Life and writings of Amelia BloomerBloomer, D. C. (Dexter C.)
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Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer
Bloomer, D. C. (Dexter C.)
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 1818-1894; Women's rights -- United States
“We received calls from a large number of ladies of the city who
were interested in our movement, and we hear from all the same
expression of feeling and that is: ‘We must have the Maine law;
what can we do to obtain this law?’ I find there is a strong
woman’s-rights sentiment prevailing on the subject among those whom
I have met here. All feel that the only way in which women can do
anything effectually in this cause is through the ballot-box, and
they feel themselves fettered by being denied the right to thus
speak their sentiments in a manner that could not be misunderstood.
If voters would but all do their duty, all would be well and we
should soon have a prohibitory liquor-law; and methinks that if
voters who claim to be temperance men could hear all comments made
by women upon their actions, and see themselves in the light that
women see them, they would blush and hang their heads in shame at
their treachery and inefficiency.”
AT HOME.
On returning home from one of her tours, Mrs. Bloomer wrote as
follows:
“After an absence of two weeks, we again find ourselves in our own
loved home, where we meet with a hearty welcome. Most forcibly do
the words of the poet come before our mind as we enter our quiet
sanctum, and from the depths of our heart we endorse them: ‘Home,
sweet home! be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.’
“During the two weeks spent in jaunting through some of the cities
and villages of the beautiful Hudson, we have seen much of the
grand and beautiful in nature and made the acquaintance of some
of the choice spirits of that section of the state. It has been
a relaxation from cares we much needed, and we trust will prove
time profitably spent both to us and to those who listened to the
message we bore them.”
HATING THE MEN.
The editor of the Utica _Telegraph_ having charged Mrs. Bloomer with
“hating the men,” she replied to the insinuation as follows:
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