The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-14

Leominster, Sunday, November s. Sun
day, November Is, at South Hanson, at
10 a. m, 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. Sunday,
November %, at Holyoke." Who is TO
train the rising generation when moth
ers profaue Gods Sabbaths attending
suffrage meetings ell DAY long?
As a Southern woman, a native of
Mississippi, protest against this
USELESS AND GODDESS AGITATION.
| have read the arguments before the
Committee of the Forth-eighth Con-
gress made by the ablest advocates of
this so-calied reform. They quote from
Huxley and others, but there is not one
legitimate argument for this movement,
taken from the word of God. Susan B.
Anthony, the chief apostle of woman
suffrage, says: Every man or woman
who believes in the ecfranchisement of
women, is educated out of every idea
that he or she was born into. We were
all born into the idea that the proper
sphere of woman is subjection, and it
takes education, and thought, and cul-
ture, to lift us cut of il" She there ad-
mits that the universal consciousness
and moral sentiment of the race is OPP
posed to her favorite theory, and this is
overwhelming argument against its adop-
tion.
The majority of the Senate Commit
tee of the Forty-ninth Congress, in their
report speak Of this petition as ''wo-
mans prayer to be free" Free from
the law of her being? Free from her
God-assigned duties? Woman must
have some place in the Universe, and
who so competent to decide that place
as the God who made her? They speak
of woman suffrage as fundamental
rights long withheld
NATURAL RIGHT"
There can be no natural right to do
that which is wrong. There is no fun
damental right to transgress the law of
God. The law of nature and of reyela-
ton both negative the idea that the
duties of men and women are inter
changeable Sir William Blackstone
SAYS: Upon these two foundations, the
law of nature and the law of revelation,
depend all human laws; that is to say,
no man laws should be suffered to
contradict these"
AS TO TAXATION.
Women pay taxes on property, and
in return receive protection of property
equally with men. Women pay no poll
tax and the rOugher duties Of citizen
ship are not required of them. They
are very properly exempt from work on
the public roads, from jury duty and
are not required to serve in the army.
Now it follows, if women must be full
iedged citizens, and put on an equality
with men, all these things should be
required of them. Think of our delicate
daughters working the roads-of women
locked night and day in a jury-room =
and if by the votes of women this na-
tion should be involved in war, it would
be but just and right that they should
shoulder arms in defense of their coun-
tryi These absurdities show some of
the legitimate results of woman suffrage
and convince us that women have physi
cal disabilities that cannot be removed.
God Almighty placed his fiat against
woman suffrage when he made women
to be mothers.
We Judge of a tree by its fruits; of
any proposed action by its results. Suf-
frage for women means more than the
mere casting of 6 ballot. 1t means the
embodiment of woman in the heated
political contests which agitate this
country 1t means that she must be
drawn from the retirement of home,
where ner presence is so necessary-that
place which nature fitted her to grace
and adorn, and from being the help
meet of man, she becomes his rival and
competitor.
/ am proud that
NO WOMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI
went before Congress with a list of
grievances-with litany for wrongs TO
he righted. There were women from
New York clamoring for suffrage, and
there is enough legitimate woman's work
in New York City alone to engage the
time and effort of all her philanthropists.
Women were there from Massachusetts,
and in that State the suffragis5s may
well begin in their own ranks work of
reform. There were women from Indi-
ana demanding suffrage, and in Indiana
it is but a step from the hymenial
altar to the divorce court.
1t were we'll for these women to in
quire, first, if they have discharged fully
the duty God requires of them before
they desire new privileges and RESPONSE
bilities, or sigh, as it were, for 'other
worlds TO conquer"
In Mississippi, Gods plan for the
sexes is recognized. We realize that in
every woman's life there comes
AN ELECTION DAY.
On that day, she is enthroned the
queen of one mans heart and home; and
on that day, she crowns her king. Into
his faithful keeping, as loving trust,
she commits her life, liberty and happi
ness. He, henceforth, is to shield her
from the ruder storms of life, and she is
to make his home the very vestibule of
Heaven. In the State government, we
can safely crust our interests to the
noble and knightly men of the State.
Every man is mothers son, and what
Southern son would betray his motherl
THIS COLLEGE,
the grandest of all our institutions, is
evidence that the women of Mississippi
have but to ask and they shall receive.
la all parts of the State-in farmers
meetings, in legislative halls, in edito
rial chairs, the bravest and best have
championed its interests. We asked
for this institution that our daughters
might be the better prepared for woman
hood, and woman's duties. We do not
complain that we are fettered, save by
ignorance and poverty, and honest edu-
cation will break these chains. No edu-
Gated woman need corAplain that her
sphere is restricted. There was never
such a demand for strong souled, earn
est, educated, Christian women, as now.
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workers from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from Maine to Mexico-in fact, from all
parts Of the earth.
| Any true woman, whether married or
| single, realizes, that even without the
ballot, there is work enough to engage
the hand, the head, and the heart-that
woman's proper sphere is broad as the
earth and infinitely high.
How French Girls Are Wooed.