Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-12-18
Miss Yates Lecture,

Notwithstanding the icy sidewalks made
more dangerous by the failure of our
street lamps, good audience greeted Miss
+. L. Yates at the Methodist church ia
Yates took for her suhjsct-"The Sphere
of Woman" and began her lecture by say
ing Blackstone says. 1.-The elements OF
sovereignty are goodness. wisdom, and
power" Woman holds the balance of
moral power, two to one, among the fol-
lowers OF Him who went about dong
! good OF one hundred and seventy six
convicts in our Stale prison, there are but
convicts ia all the States prisons in the
| United States, but five thousand Of them
are women,-the best men and the worst
men. concede that woman is the moral
head, Of Europe declined to listen to Col
| nmbus, it was woman who consecrated
| her jewels to the continent we inhabit;
before Washington appreciated the neces-
| shy Oh iuucpeIiVcuSe VI Inc toIouics,
! the thought was born In the brain of
/ Mercy Otes Warren, and presented to
Washington for his consideration and &C.
| ceptance. After the declaration Of indie
/ pendeuce in the closing months of '76, the
| Colonies became dsheartened, and in the
midst of this situation General Howe at
| Elizabethtown. IN. j.. offered amnesty and
protection to all who within sixty days
would declare themselves loyal British
subjects. At this time Lord CORVALLIS sp-
peared on the scene to add TO their dis
couragement. The leading men of the
town assembled at the house of Mr..
Arnott for consultation. and decided 1t
was useless to contend with the resources
of England Hannah Arnott was at her
spinning in an adjoining room and over
heard this conversation, and coming into
the room entreated them not TO stoop to
kiss the foot that had trampled upon them,
and so inspired them with her own faith
and courage they entered into solemn
compact to stand by the fate Of the Colo
MES. In the darkest hour Of our civil
war when the heart Of Lincoln sank within
him and the Secretary OF War and the
generals on the field saw no way TO break
the South by way of the Mississippi cam
paign. Anna Ella Carol Of Baltimore.
sid, came to President Lincoln with the
plan Of the Tennessee campaign. Lincoln
and the Secretary of War saw at once 1t
was the only solution Of the problem, but
they knew the generals in command would
never accept plan of a campaign from
civilian and that civilian a woman. and so
with unparalleled generosity she permitted
them to use her plan and suppress her
name, and they abandoned the blunders OF
the Mississippi campaign, and moved in
accordance with the plan suggested by
Anna Ella Carol who manifested by this
plan, genus equal to Napoleon, and made
the victories Of General Grant possible.
The third element /, power. II by this
We mean physical force, woman Is inferior
70 man, and II the might OF muscle is the
power that makes for sovereignty, at our
\
Sullivan for President snd James kilrain
for vice President; bot we know that the
power thst makes for sovereignty IA not
that OF muscle. The pen Of woman was
mightier than the sword of any of our
generals in breaking the bonds Of the
slaves Shot and shell could not move the
heart Of the Nation as did Uncle Toms
Cabin = Physical strength is not requi
site for male suffrage; why should it be for
woman: Thousands of men unfit for ser
vice in the army voted to help determine
the policy # the Governmen%Aaey had not
strength 10 defend. Those who deny
woman voice in the government because
politics are SO corrupt. and so unholy,
would slso derry her a voice of authority
in the church because IL - so holy. They
find II contrary TO nature for a woman to
vote. and contrary to revelation for heT 10
preach. Ii is because both nature and
revelation are seen not with the clear
vision OF the moral eye, but through the
lenses Of prejudices. God in his economy
Him. and human institutions should grant
equal opportunities for their exercises,
whether bestowed upon men or women.
Justice 10 one million six hundred thou
sand women 10 the VI. T.. church, should
grant them recognition in the higher
council Of thst body. the general confer
ence. and the highest interest of Che church
demands that she be called 10 Exercise her
wisdom in its decisions. | have no fanci-
full dreams Of the wonders Immediately TO
be accomplished BY the Acknowledgement
of woman--alas, she cannot reach at
single bound the height she might have
attained had she been granted uniran-
meled growth through the centuries The
effect Of slavery was not removed from the
souls who endured its bondage when the
Emancipation proclamation was issued.
II will take generations of education, de
velopment, and experience, before She can
reach The heights made possible by mental
endow ments. But then shall the sous
who have inevitably shared in the conso
quence Of her condition, receive the grand
est inheritance Of her power and freedom
and the human race Use to the heights
ordained for those created in the image
Of God
The United States coast and geode,ic sur
,ey made in Maine, the following important
change. during the month of November in the
charts published by that office:
of Petit Manan Reef.-Change IN Buoy
Number.-The red can buoy off the south end
OF Petit Msnan Reef. formerly show d rs No.
1. is now shown as No.2.
Frenchmans Bay.-Sullivan Harb0r En-
irance.-Off Ingalls, Isand.-Cbange in Buoy
Nuinher.-rhe red spar buoy marking the end
of the ledge making out 10 the estward from
ingalls, lslsnd. and formerly shown a. No. ,.
|. now shown a. No. 6.
| penobscot Bay.-Fox Island Thoroughfare.
Channel Rock.-New Day-BeacQn.-A day
| beacon tripod has been placed On Channel
| Rock. at the eastern entrance to Fox Island
| Thoroughfare.
st. Georges River.-Gay Cove Ledge
| Buoy MOved.-Black spar buoy No. l. mark
| ing this ledge, has been moved to a position
close to. and TO the southeastward of the ledge.
| Sheepscot Riyer.-Clou's Ledge.-New Buoy.
| A black spar buoy, No. 4, has been placed
| close 10. and TO the northwsrd Of this ledge.
| Portland Harbor Entrance.-BuOy Moved
| The black nun buoy off the breakwater has
| been moved to position 120 yards n. +. "a
| \. from Portland Break water light
Total vote Of county officers in Hancock