common sense. and
lots OF keen w.t. no sentiment, and little culture
in the aesthetic sense. But she is as affectionate
and as simple minded a. q child: brave, noble
woman. who has given her whole life to her
highest convictions, and in battling for the
equality that she does, she is simply true to the
traditions OF her Quaker birth and education
/ like to look upon her at safe aud silent dis
lance. where she cannot turn and rend me foI
my silence on the cause scorn to ask any
masculine creature right mine by the right OF
my humanity. ! can do without it, but vii,
not ask for IT. take it-always, when can
get it without ado--thanking no one but tie
Lord, and Him with the reservation for allow
ing it 10 be so hard for me to get IT, Never
theiess do honor to the infinite patience OF
those who, in violence and contempt their
lives long. have battered away at the selfish
laws OF men, till they have won In many States
simple justice to which you and / were not
born. dear sister, because we were born women
Nothing could be easier or more agreeable than
for the sheltered and happy woman to cry,
have every right want how unladylike TO be
q woman s-righter aud want TO vote Yet II
you were to suddenly fnd your husband a
drunkard--a profgate, robbing you and your
children--or find yourself widow tolling to
keep those children alive, you might discover
how much you already owe to this much de-
spised and rejected 'strong-minded' sisterhood.'