The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-02
FROM TENNESSEE.
linton County.

hG1t07' PafroH' In the I0iloWlng
lines / fear something may be said
that some of your readers will OPP
pose, others censure, and many will
condemn the author and censure
the press for disseminating such
views.
Therefore, wish to say in adj
vance that should the above results
be produced, hope the reflections
of the opponents will be hurled
against the writer and not against
the paper, through the columns of
which he seeks admission to the
public gaze, for / do not wish to
iniure the only paper that is pub
lished in the Southwest that does
not wallow in the cess pools of po-
litical corruption, Church always
excepted, and as | think the paper
that laborers ought to read.
Now let me say to the opponents
of these views, the fiat of heaven
has gone forth commanding, "Let
there be light" and your puny arms
and voices can not arrest heavens
thunberbolts in this divine direction
of iustice and equal rights to all.
And here | wish to say that the
Grange, as an organization, is
pledged to the views which we
propose to advance. That the
Grange is not misrepresented. and
that it is committed to co-equality
of the sexes, let me refer you to the
second clause of Section 2, of the
Declaration of Purposes, Last, but
not least, we proclaim it among our
purposes to inculcate proper APP
probation of the abilities and sphere
of woman, as is indicated by admit
ting her to membership and posi-
ton in our Order" Il h
The above | find appended to the
proceedings of the second session
of the State Grange of Tennessee,
held February, 1875. SAP
| am also aware that the female
suffrage question came up for action
in the tenth session of the National
Grange, when it was indefinitely
postponed by vote of "a to 9.
See page III of the journal of pro-
ceedings of said session, held No
vember 18th to 10th, inclusive, 1876.
Be it said to the honor and glory
of California, though she has been
one of the last to enter the confed-
Grafton of States, she has been the
first to take an advanced movement
in carrying out the spirit of the
Declaration of Purposes, and which
is in accord with the declaration OF
Thomas Jefferson when lie said,
call men are born equal
Who will presume to say that the
learned statesman used, the term
"men" in a specific and not in
generic sense, including females, as
well as males?
In a clause of the constitution
that was adopted in 1879 by that
noble State, which is leading the
van in human emancipation, we
find the following: No person shall
on account of sex be disqualified
from entering upon or pursuing any
lawful business, vocation or pro
fession." - 15~ -
Noble California! the noblest of
the noble. Inasmuch as it is an
eternal nozO with the Trinity, there
being no future nor past in the
Divine mind, may we not conclude
that centuries ago, California stood
present in the mind of Deity, when
he said, the first shall be last, and
the last shall be first?
The fathers of the Republic and
the authors of the Declaration of
Rights closed their eyes in death |
without seeing the full development |
of their teachings, thus waiting for
their sons of the XIX Century to
disclose their full nearing.
The darkness of the civil world
was first broken July 4th, I776, |
which marked the stella dispersal
ton of civil rights; the lunar dis
pensation being marked by the
Proclamation of January Ist, 1863;
but the solar light broke the dark
ness of the far off West, September,
1879, and woman stands to. day the
peer of her father, brother, hus
band and son in the light of the law
in our great and proud California.
And was it not decreed by an over
ruling Providence that the terms of
paciication between the sexes
should be made on the coast of the
quiet Pacific? .-a
But unfortunately for woman,
having been nursed on the milk of
obedience and bred in the nursery
of submission, she knows nothing
to tamely summit to the dictates
Of her Gar. 4
Like Ephraim, she is tied to her
Idols of centuries growth, and it is
almost impossible to lead her out of
the old family ruts of traditional
and implant in her mind
an advanced idea, which accords
with the age in which she lives.
With her,
"'Tis education that forms the mind.
AS the twig is bent the trees Inclined"
But while say thus, l am proud to
say there are noble exceptions to
this ignoble rule. For knowledge
being power" in proportion to their
education do they assert their rights
In the dark ages of Feudalism,
when their education consisted in