Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 November 1869 — Page 2

THE COMING WOMAN.

Mrs. C. S. MoDONALD, Editor.

THE LAFAYETTE DISTKKT COJTVENTIOS. The Convention of the friends of Woman Suffrage which occurred last week at LaFayette was in every iespect a decided success. The attendance was large and the spiiit of earnestness manifested itself throughout the whole proceedings. Eminent speakers from abroad were present, among whom we may mention, Mrs. Livermore, Miss Peckham, Mrs. Cole and Miss Boynton. The organization was effected by Mrs. Alice B. Stockham, M. D., being chosen President, and Miss Lizzie M. Boynton, Secretaiv \iter reading the call i'or the Convention and the appointment of the several Committees, letters were read from P. S. Kennedy, Esq., of this city, Rev. Charles H. Marshall, of Indianapolis, and Hon. Geo. W. Julian, each regretting their inability to be present and expressing the desire that the efforts now being made by the women of the country to secure to themselves the privilege of the ballot might be successful. The letter of Mr. Kennedy appeared in the COMING WOMAN last week and to which we invite the attention of our reader?. The following are the resolutions adopted: "llczolccd. That the Constitution of the United States declares that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and the immunities of citizens of the United States, and those provisions in the several State Constutions which prohibit women from the franchise on account of sex are in violation alike of the spirit and letter of the Federal Constitution. ".1,'esolrcd, That we believe that virtue and intelligence, the two great requisites of law-makers, do not reside with man alone and that those who best govern themselves are best titted to govern others. Also that self-control, self-restraint, and obedience to the great moral laws, are qualities inherent in woman, and attest her capacity for self-government. '•'•liesolved, That a true form of Republican government, which is a government of the people, by the people, can not exist when the elective franchise is withheld from women. "liesulved, That having full faith and confidence in the truth and justice of these principles, we will never cease to urge the claims of woman to participate in the affairs of Government equally with man.

Resolved, That justice ancl equality can be attained only by havthe same laws for men and women.

Jiesolved, That we will not cease to agitate the subject of elective franchise and encourage its discussion upon all appropriate occasions until every State in the Uuiun not only grants but urges women to vote."

In our limited space it will be impossible no give full details of the Convention, biu we cannot be content without givrjo few extracts from Mrs. Lhcmore'r- speech in answer to Horace Greeley's "Notions About Woman's Rights." We clip the following fi^ui the LaFayette Journal: "I. have been set to do rather a queer thing—to take up and answer the mistaken notions concerning women, and I do not know just what is expected of me. I don't know what is best for me to do. But I have thought it best to read them one at a time, and set oppsite each what I and other women think. This is a matter that pertains to woman's welfare and as women we believe that what we think about it is quite as important as what Horace Greeley thinks. There are many things in these paragraphs with which women •will agree—which women will indorse heartib'.—have always regarded, and still regard Mr. Greeley as a man of ability—an excellent man—of strong convictions—a man who endeavors to do right, as he sees it, but who, notwithstanding, occasionally does some strange things.

For instance, all gentlemen don't think that his going on Jeff. Davis' Tbail bond was exactly the right kind of a performance—that it was rather a queer thing all which goes to show that Horace Greeley is not infallible. "This is Mr. Greeley's first notion: "I *1 hold that God created our race, male and female, with clear-see-ing intent., that it should thereby be

rendered more efficient, nobler, happier, than it^otherwise could be, and that this diversity relates not to a single function merely, but extends to our entire physical, intellectual and emotional nature.' "I think women will not dissent from that. I think that women as a general thing, whether from nature or the force of circumstances, feel a greater dependence on God than men. Having been brought up to depend on some strong arm for support and then have that support wrenched from them b}r death or the force of circumstances, they have come to look up with greater dependence to their Heavenly Father than men do generally. -i"II. The substance of Mr. Greeley's second paragraph is that this distinction is so "innate vital" that the first man and woman at once recognized the fitness of the former for providing and the latter for domestic work, and naturally fell into their respective places.' "We learn from history that in a very short time after the creation of the first pair a change came, and polygamy came to be the order. Then we had a theocracy—then aristocracy and monarchy—so I think change is as much the order of things as any thing else. Horace Greeley would have us go back to the old order. He has a theory that woman should retire to the home and to domestic life, and the men roam the whole world over to "collect the bounties of nature," and like a great many other theorists, he takes the Bible and tries to make the facts show his thcoiy. The Bible does not show that Eve took the indoor and Adam the outdoor work. Nor can he argue that any other arrangement would be contraiy to divine teaching, with any more propriety than we could contend that it would lie wicked to dye one's hair, because the scriptures say, "Thou canst not make one hair white or black.'1 "III. Mr. Greeley, in substance, expresses his belief that when the time for establishing a government had arrived, the men met and found it, while the women stayed at home and attended to their proper business. "History shows that back in the early times that ruling Vas established by might. It does not show that when the time for formation of government had arrived, the men held a convention and appointed delegates, while the women sta}-ed at home because they believed God ordered it. This was nothing but Mr. Greeley's notions. Early governments were of a patriarchal character and man in those days fell easily into government. It was the rule of the strong over the weak. But we do find, when we come down awhile, a woman occupying an honorable and exalted position on the supreme bench, for Deborah judged Israel, and led her to mighty conquests and in Genesis we are tokl that God spoke and said, 'Hearken unto thy wife.'

IV. Mr. Greeley holds that the sphere of man is branded not higher than that of woman that her sphere is the household, in which her influence is paramount and that oach has a distinct and definite sphere.

But what will Mr. Greeley do with that large class of women who have no husbands and are not likel3r to have There are in Britain three millions of this class and in our own little State of Massachusetts seventy thousand who have not and can not have husbands, unless we reproduce Utah there. He proposes for women but one thing—to take hold and keep house. At first, I fully believe, the divine regulation was that every one man should have one wife but the order of things has changed, and today we see one-third of the women of the country not married and not likely to marry—who have no households and can have none. For these Mr. Greeley proposes nothing. "What shall we do with them Does there not at once grow up an argument for the opening of every sphere to woman Is it worth while to confine women to one thing? Suppose she does not want to marry Would Mr. Greeley say that she must marry whether she wanted to do so or not Would any man wish to take such an unwilling bride I believe it is the order of God and nature that man and woman should marry, and when women are thus bound by ties of duty and of love, there is no danger of their being drawn out of their household circle for the pursuit of any other calling whatever. Such is their deeply grounded affection—so do they cling to those they love— that there is no more danger of their stepping out of their domestic sphere to the neglect of its duties than there is that a star of heaven will rush down into any of our mints and ask to have the United States stamp put on it—not a bit of it. As Grace Green­

CRAW FORDS YILLE JOURNAL: NOVEMBER 18, 1869.

wood says, women are like cows— rather a homely comparison you will say, but nevertheless true—you may put them in a pasture knee deep in clover, arid they will be looking around to see if •there be not a greener pasture beyond, and searching for a low place that they may leap over and seek it. Knock down the enclosure—remove the prohibition— and there will be more probability that they will stay there.

In his fifth and sixth paragraphs. Mr. Greeley affirms the right of woman to do whatever she can well, but would have such employments carried on dis-associated from the other, so far as possible.

Mr. Greeley here gives, in a grudging sort of way, just what we claim—the right of women to work in any place, and in any way that they want but he onlv mentions one way in which her labor may receive honorable recognition. Why should the woman who starts a millinery store, or even, as has been the case with one woman in your own State somewhere, carries on successfully a saw mill when her husband is taken away, be less entitled to honorable recognition than the other [Reading the second portion of the article] Mr. Greeley thinks very badly of us women. I should feel badly if a woman had said that- .1 can not believe, since we have been put in the world together, that it can be such a terrible thing to put men and women together. If it be such a terrible thing for man and woman to be put together, God, when he created them, should have put Adam in one garden and Eve in another. So far from believing with Mr. Greeley, I think that the association of voung men and young women in Sunday schools and Bible classes has an improving effect on both. It puts both on their good behavior, and when they meet in school, as in thirty-one of our' Western colleges thev do. it is the unanimous verdict of the faculty that! both do Letter- In the early days of California and Oregon, when men were herded together, without know-1 ing any home ties or gentler associations, they descended to depths of uncleanliness and degredation positively frightful to contemplate. Women left to themselves become narrow, contracted and debased bring them together, and you have the highest type of human society. In the olden time, when I used to go to associations like this, I never thought of sitting down on the same side with the men—we filed off at the door, the women taking one side and the men the other, and in the school in Boston where I was educated, they had separate schools for the two sexes. And when they were brought together, occupying separate rooms in the same building, the most disastrous consequences were predicted."

TO 15K CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.

FLOUR:

IV O I O .'

Reduced Prices of Floor.

We are selling Flour at the mill at the following prices: Best No. I I'lii'c White Wheat Flour J!c per pound.

Best No. lied and Alabama Mixed Flour, 2%c per pound. Best No. 1 Ited, '2%c per pound.

Best No. White Bolted meal, *J pound. We warrant all the Flour we sell. good, can be returned at our expense.

per

ff not

Highest market price paid for good wheat. W3I. ALLEN BRO., Proprietors Steam Mill, Crawfordsville,

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LEGAL SALES.

GUARDIAN'S

SALE.—Notice is herebv

{jiven that the undersigned, Guardian of William T. Midclleton ct al., in pursuance of an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery countv, will sell at private sale on or after four weeks from date hereof, the following described real estate, situate in said countv, to-wit: Part of the northeast quarter of section four, in township nineteen north, of range three west, bounded as follows: Beginning at a point sixty rods east of the center of said section and running thence east sixty rods, thence north eighty rods, thence west sixtv rods, thence south eighty rods to the beginning, containing thirty: acres.

Terms—One-half of tbe purchase money to be paid cash'in hand and the residue in one year, with interest, the purchaser giving nis note with approved surety, waiving valuation laws. DAVID MIDDLETON, oct21wi Guardian.

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where -Doors S ish, Blinds. Mouldings, Dressed Lumber, &c., will be kept for sale, and' all orders received and promptly attended to-

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No restriction's as to reidence or travel. One-third of tbe premium a permanent loan: and this privilege is not confined to parties whose annual premiums exceed S40 or $.")0, but is extended alike to all its members.

It makes a very liberal discount, from its table rates to alfministers of the Gospel. OFFICERS:

Walters. Griffith, President. I. II. Frothingham, Treasurer.George E. Ripley, Secretary. William J. Coffin, Actuary.

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GAIiEY & APPLEGATE,

AGENTS FOR THE

Empire Sewing Machine,

CRAWFORDSVILLE.

This Machine received the First Premium at the Great Fair of the American Institute, in New York. October 26, 1867, and Tliirhest Premium for

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MARBLE WORK.

Phoenix--: Marble Works. SINCE,

Phrt'iiix-likc. we have arisen literally from the ashes, we have moved the remnant of our stock to the east side of Washington street? next to Miller's new building. north of the court house, where we have now a nice assortment of

Grave-Yard Work.

Such as Monuments, Tablets, Slab.-. Scv, which we will sell cheap. JSPAs the late lire did us much damasre, we must work hard and'sell cheap, to make money to meet our liabilities.

I. F. WADE & SON. X.B.—If any of our friends.want to give us a little "material aid'" on accounted'"our loss, they can do so by——if they owe us, call and "pay: if they want any work in our line, either Grave-Yard or Building "Work", give us a call. We will do you NICE WORK at LOW PRICES, and be much obliged.

BUILDING "WORK done to order. Crawfordsville, Dec. 80,1868.

WANTED.

~W ANT.EI) r"

500,000 Bushels of Wheat, 200,000 Bushels of Rye, 200,000 Bushels of Oats,

For which we will pay the

highest market price in cash,

lou can And one of us at the

Richardson House, or at M.

Price's office from this day on.

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Crawfordsville, Aug. 2, 69tf

JEWELRY.

I. IV. "V anSiokle,

At Fullenwider & Bro.'s,

Will sell at greatly reduced prices, for tile ncKt six weeks, his stock of

JEWELRY and NOTION.

CAUL ABTJD SEE HIM,

As lie r» event irwupil— septtf *.•••«