We Have Received a pamphlet, Charleston Daily News (Article, 1867)
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WE HAVE RECEIVED a pamphlet entitled "An Appeal Against the Anarchy of Sex." It is a vigorous protest against what are vulgarly styled women's rights, and though not as well put together as might be, contains some striking and novel points. The writer is severe, if not ungallant, when he refers to the so-called "strong-minded females" as "persons who seem to constitute substantially a kind of third sex, not to speak, of somewhat monstrous aspect;" and we think that some people will dispute his knowledge of the sex when he says that "women are so constituted that they will do whatever man wishes them to do." He certainly makes, what one portion of the female sex will consider a very conclusive argument against women going to the polls as voters, when he says, "for, be it remembered, Biddy is to be there as well as her mistress, and in that unwonted encounter what scenes may arise muse surely give us pause." His philosophic conclusion, from a study of the whole matter, is "that the male and female man constitute an essential unity--that they must always be considered together, [?] not apart, and that the responsible representative of this entity is the male."
