Evening Courier (Newspaper) - February 22, 1847, Milwaukee, Wisconsin E V E VOLUME I MILWAUKEE W T MONDAY FEBRUARY 22 1847 NUMBER 1 C O V R I E R BY WILLIAM II SUILIVAN a year payable in OF MARSHALL M SPEECH friend Madison furnished us speech of this Hon Gentleman It is said to be ffe speech of the session It is the speech of Uie last of onr We have read it ly It is the work of much lime and evidently the master work of the man the not the speech tho apology of a mart struggling under the conviction of wrong too cold to be subdued by ad- monition unwilling to J his erring slepa arid madly lo make he ptar the belter In groat effort of mind that mind be or grant it im its own features upon its offspring a disguise moie or successful tat not Ihu lens to him who will it it inhere author's self conscience social look out from overy and the same cold indifference to human the same unsympathising spectator of human hopes or fours the impenetrable be calculating politician the unmitigated lawyer It is in whorl the speech of the Honorable Gentleman m ido for his purpose to meet Ais case out one care or thought for the to il is It is tlie mirror of the mad with every thing because he it not and raging at every of Sjr c in u pot he betrayed his own The speech is the portrait of tjio author In reviewing tho one we must notice the features of BIO Wo are told by the gentleman in the that the Convention that framed the tion was too numerous This is always against popular representation Shut the mouths of the people im- mediate and open the lipri of thi oracular few Let not the masses speak brute sway them from thought It Is only the select me that is com- petent to declare the wishet and calmly cise the thought of the many This ing distrust pi tlie people this abominable inborn in some lo degrade understanding and scandalize the integrity of the masses of the people in every paragraph Tho that wisdom in- and arc lo be found only in lew while tion and dishonesty aie the legitimate of he labors of tho many The of has always been the fact When did the m isses ever commit a wrong until they were deceived by corrupt Even in he cases presented m illustration by tho the banishment of and the of Socrates than of e tion oi Jesus C The chief of lews as welt is of the Government obliged to resort to t IB subornation of witnesses lo substantiate the charge of against Him they could bring the masses of people to in hv crucifixion Kven at this dij political in trailers and demagogues are to efforts of deception to give an lir of honesty to hoir schemes before the people ere can for array their designs thoy know weft the rebuke prompt and effectual with which thoy will bo met Can there be a higher more truthful oluntary com- li the integrity of the masses of iho people If then the of lilt masses plo is provided foi by the law the practice of deception is rendered difficult f the arc intelligent and honest increasing Uic number of fives we obtain a huger amount ol and intelligence in the representative body would undoubtedly be quite agreeable ti the and his peculiar friends could holding doctrines be id to a Constitution fo tho people of Wisconsin But we they have more reliable ma erial and are satisfied fo select their own fiat purpose But how are we to hope for a better con- tention or a one? Ho tells us that the late convention into two factions well known those factions of but a body of the convention were very fa from being If so hew then can the gentleman assure us that fifty-two will be lee factious than were one hundred While arith calculation leaves us quite in the dark an to the notation metaphysical inquiry i equally at If twenty men in the las convention divided into factions how will fif wo in the next Will the nest convention do Wil more The gentleman un doubtedly will be one of Wa he not Did he not divide off will or the of the And if h did DO then would save him from another And if he of ne falls who can hope to Will th fifty-two bo more stable The gentleman vo ted for the 6th of the Bank Article He soya he to vote for stn Iting it wit the final revision but prev otth to timo got in a and wen hortte Will he that section ftt th commencement of another wiH vote to strike it out at the close Or will he up are in than and fly the nidge of thw cool col- ty of their wuL And to are to say kicked over the traces who ped his bridle and broke from the team tainly a majority of the convention did work well and accomplished the woik committed to charge especially ter the baulky jades were unharnessed and let go Thus much for the remarks of the man upon the convention It will be borne in mind that this of the Honorable waf delivered upon the in the Council providing for a now But the essay is upon the Constitution A labored excuso foi opposing it A great effort of small material to get a position and define it It is a pity the is an unsuccessful one The objections ol the gentleman to the Constitution aio 1st Tho Article in to the rights of Married Women and Exemption The Bank Article ad The number of Representatives in the 4th The Elective These we propose to notice m order In doing so we not to be But we both desire and sub- ject wilh freedom and candor Mr Strong has out of the way to write an essay it as a speech pose Clearly she may sue for her jointly With her Husband it is true But her name to use the delicate and gentlemanly that haa became fashionable of The may recover damage for the loss of service of his wife The same rights are by this anteed to the wife arc teed to the husband's Yet Mr reasons that it would unsex the woman to her in the of the law above the condition of a favorite pony Human is hardly equal to reasoning upon such monstrosities Manly sensibility is goaded to the quick when auch sentiments are uttered wilh such unblushing hardihood Every fibre of a generous manly heart quivers with nation when his wife his mother his sister lu's daughter are traduced by ny upon his own work ho shall be measured By his own standard tried By isi own course shall he be judged Il was the de of a certain party ef men though casually f by party division to excite all possible for assault and battery If a man beats against the Convention hoping no his wiio with a stick larger than his thumb that thei people would overlook the merits of the Constitution in dislike to tlie the to bo and circulated to influence their upon the ever over unsexed when he brought her into by foreclosing a mortgage 1 Oh No Not at all act is by the fees iu prospect She may come to court defendant but not 1 j JV fl 1 it Constitution that will use hat tie means for the of her family S have us believe thut the man creates within her all thoso high morat those generous and delicate which her The tion their source to the God that made her Wbich is Tell us ye husbands brothers of Wisconsin Tell us wives and sisters which is right? Is woman as is alleged naturally bad lute means ity to ruHh into all manner of crime and infamy This is the argument and the only argument of thu opponents of chis article of the Constitution The only means of pre- serving her conjugal fidelity maternal love her tender regard for all her household is to despoil her on her marriage of all hsr property People of Wisconsin is this your estimate of her character Will you sanction as plaintiff She may be dragged before courts for the purpose of divesting her of her property but it apr pear there even in name for the purpose of protecting her property To such ridiculous absurdity is Mr Strong driven in defence of his more ridiculous Again wo are told if tho husband interferes with her property she may sue and con- fine him in la And is Hot imprisonment allowed ody that framed il iev a They wish to ar- may she not by the existing law complain of lign and try the Convention and not the Con- hut ion But it understood that the le well know the subject of their on It is the Constitution and the on only A law for any people must dy be one of compromise of al preference and opinion The gruat question is whether we shall lave a upon by mutual or w hether by man adhering to every minute we shall cny ourselves the blessings of a written Con- He who expects the adoption of a IOM without in respects liis n others that others may in turn r to jim but a poor judge of by suit brought and man nature aud doomed to disappointment If the opinions of all men were the u should no law for all mankind instinctively move in harmony Tho him be a witness against him and him in prison But the gentleman may re- ply that it is not very likely that an ate husband knowing the law will beat her wilh a stick his thumb Granted and We too say that it is not likely that the husband will have occasion to in- with his wife's property But it is not true that the wile may under the Constitution sue the husband in trespass for interfering with his wife's property There is not one word of truth in the statement The Constitution provides for no such proceeding or any but simply makes it the duty of thar legislature to pan laWs clearly defining her rights and providing appropriate for protecting those rights statute does not repeal or abolish the common law the latter is the Inw of the land By that injuries wife's property ten daughters by rejecting this Constitution 1 Let us now turn to the justice of this article God has assigned lo woman the function of beating md rearing children To secure the performance of this Junction he has implanted within her affections which no ex- ternal can eradicate or repress When her affections are placed upon the of her choice the clings to him through trial He never sinks so that her not follow him level its shafts at him she who would tremble 1 i A i dungeon and Courts the blow on him She makei him the father of hei children and he and they become her idols Is it right that she be doomed to bear and rear children for state and and the state deprive her of lie means of feeding and clothing them Is it just that en her be- coming a wife and mother she shall be de- spoiled of the means ot sustaining herself and where trie wife's properly has been tifken for the husband's debts I have heard of one suet -n the Territory bui in nww cases out en this section tiot edy tht over by a few property wuler lev In i to curt these evils which are of raro occurrence and in most cases to is to be degraded the wife tho id for the creditor ed and the led morn and tions huddled First tlie tional provision wilt not have it's intended fect because in time cas of ten the wife nd control of the property Then in the breath the is to degraded by hor retaining it She will avail herself of the law and tlw iaw unsex her Sh 3 v ill coi unit her to of atM yet slie is to be taken from take care of it Shew to confide her properly to the husband mid yet she hi n He is all powerful over her and yet she him a mere n about the bouse Aio ple to be duped by such contradictory Is this the Daniel come to Truly the great was right when he said He aland n ion n no i lie hold to stiy uu lie universal respect paid to women in country iho effect of the it is ed by Enghsh ellers that may travel over the alone without It is so remarkable that it bus the at- tention of To show iry of it it o know that the law of England touching tho rights of women is tho sa no as in this try If of E igland ere no safe ill while of America aie il to turn her out from the loved home De to sonio oilier cause then crated by the birth of her children and the the K laws Di two death of her upon the cold charity of the same the world Is it right to strip her of trie substance father or mother or brother act of diversity admitted the necessity of is imp led Popular government of tne mass oi mind by concession aud upon great and measures for the regulation nd government ol tho whole Tho lion of the Union and that oE very State in she has been framed and upon these Guided by tins policy we proceed to no- ice objections urged by Mr Strong Mr Strong wife is to hold a must have the means it If it is trespassed upon she wife The does not alter law Her rights are declared the sarno as any other rights are declared but the remedy tor her wrongs are left to the common law and the where remedies for and injuries arq left It Is sing that a man of Mr Strong's standing should have thus trifled Our astonishment continued to increase till we read his opinion that tlie people were incompetent to elect their Judges Again Mr S says She can form a nci ship in with her husband under the name of John Doe Wife Tom or she may form a partnership with alone 01 with others added or they may be dormant partners and it will bo none of the husband's business who are her or paramours A beautiful compliment lo the women of Wisconsin We doubt not they will ato thought and elegance of diction We are at a loss which most to ad- mire the depth of argument or delicacy of ex- pression On reading this all would be con- if all were not charmed The roosters are not a priming to their excelling They must doff their crest for an army of cocks would vote to him the There are some men at least now and one who are so of confiding affection so unloving and unlovable themselves that they are women Con- scious that they ara devoid of every quality to excite affection or secure or deserve esteem they can neWer think of wife or sister out associations of infidelity and paramours Born in a snow drift and cradled upon an berg they see the sunshine of domestic love all around them but feel not its power They be able to bring suits in her own name She will then be sole plaintiff She must juve the power oi slicing the husband as well no H ho interferes with it she may Mie him m and confine him in ail on execution for is allowed Wa have grouped together more idle and puerile scarecrows than we lad supposed tlie most inveterate woman er 01 woman fearer could conjure up This s the of a gallant Captain of a ant host Before its thunder is lost in the of and dimity it is but fair that we let turn fire his last He It fabled that once upon a time c Women rule mother at an adjoining house replied So hey do while stui another chimed in hey do every Where Tho gallant gentleman and liis three en aie a formidable host indeed for poor unprotected woman to encounter We are witling to face fearful foo in her look upon every demonstration of again 10 pay but when our hero advances backed Dp by or devotion with distrust because they have cocks all nested spurred and crowing no heart to sympathise with Us farray is too appalling The sternest must They are excited to jealousy at every may have bequeathed citizens are questions which youi hearts have already answered however you may vole on thb Constitution W e know that it is easy for lawyers to talk of debtor and creditor have seen a miserable shark of trie law a levy upon and strip the cradle of baby linen while the heartbroken mother was convulsed in agony But God in righteous retribution stript his of wife and of his child The heart thut can will its right to its holy sympathies voice of me of He that is bohl has a right to and having the right must have whereon to live She who bears tha state son or daughter earns a title to its subsistence and the generous sous of Wisconsin will ac knowledge hei title It is well that the property of ried women in this will consist ol cles of small value The father gives a ple of cows p the mother household furniture beds spoons and housekeeping paratus a small lot may be These are given her at the time of leaving the ioof to enter upon a sphere of existence II come on the youni pair their little sanctuary of home may be entered the articles of comfort and necessity which provided wrested from them and sold for less than enough to pay lawyers and she fee tlie family ed out of doors and left without a shelter or place to lay their heads This too at a period in a woman's life the most eventful and trying and decisive oi Follow tins pair once so full of hope and vigor The husband manfully with his hard fortune Tlie wife uncomplaining conceals the arrow I ha has entered her soul By haid industry he has found homo and gathered about ii the meant of Hope again beams upon their joy up the countenance of the wife and tl is Ins reason for the of omen France He suys one of tl e of Paris are illegitimate and he alleges relation to the rtv of married women the cause But t that iho of in same asm ot thp two cities is widely and yd there is the same result in bolh of not be the muse o Frendi been upon feature oi society bat Mr Strong is the who has ever of it fact that the could Again law revay as in France y t women proverbial for It is clear that premises arts false his and holu If tins article anu in the would us believe is it not tl at tlie aru the Li res of Xew Voik an 1 ai d Missouri That it lias ah eady passed of manly confidence upon the brow of the husband They look bock upon the past and feel that the joy of the present is heightened the retrospect In the midst of their tual congratulations a knock heard at the door Again the officer of the law appears seizes upon their homestead and household demonstration of goods again to pay riot a debt but lawyer's alien fFs feeb Follow on the pair once and again so full of before of prowess It of affection because thoy that requires more a Hercules to stand before do not deserve it They marry for such a of such a force And if and lemain husbands that they may continue pantaloons and fly panic stricken tyrants They not only appropriate the wife's property but despoil hot ot her They would be supremely wretched did they not lender their wives so They would be jealous of their own shadow were they not conscious that it is an unfeeling as themselves Deriving character and consequence from pantaloons they conceive of no means to sustain their position but by contemn ing Prevented by law or cowardice trampling upon the rights of men with deathly grasp to the er of tyrannizing over woman When others would rescue their victims they their what must carry among but despoil harlot her laces and Tho whole drift of the argument is that there in leason to apprehend he rule oi men And it is not a little remarkable that the modesty him Irom assuming its and induced him to add to its by it into the mouths of roosters The cackling o- geese tho crowing of ters is to bo the of Wisconsin Merer lifter let every chivalrous sots of the Badger State steep with his open if he hears a cock crow lei to the women urc him The objection H hat if a rights of property are trespassed upon the law will give her redress This is seriously imputed by the learned gentleman as a objection But pray Sir would you not give her the of the law at Would you manize Would you deny This monstrous doctrine her to a condition than the the South bad it extend iof four in m tMm two of We leave it to the r laws of her country in her behalf But fte it of be But hope There arts few who know how much of woe the heart bear Many try tho experiment but sink under its weight The wile is again a houseless and as and is u ing- il way by lliu power of mid to pe h me medium of fi lud Jiers tbo the opponents But it is ihal article opens tho dooi to it ih gravely by many that the husband in failing vill convey his to his wife er directly or th complice hi the all mr give a fan and of it 01 whether tl en intention tJ if and to deceive the Section 1 All uf wile liy licr and bv licr 01 her shall be her ate Lawn be lor tie lie more ol ihu v le o aslo lieu tmi c tlie wife bos n separ Ho i slinlt NOUN Lf il nt of lablc f life tin vi Ifu such to her despair rushes o cup The husband m or mad and bewildering excitement The children nre inmates of the alms house supported is to say kept alive at the public expense Now who has gamed by all tins of human The in not yet paid The and sheriff's fees have again accumulated Who has profiled by the Tho state has lost a family have lost father and mother and God has losl in the down trodden man This man cartnot be sincere in his bolore ice It will it wife by article can acquire no property whatever from her husband But i paid the may com ey it to a third person and lie lo tbo In buch case H t irom the h and is not hers It fr md upon the law mid the conveyance void and cnancc-n- will reach it either in of die wife or tho thud Itut article clones the door o rand he ire to p a to heir fraud The roosters and rush to the fight not her de- monte No roan who his own but with woman still In their view merits and advances them in sincerity puts nothing is so terrible as1 ari uncaged woman forth one another In one the lu loose the tiger but there place he says this provision will curse can be no securi V for while a will reduce to tion of a man the ho man it to red from her appropriate sphere away from her dren and be cast out rudely into the strifes and turmoil of the world thert to have her finer tne ruling motives of her and trait of loveliness blotted If the gentleman believes himself he be- that to to With property will at once estrange her and make bar the master how the his e If there is a contemptible object on earth it is that man the Weapons of law with which to govern his own household But the calumny of Mr S upon is no less than itf Constipation he It no in business the d and wife It sanctions no partnership wife dees be il Mr S to IM ivtsh into The fe A hard cases There hare been vey to Ilie wife the wit ess 10 ion and will be to latino Laws door to lo not provide will H mid expose it AH the law now debtors con- vey lo prevent it be- ing akon on But clo close the door upon n oh lent At opt tlie exemption and you give live and pay their debts and all to practice such and devices to avoid starvation or j y Mr Strong couple the exemption with the one in rein ion to the of ried women and levels at both denunciation Whc her his are just a brief JM of the policy and op- of our Constitutional enable to The laws in re at on to creditor have very much ch as has advanced Atone lime the debtor be sold into slavery to the dea bji Again lh ft of fiu id Us k his relations ot Again rising the wight be debtor might be m I his life without of for the i Wi
