c THE DAILY EVENING TELEGHArg-PniLADlBLrniA, TUESDAY, J UNK 1,1869. NOTHING UNREASONABLE.' Miss Anna E.Dickinson Speaks at the Academy of Music. The Academy of Muxle was filled last evening on the occasion of a lecture pntitled '.'Nothing Unreasonable," by Mi Anna E. Dickinson. She. appeared on tho ntngo a few minutes aftor ciht tVclock. The large majority of tho audience evidently did not accord with tho view of the speaker, as tho applause was quite limited. Miss Dickinson spoke as follows: .Miss Dickinson said: A criminal a criminal V'cueed, arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted lias yet the opportunity to speak for herself. The judge, ere he adjusts the black cap, stays the course of law for a brief moment to demand of this human being, all else having been said lor her that others can cay, whether nhe herself ha any reason to show why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon her. It Is, then, nothing unreasonable for me, who am no crimi nal, who nm a faithful, law-abiding cilixcu of the republic, to dcmniul why I, in defiance of justice nud right, am condemned to political lentil. Kcing one ol the loyal and untainted people of the United States, and thus desirous of seeing a more perfect Union formed, justice es tablished, domestic tranquillity insured, the com mon defense provided for, general welfare pro moted, and the blessings of liberty secured to me and mine, and to those who may live alter mo, it is not unreasonable for me to Impure by what right I am excluded from any part in the coun cils of the nation, from any share in pcrferling the Union, from any etlort 'to establish justice, from any attempt to insure tranquillity, lrom any opiuiou as to means of common defense, from any portion or lot in directly promoting the general welfare, and from the use of any legal weapon whereby I can secure the blessings of liberty, I will not say to others, not even to myself. As a taxpayer, unrepresented by any voice or choice of my own, it can be nothing un reasonable for me to cry, "Taxation without representation Is tyranny." As a morally and intellectually responsible being, governed by an authority which asserts that it ha no just powers over me save those which it derives from my consent; and yet with my consent not asked, and even rejected when proposed, it can be othing unreasonable for me to assert, "by its own showing this government is ausurpatian unci a despotism." As a person forbidden to pur sue happiness in my own way, this pursuit not trespassing upon the rights of another; as one who can be robbed of liberty by an ordinance to which my consent has never been asked; as a mortal who can be deprived of life by a law to which I have uever been permi'tid to assent, it is nothing unreasonable for me to protest against being deprived of an inaliena ble right, lieing so wronged and defrauded, it is notliing nnreawnahk' for me to demand of those who support and defend the wrong and the fraud, that they should show cause lor the ontinuance of this state of things. It is not sufficient for them to answer, it has been so from all time; the judgment of mankind assents thereto. For I demur; a feeling is not proved to be right and exempted from the necessity of justifying itself because the writer or speaker is not conscious of it in himself, but knows it lives in other people, because instead of say ing "I" he says "you and he." A hard task, I confess; for common-sense, con sistency, reason, argument, justice, are all opposed. He needs to be subtle and keen who can make even a plausible show against these antagonists. It is easier fighting for a food cause than a bad one. As a certain great Ilivino hath it, a man may go to heaven with half the pains which it costs him to purchase hell. Nevertheless, it is a task which will have to bo executed a great irwny times. An old pro verb Bays: "A fervid idea is a sort of gimlet every year gives it an additional turn." Certain women in this land are possessed with the idea, and are conveying this idea to others, that they are injured and outraged, and are demanding reparation. These women, and the men who stand by their sides, arc not those who will l e siicuced without sutlicient cause. THE EVENING TELEGRAPH ORFllM. A paper published iu this city, this afternoon, lias seen fit to attack me. When I was fighting for its eaune and the cause of the peoplu.it called mc a Demosthenes in language and a Cicero in eloquence. Now it is too cowardly to give n.e the justice that to-day is due me, and will no doubt attack me in its columns to-morrow. I nm, however, not to be frightened because the papers see lit to say these mean, unmanly, f.ilc, and indecent things about me. Their paper bul lets fall on me harmless. None but the silver cartridge of truth can injure me in this cause. Miss Dickinson then read some extracts from the editorial in The Evening Teleuk vrn of yesterday, including the following: "Tho nation has trouble enough to contend atrainst the host of bad men who tlirure as politicians. If they are reinforced by the silly and had women of the land, the republic will soon be beyond redemption. Women rulers have been tried over and over airain, hut their reign has tended rather to add anew ele ment of corruption to polities than to purify und ele vate it." In response to this, she said, it is about time women Lad taken the matter in hand and regu lated the men. I can stand the attacks ol all Mich pigmies, especially when such men as (J.tr rison and Kumnor are on my side. TUB CHAMPIONS? OF THE CAl'sE. When Stuart Mill and Lady Amberlcy. John Bright and his Queen, Herbert Spencer and (leorge Eliot, Robert Browning and .Mrs. .Jami son, the llowitts and Florence Nightingale, Sigourney and (ieorgo Sand, Professor Huxley and Amelia Edwards, Phillips and Mrs. Stanton, Beceher and Mrs. Stowe, Sumner and (ir.vce Greenwood, Tilton and Harriet Preseott, Ilislnip Bimpson and Mrs. Mott, (ierrit Smith and Mrs. Child, Curtis and Alice Carey, Whitticr and Mrs. Howe when such men and women us these hack the guns, look out tor heavy can nonading, and for a fight that will be no child's play to the enemy. (Applause.) A FAIH WAKNIXO. Meanwhile I, the faithful follower and uiiier rified soldier in tho ranks where great souls com mand, cry out: "You, over there, point your first gun lire your first sentence of opposition ugttinst my demand and the demand ol other women for the bajlot, and I give lair warning that I am not to be frightened by hard words and ugly names, neither bloomer nor strong-minded, nor infidel, masculine nor free-love affect me against which am I. There was an old prejudice among the Scottish Covenanters that certain of their enemies could be destroyed only by a silver bullet the leaden balls of slander and malice and falsehood fall away harmless here naught can injure me or the cause which I hero repre sent save the silver cartridges of truth. So, Mes sieurs, hb the French ollictr said in the great battle: "If you please, lire first." DO WOMEN WANT THE BALLOT ? Useless, yon nay, at the outset, for women themselves don't want the ballot. False on its face; for why should men deny and women de ride a request never proffered? If woman does -not want to vote, whence all this effort abroad in the world to demonstrate that she ought not to vote ? Well, then, you will modify ! Women as a body, as a class, do not wish the franchise; it is hut isolated cases that, here and there, are . clamoring, in unwomanly tones, and with mascu- " line vehemence, lor this boon. One of two things, then, is made manifest. Either each of these solitary women is a host in kerself an army in her own might or she must, in the estimation of her opponents, have Dome vast silent power behind her to render im posing her words. Else how shall be explained the phenomena of reverend dotors of divinity by hundreds fulminating ogaiust them from the pulpit; of lawyers by hundreds discoursing of their claims; of senates and legislatures and con ventions devoting whole days to considering their arguments and petitions; of newspapers jiving more space to them and their doings tlUM) they f pojiriate to fti'jjU t'kv BY it great present qncslion of statecraft; of tho ablest of writers lmtiint? books, manifold, having those and their utterances for themes. What man, ner of women are these who are nobody not worth the counting, a handful on tho ono side, yet arc capable of arraying the world In arms on the other ? They make one think of the enchanted tent In tho Arabian talcs, which could be folded into a nutshell, or bo spread out to cover an army. "Few," are they ? Every demand of right is made at first singly. "Few." arc they ? Is it, then, I ask, In accordance with principle, or with numbers, that you judge of the justice of a cause ? lint the wishes of the, manv should rather be con sulted than the demands of the few. When all women ask, says the Tritiurw, they shall receive; till they ask, they do not desire. Any assump tion here ? To renounce that which one does not possess Is an easy task; to renounce that which one docs, may cause the pangs of death. How do you know they do not want It ? How can one who has never walked in the sun be able to justly determine whether he desires or does not desire its comforting warmth and light? "Do you wMi freedom ?"'snld the master to the idle, happy, thoughtless house-servant; to the beaten, bleeding, outraged plantation slave. "No !" they cried ; "No !" Will you to-day re sume your chains? Will you to-day resume ser vitude ? Will you to-day renounce the rights of freemen for the most luxurious ease of slavery ? Let the United States (iovernmcnt ask this of those four millions tior, if it would have a shout go vp that, would shake continents to their cen tre "Cive us liberty or give us death !" (Ap plause.) When women have for a single elec tion possessed h ower and exerci-ed U, and thus eomiireheniled liat it is. and then n nouwed it, it will be time to allirm that they do not care lor it. HIE l.OOIC r A. T. KTRWAKT. At present there U ns much sense in a woman relusiiig to vote as there was logic in Mr. A. T. Stewart declining to remain Secretary of State when he knew thai legally he never had filled that office, and could not at that time. (Ap plusc). All women to ak before all women receive! Did we wait for every slave to shake his chains in our ears ere we discovered that they were not content with slavery? Out of that vast charnel-house but here and there a door was thrown back, and a fugitive escaped to tell the dismal tale that tliey seemed dead, but only slept. There were occasionally some sullen murmurs from the outward calm, showing that life fctill beat iu the soi.l. Yet that one spoke for the many. liecause one reached Canada for a thousand who remained behind, making no effort to fly, did we say this one has what he desires, and these thou sands are also content. More, did we say 'tis manifest this slave is laboring under a strong de lusion; if we but knew it he really prefers slavery it is better tor him and we will send him back? Still more, did we mark his at tempts, his agonized struggles to be free, and then seize and thrust him back into his grave? We did too true, we did; but let us not deceive ourselves here. We did it because of the hard ness of our heart and the brutal laws of wicked men. Not because Hie slaves cried "We don't want freedom: send that renegade back to us." (Applause). Did the Colonies wail for every man in their midst to -ay Republic ere they es tablished one. or every white male citizen de mand the ballot ere lin y placed one in his hand? No. A multitude cared nothing about the issues at stake; a multitude gate them lukewarm support; a multitude belonged openly to the enemy yet. one and all the fight elided re ceived that which u.is his due his manhood. You may not value tin- Inheritance, said they to these, but it is yours to have and not ours to keep. Make the best of it. There are women who are opposed to this claim: who doubts it? What does this prove? That, there are human beings too ignorant to know bow they are wronged (applause). i-o carele-s to inquire, too abased to feel, too eliish to carry burdens for themselves that rightly belong on their shoul der1 lost to a sense of their dignity and respon sibilityall these I giant, but not that right is not right. Am I to be forbidden to walk ii free woman upon the face of (Jod's earth because, being unjustly debaned in person, tho.-e about mo cry from silken ones or exhausting toil: "Wo prefer to remain; keep the door locked, and, ii possible, throw away the key.'" do wrs wwr women to vote? 15i:t you tell me not only do women refuse to claim, but men desire, to withhold. For why? liecanse it is not pleasing and agreeable to a man to see a woman engeged in such work, or taking part in such struggles as this right would entail. I reply: "(.oil' doubtless had some better piirj.o-e for women than to captivate and please men!" (Applause and laughter.) When lie lived a star iu the firmament, did He say unto that s'.ir, "give light," or -ay even praise? W hen men who are in every w.iy di -agreeable, to women tell them they are not to essiy this or accomplish that, because thi- or that will make them distasteful to masculine eyes, they pro bably a"t upon the idea which Congrevc puts into "Tattle's" mouth when he says to "Pure:'" "She should admire him as "much for the beauty he commends in her as though he himself were possessed of it."' Since women are to ret. ounce their rights in exercising them, tho igh unpleasing to men, what compensation i- to be given them in turn? You are not to vote: I do not like it. You are not to hold office; 1 do not like it. You are not to sit upon juries; I do not like it. You are to take no part iu polities or statesmanship; I do not like it. You are not to be learned: I do not like it. Yon arc not to he ambitious: I do not like it. You are not to be self-reliant, self assisting, and independent: I do not, like it. Lot this -utiice. Do not prove yourself un femininc by attempting any argument. De monstrate yourself sweet and womanly by submitting to my will and studying my plea sure, without cavil or comment. Sly will! How do men try to plo.ise women ? If we are to be ranked with criminals, pauper, and idiots to please you, if we are - be. shallow, uncultured, dependent, frivolou-. 10 please ;ou. by making you thus the superio : of such inferiority, how are we repaid ? the i:a; iaihts of men. Do the men think t'ley are studying our will by their habits and sins; by tbje " filthy tobacco they crowd into their mouths, spit over the floors, puff into our eyes; by the noisy and dirty boots which they creak round our houses and spread over our chairs; by the clothes which they wear lor a twelvemonth; by the moustache or heard a week old; by the devotion of half their Incomes to club-house and concerts and theatres and cards, and drinking and eating and boon-companionship and expeditions and plea sures too many to bo counted, in which their wives and sisters have no share; by being the fathers of babies whose existence they ignore, some by an angry exclamation from behind a newspaper "4 loudness can't you keep that child quiet?" by coming home at 1 and U and :l o'clock in the morning, with halting step and uncertain lateh-kev do you suppose women like any of these tilings ? Not a bit of it. lint then, gentlemen, yon probably act upon the assumption of the poet who, having glorified heroism and courage in many an exquisite rhvmc, when the house in which ho lived was attacked by robbers, fled incontinently down the back stairway, exclaiming. "It is mv duty to record great actions, not to do them." "(Laughter..) CAK'T YOL' TKV8T T1IR MEN ? Hut you tell me this demand is a slur east upon us; 'tis an imputation that men and women are antagonists; that men, having the ability, also have the desire to oppress women. No more than the right given to every man to protect himself is a stigma of despotism upon every other man. All history demonstrates that one human being never is safe in the hands of another. When the Czar Nicholas was told that his personal character was as good as a constitu tion to his people--Then," said he, "I am but a lucky accident!" and such lucky accidents do not abound as between man and man or man and w oman. For the sako of the man as for the sake of the woman this demaud should he urged, Irresponsible power, absolute power, is as great an injury to him who uses as to her who sub mits. Such power, save In tho few lucky aecl ilents, makes a good man selfish aud a bad man bruUilj 'U a ten wlich lew iuinuu beis can. bear, and which every human being should shun. Whether this power is well nsed or ill used. It is to bo aliko protested against. The Czar Peter did much for Kussla; Ills, therefore, an argument against reform and rights that despotism gave the people of that land civilization. They do not mind it because their rights arc guarded through their intlucnce In men. "Theso wstnen are ours," say you, "and shall we not take care of our own r' Has not every crowned king who has lived and died, or who lives to-day, tho right to use the same argument: "Is not this land, are not these people mine ? Am I not, in conse quence, interested in those that are personally my own ? Let their all, welfare shall I not guard them? their interests and their rights, the whole history of ignorant or infamous, as I would those usurpations of power and disregard of rights respond. n NO. LOOK AT YOUR UNEQUAL I.AWH. 1 That proposition Is self-evident. Does it need proof ? Let any one sit and read the long list of laws which inflict injury, or withholdustice from woman, and the proof Is given. Until re cently a woman, especially a married woman, suing for her rights in any court of law. has been well photographed by the condition of the old lady who said that siie had no counsel, that 4iod was her lawyer. "My dear madam," ex claimed the judge, "he doesn't practice In this court." (Laughter.') She has been without counsel at the bar of a law with which neither fioel nor justice had anything to do. That these law s arc being modified is true; thai they reqrlire modification is the proof that the influence of woman has not been sufficient in the past to se cure her all she needs; that it is better tor this modification to be brought about by indirect rather than direct action I deny. I do not un derstand bow a power which is salutary when exercised virtually can be noxious when exer cised directly. Nay.more.I hold that an inlluenee which is sullioicntly powerful to make and un make laws should be a power held re-pon-inle and amenable to law. (Applause.) IMHUKCT VEUSIIR DIltECT lNFI.fENt E. Indirect influence gains for itself, not others. Direct influence gains for others when it gains for itself. Pompadour and Du liarry were queens of the Kings of France, and the word of an orange girl was more potential with an English king than that of the consort crowned bv his side. Yet no woman in all France or England came thereby nearer to political equality and legal justice with the men by their sides. In all ages, autocrats have had clowns and courtiers who were absolute in their privileges to-day, yet were beheaded to-morrow. The favorite was accorded generosity, but the human being, not only for others.but lor himself, demand, justice. A woman settled the fate of the greatest state trial of America and the nineteenth century a mother denied the right to her own child; a miserable wife, beaten and bruised by a ruf fianly boor; a wretched woman starving iu the streets, while her husband spends her wages at the whisky shop. When such an one, by a silence more awful than thunder tones, cries "for the right to defend her-elf and her offspring, then she is to be answered: Your influence is more potential now than your own action could be; you have more power now than a man. Do you doubt it ? Don't look, poor fool, at your own outrages unavenged and wrongs unre dressed, but at the amazing influence wielded by this one beautiful and energetic being at the na tional capital. The millions, for iliere are mil lions, of suffering women in America are to have no power to protect themselves, because one rare flower can by her perlume bewilder the brains and sway the judgments of a multitude of men about her. O Justice! how art thou outraged and thy fair name soiled ! That in direct influence Is more powerful than direct in modifying statutes and enacting laws, I deny. Through a quarter of a century Garrison and his confederates were laughed to seoru for their efforts to abolish American slavery while they refused to take part in Ame rican politics. They would convince the judgment, enlighten the understanding, touch the heart. Excellent, uo doubt. No doubt, also, it is true that revolutions produced by violence are often followed by reaction, but that the victories ol reason once gained are gained for eternity. Nevertheless the cannon of the Re volution was more ellicacious than the fulmiua tions or entreaties ol a thousand convention-, and the single pen-stroke of Abraham Lincoln than an army of eloquent reformers, though they spoke with the tongues ol men and angels, ami uttered the wisdom of the Sphinx. (Ap plause) The work might be better and more smoothly done by the first plait than the last, might be a fairer sight to look upon when com pleted by this slow process of a thousand years tban by this lightning stroke of a moment. It niblit m. Hut what o; the slaves who are to live and die through the thousand years ? The indifferent, looker-on may declare the first plan best, for it is wonderful how easy rind liberal and complying people can be in oilier people's atfairs. Hut the slave who is to continue a slave, and be the fathered generations ot slave- who are to multiply and live after him till the perlecr, w ork is perfectly done, till t lie objection oi tyranny is coaxed arid persuaded out of the body politic - or who is to be a free man on the spot, though the body politic is a little torn ami rent, would probably" prefer the latter. THE DISTINCTION OF SEX. Self-prc-crvalion i- the fir-t law of nature, we arc; told. I cannot, then, see how the gun which the Ohm rrcr the other day fired is to hurt u-. "They," that is, thec advocates for suffrage, "ignore or evade the distinction of sex which naturally regulates the employment- of man kind." "Life and liberty are not employments, but inalienable rights. Whatever there is neces sary to secure and protect life and liberty is as much our right as life and liberty itself. To deny this involves the absurdity that a man has no right to protect or defend that to which he has a habitual right. We are not talking cd employments, but of the first law of nature, sell-preservation, which no one will deny applies to a woman as thoroughly as to a man. HOW AHCHT HOLDING OFFIC E? But the right to vote includes the right to hold office, and the right to hold office means an in troduction to a new class of employment anew order of work, for which women are not adapted and to which men are admirably suited. Men are the natural law-makers of the universe, say the world to-day, as it has said through the past,. Well, then, I answer, if men are natural law maker it is high lime they made au attempt to see if art oanuot improve upon nature. (Laugh ter and iipplau-c.) MEN AS l.AW-MAKI'KS. They have butt, the law-makers, national ami otherwise, and what manner of laws have they produced ? An eye for an eye, and a tooth tor a tooth; that has been their law. Murder for mar der wars of conquest and wars of desolation. Slavery and polygamy rum running like water, unchecked: idleness, vagabondage, brutality, atrocities, murder, tlowiug therefrom; alms houses filled, poor-houses filled, jails crowded, penitentiaries swarming: the gallows bearing ils ghastly load in consequence thereof, a state of soc iety whereby women are driven to -in and punished for sinning, while a man goes free and unquestioned, with no earthly punishment meted to him. though the awful jiidgfnents of nature and 4iod go down through his children and Ills children's children, unto the third and fourth generation. These are some of the laws of men, and their results. In view thereof, would not a little modesty become them, when they demand tho unquestioned right to go on alone in tho future because of their most excellent record of the past ? ' r NOT GOOD FOll MAN TO BE ALONE, ESPECIALLY AT WASHINGTON. (!od saw that it was not good for man to bo alone. If it was not good for him to be alone in tho Harden of Eden, amid tho influence of na ture, it is certainly not good for him to be alone at Washington or Harrisburg (cheers and laugh teramid the Influences of lobbyists, corruption lsts, and whisky rings, and tho best proof of it is the way in which those men have hitherto conducted the affairs of the nation. Government is simply national housekeeping. Dces any re sponsible woman keep house so badly as the United States (laughter) with so much bribery, so much extravagance, so much selfishness, so niueh quarrelling in the domestic councils? For the od ol Immunity we need the united actlou of mnn and woman In the family, tho com munity, tho Church, and the State. A family if, indeed, tho word here is not a solecism a family without the presence of a woman, with no wife, .sister,, daughter, above all no mother, Is a sad thing. A community without her social action, a church without her ecclesiasti cal influence and action, a State without her po litical Influence and action, seems to mo almost ns bad. The Tribune, the other day, quoting from some Swedcnborgian pastor, said: "When men and women come together in a good and orderly wsy, they supply each to tho other what is wanted they fill out a more perfect measure of a man;" and added, "This is a truth which it will be Impossible to ignore In future deci sions of this question." The advocate of this movement seems to ignore it. There are diffe rences between men and women; they are un like; there are innumerable diversities among men; and these dill eic.nces. these diversities are meant to bind them together, not to subdue one class to another; are meant not to establish an excellent privilege of subordination on. one side, and nn ennobling responsibility upon tho other: that the strong shall bear the burdens of the weak, be they weak men or women, and the Ktrong women or men; not ns subordinate-, but as equal heirs and co heirs of eternity. For these diversities are notliing as compared with the attributes in which they agree. (Applause.) "When we see the dishonor of a thing, tlmn it is time to renounce it." Ignorance and inditierenco filled the past; inquiry and interest till the present. For men to withhold unconsciously, neither hurt them nor debased women: for men to withhold consciously is to hhake the foundations upon which tho whole structure of our Uovernment is built. Thomas .Teflcrson asked, can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis a conviction iu the minds ot the people that these liberties are the gift of 4;id? Among partakers of the s.une rational and moral nature, who can make good a right over others which others may not establish over himself? There are but two methods of establishing equality in the political world. Every citizen must be put in possession of his or her rights, or rights must be granted to none. It is ait insult to that iod wlio is no respeeter of persons, whose- mercies and whose judgments are, ac corded without account of sex, to declare, that men are more careful of the moral purity and dignity of one-half His creation thau He, its creator. Humanity recognizes no sex. Morals recognize no sex. Virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, happiness and misery, sickness ami health, life and death, recognize no sex. The same commandments are laid upon all; the same Christ died for nil; the same eternity awaits us ail. To his or her own Master this soul standeth or falleth alone. God does not need man's hel; to save a soul for His kingdom. SMALL WOMEN WALLOW IN POLITICS? It js pitiable to hear a man talk about a woman not interfering with polities, and a woman re fusing to interfere with politics, on the ground that her womanhood is to be contaminated and soiled. "Virtuous women," the Ubwmr in forms us, "abhor the proposition to wallow in the mire of politics.' The inirv of polities ! What is politics ? Webster informs us, "it is the science of government." The mistake such writers and men as these are constantly making is in supposing their personal iniquities and meannesses are the things these designate. 1 know of no worse ;sign of the times, I see nothing more terribly threatening to the future of the great American Republic, thau this esti mate being constantly made of the qualifications that arc needed to govern it. THE WALLOWISGS OF MEN. Men cheat, and steal and thieve aud lie, ,nul bribe and arc bribed, and corrupt and are cor rupted, and run riot in town meetings and as semblies and legislatures, and usurp power in high places and then cry: "What! would yon have women to rule things?" And 1 answer, "No! 1 would have men stop doing them, and men and women together do something better." (Ap plause;.) To-day. politics means simply an in decent scramble for olliee, each man for himself, and let the devil take the hindmost; the fore most, in too many cases, not needing anv su.-h taking, being always iu his keep -tig. (Laughter and applause.) woman's siffkaoi: ant tub ti:mi-ehani:e til'ESTlON. Meanwhile there is the cause ol temper .ukc to be considered. Wednesday's Tribune nar rates how on Monday night one (lilligan, a sol dier at Fortress Monroe, while under the inllu enee of liquor, beat bis wife to death. Look at this woman. A little cottage, or au humble home, cleanly and neat; her husband's step firm at the door; her husband's eye bright with a smile, his voice pleasant with kindly greetings a- he entered at night his hot.ie. A grog shop opened on ihe path he treads to and from his daily toil. A call to enter. An entrance. For heaven's sake, she cries, let mo close that door ! Peace, woman! is the answer; would you keep your husband from evil ways, ha it lie by your inlluenee at home, not by your interference abroad. The disease grows; the madness closes around this poor brain; the life slips down awful steps towards the depths of an awful abyss. Th3 cottage is a hovel; tho children are hungry and beaten; the wile is outraged and iu rags. For (iod s sake, she cries, let me withhold this; let me -taiid between him and the ruin ho is work ing for us and lor himself. Stand there, is the reply plead with him, entreat him, pray for him do all that may become a woman-, and stop there. To plead with him is to plead with a lunatic. To entreat him is to entreat a mad man. Pray for him I do. Work for him I will. Hut I am weak against this brute strength, for a drunken man Is no longer a human being, but a beast. Give me the weapon to conquer him, the weapon that will save him, the weapon that will push to this door, aud give me opportunity to rea-on with him as a man. "The weapon timily set. Ami huUm f aaa tin.' ba)enit - A wnKiMin which comes down us m il! An nmiwilakeft fait upon i.lio hoi! , but t'lti'Utui) the holilm' wih, Ah li.rtitmu4 doeti thu wrli el f.iod." 4 live me the ballot; the opportunity at least to try to save my husband from perdition and i;:y children and myself a hell upon earth. "Unrea sonable desire, unfeuunine request, unwomanly demand the mission of a woman is at home, not dabbling in the filthy poo of polities !" cry in chorus the rum-sellers who thrust the glass to her husband's lips; the legislators who permit the act; the ministers who blaspheme God's truth by telling this woman to submit hersell to this brute as unto the Lord: the women who lie secure on manly hearts, the nation which de rives a mighty revenue from tho anguish of such as she. A miserable deu called home, some broken window p: ineb, a firele-- hearth, au empty Clipboard, an uniurui-hed room, a hclplc-s woman, a man iransiormeci to a wild hja-t, ' night, chil l ess without, the blackness ol dark ness encompassing this man's reasoti and boul a scene too ghastly for me to paint, too hide ous for you to hear. God's eye alone saw and His ear alone heard, as this woman was beaten, bruised, kicked, and pounded out of all likenc-s of humanity, her soul torn from her dis ; tol led, quivering body, and scut up with a vast i multitude of others to bear witness against the infidelity and harnansm ol a Christian land. With Thomas Jellcrson, I say, "I tremble for mv country when I remember that 4iod Is just, anil that Ills justice will not stay forever." He looked at a few thousands of w rouged and su ffcring slaves, but I think of the sighs and groans, the prayers aud tears, tho bloody smart, the agony, the broken hearts, tho blasted lives, the awful deaths of millions of drunkards' wives. Kemembor that their cry has gone up day and night to the ear of one w ho Is not deaf, though He be long silent; to one who judges the cause of the poor and needy. A cry which condemns law-breaker and law expounder, press, pulpit, and society alike. A terrible aud awful cry from tho depths of an awful dcsimir.l''Shall I not visit for these things, saith tho Lord, and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation ns this?" OTIIEIt QUESTIONS. ' There Is, then, tho cause of temperance, tho renovation of poor-houses and almshouses, the reformation of reform schools and penitentia ries and jails, the government of schools, the dispensing of public charities, tho proper drain age ol cities, the InveetlgaUoca ol boards ol health, the great questions of Iruelo, of capital and labor in which woman is so profoundly, (o tragically Interested to-dny. Theso bo tho Questions which are politics state-craft, In ecd in which tho welfare of women is as pro foundly involved as the welfare of men in which they should b? all deeply interested, from which they havo no rigiit to seek exemption, and which would be tho hotter set tled did they do their proper share of tho settle ment. Are any of these questions unsuitable for a woman to investigate and solve! Will an interest in them make her any the less truly wo manly, any the less really fitted for the sphero and the duties of home? If it Is right for a woman to abandon her home to convert certain heathen to the religion of Christ, It will certainly be right for a woman to take action upon tho laws which arc to make or lnur the future eon duct and welfare of her daughters and her sons. John Kandolph once enmc into a room where pome Virginia ladies were working for tho Greeks, at that time struggling for liberty, and pointing to a dismal convict gang at the moment passing, (aid: "Ladies, the (recks arc at your doors." A w oman does not have to go beyond her own home to find reason, and necessity, and ability to interfere in State, and national altairs. It will make strife there. A man does not wish disc ussion w hen he reaches tho shelter of home, hut quiet mid peace. When 8ir Thomas More, condemned to death for conscience sake, said to his wife, "This prison is as near heaven ns my own home," and his wife, who knew nothing and cared less for the great cause for which he was about to die, answered only, "Tilly vallv, tilly ally,"think you his soul found repose with her, or with his daughter Margaret, who could discourso with hint of earthly and heavenly things from a wise brain, and give him the comfort likewise of a kind and loving heart? Will men have to dine from home by an earnest talk about sensible subjects? Tliey are now driven away by silly, vapid, Idle, ill-tempered vaporings about nothing. Me i say to-day, "Away with your strong-minded " women, lleiivmi save me from ever being the husband of any but a sweet, gentle, dependent foul, who will always look up to inc." Up and up the sweetness cloys. Up and up the gentleness be comes inanity. Up and up, ihe dependence grows to be a burden. Up aud up, the husband's necx grows tired by reason of looking down into his wile's eyes, anil he goes elsewhere to find a woman whose voico talks music ami sense to his ear. THE EQI! AL IllclHTM CONVENTION. A great many editorials have been written about a gathering held in New York two weeks ngo. A great many things have been said in the fiapcrs about the women who were interested in t, mid of which I will say, in passing, I had much rather he the subject than the author of. (Applause.) THE "OlISEKVEH," THE "TKinUNE," THE "HER ALD," AND THE PHES.S..'' "When woman suffrage becomes constitutional in New York and Chicago, we advise all pro perty holders to look to the rural districts." So I read the other day as to vc-dict of tho editor of tho Observer; and so reading, the verdict I pronounced upon htm was: That men have the best opinion of women who are conscious that women ought to have tho best opinion of them. The Philadelphia J'ren.i speaks the sentiments of a wide constituency wheu it says: "Koeent events have endangered the success of the- woman inoement. Tho conclusion any student of the proceedings must arrive at is that, as a delibera tive personage, woman is a failure." The IIvraH echoes this seutimcut when it asserts that the Convention has really found, by itself, the need of a better cultivation of tbo feminine intellect; and the Tribune reiterates it when it demands that these conventions shall be continued and the great fact fully proven thereby to the world, that woman is not man's superior that she can quarrel like any Congressman. I would just whisper In the ear of the Herald that Mrs. Stan ton and Miss Anthony and Mrs. Livermoro will probably bear favorably intellectual comparison with any of their members of the City Council of New York or the State Legislature at Albany not self-constituted, bul, elected by the votes of their fello.w-eiti.eus representative men and that I would like to look at any tA'o striplings of twenty who turn up their reportorial noses at Lilly Feekham and Phili Couzzlns who are lit to hold a candle to them. WID) HAItiEU THE TMSrUKLANoLS AT THE CON VENTION. As .a deliberative personage woman is a failure, and for good conduct not a bit better than man. Will those honorable editors take note of the fact that the chief disturbance was occa sioned by a man denouncing a woman who is re spected wherever her name is known, who is poo:- neeause so faithful to her eau.-e? Will they further take note of tho fact that women havo never been trained to argument and delibe rative assemblies, and that it is no more just to condemn their first essays as eternal failures, than to dceldo a child can never walk because its earliest steps arc not so firm and even as a strong man's? Will thoy further note that this platform was literally free; that here was not put in force tho gag-law which Is the prominent feat ire of every convention of men? BLANK BOOKS. BLANK BOOKS. The Laigtsi Stock and Greatest Variety OK FULL AIIB XXAXiF-OUT7D BLANK BOOKS, MEMORANDUM, TASrl, COPY-BOOKS, ETC. ETC., To tie found In this city, is at the OLD ESTABLISHED Blank Book Manufactory OF JAS. E. SMITH & CO., No. 27 South SEVENTH St., 3 : 8 thstuSm PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE AND S ALESTlOf )M, FIKST FLOOR ; WAKE KOOMS, 111' BTAIKS. PATENTS. pATENT OFFICE. BATENTS FKOC'URED IN TEE UNITED STATES AND EUKOl'E. Inventors wudung to take out Letters Patent for New Inventions are advised to consult with C. 11. EVANS, N. W. corner ruUKTH aud WALNUT htretts, Philadelphia, whose facilities for prosecuting cases before the Patent Office are unsurpassed by any other agency. Circulars containing full Informa tion to mveiiiiiiB can be had on application. Models made secretly. V. II. KVAS, 8 diriBtu! N. WCor. FOURTH and WALNUT. ; pATEKTS M IOC U RED I N THE UNITED STATES AND EUKOrE. KDWAUD BROWN, SOLICITOR OP PATENTS, 8 38 Btuth3ra No. 811 WALNUT Street. LARZELERE & DUCHEY, Cuatom House Brokers and Notaries rubllr, No. 405 LIBRARY STREET. ALL CUSTOM DOUSE BUH1NES8 TRANSACTED. 1 11 U PASSPORTS PROCURED. D EAFNES8 EVKbV INSTRUMENT THAT Kilcno. nd kill h. iuT.oted to twist ttas hearing In ttery dotcre. of cWnwi.; lo, KipirUr: Uo, Crn. dair. Futout UrutoluMi. iwrio to iiy oUjer. in nite. mt H. MAUtlHAB. ilAkU. himmt, Wov VbssbsU - t SHIPPING. ,CHARLESTOri, 8. c. THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST ' FAST ntEIGHT LI3Sli EVERY THURSDAY. The StcaiwMr. PROMETHErs, ('sr.taft Gray. J. W. KVEKMAN, Captain Vanrp. WILL FORM A HKCJVLAH WEKK.LY LINK The Bteiinmhlp J. W. KV KHMAN, will sail on THL'IiSDAY, .lunfl 8, at 4 P. M. ' Throupii Mils of liullnir irtven In connection with S. C. R. R. to points In the South and Cemthwexu Insurance at lowest rates. Rates of freight as low as by any other route. For frelKht, iireiy to -on.. E. A. SOU i Kit CO., Stf roc 1 1 STREET WHAIlV. ONLY DIRECT LINETO FRANCE ."If T" tV" TUP r:i"irnii to a toe i tt n-f,. 71r.rj-S-t'(i,ipA.V'H MAIL MKAMHHIP8 bI KKT YOKK AND havke- VALUm AT 'I he lmrii'1 new nwli on this fvrrU ront for the iVw". -t'0t U frum '''er No' 80 XorUl mer 'ol- ,a, . PKICK OF PASSAGE in gold (inoludlnfr wit e, , . ill I HIST nu mvnr lirsttsbin U" S..,.,m Lubin . . . . , ,. T" I'MU.H, - . . (Including railj.j i, k.is, furnished on tSAid.) frirst ( .dun ifnf, s.-oud Cm..n .... I nrse steamers do not rimw Ht....u.... ... . .m ilfilicul KU,-nUin' ireo nf chrK. Anii ricim trsv.ll. nconiRt.. r ruturning fromth.eon. tmriit, e.f kumw, by Oikiiiir the stPamers of tins line Toid unnoccuMtiY nhs fiuia trint hj Krphsh rMiw.ua and cii bsiiik th chauue) . b"ie'e s f.iv.hb time, troulTe. and ojpenb. JIXHC)K MACKKNZIF). A-,nt- ,. . . ," BueADW AY. Nsw York. 1 or pnesage In PmUcicIiiLia, apply at A.it.ms' Express Cciipanj-, to H. L. l.K A r, 1 4 f- lift OHKt-NyT Mreet. Pr:t? . LAIELWIA.' RICHMWND, m KVKRY SATl'KDAY, " fittest"0011' 'rom FIRST W 11 Alii above MARKET 1HROUGH RATFS to All points in North sod Routh Carolina, yia Scahoj.l Air I,me lUunwcl. connecting at Port Bitiouth and to Irjuhburg, Va., TencesMo. knifthe W ..at, ia Virginia and Tennes Air Line and Richmond and I'anville Railroad. Freight HANUI.KH BUT ON'. 'P. and taken at LOWER RATl'8 THAN ANY OTHF.U UNK. 'I be regularity, safety, and cheapness of t D rente com. mend It to the public as the most desirable mediiuu few oai rying every description of freight. No charge for oouauisaioB, drayage, or sxj ex perns erf transfer. Fteamships insured at the lowest rates. Freight received daily. WIT.UAM p. CLTPK A CO . No. 1'i R. WHARVKS and Pier 1 N. WHARVES W. p. PuKTK.R- Agent at Richmond and City Toinu T. !'. CUOWF.LL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. i 11 LOKILLAKIi'S STEAMSHIP li-liUi NEW YORK. Sailing Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. REDUCTION OP RATES. Spring rates, conimenclnR March IB. SftUlnK Tuesduvs, Thnrselavs, and Hatuniays. On and after l&tii of March freight by this line will bo taken at 12 eents per HKl pounds, 4 eeuts per foot, or 1 ecnt per gallon, ship's option. Advance ehargeja cashed at offlee en Pier. Freighi received at all tlineB on covered wharf. JOHN P. OHL, 28S Pier 19 North Wharves. N. D. Extra rates on small packages iron, metals, etc; HEW EXfUESS LINE TO Alexandria, Georgetown, and Waanington, D. C via ClieniiDoake und Delaware I Wl. connections at, Alexandria from the most direct routo for i,jnmuur(, unatui, rnoxvine, nuauville, uaJton, and Uis Bonthweat. Steamers leave regnlarly every Saturday at Boon from lbs first wharf above Market street. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. OLYDK A CO., . T , .Jo. 14 North and South Wnarves. HYDK A TYLLK, Agents t teorKetown; M. ELURIDGK A CO., Agents at Alexandria. J 1 J for'liver pool and 9L KF.NST0WN. Inire.n L,ce of Mail Steamers are appointed to aaU as fol lows : u.v ol Paris. Saturd.iv. .Tune fj. at, 1 P. M City of Haltimore, Saturday, June IU, at 1 P. M. City of lionton, via Halifax, Tuesday, June ifi, at 11 A. M. And eacli succeeding Saturday and altmat Tuesday, from Pier 4b, North River. KATKS OF PAKSARK. BY THE HAIL 8TFAMKU SAlLiNU EVI;HI fiATmPAY. ...-....V"??1.'16 ,n Cold. Payable in Currency. FIRST CABIN $1(10 ST K Kit AC. K $36 Tolondon l.,fi To U,ndon 4o To Paris ll&l To Pans 47 FABHAOE BY THK TUSSDAl STtAMtK, VIA HALIFAX, FLHRT CABIN. BTEKBAUE. Payable in Cold. Payable m Currency. Liverpool $W Liverpool $30 liulifax Je Halifax 15 St. John's, N. ., I JR,',' J.'bn's. N. F., I ai by Branch Steamer. ...( ,u by branch Steamer ( l'uaHengcrs also forwarded to liavre, lium'turg, Bretcon, etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates ry persons wishing to send for tiieir f 'lends. Forlurther information apply at the Conif any's Offices. JOHN i. DALE, Agent, No. 13, b'KOAIWAY, N. V. or to (I'HUNNliU, A FAU1 K, Annus. 45 No. 411UUKSNUT Street, Ph.Udelphia. NOTICE. i'Oll NEW YOKK, VIA PKLAWARF! AND KARITAN CANAL. F X 1 ' It ICS S fc T K A M I t ) K T UO M P A N V . lue CJHKAPKST and UUICJKKST water uuuununica. tion between Philadelphia and New York. Stoaniors leave daily from first wharf below Market street, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall street. New York. Goods forwarded by all the lines running ont of New York, North, F!ast, and West, free of coinmiuoon. I reiglit received and forwarded on accommodating terms. WILLIAM P. CI.YDK 4 L.O.. Agenta, No. 14 ti. DKLAWARK Avenue, Pniladelphis, I AMK8 HANI!. Agent, f & W No. 1 1 WALL Street, New York. NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK. via Delaware and Raritan flana.1. SWIkT. SKewsasncnj. I 'NURK TRANSPORTATION OOUPAVV. IklKPAlY'ir IV11 UUM 1,'I'UITD u f 1 v LP B The biimneas by these lines will he resumed on and after the Mth of March. For Freights which will be taken on accommodating terms apply to W. M. BAIRD A CO., 8 ?l'Jt tooti Wharves. ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETC. PENN STEAM ENGINE ANij ' TtOII KH WI1WKV WCA HI M. ririn. J2" PRACTICAL AND TH KOR fTin a l KVIUKI-'kK-l MA. IllVlulu uorr in. m ixv.wvo, ui.av.nnil.jliJ.l, sou U 1 U H. UtLt IS, Having for many roars been in successful operation, and been ex olnswely engaged in building and retmiriuir Marine and River F.ngines. high and low. pressure. Iron Boilers Watet Tanks Propellers, eto. etc., respectfully offer tneir services to the pubho a. being fully prepared to contract for en ginespf all sizes. Marine, Rivor, and Stationary ; having sets of patterns of different aires are pieparcd to execute) orders with quick despatch. Kvery description of pattern, making made at the shortest notice. High and Low-pressure r ine Tubular and Cylinder Boilers of the best Penn sylvania Charcoal Iron. F'orgingsof all sixes and kinds. Iron and brass Castings of ail descriptions Roll Turning, Screw Cutting, and ail other work eonneciod with the above business. Iirawings and specifications for all work done at ths sat. bliHhmeiit free of chargo, and work guaranteed. 'i he subscribers have ample wharf dock room for repairs of lioata, where they can lie in penect safety, and are pro vided with shears blocks fails, etc etc., ior raising dean or light weights JACOB 0. NEAFIHL JOHN P. 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