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We give below, a few extracts from
an address delivered by Mr. -. Grubt
(whom the press has delighted to hon
or') before an appreciative audience in
St. Louis, who were banded for the
purpose of considering the ways and
means of bettering the condition of
woman. Her speech opens as follows:
“I must beg pardon for introducing
my remarks with an anecdote, taken
from a late periodical, which I pre
sume you have all seen, but which
illustrates an idea so forcibly as to be
irresistible. There was once an old
woman, who, in answer to a visiting
almoner’s inquiry as to how she did,
said; ‘Oh, sir, the Lord is very good to
me. I've lost my husband, and my
eldest son, and my youngest daughter,
and I’m half blind, and I can’t sleep
or move about for the rheumatics; but
I’ve got two teeth left in my head and,
praise and bless His holy name, they’re
opposite each other.’
NOT SATISFIED.
“The ladies who assemble here, from
time to time, for the avowed purpose
of bettering the condition of 'women
and lifting them to a higher level, seem
to differ entirely from this old woman,
in not being excessively thankful for
small favors. We are supposed, by
those unacquainted with us to be a set
of discontented, aspiring termagants,
whose only object in life is to vote
every hour of every day in every year,
for ourselves to fill every office in the
land. We are represented as going
about outraging the delicate proprie
ties of elegant life, by wearing short
dresses and shorter hair, flourishing
blue cotton umbrellas, sporting ‘stoga’
No. 7 shoes, cultivating the most de
termined, fierce and uncompromising
expressions upon our vinegar counte
nances, while hailing men and breth
ren as tyrants, whom only the lack of
power-saves from the fate of unfortu
nate kittens. We are supposed to be
slatterns at home, and strollers abroad;
‘blue stockings by the illiterate, and
uncultured by the learned. Our hus
bands are pitied as snubbed, subdued
weaklings, whose chief aspiration is to
cross over the Jordan, where there will
be no more marrying or giving in
marriage. Our babies are thought of
as poor, sickly, blue, half-conscious
little victims of V inslow s soothing
wyrup, given over to the care of hire
lings, while their mothers are constant
ly out trying to vote. We are hinted
at in the street cars as ‘wanting their
rights, now take them and stand up.’ ;
\\ e are darkly alluded to in the pul
pits as those who would profane the
faith and set the Scriptures aside.
M e are scorned by young ‘ivies.’ whose
sole aim it is to twine around some
‘noble oak. and ridiculed by young
‘noble oaKs as having a weakness to- j
wards supremacy. We are stigmatized
by the press as the “shrieking sister- .
hood’, and feared by the priesthood as
a dangerous element. AH this, and
stiil the world moves; moves by the |
silent, unseen force of the soft-voiced, I
elegant women around me —moves by i
the power of women, whose homes of 1
culture and refinement attest no less I
the graceful presence of loving hearts
and willing hands than of brightened
intellects. That we are in an era of
the most rapid development the world
has ever known, particularly in the do
mains of science ami psycology. is a 1
fact that constantly impresses itself 1
upon, the thoughtful reader of general 1
and scientific literature.
In the march of ages
WJ. HECOGNIZE THREE Ft>BCES
that have governed, now govern, ami
will govern the wo rid--physical force,
mind and morals, each dependent in a
measure, upon the others, yet each
having its ascendancy in its own par
ticular period.
Little by little, through the long
dark ages, were the higher principles
of life evolved—hopelessly arrested In
unforeseen difficulties, yet ever ad
vancing, till man became a powen
stronger than nature -overcoming hir .
ami -till i vet finding in her, new fori
es to m:isl r. in the grand, passion
ate drama of life men, as a class dis
tinct from women, have been the priu
< ipal actors. Outwardly and vi.si’riy,
thex have been the only agents o| ef
fectual force. The splendid advanta
ges of might, and strength, ami power
-re theirs from the beginning. They
overcame the obstacles of nature, pro
vided homes, built cities, studied the
arts of war, enriched themselves by
bpoils obtained through bravery or
stratagem, and. as civilization advanc
ed. they cultivated the peaceful indus
tries, evok< I law, ami introduced the
sciences. All this we owe to men as
a class. The under-current of civili
zation, the secret forces of progress,
exactly corres|x»n<ling to the secret
forces of nature, were woman's. lu
the early discipline of society, man
ust d Lis proud abilities in overcoming
his brother man; but the humanizing.
vu.'.lizing forces of Woman's life, were
' r the powers that moved the world
io a higher eixiliaation. He has been
the active force controlling nature,
she the secret force, gathering up the
' tlircft.d and weaving the ■woof of a con
i needed and progressive life, bequeath
’mg acumen, mental strength ami
insight to her sons, that made men of
\ mark, as physicians and scientists
aver, in all Ages. Nature has now
become man’s most willing and obedi
ent servant, yielding authority to him
so universal as to be almost illimitable,
ushering in the period when mind
I alone controls, yet banishing, at the
i same time, the age of man’s suprema
, cy to Woman.
BODILY LIGHT,
, except as an exerted force tlirough
' other agents, is now of the most infe
, rior importance.
■ Yet the order of things, the dogma
I that “might makes right,” the arro-
| gant assumption that Woman bondage '
placed upon sex. are so strong in their ■
■ influences as to be great barriers to
, this advancement. Variation from
, a customary order of events is the
| most difficult as well as the most for-
I midable of all obstacles in the path of !
progress. Theories of right obtain ■
; and. are entertained by the best minds ;
iin every Age. But in practice, the
old errors return again and again, raid
| retard and arrest development. It
would seem impossible to conceive a
state of society in which it could
proposed to forward the whole by ad
vancing one-half its competent parts,
while, nt the same time, it is proposed
to retain the other half in its exact pc»-'
sition; yet this is precisely what is at- .
tempted, year by year, by intelligent
people, in withholding from women.,
i the best educational, literary and po
litical privileges.
The great lessons of subjection and.
patience she has been forced to learn
jin the world's history will prove in
the future the most sj lendid lessons
ever learned by humanity; giving an
. advantage in their effect* hi the com
ing moral government of the world
which no other experience would ever
' have effected—yet, at the same time,
I we feel that their authorities are none
' the less to blame, nor that is anything '
but utter blindness to the good of liu- ,
manity that withholds any good from
any individual. Our protest against
the
i
CLOSED DOORS OF Ct<aj?GES
does not arise from feeling, that we are i
' deprived of any particular advantage I
in not being educated with men as a |
• class. It is that we are debarred
fr< ah privileges and advwinges which
■ tinae and money alone 't:ui procure,
ami to which we ue quite as
I luneh the rightful heirs* as our more
fortunate and successful, brothers.
Give ust colleges, univeiwitias, profes
sorships, and endowments, of equal
merH and infliier***.,itli those '
which the. past has giveT?...to» them, and
Howaj.d, Yale, Amherst- a»d Prince
ton, may keep closed doors, without a I
sight from ’is, till doomsday, although
we would skill know t > at. they were
pnsaessiwg an heritance • alisase, which,
rightfully should have b&exi shared
, witli.us..
Iriiacoiit*, v-ldens. ami rii.ni of honest,
tnrUiful Awes, whose ‘testimony the
world. Lelies. UfMHt, as giving a reality
tcsflre rehgji'Ub -of Clrri’st.. constantly
urgq upon, their hearer* the necessity
<xfbearing their part in.the advance
ment of. hikkingf lorn. They call upon
us. .as Christiiknf to avail ourselves cf.
thf.-priviligps. erf an individual action
iin these uu?eke igs. They assure «'*-
i of the strength and power that arise
iluxrefDonu.aiul tell us that without-ai
personal isibilit z there can he
no ndvanjNmjetfit in religious life; insist
that it is a. duty , nay, a sacred obliga
tion to bear te stimoi y to what ( ixl
has done fewr us. Three-fourths of
these beaners a re wointn, to whon 4 so
far as it is puaf .ible t » make a per son
al appbjatioflu these addresses tA*e a
farce.. Uuey are, m. reality, m iiher
expected, nor c esireddio take pari. If
the vuarth* of these aaen were aken
literally, uad acted the 1 uijor
itv of shun: au diems sx, they themselves
would be sinx-ked bwthe impropriety.
• They aldrcss Chai-Jinns, and vet we
who know that for • years our hearts,
and kves. ami beings have In'su con
secrated to Christ’t iservice are no more
meiuX than the 11 arble pillar > behind
whuh we hide < 42.' faces. I Do these*
truthful, honest izt-n mean vffiat they
say. or do they n‘.t ?
ARE W¥ -CHRISTIANS .
or are we Mohizumeda ns‘c As it is,
custom has had such an f<ect that, if
every Christian minister <®re to arise
and desire the.-women of his congre
gation to take part ir. the exercist*—-
nay urge t/ariu in the kindest
and most cordial Tmamer to do so,
they could nvt, for yea» at least, over
come the feeing and prejudice that
they know exists. Ami yet Woman,
her religiows tendeisHes, and strong,
loving heart, wouid Mid an eh-'uient of
grace thal could uot but advance far
more rapidly tboi kingdom for which
men so fervenUy pr*y- The highest
development of any class can be secured
only as a consequence of emulation,
and by the attrition of strong and ar
dent minds. And it is the baldest of
facts, that, the grandeur of moral and
the brilliancy of intellectual character
can alone be attained by the frceest
scope, the most genial influmacos, and
the largest liberty. These, we rest as
sured will come with the coming years.
IV e bide our time. Not in impatience
or despondency, but in quiet, serene
and earnest endeavor after truth, con
scious that, although others may mis
understand us, in the bright circle of
home, amid the tender sympathy and
loving appreciation of husbands, sons,
fathers and brothers, we have plased
the lover that will move the world.
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