The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-23

Your correspondent Y. Y, Y, in your
issue of the 9th under head of "After Us
Scalp" seems to be laboring under some
difficulties which feel bound to help him
out of. He is evidently struck with the
brilliancy of the Willards, the Newmans,
the Ripleys and the Van Kinks and
charges me with being weak, ignorant and
unworthy to ''unloose the shoe latchets'
of these wonderfully ambitious women,
and proves 1t by recting long list of
wonderful works performed by them.
Now l endorse all that Y. Y. u. says of
the vast amount of labor which these la
dies have on hand and only wonder why
It.xv desire to add to their labor the run
ring or the government, the institutions
of learning and the professions, will
make Y. Y. rs mind easy on two points
at least. LIST, glory in weakness and
obscurity because it makes one hold with
a tighter clasp the great promise MY
grace is sufficient for thee for my strength
is made perfect in weakness" And to Y.
Y. rs. list of great deeds done by the
Willards & Co. / will add one or two
which he found it convenient to overlook.
And for briefness and to avoid any danger
of allowing recent events to influence, /
will give them as they stand on my diary
of 1889, viz: "Amanda G. Ripley, Angie
f. Newman, Mary G. Kinds, Frances
Willard and Lizzie Van Kirk crowded
themselves into the general conference of
the NJ. E. Church at its session of 1888
and demanded seats as delegates knowing
that the rules and laws of that body
would not admit them and that the act
would incite division, discord and conten-
ton and well knowing that their course
was in direct violation of the injunction
of the Great Apostle to ''Follow after the
things that make for peace" A little la
ter on | find this entry. Mrs. - Ca
good Christian mother) has withdrawn
from the w. c. Z. U. and gives as a rea-
son "The leaders seem determined to
make Female Suffrage the ruling motive
a banner inscribed "Christian." True
Christianity bears lustre that cannot be
comterfeited. But the devil has invented
a varnish that would if ''possible deceive
| the very elect" X. Y. Il. will draw his
answer to the subject of ''Women Suf
frage" from the following Christian wives
and mothers and daughters. Ibelieve the
solution of the great question of intem-
perance rests with you. But you don't
need the ballot any more than David need
ed Saul's armor to overthrow Goliah in
fact the two cases are almost exactly sim
liar. If David had placed reliance on his
anISor instead of the strength made per-
"A in weakness" he would certainly have
defeated ard if You. attempt to at
tack the giant alcohol with the ballot you
Will surely be defeated. If you seek and
accept the Ballot as a weapon, you place
the same weapon in the hands of a great
foreign element that is and always will
be united in opposition to some of our
most cherished and loved institutions.
You also make yourselves joint partners,
and stand on a levelGn this matter) with
class of womed described in such Ian
guage as this '..She is loud and stubborn
her feet abide mot in her house-now she
| is without-now in the streets and lieth
sin wait at every corner" Her house is
the way to hell-going down "to the
chambers of DEATH" Christian mothers
don't dispise her strength ''for she hath
cast down many wounded"-''yea many
strong men have been 'slain by her" and
pray don't dispise the strength of her fol-
lowing for with her much fair speech
she caused him to yield, with the ''fiatter-
ing of her lips she forced him, he goeth
after her, straightway as an COX goeth to
the slaughter" Christian mothers of
Vermont oppose this Woman Suffrage
scheme with all your power, never place
yourselves in position where it will be
possible for one of these creatures to
flaunt ballot in your face and say am
your equal for my vote counts as much as
yours anyhow.
Now Mr. SITTER, l have taken up too
much space and have said about half of
what | want to say and if it would be adj
missable would like to continue the sub
ject at future time. j.
Barnumville, Apr. 13, 81.