Yu will hav tew vote agin all riots, and reserexkshuns, and thus put an
end tew them, or else when thare iz an irish riot, to kill oph the
surpluss niggers, yu will hav tew cum out armed with sumthing, if
nothing more than a pair ov tongs, and just az like az not looze yure
best waterfall in the mussness, jist think how billyous this will be.
Yu will hav tew vote agin awl kind ov housework, for how kan yu run the
United States government, if yu are kept patching pantaloons all the
time?
Yu will hav tew vote agin enny more human beings making their
appearance, for who iz a going tew nourish the babe, while yu are down
tew the town hall, trieing tew elekt a favourite constabel, yure husband
kant do it enny how, unless yu hav him rekonstrukted.
Suppoze yu git elekted tew congress from yure distrikt, every woman in
the country, who haz got a husband thare, will be on hand tew watch how
things are a going, and yu will be acused ov transgreshuns, that never
entered yure hed, or hart.
Suppoze yu had a vote to day, dew yu know of enny woman on arth, that yu
would vote for, i mean, unmarried woman, like yureself?
Miss Jemima, Josephine, Jenkins, the more i grind these things in mi
mind, the more i think yu had better turn yure attenshun towards
harvesting a good hustband, and making his house the envy ov the
naberhood, bi the gentle, and domestik virtews, which Heaven haz so
lavishly loaned tew yu, rather than attending caucusses, holding wimmin
convenshuns, or travelling athwart the country, in company with a set of
longhaired, male hybrids, who haven’t got enny reputashun tew spare, and
who will cheat yu out ov what yu hav got.
If you or enny other virtewous, gentle woman, wants an ernest defender,
one who beleaves that yure sex holds the ballance ov power now, one who
looks upon a mother (who ever she iz) az the queen ov the situation, one
who looks upon a sister az an angel friend, one who looks upon a
daughter az the gift of God, one who looks upon a wife with awl the
pathos of venerashun, if yu want any help from sich a pheller, in
battling with the trials that Heaven haz planted in the pathway ov a
womans legitimate sphear, send for me, i am yure man.
But i hav no ambishun tew see yu a voter, and i think the hour which
sees yure sex, in this country, voters, will see the eazy and rapid
dissolushun ov the only barrier we have, between the coarse instinkts ov
man, and the sakred safety ov the domestick vertews, ov which yu hav
been ordained the vestal keepers.
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