The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty YearsHarper, Ida Husted
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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
Harper, Ida Husted
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND REV. A.L. BROWN ON THE STUMP.--Mechanics'
Hall was tolerably well filled last evening by persons wishing to
hear the above-named ladies "spout" about temperance. Seven-eighths
of the audience was composed of women, and there was noticeable an
absence of all rank, fashion and wealth. The _ladies_ proper of
Utica don't seem desirous of giving countenance to the silly
vagaries disseminated by these strong-minded women. We conceived a
very unfavorable opinion of this _Miss_ Anthony when she performed
in this city on a former occasion, but we confess that, after
listening attentively to her discourse last evening, we were
inexpressibly disgusted with the impudence and impiety evinced in
her lecture. Personally repulsive, she seems to be laboring under
feelings of strong hatred towards male men, the effect, we presume,
of jealousy and neglect. She spent some hour or so to show the
evils endured by the mothers, wives and daughters of drunkards. She
gravely announced that the evil is a great one, and that no remedy
might hopefully be asked from licentious statesmen nor from
ministers of the gospel, who are always well fed and clothed and
don't care for oppressed women. Prominent among the remedies which
she suggested for the evils which she alleges to exist, are
complete enfranchisement of women, allowing them the run of the
legislative halls, ballot-box, etc. With a degree of impiety which
was both startling and disgusting, this shrewish _maiden_ counseled
the numerous wives and mothers present to separate from their
husbands whenever they became intemperate, _and particularly not to
allow the said husbands to add another child to the family_
(probably no _married_ advocate of woman's rights would have made
this remark). Think of such advice given in public by one who
claims to be a _maiden_ lady!
Miss Anthony may be a very respectable lady, but such conversation
is certainly not calculated to enhance public regard for her....
She announced quite confidently that wives don't de facto love
their husbands if they are dissipated. Everyday observation proves
the utter falsity of this statement, and if there is one
characteristic of the sex which more than another elevates and
ennobles it, it is the _persistency_ and intensity of woman's love
for man. But what does Miss Anthony know of the thousand delights
of married life; of the sweet stream of affection, of the golden
ray of love which beams ever through life's ills? Bah! Of a like
disgusting character was her advice to mothers about not using
stimulants, even when prescribed by physicians, for the benefit of
the young. What in the name of crying babies does Miss Anthony know
about such matters?
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