Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-15

mentary election. SUPERVISE IN army
of deputy marshals at the polls -; as OBJ
noxious as are armed troops, and the law
which places them there must be repealed.
NOBLE WOMAN'S NOBLE WORK.
"Who would be free himself must strike
the blow" is an old saying that applies to
woman rights" as well as to other efforts
toward revolution, and Miss Faithful, an
English lady, and one of the right sort of
"woman's rights women" has shown how
it may be done. The daughter of a clergy
man, clear headed, embued with common
sense, persevering and Woodworking; never
misled by sentimentalism and 'gush, she
10 a model for every wellwisher of her sex to
follow. Presented at Queen Victoria's court
and initiated into the whirlpool of London
life, her penetration and true womanly i'm
pulse taught her that what was wanted was
not butterflies, but workers. Twenty years
ago the startling fact dawned upon her
that where, as in England, there are two
million more women than men, these women
must suffer if they remained, as they were
then, shut out of almost every employment
where decent living can be made. Taking a
practical view of things, she set about Sc
curing a wider range of employment
for women who have to support them
selves She claimed it for them as re-
CURED by justice, and as necessary for
women as a means of getting a living. When
on her visit to this country she explained how
hardly her countrywomen suffer from their
exclusion from voting-the laws there re-
specti1g a married woman's property favor
the man and grievously Cypress the woman
educational endowments intended for both
sexes have been commonly appropriated to
boys only-tenants' wives left widows are
turned out of their farms by the landlord
even when, ewing to sick or Incompetent
husbands, they have managed them, and
well, for years for the reason that they can
not vote. The English landlord calls his
tenants votes his own, and the tenants must
vote accordingly. But it was not in lectur-
ing, which she does well, or in mere verbal
vindication of her ideas that Miss Faithful
has attained her emlnence, and has become
an example to all who would defend wo-
mans rights, it is the work that she has
done, for she is of that true religion that be-
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women have an equal right with men to get
an independent living, and that where there
are two million more women than men, to
restrict the ways in which a woman can
earn her bread to a very much smaller num-
Der than those open to men, is as ridiculous
as it is unjust. To show that women are ca
pable of doing work men had appropriated
wholly to themselves and deemed women I'M
fit for, she bought printing press and, with
her colaborer, Miss Parkes, proceeded to
learn how to set type. That done. she had
eleven girls apprenticed to her, and set up a
womans printing business, to the disgust
and holy horror of the men in that trade and
the old women in pantaloons of all trades.
But Miss Faithful made them all under
stand that it was of no use asserting that
women should stay at home, mend stockings
and rock their babies, where there are two
million more women than men. The widow
of Limerick printer, who had learned all
the details of the trade, was employed, and
helped greatly to secure success. The girls
learned to handle type readily enough, work
in abundance was obtained, and the concern
for the work was done with skill
and taste. Here was the right sort of vindi-
cation of woman's rights what
woman can do and helping her to do it. So
much attention and admiration was ex-
cited by this victory over prejudice and
that more than twelve of the best
English writers of the day, 1861, freely con-
tributed articles, all of which were printed
and bound In volume got up in the highest
style of the printers art, to show to the
world what woman can do. 1t was "printed |
and published by Emily Faithful q Co., Vic
torla Press was entitled Victoria Regia,
and was dedicated to the queen by that |
lady's authority. This was taking high |
ground, and challenging the male sex to up |
hold their prejudice and mutter their "stay |
at home and mind the babies" any longer if |
they could. Other books were subsequently |
published, and their style of workmanship |
attracted admiration. The queen took an |
interest in Miss Faithful's labors, and that |
rational "woman's rights woman"
was appointed printer and Publisher in
Ordinary to Her Majesty New apprentices |
we're taken as the first ones learned the |
and it was not long before plenty
If employers were glad to employ the
accomplished Faithful printers, who
we're not only accurate in their work, but
performed it with a neatness and taste not
100 common among the English workmen.
When travelling in the United States, Miss
Faithful was everywhere received with en-
.husasm, and, on her leaving, she was pre-
AoI
of"'her valuable services in pro-
noting the educational and industrial inter
ssts of woman" The young women workers
1t the Elgin watch MANDATORY, at Elgin,
illinois, presented her with handsome gold
watch of their own making. Sin apprecia-
ion, " they said, ''of that noblest of good
works which you are doing for your sex, in
helping others to help thems 4lves" Beside
ler grand vindicatlon of woman's ability by
ler printing business, Miss Faithful aided in
spreading sanitary knowledge among the
poorer classes; she taught elocution to cler-
yymen and lawyers, founded a discussion
society for the investigation of questions con-
lected with the interests and welfare of /
women, and, in many forms, has helped the |
work of progress. Miss Faithful deserves to
De held in the, highest honor by her sex,
which she has dignifed and exalted by show
ng its capacities and demonstrating Its pow
RS, and which she has aided by solid deeds,
wedding the sentimental cant that has too
'ften brought ridicule and disgust upon a
Ioble cause.
Nashville, March 13: The supreme court
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