National Republican., 1877-03-11

or IN that charming neighborhood. But II
cannot be so, for your little eighteen year old
charmtrs never swoop down on the male sex
with deliberate intention Of bull 'zing, In
timidatiDg aud knocking down and dragging
out the whole masculine concern by the hair
or heels. II they did we would chcerfully
submit to the pleasant pastlme. But they do
not. In fact, we never heard of such thing as
lovely creature of eighteen assuming the role
OF a whiskersd bashi bazouk or fierce hussar,
and riding rough shod even over man with
glaSs eye Ord pprriwig pate. No, our fair
correspondent does no. reside iu that nelghbor-
hood, nor within twenty years of Il. She may
not have u wart on her nose, but the absence
Of II does not prevent her from spelling PHrER
COOPER With little pa man, by the way,
whom che claims would have emancipitsi
womankind from the heartlcss thradon of
acknowledgements had he been elected, besides
taking SUSAN u. ANTHONY aud Dr.. MARY
WALKER into his cabinet. Why don't you
strike for female liberty |" she exclalms,
underscoring strike with an impressive dash,
indicating a temper-and we may say Il In
kindness, broad, deep and massive. Why,
paten' back acting broad gauge stocltrap, with
the diOdonocephalous equipments attached, IA
no more to be compared with It than an ordi-
nary hair. pin to the rabId fUrked lightning in
colicd night. Hence to have her this
observation-disclosures In point of beauty
the rose gets away with very badly
to have her come at us as with
rcd hot poker, and demand tho reason
why we do not strike for female liberty,
Is enough to make the heart Of hickory tree
pulsatc with fright. WAC shall VIC strike,
MARTHA MERIDIAN MAXWELL, who shall we
strlke' We havn't got any female liberty
within reach to strike for. We have not seen
any for two months. If you should point out
some we doubt whether we could strike for II.
Your fierce, pandour. like way has intimidated
usso that at prebcut We can scarcely strike o
match.
Whoever MARTHA MERIDIAN MA xwELL is
and we believe that is her nom de pl'mc-we
cannot respect the earnest way In which she
would have us strike for the enfranchisement
of womankind. She 10 too fast. We know
that while a woman worth million is denied
the right Of suffrage, the poor, miserable
tramp, who sleeps In a coal-box somstimes,
slips in as many as three ballots on election
day. But even this deplorable condition of
things will not justify any man in being de-
liberstely bull. .dozed into forcing the great
State of Rhode Island to experiment on
woman suffrage without at least consulting
the ladies of that section on the matter.
Having made ourselves understood, as we
hope we have, perhaps "MARruA MERIDIAN
MAXWELL" will bury the batchet aud think
no more of war. We have endeavored to treat
her kindly in the face of the fact that she
would have US strike for fema'e liberty when
everything was against us. We haven't even
charged her with the crime OF old age or ugll-
ness, except to incidentally mention the fact
that her pathway through this vale of tears
will never again be strewn with the bright
p!um5s of her eighteenth summer, and that so
far as her personal beauty Is concerned her
most intimate friends never claimel that she
was rival to the rose, or that the wart or her
nose was really an ornament. But II she writes
US auy more furious letters we will take a
pho ograph of DR.. MARY WALKER, paint a
wHrt on its nose and freckles ou its cheeks,
and write in a bold, plain hand on the margin,
"This is MARTHA MERIDIAN MAXWELL the
| petticoated incarnation of q thundergust,
with patent elliptic adjustable hustle at
tached, who. with malice aforethought, at
tempted to force ye editor into the srduous
tack of striking prematurcly for female lib
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