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1 Woman's J. 1 (1870)

handle is hein.journals/wmjrnl1 and id is 1 raw text is: ) VOL. . BOSTON AND CHICAGO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1870. NO. 1. A Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday, In nowroN and hIcAGo, devoted to tile interests of Wmian, to her educational, 1ndustria, legal and political Equality, and especially to her right of suffrage. EDITORS-MARY A. LivnhoCJULIA WARD IIowE, Lucy STONE, Wn. LLOYD GARRISON and T. IV. iIGiiBUN. TERlMS-88.00 a year, invariably it advalce. CLUn RATEs:-Any person seuding six subscribers will receive a Seventh oopyftec. Ten coples will be forwarded on receipt of BOsTON Orc-4 Treimnt Place, rear of Trenont House, and second door front Beacon street. (ICAGO OrFVI--82 WasiIngtor street, Olice of Legal News. All Communications for the WeaAS's JOURnNAL, and all letter relating to its editorial Imanagenmen, must be addressed to MARY A. Ltvauxoni, Managing Editor. Letters conitaining renittances, and relating to the business de- partment of the paper, annut lie addressed to HunY B, BLACK- 'WELL, BOX 4297, Boston. MYRA BuADWnLs, Editor of thie Legal News, 82 Washington street, Chicago, is the Western Agent of the WoMAN's JoURNAL, and is authorized to receive substalptions, transact business, etc. ________ 4~ ~eiri. _ ____ ANATHEMATA. 0 maiden! come Into port bravely, or sail with God the seas. With joys unknown, with sadness unconfessed, The generous hoart accepts the passing year, Finds duties dear and labor sweet as rest, And for itself knows neither care star fear.' Fresh as the morning, earnest . the hor That calls the noisy world to grateful sleep, Our silent thought reveres the nameless Power That high seclusion round thy life doth keep; So, feigned the pocts, did Diana love To smile upon her darlings while they slept; Serene, untouched, and walking far above The narrow ways wherein the many crept, Along her lovely path of hminous air She glided, of her brightness unaware. Yet,.if they said she heeded not the hymn Of shepherds, gazing heavenward friom the moor, Or homeward sailors, when the waters dim Flash'd with long spleinlors, widening toward the shore; Nor wondering eyes of children carted to see, Or glowing face of happy lover, upturned, As late he wended from the trysting-tree, Lit by the kindly lamp in heaven that burned; And heard unmoved the prayer of wakefil pain, Or consecrated maiden's holy vow,- Believe them not! they sing the song in vain; For so it never was, and is not now. Her heart wasgentle as her face was fair, With grace and love and pity dwelling there. F. B. SsNoxzv. SPMRNOFIELD, MASS. MY SAINT. BY NELLY MACKAY HIJTCRINsON. hils tiny old woman in faded black gown, With her funiy pug nose so saucy and quaint, 3o trim and complete from her feet to her crown- You'd scarcely believe it, but she is my saint. The clear brown eye grown heavy, with care, the little brown hands the worse for wear, The thinning strands of her silvery hair Are still to my heart unspeakably fair. Many a year have we jrnirneyed together, Ioften despondent, quite heart-sick and faint, She bravely defyingthe stormiest weather- Herself sweetest sunshine-my glorious saint! Never a care have I borne alone, Never In solitude made my moan; Ne*er and neierer the tie has grown, FlIesh of my flesh is she$ bone of my bone. The beauty that dwells in her wrinkled old face, This poor silly pen of mine never can paint; 'Tis 4,hao from heaven-a natural grace A For the soul that looks out from the eyes of my saint. Eairy and late, by night and by day, t hether I watch or whether I pray, Th1t soul still lightens my toilsome way, Its truth my evangel, its love my stay. OUR PRESIDENTIAL FICTIONIST. e. U. S. Grant Is, perhaps, no orator, as Brutus Ws, but he has lately shown himself to be undeniably our geatest living writer of flction. His recent Mes- sg to Congress contains passages which, for exuber- e of 0ancy, and a certain splendid audacity of expres- lion, are not to be surpassed by the happiest efforts of S4ontemporary romanelsts, The briefest, most carso- qaotiee of a few of these passages cannot fail to substan- Sthe~ assertion justimade. Thus, for instance, in olie' thea1, our highly imaginative ruler informs an admir- t X14d that America is blessed ... with a popula- 1 ti06 of40,000,000 of free people. liew the plain, unvarnished fact of the matter is that 0 of this population is without rights of per son, without rights of Prperty, without rigmt of trimaI b a julry Of' Its peers, Without a voice in tie framiig of th laws unler which it is acluitted or condeimnired, withou representation in the govermnent which it is taxed to support. What a noble specimon of the lofty-fictitions In writing is this, then, wherein a nation containing 20, 000,000 of virtual serfs is described as a free people I But our Executive further announces that America is blessed .... withfaciities fo eeve rmrtl to acquire an education Aoher' m nlly-thntastic flight of fanscy onhis part. Forbeyond the commo-school course, -which Is but the alphabet of knowledge, and canno by any possibility be termed edueation-beyond thi course, there are no lellities for intellectual train ing afordednto some 20,000,000 of mortals within ou borders. Universities amd colleges bar thse unilio out; schools of law and theology frown thet out; mdi cal scools-mob theem out. Perhaps, however, Mr. Grant's inagnificent power o literary inventioml is most clearly displayed in the state mRent Which follows: We are blessed . . .. with institu. lions closing to nsone the (eenues to fane, or to any bles sing of fortune that may be coveted. How purely and beautifully imaginative is this! And how this glorious ideal shames the disgraceful real! For our boasted Institutions, so far from open ing time avenues of national fime and fortune to all, close, and not only close, but barricade them, against 20,000,000 of American inhabitants. Not one individual of all these millions is permitted the expectation of ulti- inately reposing in the Presidential Chair, or on the Supreme Bench. Not one is allowed to cherish the blissful hope of some day inflicting a Mssage upon the 'nation; not one can obtain a ftreign appointment as Minister or petty Consul; not one is granted a tfair chance at the pickings and stealing.s of the Revenue Department; nay-not one can act as clerk of a paltry town, or tax-collector of a rural district, or even as piti- ful alderman of a would-be city. Avenues not closed- forsooth! But enough has been said to demonstrate very per- fectly our chief magistrate's pre6minence among fiction- ists. His is Indeed an extraordinary faculty for rom nc- ing that makes itself seen and felt even In the dull, sta- tistical columns of an official paper. We hope Mr. G. will in no wise slight or disregard his wonderful gift but carefully foster it. We could almost wish he would forsake the sanguina- ry amd bitter confil't s of military and political life, in which e has been so long engaged, and betake himself to the peaceful arena of literature for which he seems so eminently fitted. Let him but turn his matchless in- ventive ability to the construction of a nodern sensation- al novelette-and we can promise him a brilliant fit- ture. His friend Bonner would receive him with arms more widely out-stretched than now; and while thou- sands of Bonner's subscribers pored over his airy con- ceits, and thousands of Bonnes dollars poured Into his happy pockets, we feel sure lie would cry with joy-The pen is mightier than the sword. WSTENER. SAN FRANclsco, Dec., 1869. HARVARD vs. THE WEST. It was not a pleasant thing for the Eastern delegates at the Cleveland Woman Surage Convention to be reproached with representing a community so far be- hind the age as to exclude women from college. It was especially unpleasant for the Harvard graduates there present, to hear a clever Western woman dissect th logic of President Eliot's inaugural address. It awakened the wish that the new President hail looked West, as well as East, In his studies of university education, and had inquhmed after the results of Oberlin and Knox, as well as of Oxford and Heidelberg. E oriente lu is but half the story; Westward the star of empire, makes the other half. President Eliot, like the newly-made judge in the tale, was not so far wrong in his decision as in the reasons he gave for it. Amid the vast accumulation of respon- sibilities which must confront a new Harvard President, no one could blame him for postponing to another year evet'y Issue capable of postponement. Even a cautious and expectant policy might bejustified for Harvard. on the ground of that ancient and traditional conservatism which somehow confers a brevet antiquity upon the most juvendsle tutor within its walls. Granted that it Is time mission of Harvard among American colleges to fol- low, not lead, yet this rearward and subordinate position should not be made to appear still humbler by assigning trivial reasons for It. Amdit is not possible to recognize it as more than a trivial reason, when the President founds ills main objection to the aduission of women on the difficulties involved in the common residence of hun- dreds of young men and women of immature character and marriageable age. And when lie goes on to de- clare pathetically that the necessary police regulations are exceedingly burdensome, he fairly lays himself open to the keen wit of the Western woman aforesaid, (Mrs. Cole, of the Western Ioman's Advocate), who proposes by way of compromise, that each woman admitted to Harvard should bring her own policeman, beside the traditional knife, fork, spoon and napkin-ring, for each. The sigle fact is, that President Eliot, while training himself admirably on most.departments of the science of education, seems in this direction never to have opened his eyes. Had he done so, he must have seen that in- stead of this being a matter concerning which preju- Digitized from Best Copy Available Idicestan depmilt 0 pimmioI I i)aImmmnble, and experiece eScamiY, it Iskills the other Iamdaiateuwreir iles t are turning out to be shallow, amid opiniot i iseoli 1mg renmsomnable, aipexperene is vey large aid >cecomig i- lating day by hlay. Precisely these itagiar al in - - of'some supposed depth of prejudice, and excitability of opinion, were always brought to bear against the itro- i ductlon of colored pupils Into schools ;but this alarm was a bubble that vanished at a touch, and it always turned out that nobody had any very serious objections. What was found true of the mixture of colors will be t found true of the combination of sexes, so far as the s prejudices of'any part of the community are concerned. - When the thing Is once done, everybody will soon forget r that the pracice was ever otherwise. Thus mucth for s public opinion; now let us look at the scanty expe- i- riemce. New England has for many years been full of country f academies, In a large part of which there has been just - this combination of young men and maidens which - President Eliot deprecats. The average age is not far d different from that of students in college, amid if' the average social and intellectual culture is less in these academies, that increases the value of the experiment,. l New England is also fill of High Schools ini whichjoint - education is the general rule. The pupils of these, un- like those of the academics, are day-scholars, though t they include many who have taken up their residenee ,Iln the town expressly to attend the High School. Add to these the Normal Schools, in some of which the sexes are uited; add also the constantly increasing tendency to tihe same union in private schools, and we have instead of a scanty expeience avast body of carefully tried ex- periment. The peculiarityof this experimentis thatit all points one way; one rarely hearsof'amixedschool divid- ed again, while constant changes are occurring in the other direction. In public and in private schools, int academies and high schools, it is found that the police regulations, which so alarm President Eliot, are in fact but a simple and easy thing. Nowy it is impossible to say that these experiments are not directly in point. It Is absurd to say that a more cultivated social atmosphere and a higher Intel- lectual training are to make it more difficult for young men and maidens to jive properly together. If boys and girls of eighteen can study algebra safely together at Leicester, there is no reason w y . shidd be d- moraifly 1 if l ngriithe differential alculus, at Cambridge. If Virgil is an Innocuous study at the Putnam School in Newburyport, Homer cannot be spiritual death for joint classes at Harvard. If three hundred pupils of both sexes; frot a dozen dillferent States, can be safely superintended at the Williston Seminary in Easthampton, the same thing can be done anywhere else. It is a sheer insult to assert that col- lege boys must be assumed to be brutes, and only acad- emy boys trusted to act like gentlemen. So clear ismall this, that the West, if not the East, has long since made the slight step fom tie academy to the college. For thirty-five years at Oberlin-for a short- er period at other points-this combination has been tried. An expriment of thirty-five years' standing has long since passed beyond the epoch of experiment, though it can be ignored, like any other experiment, by simply closing one's eyes. A college of more than a thousand annual pupils-a college which has furnished ten other colleges with presidents, and which, claims twenty-two such institutions as having sprung from its own bosom-such a college might be visible, one would think, as far as Boston, and might have its experience reckoned as something more than scanty. President Finney estifies, as all good teachers testify, that the la- bor of 4lcipline is greatly reduced, not increased, by the presened of women. He says, moreover, that lie has. sometimes known a year to pass, at Oberlin, without the need of a single presidential admonition. God grant to the iew Harvard Presidebit, untrammelled by the neces- sity of making police regulations. for women, a year of such miraculous peace I More unequivocal yet is the testimony of President. Blanchard, of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, as to the disciplinary results of the admission of women. He has lately glyon a detailed account of his fourteen years' ex- perienc, in the New York Independent, and thus sums it up.. I would not be preskl nt of any but a college where both sexes were pupils. Ift fourteen years at Kno.Col- lege, ith an annual attendance of' 200 to 500 pupils, there were eleven years in which I never had to take a case of discipline before our faulty; yet the faulty alone had power to gpxpl Young men woud rather be fued, iusticated, expelled,.any and all put together, than have the misdemeanors of which they were known to be guilty, calmly discussed in college chapel, where the young ladies are present. Hazing, practising M- sonic imitations by tossing in a blanket, &c., as is now practised at Yale, Brown and otherdi colleges-coarse, practical jokes and general deviltry these cease to be. funny since girls cannot take part Inthem, and vn ce 1 Ieg pblice-power cani extermintate. by mre vigilance ani severity such miserable horse-play, which yet per- ishes at once before female cottempt. The admission of .woman Into college will be moreI than a triumph of justice over Injustice; it will be a9 step hi civilization. And thoughl the wods of President1 Eliot have seemed Inadequate, his acts have thus far been good. The same annual atalogue that announces his name as President, also Atnnounces for the first time the names of women as pupils, In one of the post-gradu- ate courses of the university. Out of the thirteen schol- ars in the new University Courses of Instruction inI SPihilosopihy and Modert Literature, the majority (seven) are women. For this Instruction a residence at Cam- bridge is not needed, and it therefore does not fall with- in President Eliot's grounid of objection. But It involves the most important results, for it is announced that an examination for honors will be held at the year's end, in connection with these courses, although attendance at this examination will be voluntary and the precise nature of the honorable mention is not yet determined. No matter what it is. It cannot, without breach of faith, recognize any distinction of sex; ansd this is the essential point. And is all this is understood to be a lavorite project of the new President's, he deserves hou- or fo actions that speak louder than words. But the precise nature of the honorable mention cannot be de- terilned, till we see how mouch arther he will go. T'. W. H. CHECK-MATED. Man proposes, but God disposes. This is verified in the career of our misguided friend, Rev. J. D. Fulton, who, lecturing through the country aUainst Wom Su frage, is spurring on the mnovementorganized to advance it. He lectured before the Library Association of Web- ster, Mass., a week or two since. * The ines of that town, reports that he refirred to the leading emuale ad- vocates of W#oman Sutfilage in a seering manner, mait- ing low sport of them, without bringing a substanti argument against them, aptly illustrating his own asser- tion that the chivalric age has passed. He insisted that woman is msan's inferior, both in natural capacity sid understanding and in the tender sympathies of the hu- man heart; also that she is no better in point of' mo- rality. Of actual arngumnent to sustain any of his poiit he made none at all, but often exhibited a weak judg- meat and open iiconsistencies. We venture the re- mark that, of the two hundred women, or thereabouts, in the hall,not ten of them, If single, would accept a pro- posal of marriage from Mr. Fulton, after hearing this lecture, were he free to make one. This lecture seems to have been an affective hot shot into the women's camp in that place, tand they have sounded the long roil to arms! They have organized a woman's association, for public discussioi, holding meetings once a week, and have concluded that they can cousider some questions quite as well as men A correspondent writing ftom the interior ofMassachu- setts inquires, why it would not be well for the New England Woman Sullkage Association to employ Mr. Ful- ton to deliver his lecture against women throughout the State, since its delivery Is always followed by a healthy indignation among women and a general uprising against his monstrous and slanderous statements? He stings the indifferent to action ,and compels decent mea who are covertly opposed to the reform, to hesitate to tank themselves with the opposition, under such a cap' tave that it adds a few ill-gotten dollars to Mr, Ful- ton's pocket, we have not thought the wordy, wi(ny, libellous rhodomontade, which he callsalecture,eold have any iresult whatever. But since his ll-purposed ffort appears to be over-ruled for good, and is' glvig aid and comfort to our cause, we give him the above, gratuitous advetisement. We can't advise any body to do evll that good may come, but if Mr. Fultn eJoys sowing dragon's teeth, there is some satislction in knowing that they invariably sprinsp armed menii for his own destrucetion. -.-A. IA . VERONT AWARE. We are happy to annoutee that the citizens-of Ver- mont have taken efficient steps to canva e 8 ' preparatory to the May election,,)wen tas~~iu~ Woman Suffrage is to be submirted to the peoplefordecl- sion. The following is the list of o icers of the Aso ciation organized for this purpose, as far 'as it is com- pleted President, Hon. Charles Reed. Montpeller, Vt.; Vice. Presldents, Hon. John B. Holatr, Bennington; Hon. Seneca M. Dorr, Rutland; Rev. Addison rwn, Bat- fleboro; Col. Lynus E. Knapp, Middlebry; Hon. James Hutchinson, Jr., Westitandolph; Hon. Russell $ Taft, Burlington; Hon. A. J. Willard, St. Johnsbury Hon. H. Henry Powers, Hyde Park; Hon. Jasper Rand, St, Albans; Recording Secretary, Henry Oak Lid; Corresponding Secretary, Albert Olat*e, St. A Treasurer, Albert D. Hager, Potorsv4il; heat e Committee, Hon. O. W. Wllard, Motelt;E. - Charles Reed, MontpelIer; George .i r dii- ton; Newman.Weeks, Rutland4 Hon. J St. Johnsbmuy, Rev. Eli Ballo, n In addition to these,anaumber of the mosemnetoli- zens of the State hae since been addedose names . we cannot now give. kgemthebeendo t State Convention. at Moiatpell, on-the#2d ard.8d of Febrbary, and a campaIgn laugarated in Angert'with the American Woman Su,':ssooietiq. <Dstin- gilshed speakers have already e & tttend the- State Convention--Julia Ward Howe,, Mary A. Liver- moke, William Lloyd Garrison, Lacy. Stone, enry B.. Black~well, Lily Peckhant, andi othe~rs., W'* The exchanges of the*A r n will horetter mail their issues to the ofeo ofthe WoxAn's JonaxI. , Boarox, MAss.

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