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BOSTON, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1873.
THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL,
_AN-
THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE,
CONSOLIDATED AUGUST 18, 1870.
A Weekly Newspaper, publishled every Saturday in
BosTox and CmCAo, devoted to the faterest, ofWo-
man, to her educational, Industrial, legal and political
Squality, and especially to her right of Smntkage.
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P6ETRY.
[For the WOxAN'S JoUNAL.)
....O....
BY SELWYN L. STELLIS.
She said, I'm but a cipher here;
Yet faithful toiled she on,
Unknown, still blessing everywhere,
Till her three score years were gone.
nBut when shall dawn the perfect light,
And the record Is unrolled,
We'll read her cipher at the right,
Making our age tenfold.
(For the WOMAN'S JoURNAL.]
FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT.
ADAPTED PROM BURNS, BY SELWYN L. STELLIS.
Ye may open to Womami broader fields HIL
Of science, and art, and a' that,
And he may take what their harvest yields,
Yet true Woman be for'a' that. .d
.For a' that and a' that 5g 87
Culture of mind and a' that;] iggg
bLKnowing cannot unfit her for duty and love,
The Woman shines out for a' that.
Will the wood-bird change to a groveling beast
If its wire cage opened be?
AhI the impulse hid in Woman's breast
Will be lovelier thr when free.
She may look beyond to her country's weal-
Her nation, her flag, and a' that,
Even drop her wish in the ballot-box,
Yeta Woman be for a' that.
What comes from without ne'er defiled a man,
Nor a Woman yet, thank God!
And oft she has walked thromgh the mire ofain,
Her garments unstained by the clod.
Leave her free for her God-given powers,
E'en to speak, and Vote, and a' that;
Her sphere is but her room to work,-
The Woman's herself for a' that.
[For the WOMAN'S JOUsAL.]
SHIPWRECE.
HATTIE TYNG GRIWOLD.
I stand on a desolate coast,
There's a storm abroad on the deep.
Each wave isa sheeted ghost,
And as blindly onward they leap,
They fright, each the other, until
The night is white with their sweep.
I watch on a desolate coost,
Far out on this desolate sea,
Three children, the life of my life,
Are floating to death, or to me.
To my warm, loving arms, as to death,
On this desolate, desolate sea.
Would God I were with them afloat;
'Twere surely a happier ate,
'Mid the blackness of breakers, that 'whelm,
To stand than thus, to await
On the shore, the terrible stroke
,Whch gives the stanch ship to her tte.
0 se! that doth threaten and strike,
O storm! that in madness doth roar,
'Can God be-abroad in your wrath?
He smilesin the flowers on the shore-
But oht can he thraten and strike,
In your terrible rumble and roar?
* * *0 **
A bark Is driving on the beach!
I hear the cry of shuddering souls!
The long, long, helpless, hopeless cry,
That long as ocean roars and rolls,
Will fill and thrill my being still,
The weird, wild shrekof shipwrecked souls.
COE0OO.
In the JouNaxL of Deceaber14, for Otter-
brin University, read, Otterbein. I knoW my
pen is a bit of a goose, but I did not know it
was silly enough to make an a look like r.
X. X. C.
I
A NEW YEA'S OEETING.
It Is now three years since the present
writer began his weekly editorials in the Wo-
MAN's JOURNAL. During this time there
has been no break in the series, except duting
a few weeks of his brief European trip, and
on one or two occasions, when be has been
crowded out. Every regular conributor, who
has been alloWed his full swing thus long, ac-
quires a certain constituency of his own, in-
side the larger body of subscribers. le hits.
gradually found those who see things, to some
exteat, as he sees them; or who chance to
feel ana interst in his special point of view,
and thus acquire the habit of turning first to
his particular column, just as other people
form the practice of turning away from it.
This shows the ue of employing a variety of
hands on a newspaper; in time you have as
many separate constituencies as you have ed-
itoral writers. And it is pleasant, a least
once a year, to turn from that general pursuit
of usefulness, which is supposed to be the aim
of all, and to gossip a little with one's own
particular readers.
When I began these weekly editorials, the
thing seemed a dangerous experiment. I had
done a good deal of irregular editorial writing
before, but to furnish a column a wck, on
one subject, seemed altogether too much like
sernaon-writing to be agreeable. I looked for-
ward, with misgiving, to a future conscious-
ness of gradual dilution and repetition, with
much weary pumping of the brain. In jus-
tice to the cause we are advocating. I ought to
say how entirely my fears have been dispelled.
How much fatigue other people may have
found in this column of mine-whether I
have not proved to be only, as the epitaph in
the old Watertown grave-yard says, a pious
and painful preacher-it is not for me to de-
cide. But.that I have found the task infinite-
ly easier than I had expected, it is safe to de-
clare. Honestly, I can remember but one
week, in the whole hundred and fifty-six,
when I found myself casting about wearily
for something to say. That was at mid-sum-
mer, I remember, and probably I was tired,
or stupid, or hot. At evjyother time, the
thoughts have come to me, eagerly asking to
be uttered; and there has almost always been
an accumulation of two or three trains of
thought, each waiting for its turn.
Is not this an Irresistible proof of the fresh-
ness and inexhaustibleness of the subject? If
the proof convinces nobody else, It has con-
vinced me. It has given that test, for which
every reformer sometimes longs, by which he
may determine whether he Is, or is not, wast-
ing his efforts on a trifle. Let no man quit
his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, says
Emerson, though the most ancient and hon-
orable of the earth should affirm it to be the
crack of doom. But that a man of average
sense can blow the trumpet, blow, as dear
oik John Brown used to sing, every week for
three years, without finding out whether It Is
a pop-gun or not-this I utterly refuse to be-
lieve. In the spontaneous effort to give some
variety to one's notes-for one's own sake if
not for other people's-the whole range of the
instrument Is tested, just as surely as when
the same man plays under your window every
morning, with the same hand-organ.
The depth, the variety, the ramifications of
the movement for Woman's equality, are thus
best shown, by writing at regular Intervals
about it. And I am glad to testify, also, that
I have thus proved the body of its advocates
to be anything but a collection of reckless or
egotistical agitators. For surely I may ap-
peid to this whole series of articles, to show
that it is not needful to flatter or to cajole
this class of radicals, but that they are best to
be dealt with by speaking plain truth. If I
have criticized men, I have also criticized wo-
men, frankly, if not wisely. If I have claimed
for women equality, education, wages, suf-
frage, I have also tried to point out the defi.
ciencies of women's work, and the way in
which the deficiencies gave an excuse for
men's injustice. Believing, heart and soul, in
the motto which a woman first gave to the
anti-slavery movement: Immediate, uncon-
ditional emancipation, I also believe that wo.
men can make even the delay of justice into
a kind of blessing, if they use the Interval so
energetically that, when suffrage is ready for
them, they shall be fit for it. Besides what
others can do for them, there is a great deal
that they must do for themselves. Thus
frankly reasoning, I have slways found wo
men ready to hear, and have thoroughly
proved that what they really desire is not
flattery, but justice.
As a matter of truth, also, I wish to say
that neither I, nor any man, can assume to
instruct in this movement; for the 'essential
head and leadership of it must always be
sought among women themselves. But for a
few resolute and unwearied women-perhaps
it would be more correct to say, but for one-
this JOURAL would never have existed, nor
should I have had this opportunity. And if
the vagaries and excesses of a few women
have not produced a temporary re-action
against the whole movement, ere now, it is be-
cause it had, besides a basis of eternal prin-
ciple to rest upon, an essentially right-mind-
ed and sensible body of women, to do the
work.
I feel especially grateful to such of these wo-
men as have written to me, from time to
time, either to approve or to criticize what I
have said. An editorial writer has to guard
against some of the same dangers that beset
the clergy. He may be hammering away at
his text, while those Who should be his hear-
ers are asleep. Or, worse, he may use the
same sophistry over and over again, for want
of somebody to contradict him. The more
letters I have from admiring or indignant
readers, the better I like it-so long as they
need only be answered in print. To know
that each column has one reader is an exceed-
ing great reward. One readerI it is a great
deal to be sure of. Besides-thus subtle and
suggestive is vanity in the editorial breast-
where there is one reader there may be many
more, and thus a great encouragement is
opened. It says In Mather's Magnolia that
Arius promoted his heresies by first convert-
ing seven hundred virgins thereto. If I could
convert the more than seven hundred women
who read this JOURNAL, to a hearty faith in
its doctrines, I should think the work of the
New Year well done, and its best wishes
more than fulfilled. T. W. n.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN I
The Springfield Republican believes in Wo.
man Suffiage-anrthe Millennium. Any at-
tempt to enfranchise women in our own day'
and generation it calls pettifogging trickery.
The Federal Constitution expressly provides
that Congress shall make all needful rules and
regulations for the Territories. But when
Hon. Henry Wilson introduces a bill to let wo-
men vote and hold office in the Territories,
and the Senate Judiciary Committee report
adversely, here is the comment of the Spring-
field Republican:-
Woman Sflrage has received a fresh snub
at the hands of Congress. We are heartily glad
of it, and hope it may be sanctified to the good
of a noble but sadly mismanaged cause. In
reporting adversely upon the bill to let women
vote and hold office in the Territories, Judge
Edmunds remarked that the settlement of a
great question of this sort belonged to the peo-
ple and not to Congress, and that neithey the
people of the Territories, nor any considera-
ble number of American women, had indica-
ted a desire for the proposed legislation. For
once, the Republican cordially agrees with Judge
Edmunds. Believing in Woman Suffrageand
expecting, in good time, to see it grafted upon
our political system with the intelligent ap-
proval of the majority of our people and by
their spontaneous act, the Republican, for
one, has no sympathy with these attempts to
pluck unripe fruit, - to win by pettifogging
trickery and snap-judgments.
If this bill had been itroduced by Charles
Sumner or Lyman Trumbull, we should have
heard nothing of snap-judgments.
IT W A V.
I would like to say a few words in answer
to the question, Was I Brave? lrbich was
propounded by Selwyn L. Stellis in the Wo-
MAN's JOURNAL of Dec. 21st. Yankee-like,
I will begin my reply with an interrogation.
Was it false heroism and a zeal, not accord-
ing to knowledge, whih actuated the authors
of the Boston Tea Party, the signers of the
Declaration of Indepenilence, the patriot boys
of '76, the defiant oppnents of the Fugitive
Slave Law, the fearless hanagers of the Un-
derground Rallroad, and other high-minded
individuals and bodlei of men, both of this
country and of foreign lands, who have dared
to do right, all the laWO and the lawmakers to
the contrary notwithstanding? Our honored
and noble forefathers took, not the kingdoni
of heaven,'mut the kingdom of America by
violence. They were daring, and they
were brave.
Their deeds were fa more opposed, both to
the letter and the spirit of the laws, than was
thevoting of these resolute women; but did
their Illegal and rebellious acts bring oppro-
brium rather than honor to the cause? Ask
HistoryI and the proud answer, NoI rings
down through the past and on into the Ages of
the future. Their deeds partook of the nobili-
ty of true manhood, and equally did the actions
of Miss Anthony and her sisters savor of the
gracefulness of true womanhood.
There is a higher court than those degraded
ones of New York. It is the court of absolute
and impartial justice; and at the bar of this
court will these women be tried. There is a
higher law than the law of the Empire
State, even that whch was proclaimed by one
of her greatest sons, It is the law of religion
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reason and right; and by this law will these
women be judged. .
Their action is a portent of political reform
through Woman's advent. They desired to
exercise not only their man-given privileges,
but their natural and inherent rights as well;
and, with this purpose in view, being filled
with a high sense of their duty to themselves,
their fellow-creatures, and their Maker, they
marched up to the polls and deposited their
ballots. It was an ac worthy to be recorded
by a Horner, a Virgil, or a Milton; and the
names of the actors may standl ndiumned by
the side of the most illustrious un our na-
tion's scroll of fame.
What shall we say of the Vigilance Com-
iittees of San Francisco? Did they do right?
We must believe that they did, for the whole
country lauded their efforts; and yet they act.
ed in direct opposiLion to the commands of gov-
erunment officials, the judgments of the courts,
and the laws of the city and the State. Can it
be unlovely to do what is right?
We have no reason to think that women, as
a body, will disobey the laws which they shall
help to make. These women were permitted
to vote by persons appointed by the State to
superintend such affliirs. But, suppose that
their requests had been denied, and that, in
spite of all opposition, they had deposited
their ballots in the boxes ofthe male persua-
saon; what then? Would they have been
guilty of any crime or misdemeanor? How
could they be guilty? The Declaration of In-
dependence says that governments derive
theirjustpowers from the consent of the gov
erned. The women of this country have
never given their consent to the laws thereof,
and they are not bound to obey them. If Jeffer-
son's Sublime wordd be true, the jurymen that
condemn a woman to death, the Judge that
pronounces the sentence, the hangman that
adjusts the fatal noose, age all guilty of mur-
der.
No obligation rests upon the women of
America to obey any of our laws, except those
which have been copied from the Holy Scrip.
tures, n'r these, indeed, because they are the
laws of the State, but because they are the
laws of God. But the women do not intend
to disobey the laws, not even those which
men have unjustly made for them. They are
naturally too peaceable to make such an at-
tempt. I do not believe that Miss Anthony
and her patriotic compeers intended to be dis-
obedient. They have surely brought no dis-
grace upon the Woman Movement, neither,
in my opinion, have they retarded its pro-
gress.
If we Interpret the Constitutions of the na-
tion and the varous States by the spirit, rather
than by the letter, there wil be no more trouble
about Woman Suffrage, They contain some
of the grandest maxims and the noblest words
that were ever uttered. The insertion of the
word male in subsequent portions of these
documents, is a direct contradiction of what
has been said before. How shall they be in-
terpreted ? By the spirit, or by the letter? It
is not an established principle of our Repub.
ic that the majority rule. Or, if it be true,
it Is about time for the principle to be put
into practice. When have the majority ruled,
and what laws have they ever made in this
country?
If a person were imprisoned unjustly, he
would certainly have a right to escape without
regard to the jailor; and if the jailor should
throw open the door for him, the prisiit
would, I think, be very apt to walk ot. Al.*1
though desiring a full and opyn dq u*1
yet, if this boon were denied,ter* 9j f
who would prefer to die in d *lA Ai
having made women wait for nely plx.thou
sand years, it is rather ungracious totaqdep,
to be patient now. Let the womn c '411i i
countr) demand, and, as far as possible, embr-*'
else their rights, even as our forefathers did
theirs, and happy realization will soon take the
place of weary patience. M. 8. WILSON.4
CO-EDUCATIO.
Prof. Hosmer, of Antioch College, in Old and
New, sets forith his views upon a subject now
open for considerable discussion. He says:-
I am sure that young men and women study
better for being brought together Inbrecitation;
there is an honorable emulation, a natural in-
centive in each to do the best. Neither would
seem to the other dull or incapable; the young
women would show that they can do well even
in philosophy and mathematics; and the
young men must look to their laurels. Then
In regard to the spirit and tone of life. I am
sure at is better for the presence of both sexes;
roughness is repressed, and thought and feel-
fug are purer, gentler and more humane. No
doubt there must be vigilant supervision and
limits to familiarity; some indiscretion must
be expected and provided for; the sober ma-
turities of autumn arc not to be looked for
amidst the buds and flowers 9f spring, but
with a careful supervision we have had ve
few willfuldeparturesfrompropriety. Throu
these result I have come to strong faith in the
co-education of thae sexes. Inadeed, whaat in-
fidelitv to donht It I God haas placed sons and
daiaghters l the same homes to be brought
up; and men anal women are made to live to-
gethaer in the worldl. Who May presume to
say that, from sixteen to twenty-five years cf
age, thc most formative period of human lie,
the young men anl young women must besp-
arated, ecome monaks andl nuns in their school-
time, and then revive, as best they can, their
thwarted, smothered sympathies I
CONCERNING WOMEN.
A lad' Is preparing to occupy the pulpit in
one of the Orthodox churches of Salt Lake
City.
Miss Kellogg will write her autobiography,
giving, wihout varnish, thle inside history of
stage life.
A female pharmaceutist, Miss S. M. HIar-
dinag, las beea )appointed Dispenser to the Hos.
pital for Wooaen, at Birmingham, England.
The Marchlioness of Lorne has been elected
President of the British'National Union for
improving the education of Women.
A woman lately died at. Newburyport who
was one of the choir of girls who greeted Gen.
Washilngton with a sonag, on his entrance to
Newburyport.
Catharine Hanlon, at Liverpool, stabbed a
boy, who stole an apple from her stand, and
he has since died.. As she Is poor and does
not live in New York, she is likely to be held
responsible.
Marie Antoinette's work-table has been
placed In the Louvre. The Empress Eugenie
bought it at a sale some years ago for 8000,
and it was fortunately saved from the Tullerles
before the fire.
Mrs. Doreas Rice of Jeffrey, whose one
hundred and third birthday was celebrated the
other day by. a grand ball, still walks about the
house, makes her own bed, reads her Bble,
and converses as readily as for years.
Mrs. J. Barnes has presented to the Wee
loyan University, at Middletown, Conn., the
valuable law library of Jonathan Barnes, who
died in 1801. For thirty years he was a trua
tee of the University.
The New York Evening Ma1l describes 3Mrs
Hret leeber Stowe'sreading as a happy
success. The early-haired, merry-eyed auth
oress now and then dropped her eyeglasses to
enjoy the hearty laugh with whichbshe Infeted
her audience.
A monument to the Intrepid Hannah Aus.
tin, who killed nine Indians and thus effected
her escape from savage captivity, is to be erect-
ed at the scene of her expli, at the junction
of the Con toocook and Pemliewaaett rivers,
In New Hampshire.
Madame Ruderadorf, the oratorio singer,
hu some literary as well as musical repute
abroad, anid occasionally contributes to the
press here. She is, moreover, a verycharitl
able lady, and gave in Boston, concertsfor the
beneit of the working-girls who suffered from
the great fire.
Mrs. Sarah W. Lander, a sisteriof the late
General Lander, died a ter daysi sine at Sa-
lem, Mass. She had lie literary ability and
taste, particularly in juvenile literature. Of
her series of sketches of foreign countries, pub.
lished under the title of Spectacles for young
Eyes, some 85,000 copies have been sold
It Is estimated that In England, more than
p0,nfants are every year suffocatedlbytheir
*fpoinprs, who have them with thes, in e4.
1Inml'vgs. there is a law which prohibit. par-
,ents hivng'children under two years in aem
,A*ishem, the result being that lasty of
stgkpA on of infants are very rare there.
Mdie Ocker-Boulacre, who died, atfew
.I9d aittet 'at Geneva, and who was falmed for
)e sijednce, has left bequests to the
amount of 155,000franes Amongotbars, one
of 40,000 francs to the Bureau desFamiles
one of 10,000 francs to the National 1t10W
and one of 25,000 fanes to the Can
pital.
A Russian lady, who desires to Y-
mous, but is rumored to be still sig
and a native of Sibera, has t 80,00
roublesafor a medical course forladles, to b
given at the Imperial College of Physiolas.m
The course is to be one of four yeart'dara.
tion. The threat from Zurich no loegerto
admit the unprepared Rusianift proves,
thereby, a wind that blows soeody some
good.
The second annual reception gives to the
ladies, by theNew England Sooltytookplace
at Delmonico's, In New York, Iast'week. Tie
rooms were crowded at 10 o'loekpheamdso-
Ing commenced. At 11 o'clock a repast was
partaken of, after which the daning was sns-
tinned until a late hour. Thus the Newing.
land Society admit women toeatig, drinking
and dancing, but do not yet admit them to
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