The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-08
The Daily Bulletin.
A Letter From Cache.

olantOns Speecnment before the Nlntteeh'n
Century Club. | am really surprised at her
views when she has always had things her
own way. Her father made an idol OF her,
while her husband-well, it would be quite
safe to say that Mr. Elizabeth s. was small
potatoes in that house.
Perhaps hard times are to blame Tor her
bitterness. Maybe when she was called
upon this spring to help pay the preacher
she wanted the money for new velvet
gown, or some more lace; and instead OF
saying that she thought the pastor was not
man calculated to edify and that it would
therefore be as well to select that time tor
Withdrawing from the congregation till one
truly called in every sense of the word was
sent, she promptly formed herself into a
committee of ways and means for dcvislng
a method by which to avoid the risk OF
being expected to contribute to the support
Of any preacher of any denomination
She asks what christianity has done for
women anyway, and goes on to moan that
the prolonged slavery of woman is the
darkest page in human history, and walls
out that her creation even was an after
thought, and tells how she was tortured
and prosecuted to that extent her sutferings
caused the most stolid historians to mingIe
their tears with the ink which recorded
them, the faults of the church. The church,
she says, heaped all sorts of insults upon
the heads of hundreds and hundreds OF old
women, guiltless of crime, and hundreds
and hundreds of young girls, innocent as
the angels of heaven" 1t is only christian
ity and the creator she Is annoyed at, the
former for its cruelty to her sex, and the
latter for putting her on the programme as
second. She believes in heaven, you; just
what sort of one | cannot tell, but there
never lived the woman unable 10 answer q
question. Therefore, make no doubt but
Mrs. Stanton could give an outline of her
ideas of the place.
honestly think the old lady is undnly
excited over her place in Eden. To me it
seems highly proper for Adam to have
been a pre-Eve institution. 1t gave him
time to look around and find out the most
| digestible meats, the most toothsome vege-
table, the most luscious fruits, all of which
knowledge he could put to practical use for
EYES benefit when she came. OF course
he made mistakes. OF course it was only
by testing the thing that he could decide
upon the merits of roasted skunk as COM
pared with rabbit, or of rhubarb leaves az
compared with stalks of the same, or OF
garlic, with summer squash. 1t was much
better for US TO have such precedent than
if bis wife had to hustle around and learn
all that for his pleasure Come to think,
that is pretty much the way with Indians.
Their squaws are privileged to do such
work as butcherlng, jerking the beet and
| helping the ponies drag it up. Our friend
from New York is not alone in her theories.
As to her complaints against christianity
for torturing people, those young girls
would not, it is true, have suffered in that
particular way if their lines had fallen in
non-christian or anti.christian places. In
some localities their mothers would have
fed them one by one in their babyhood to
the alligators in some places they would
have been sacked and thrown to the fishes
by jealous paramours; in some places their
bodies would have furnished daiuties for
the table of the prince OF
the realm; in some, their life
blood would have poured out to be used in
mixing mortar, as was the case not many
months ago with two hundreds maidens
who never heard of Christ. Neither did
the King who ordered the sacrafce. The
old woman would have run fair chance in
some of those sections at least of having
their days shortened with club, a muscu.
lar heather at one end of it knowing with
tolerable certainty where to strike the blow
that would rid the family of surplus elder
members.
Another remark of Mrs. Stanton's puzzles
me; viz: that women knew nothing of laws,
common or civil, and that certain church
men are determined they never shall. |
don't see why any woman that wants to
cannot familiarize herself with as many of
the laws as she pleases. Let her take some
of the time now devoted to that blessed
arrasene, and sweet pounded brass, and
carved wood, and that soul satisfying
scratching on paper with burned twigs, and
the last novel, and in years time she
will know enough about her government to
satisfy her. 1t doesn't stand to reason that
a woman can crowd so much more into
twenty. four hours than man can. She
must give up art if she takes to law. When