A Duck of a Wife & Women's Rights
A DUCK OF A WIFE
Litchfield CT April
7, 1859
A duck of a
wife, whose husband went for a day or two on a bit of a lark, thus advertises
him:
LOST,
STRAYED OR STOLEN—An individual whom I, in an unguarded moment of loneliness,
was thoughtless enough to adopt as my husband. He is a good looking and feeble
individual, knowing enough to go in when it rains, unless some good looking
girl offers her umbrella. Answers to the name of John. Was last seen in the
company of Julia Harris, walking, his arm around her waist, up the plank road,
looking more like a fool, if possible, than ever. Anybody who will catch the
poor fellow and bring him carefully back so that I can chastise him for running
away, will be asked to stay for tea. —HENRIETTA A. SMITH
RUNAWAY WIVES AND
RAILROADS
Jan 14, 1860 NY Times
The
Charleston Mercury, with the view of settlement of the Slavery question,
has been looking into the state of Northern morals, and has discovered, from
“reliable statistics,” that more wives of Northern men, in proportion to the
whole number, run away from their husbands than negros from their masters. This
is a step in the right direction. Let this fact, and a few more like it, be
once well authenticated and widely circulated, and peace will soon reign within
our borders. For this purpose, we cordially recommend the Mercury to
publish the said “reliable statistics,” and also as to where they may be found.
The horrible infidelity of Northern wives which our Southern contemporary has
so properly exposed, is clearly anther proof of the “failure of free society.”
We believe, too, if our contemporary will extend his researches, he will discover
that most of these frail and erring creatures have taken their departure from
their husbands by railroad. We mention this fact to show the iniquity of
maintaining, at such enormous expense, the cast network of lines which now
covers the North. A mode of conveyance, which can thus be made subservient to
the worst passions of our nature, which affords to women—who from their
earliest years, have witnessed the monthly degradation of their parents paying
the servants’ wages—the means of breaking their marriage vows, ought not to be
tolerated one minute longer than can be helped. Northern women, our
contemporary will agree with us and every friend of virtue in thinking, are not
persons who can be safely permitted to have railway trains shrieking and
rumbling temptation under their windows four or five times a day.
Moreover,
we are well convinced it can be clearly shown that more white men get drunk at
the North every year than negroes at the South in a year and a half. If our
surmise be correct,
What becomes of the
Missouri Compromise, the English bill, the Dred Scott decision and the Amistad
claim and HELPER’S book? A child must see that if the Charleston Mercury
will only keep drawing on its statistics, harmony will soon be restored to
every portion of this distracted country.
WET NURSE WANTED
August 10, 1864 NC
Daily Confederate
WANTED
FOR AN INFANT ONE MONTH OLD
A WET NURSE,
white or colored,
To take entire charge of the child.
A good
Seamstress and House Servant could be exchanged for the Nurse.
Apply at
this office. Aug 5 1864
WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND
NEGRO SUFFERAGE
NY Times Sept. 7,
1866
The Southern friends of the radicals are being familiarized
with their isms and peculiarities. Mr. Theodore Tilton has undertaken the task
of overcoming the white man's instinctive prejudice against negro equality and
miscegenation: and Miss Anna Dickinson
pleads for negro suffrage with a distinct understanding, that she appears, “in
behalf of the great unrepresented class of white women.” What is this but an
emphatic hint that after negro suffrage is to come, women's suffrage? The
universal rights doctrine knows no limit. If black men may vote simply because
they walk on two legs, shall not the same privilege be conferred upon white
women? The general opinion perhaps would place the women first. Miss Dickinson
reveals the magnanimity and modesty of her nature when she gives precedence to
the negro.
Murderous Wife
Beatings
June 15, 1852 NY
Times
MURDEROUS ASSAULTS At a late hour on Sunday night Arthur Cullen
went to the sleeping apartment of Mrs. Cullen, at a dwelling house in Columbia
Street, (Eleventh Ward) and being refused admittance, he broke open the door
with an axe, and then attempted to take her life. In order to escape, she fled
to the rear of the building, on the second story, and leaped out of the window.
She struck her head upon a pile of bricks in the yard fracturing her skull, and
otherwise dangerously injuring herself; and is now lying at City Hospital in a
dying condition. Officers Wells and
Lyon, of the Eleventh District, secured the assailant, and Justice Wood has
committed him to await the result of the injuries…At 2 o’clock this morning,
Henry Monaghan was arrested in the 12th Ward by officers Hope and
Decker, charged with inflicting a wound on Mary Blaney with a knife, which may
terminate in her death. The injured party was placed under medical attendance,
and the accused was sent to Upper Police Court…Officer Quinn, of the 17th
Ward, last night arrested Michael Donavan, charged with beating his wife with a
billet of wood, to such an extent as to render her recovery extremely doubtful.
She was conveyed to the Bellevue Hospital, and he was locked up by Justice
Wood.
THE WOMEN’S
LIBRARY
Oct 1, 1860 New York Times
The public opening
of the WOMEN’S LIBRARY OF NEW YORK will take place on MONDAY EVENING next. Oct.
1, at Rev. Dr. Chapin’s Church, No. 548 Broadway.
HON. HENRY
J. RAYMOND, the President of the Board of Trustees, will preside and will
present a statement of the condition and prospects of the Institution.
Addresses will be delivered by
REV. HENRY WARD
BEECHER
AND
HON. JAMES T. BRADY,
On the importance and duty of furnishing for women the same
means and advantages of Education which are enjoyed by men.
Women’s Temperance Meeting
September 5, 1852 NY Times
A Women’s Temperance Meeting will be held at Broadway Tabernacle on MONDAY EVENING, Sept. 5, at 7 ½ o’clock, the avails of which will be devoted to the benefit of the Women’s New York State Temperance Society. Mrs. MARY C. VAUGHN, President of the Society, will preside. Addresses may be expected from Miss EMILY CLARK, Mrs. AMELIA BLOOMER, and MRS. H.A. ALBRO. The public are respectfully invited to attend. Admittance 12 ½ cents
A GIRL IN BOY’S CLOTHES!
Jan 1, 1866 Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
A girl was sent to the reform school at Lansing, MI, dressed in boy’s clothes, and bearing the name of Joseph Howard. Her sex was discovered immediately, and she was sent back to jail. She says that she is 19 years old, that her parents reside in Cleveland, OH and are respectable and pious people. She says she has worn boy’s clothing about seven years, and her sex has never before been discovered. Her appearance is so boyish that she remained in jail several weeks, was brought into Court, and sentence, and taken to Lansing by the officers, without being suspected.
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