Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
But if Senators Cockrell and Brown hope to dispose of the
question by remanding us to "the chimney corner" we trust their
constituents will send them to keep us company, that they may
enliven our retirement and make us satisfied 'in the sphere where
the Creator intended we should be' by daily intoning for us their
inspired minority report.
The one pleasant feature in this original document is the harmony
between the views of these gentlemen and their Creator. The only
drawback to our faith in their knowledge of what exists in the
Divine mind, is in the fact that they can not tell us when, where
and how they interviewed Jehovah. I have always found that when
men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on "the
intentions of the Creator." But their platitudes have ceased to
have any influence with those women who believe they have the
same facilities for communication with the Divine mind as men
have.
The right and liability to be called on to fight, if we vote, as
continually emphasized by our opponents, is one of the greatest
barriers in our way. If all the heroic deeds of women recorded in
history and our daily journals, and the active virtues so
forcibly illustrated in domestic life, have not yet convinced our
opponents that women are possessed of superior fighting
qualities, the sex may feel called upon in the near future to
give some further illustrations of their prowess. Of one thing
they may be assured, that the next generation will not argue the
question of woman's rights with the infinite patience we have had
for half a century, and to so little purpose. To emancipate
woman from the fourfold bondage she has so long suffered in the
State, the church, the home and the world of work, harder battles
than we have yet fought are still before us.
Mrs. Caroline Hallowell Miller (Md.) paid a beautiful tribute to Miss
Anthony, "the Sir Galahad in search of the Holy Grail," and closed
with an eloquent prophecy of future success. Mrs. Lillie Devereux
Blake (N. Y.) gave a clever satire on The Rights of Men, which was
very imperfectly reported.
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