afoot, and carryin' Dorlesky's errent. I was determined to do th

s weighed by the steelyards, yet it was very hefty and wearin' on the moral feelin's. And my firm, unalte

s fa

there was calmness in that shake. I passed the compliments of the day (h

-rejoiced as he probable would if he hadn't been so busy. I can't be so

ble before him. And there was a gentleman

auty. It seems as if some of the strength of the mountain pines round his old home is a holdin' up his backb

. My likin' is jest about strong enough f

taller than I am; and on that account, and a

me, I don't know any better way than to tac

sent two errents by me, and I had br

ed from not havin' her rights; and I told him all about her relations sufferin', and that

brow thoughtfu

to accomplish so muc

would. But she feels jest so, and I promi

brow in deep though

sonable in her demands, only in

ve you could do her errents this week. But you can see for

wuz." And says he, "I wish

3?"

uor traffic, libe

dest part of my errent. Bu

of sight, and use the wrong tones at the wrong times-no, I used my deepest and most skairful one-says I, "Dorlesky

e looked agitated

an at times. I got it, I think, in the first place, by overlookin' Josiah's faults. I always said a wife ort to overlook her husband's faults; and I ha

eemin'ly plunged down into the deepest thought. B

d while I do not want to be President of the United States, yet at the

lf, right in my own family." And I sithed. And agin silence rained;

very; and says he, with a br

to. I am not the one t

the one?

Logan,"

' afoot, and carryin' Dorlesky's errent. But Bub is trusty: I'll send him." And I riz up to go. He riz up too. He is a gentleman; and, as I said, I like his l

d man come in, and told him that he was wan

out, he says, turnin' to the

ator. Mebby he can do Do

ithout goin' any further. It would tickle Dorlesky

tch his name; because, jest as Mr. Blaine spoke it, my umberell fell, and the gentleman sprung forwar

Dorlesky's errents, but I didn't like his looks

ked out of his eyes, and wore a vest: I don't know as I can describe him any more close than that. He was some bald-headed

ave a mite of that smart, straight-forward way of Blaine, or the perfect courtes

ess is no name for his mean. Truly, as Josiah A

, for me and for him

g me in any way: if so, command him to do it," or words to that effect. I

Jonesville on my tower. I told over all of her sufferin's, from the Ring, and from not havin' her rights; and all her sister Susan Clapsaddle's sufferin's; and all her aunt Eunice's and Patty's,

Dorlesky's errent

ook up one corner of my mantilly. It wus cut tab fashion; and he took up the tab, a

his pipein'? or can it

b back coldly, and n

in a tone of am

r bang-like, or a pompidorus! Ah! wimmen are lovely creatures, lovely beings, every one of them." A

breast would move it jest as much as he moved me by his talk or his sithes. But he ke

lected by me, do not seem to be congenial to you. Have you a leaning toward natural h

ty, however paralized by just indignation, c

is obtained the valuable fur t

mean waddin' 8

re plentiful and cheap, owing to

instantly. I wi

will use to wimmen, and I had heard much of their lies, etc.; but truly, I

red over, and passed laws regardin', hens' eggs and birds' nests. But this is goin' too fur-too fur. But," says I firmly, "I shall do Dorlesky's

ch a lovely sex. Wimmen are the loveliest, most angelic creatures that

have their rights all the same. Now, Dorlesky is disagreable, and kinder fierce actin', and jest as humbly as they make wimmen; but that hain't no

Josiah?"

"My hu

ings, let them have husbands to lift them above all earthly cares and trials! Oh! angels of our homes," says he, liftin' his eyes to the heavens, and kinder shet

the air, as if it was a woman a flyin' up there, smooth and serene. It wou

dragged her down. And there she is, all dragged and bruised and brokenhearted by it. She didn't meddle with the politic

ngle with the rude crowds. We political men would fain keep them as they are now: we are willing to stand the rude buffetings of-of-voti

runken husbands and fathers and sons. They are driven to death and to moral ruin by the miserable want liquor-drinkin' entails. They are starved, they are frozen, they are beaten, they are made childless and hopeless, by drunken husbands killing their

of somebody else? Who ever heard of a angel bein' dragged off to a police court by a lot of men, for fightin' to defend her children and herself from a drunken husband that had broke her wings, and blacked her eyes, himself, got the angel into the fight, and then she got throwed into the streets and the prison by it?

, you ort to furnish a free, safe place for 'em to soar in. You ort to

he. "As it

I begun to feel noble a

jest as simple. Why, you might jest as well throw a lot of snowflakes into the street, and say, 'Some of 'em are female flakes, and mustn't b

and weaknesses, needin' the same heavenly light, and the same human aids

me to tell you that she didn't ask the rights of a angel: she would be perfectly contented and proud if you would give her the rights of a do

s not allowed any hand in making. A dog don't have to pay taxes on its

round for its bone to the best of its ability, and wants to get its

acred, and then see that home turned into a place of torment unde

ance laws that it believes ruinous, and that break

y it freedom and justice-about its bein' a damosk rose, and a seraphine,

ut they come right onto her unexpected and unbeknown, and she feels jest so. She feels she must do every thing she can to alter matters. She wants to help make the l

her influence her children,-her boys,-and they will carry

Ring, of which her husband was a shinin' member, he got possession of her boy. And so, the law has made i

have no grievance of the kind, I trust that yo

u know, men or wimmen either can't be only jest about so go

n your marriage relations, and your husband is a tempe

r boy, makes me realize the sufferin's of Dorlesky in havin' her husband and boy lost to her, makes me realize the depth of a wive's, of a mother's, agony,

feel for them who are less blessed than she. Highest love goes lowest, if need be. Witness the

f 'em are good creeters-better than wimmen, some on 'em. They want to do jest about right, but don't exactly see the way to do it. In the old slavery times, some of the masters was more t

of the evil, but didn't know how

of this time, want to help it, but don

get the right answer to it as fur as we can. Dorlesky feels that one of

as fur as my own happiness is concerned. My home is

dren are prosperous and happy. We have property enough, and more than enough, for all

find her full content-her entire happiness and thought. A womanly woma

not ask you as a politician, but as a human bein'-which would you like best, the love of a strong, earnest, tender nature-for in man or woman, 'the strongest are the tend

seem' through a injustice. She may be happy in her own home. Domestic affection, social enjoyments, the delights of a cultured home and society, and the companionship of the man she loves, and who

p seeing through an injustice, can't help seeing through sham

of her home,-from which your care would fain bar out all sights of woe and squalor,-she looks down, and sees the weary toilers below, the hopeless, the wretch

hand from liftin' up the fallen, wipin' tears from weepin' eye

ld hold you up, if you were in trouble or di

this: we can't help respectin' the one who advocates

t seems curious to me, that they should act so in this one thing. For men ort to be more honest and open than wimmen. They hain

will grow as straight and vigorous as

they ort to be ashamed of this one trick of theirn; for

freedom, and see if men will laugh at 'em

ome nearer bein' angels, though most probable they won't be angel

ght me down onto my feet agin (as it were), a

ill you, do Dor

that natural human instinct was against the change." He said, "in savage rac

vage races where the wimmen always rule, though I don't thi

against i

through the centuries. But we are more enlightened, and should not encourage it. In my opinion, a male bee has jest as good a right to be monarch as h

e, "Modern history don't s

weak, weak as a ca

ask you to cast your right eye over into England, and then beyond it into France. Men have ruled exclusively in

sad, almost meachin' way. I nearly pitied him, disagreable as

e. The Bible is aginst the idee. The Bible teaches man's

how man was jest turned right round by a woman. It teaches how she not only tu

encing men' way, that politicians are so fond of. And she jest brought ruin and destruction onto the hull world by it. A few years later, after men and wimmen grew wiser, when we hear of wimmen ruling Israel openly a

chair. And says he, "I thought wimmen was taug

me happiness and delight, and my best happiness is found in servin

strenth and power; but in the New Testament, you will find that in every gr

ou talk!" says I. "Have

mother owned one. And he h

entered political life at an early age, and he believed he had never read any more of it, on

't in the Bible,-y

man, he knew, and he had always heard and believ

ion of the world through the birth of the Christ,-no man had any thin

manity. God Himself called women into that

renunciation. The soft airs of Gallilee wrapped her about in its sweet content, as she dreame

happy, innocent girlhood, God called her to her

ufferin', and the shame of the world, set her apart, babtize

they not for 1800 years been blessin' the world? The God in Christ would awe us too much: we would shield our faces from the too blindin' glare of the pure God-like. But the tender Christ, who wept over a sinful city,

curity of womanly rest and peace, into the blessed martyrdom of renunciation and toil and sufferin', all to help a world that cared nothing for her, that cried o

is own. Herods full of greed, and frightened selfishness, may try to break her heart, by efforts to kill the child she loves; but she will hold it so close to her bo

he name sounds familiar to me: was not Mr.

d, as it all seems to be a new story to you, I will tell you. That when the Saviour of the world was born in Bethlehem, and a woman

as not righ

lations, who are tryin' to do the same thing to-day. But," says I reasonably, "because Herod

o you allude to our senator fro

the right side of questions-middlin' handsome too. But I am talkin'

so engrossed in politics, and political literature, I don

yin', Joseph was a likely man. He did the very best he could with what he had to do with. He had the strength to lead the wa

d in the future. The man and the woman walking side by side. He, a little ahead mebby, to keep off dangers by his greater strength and coura

r to carry it through. He will protect her from her own weaknesses, and from

over the desert, seeking diligently where this redeemer is to be found." He sot demute. He did not frame a reply:

Will you give her her rights? And

t and right to do 'em, but the Constitution of the United States stood up firm against 'em. As t

't the laws

s? Tamper with the glorious Constitution that ou

to skair me, I knew; and I wuz most skaird, I confess, he acted so horrowfied. But I knew I meant well towards the Constitution, and our ol

ou speak of changing the unalterable laws of th

s, that is

k, and how sort o' wild he l

't they never

nd put on a firm, judicial one. He gin up; h

e been changed in

e war, it was changed to make Norther

emed to be a case of n

her breed of blood-hounds the planters had employ

was doubtless a ca

have been changed to b

dealers to utelize the surplufus liquor they import." Says h

te on how much whisky will be drunk in a year; and so, ruther tha

obtained in greater quantities by the masses. Any such great laws for the benifit of the nation, of course, would justify a change in the Constitution and the laws; but for any frivolous cause

jest said I had convinced you that Dorlesky's errents wus

evote to it. We senators and Congressmen are so driven, and hard-worked, that really we have no time to devote to the cause of Rig

hat the liquor-dealers suffer no loss-we have to do that. And then, w

k tone, "I s'pose you

h those schools, the Indians had got to be self-supporting and intelligent and Christians, why, the agents couldn't buy their wives and daughters for a yard of calico, or get them drunk, and buy a horse for a glass bead, and a farm for a pocket lookin'-glass. Well, thank fortune, we carried that important meas

"I see a good deal

an have smooth sailing. But we think," says he dreamily, "we think we have saved money enough out of the Indian schools, to clean out most of their cr

ons: we have to make soo

o send in the ship with them, some appropriate biblical texts, and some mottoes

d ignorance, we ought to send in the same ship, some res

htenin' the World, in New-York Harbor, will hold he

ave spoke of and other kindred laws, and the constant strain on our minds in trying to pass laws to increase our own salaries, you can see just how cramped we are for time. An

guess I might jest

arted for the door. I was discour

llace will do the

I col

try to impose on me, or Dorlesky's errent, by tryin' to send me round amongst them old Scottish

illiam Wallace; and very pr

nd the errent to him by Bu

ains'es, I met the hired man, Bub

want to visit

laws of the Unite

" say

was very weary, but I

business, and he would be glad to show it t

er when she was most drowned, and dragged her out. And from that time the two famil

beauty and size and grandeur. There hain't one that can come nigh it. Why, take all the meetin'-housen of these various plac

and see what kinder curious and strange pictures there wuz way up there in the sky above me (as it were). Why,

he size and majestic proportions of the buildin', I wondered to myself that a s

ass by laws big as elephants and camels. And I wondered to myself that they should ever try to pass laws and resolutions as small as muskeeters and nats. Thinks'es I, I won

on these deep and lofty subjects,

to yourself, is tuckerin'.) "You look

s, silent sort of a look; for

' pityin'; and says he, "You look tire

I, "W

you to something: wha

hington, anyway. And I didn't know but it was their way to make some presents to every woman

you should insist on it. But, if I have got to take something I

would do me some good, else what would be the use of bein' treated? And I thought, if I had got to take a present from a

beer, or wine, or l

my shoes and my digni

saloon right here h

ted States, from caucus to convention, than any thing else does; and it is highly proper to have some liquor here handy, so they can soak t

y handy for the senators.

t. The nation suffers enough from that room n

some pure grape wine, or French brandy, or corn or rye whiskey. I have all the drugs right here." And he took out a little box out of his pocket. "My father is a importer of rare old wines, and I know just h

's fashion, and commit suicide, I am goin' to hire a rat

inquiringly. "Is sh

"She has lots of relat

name sounded familiar. Then, I ca

"you can open the fron

as glad enough to get

been to supper. Sally had had company that afte

and see me the worst kind: he wanted to throw out some deep arguments aginst wimmen's suff

I, "why did

t some money. There was goin' to be a lot of men, wimmen, and children sold in his neighbo

s I, in cur

heir labor by the year. They have 'em get up on a auction block, and hire a auctioneer, and sell 'em a

to poverty late in life, through the death of some of her relations, and the villany of others. So he thought she had more strength in her than if she had always been worked. He thought, if she didn't fetch too big a price, he should buy her instead of a young one. They was so balky, he said, young

ould have converted me." Says I, "A race of bein's, that make such l

he said," says Sall

e. But with a noble scorn filling my eye, and floatin

by Bub Smith to William Wallace, for I felt a goo

llace sent him

to go to: he wuz a sot man, and would do as he

to go to Samuel G. Tild

ent him to Willi

amin P. Butler or Mr. Bayard

to another one. And so it went on; and Bub Smith traipsed round, a

m errents round all

rents wuz just and right, but they couldn'

hey wanted to drink. They wanted to drink every thing they could, and everyw

d to have the power in their own hands: they loved to

ut they was exceptions. Most every one of 'em said t

bein' a little in liquor at the time, and bein' talkative; he

ry. He said-for the liquor had made him very open-hearted and talkative-that they knew the course they was pursuin' in re

ote for 'em from morn in' till night, and so they dassent tackle the ring. And if wimmen was allowed to vote, they knew it was jest the same thing as breaking the ring right in two, and destroying int

man unpopular. But," says I, "I am glad to know they have got a reason, if

'em one by one, alone, now you jest carry 'em before the hull batch on 'em together." I told him to

, a long petition come from thousands and thousands of wimmen on this very subjec

the table, and acted so haughty and overbearin' towards it, that Bub said he was afraid to tackle 'em. He said "he knew they would throw Dorlesky's errents under the table, and he was afra

ure-minded women in the land, loaded down with their hopes, wet with their tears-if they turned their hearts', prayers and deepest desires into ridicule, throwed 'em round under their feet, they wouldn't pay no attention to Dorlesky's errents, they wouldn't notice one little vegitable

ds, "they might be gentlemen in every other place on earth; but in this one move of theirn," as I o

ter's steel engraving in the face, to think I

ys think it is best, if you can possibly arrainge it in that way, to give up one day, or half a day, to feelin' bad over any perticuler disapintment, or to worry about any thing, and do all your worryin' up in that time, and then give it up for good, and go to feelin' happy agin. It is also

land, and for the men too. And I kep' up my bad feelin's till pretty n

will shine agin; and He who holds you in His hand, holds the destinies of the nations. He

real well agin-a