The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-09-08 00:00:00, page 1

FOR TH^_MIRROUR.
Sexual Cbara&eriftics d
THE bodies of males, though not
without exceptions, are, in gen
eral, stronger, larger, and more active
than those of the females. In the hu
man species, the male is not only larg
er than the female, but his muscular
fibres are firmer and more compad,
and hit whole frame indicates a Supe
rior ftreDgth and robuftnels of texture.
He does not acquire his full growth,
and best form, till he arrives at the
age of thirty years. But, in woman,
the parts are rounder, and the muscu
lar fibres more feeble and lax, than
those of men, and their growth and
form.are perfect at the age of twenty.
Afimilar observation is applicable to
the minds of the twoJexes. Man ii,
comparatively, a bold, generous, and
enterprising animal. Women, on the
contrary, are timid, jealous, and dis
posed to adions. which require left a
gility and ftreogtb. Hence, they are
entitled to claim, and by their amia
ble weaknesses they actually receive,
our protedion. Men are endowed
with majesty of figure and force of
• mind ; but beauty and the graces are
the proper charaderiftics of women.
The laxity and foftnefs of their tex
ture may, in some measure, account
for the timiditylnd listlessness of their
'' Arion ; for, when the bodies of
me ) are related by heat, or by any
other cause, their minds become not
%^7 fcl/^ undetermined,
and inadire.
The social intercourse of women
fofteos ihecbportions, and sooths the
cares and labours of the men. Their
little female humours, caprices and
follies, give rife to many exertions of
virtue. They excite in us compas
sion, humanity, and tenderness of af
feaion. The delicacy of their bodies,
and the weakness of their minds, re
quire our support and orotedioD, In
return, the gentle & insinuating man
ners of the women have a dired ten
dency to foften and smooth the
natural roughness of men. In most
governments, women have the entire
management and training of children,
till their charadera and difpoGtions^
are almost fixed for life. This is an
important office ; and would require
more education and sense than they
commonly receive either from nature
or art. But, their persevering and un
remitting attention to their charge, ef
peci4lly when children are sick or
weakly, is so truly aftonilhing, th|t
no man could have patience to per
form the laborious and painful talk,
Women are likewise said to faffer
bodilj pain with more refaction than
men. Women reason rapidly § but
their reafoniog, though often acute, is
. seldom solid..
Modesty is one of the most diftin
guilhing and attraaive charaaerigics
of the female sex. This is the great
defence with which Nature has armedl
them against the artifices and deceitl
of the males. Modesty has a double
effect : It both attracts and repels.
It heightens the desire of the male,
and deters him from rudeoefs, or im'
so proper behaviour. Were women de
prived of this amiable quality, all their
charms would vanish, and the ardour
of lore would be extinguilhed. .It is,
therefore, not only the interest of fe
males to cultivate modesty, but toI
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guard, with the most anxious atten
tion against the -finalleft encroach
ments. Every attack, however ap
parently insignificant, should be re
pelled with spirit and intrepidity. To
men of sensibility, a single glance of
the eye will tell them their condua is
improper, and make them not ' only
instantly desist, but prevent any fu
ture attempt. There is no part of the
female ch,rafter which men revere so
much as modesty. It is the brightest
and most valuable jewel with which
a woman can be adorned. A fine
woman without modesty, instead of
gaining the affections of men, be
comes an obje& of contempt, and e
ven of difguft.' It is equally the in
terest of men to cherish, arid not so
injure by indelicacy, a quality from
which they derive so much pleasure
and advantage.
It is cot unworthy of remark, that
,modesty is by no means confined to
the human species. Evident traces of
it are discoverable in the brute crea
tion. Even so low as the infed tribes,
most females repel the firft attacks of
the males' If this is not modesty, it
has all the effeds of it ; for it height
ens the refpeft and affection of the
males, and makes them employ every
alluring art to procure the regard of
the female.
It is a curious fa&, that most car
niverous quadrupeds are more averse
from devouring women than men.—
The bears of K^mftehatka follow the
women, when gathering wild fruits in
the woods, and, though most rapa
cious animals, do them no farther
harm than robbing them^of part of
their fruit.* The afped of man be
ing more bold, may, perhaps, create
an idea of competition and danger,
and excite the ferocity and courage of
the animal There seems to be an
inftioftive refped, if not dread, of the
human kind implanted in most ani
mals. If this be the case, the above
fa^ amounts to a high compliment to
the women ; for they receive more
favour from the brute creation than
men. finis.
* Gazette Literaire, Vol. 1. P. 482. °
for the MIRROUR.— mr russell,
By inserting the following objurgations in jour
'ufejul channel, ,ou will exceeding!, oblige a
friend to Literature.,
BEING an Intimate Iriend to Phi
lomalbes,,nd a near neighbor to
the Friend to hath, Ithink it is not
my duty to let my pen lie idle, while
theirs are employed to so noble a pur
pose. My dear firs ! you that enjoy
a land of freedom ! while other ' na
tions are iffl^ed with wars and tu
mults, bloodshed and daughter; you
that can enjoy the fruit or your viqe
and fig-tree, and none to make you
afraid; whilst distant nations of the
earth are terrified with fears within,
and fightings without—you, I fay, are,
the people that are bieffed with all
Ithe privileges that heart can with, to
Lafave your children a decent educa'
tion : And yet, how, greatly do you
neglect it / How often do we fee
young gentlemen and ladies (by ap.
pearance) put to the bluffy a °d covers
ed with fhameand confufion,only for
the wane of common literature ? The
ar^of reading and; writing, (as Dr.
Watts expresses it) or to the some im
port-are the grea<eft bleffi gs that
ever God sent upon the children of
MONDA Y, September 8, 1794.
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men. But with what careleffnefti
What inattention and contempt are
those blessings treated !-—-After
my hearty entreaties for a thorough
reformation of the great and impor
tant point of education, I shall con
clude, and fubferibe aqyfeff a most af
leaiooace friend to the rising genera
tion. +
Arise, ye parents 1 let jnftru&ion flow,
T' preserve your children from the paths
of woe! PHILANTHROPY.
Ldtejl Foreign Intelligence^
France.
NATIONAL CONVENTION. • •
6 PRAIREAL, MONDAY MAY 20
Speech of Roberspierre, on the attempt to
, affffinate him.
" TT will be a sublime fubjea of contem
-1 platioh for pofterity.—lt is even now a
foedacle worthy of heaven and earth to be
hold the Representatives of the French peo
ple, Rationed on the almost inexhaustible
Volcano of confpiracies,placingwith one hand
at the feet of the Great Eternal, the homage
of a mighty people, & with the other launch
ing the thunderbolt against the tyrants fom
binfd against thern-slaying the foundation
.of the firft Republic in the world, and re
calling from exile, liberty, justice and virtue.
" Is it necessary for me to recal to your
attention the torrent of crimes which has
flowed from the powers in league against us?
Is it necessary to go over again the calami
tous catalogue of plots which they have foft
ered and fomented ? Is ikneceffary again to'
disgust the ears of this assembly with the
dark detail of their filthy intrigues and foul
manoeuvres ? No, such a narrative can nei
ther be grateful nor necessary. The Na
tional Convention of France, the people of
France; yes, thirty millions of men, whom
God has created after his own image ; thirty
millions of men declare the Combined Pow
ers, to be guilty of all the miseries which
France has endured for five years. They de
clare folemnly,that those powers have direct
ed the tempests which have wafted this land ;
that they have created all those convulfibns
which have agitated the bosom of the Re
public ; that' they have twisted and torn a
sunder all the sinews of society and relation
ship-; that they have spirited up the parent
against his child, the brother against broth
er, and the wife against her hulband.
. ^ But let us rejoice, let us return thanks
to God, that we have served our country so
well as to be deemed worthy of the poignard
of tyranny. The glory of incurring dan
gers, belongs also to us. Our abode in the
capital fubje&s us to the fame perils, as a
Ration on the field of battle. We have now
no cause so envy our brave brethren in arms.
We pay in more than one way the debt we
owe to the country.
'' What men on the earth ever defended
without difficulty and danger the rights of
humanity i Sortie months are now elapsed
since I made use of the following words, to
my colleagues of the Committee of Public
Safety:
“ If the arms of the Republic be vi&orious
4f we tear the veil from the faces of trai
; tors—if we overwhelm faction, the Com
bined Powers will procure our assassination."
I was not therefore furprized to fee my pro
phecy realized. ^^
" Surrounded by the assassins J have alrea
dy imagined myfelftQ be in that new order
of things to which they would fend me.—l
am attached to life Only because life enables
me to do good to my country, and to support
th, cause of Justice : an increased and in
creasing energy swells my veins at this mo
ment ; andW feel redoubled define to attack
the traitors who conspire against my Country
—against human nature, and against God
himfelf. The greater their endavours to
terminate my earthly career, the greater shall
be my adivity in the performance of a&ions
ufeful to my equals: I will at least leave
them a toil!, the perusal of which shall make
tyrants and their satellites tremble: I shall,
perhaps, reveal several momentous secrets,
which a kind of pufilanimous prudence has
hitherto induced me to conceal: Ifliall dis
close the object to which the fafety of my
country and the triumph of Liberty tend.
If the perfidious hands that dired the rage of
the assassins, be not yet visible to all men, I
ihall leave to lime the talk of withdrawing
mra#fiim =^^ b *^'*
the veil; and I ffiall confine myielf to those ,
truths which can alone save the Republic."
" The fate of the Republic is not entirely *
fixed, and the vigilance of the Rational Rep
resentatives is more than ever necessary- ' .'
" Whafconftitutes a Republic i Not 'vic
tory—nor riches— -not power-Dot tempora
ry enthusiasm. It is the wisdom of the la*s;'
and above all, it is public virtue : It is the °
purity and lability of the maxims of govern
ment. Laws are to a&, maxims of govern
ment to dire&, morals to regenerate. If one
of these necessary parts fail, therb can only
be error, pride, pamons, ambition; avarice.
'' The Republic, in that case, folar'from
reprefling vice, would give it a wider range,
and higher flight, and thus the reign of ty
ranny Would again commence ; for vice "and ?
tyranny ate infeparAMe companions. Who- ,
ever is not'mafter of himfelf, is made tobe
the Have of others.—Do you wrfh to know f
who are ambitious men ? Look at those, who
are the patrons of villains, the protestors of
counter revolutionists, thb projectors of in- " °
trigues and confpiracie^ the scorners of vir- "
tue, the corrupters of the public morals.,
" Attempts were made to involve the Re
public in confufion and chaos.—lt was there
fore necessary to render these attempts inef
fedual, and to create in the world a moral ,
and political harmony. The people of France
have two guarantees of the possibility of ex
ecuting this heroic enterprise. The princi
ples of real representation and their own vir
tues. .It is easy tbf on folidate liberty—lt is
easy to deftrey it. If France weie fora few
months only to be governed by a corrupt
Legillature, liberty would be annihilated.—^
Ycur unanimity and your energy have aston
ished and convinced all Europe ; and if you
were as confident on (bis fubje&, as your en
emies are, your triumph would be easy and
complete.
" I have spoken of the virtues of
the people, but these virtues, resplen
dent through the whole course of the
Revolution, will not be (efficient of
themselves to defend us from haions
—Why ? Because there are two peo
pie in France : The one is the mi^te
ty mass of pure abd virtuous ci Zens,
fupportm of justice and friends of ^b-,
erty ; the other, the horde of haicut
and intriguing men ; a pratirg, b b
ling race, jugling and imposing, who
are seen every where, who abuse eve^ •
ry thing, who occupy the tribunes,
and often are public functionaries ; a
people of cheats, foreigners, hypocri
tical counter-revolutionists ; who tike
their flatten between the French peo-.
pie and their reprefentative^ for the
purpose of deluding the former, and
calumniating the latter, and for the
purpose of checking all operations.
66 As long as this impure race ex
ists, the fituarion of the republic will
be disastrous and precarious^lt is
therefore, for you, Members of the
National Convention, to deliver it by °
an imposing energy, and by an unal-;
terable unanimity. Those who seek
to divide us, who check the career of
Government, who endeavour to form
a dangerous coalition, those are your
enemies, and the enemies of the coun
try, They are the agents of the for
eign powers, ,the successors of the
Briffots, the Herberts,& the Dantons.
" Perhaps in disclosing these truths,
l sharpen the poinard of the assassin :
It is for that purpose that I do disclose
them. Persevere in your principles,
and go on in your triumphant career:
You will then overwhelm vice, and
serve your country : 1 have lived long
enough,.
"I have lived long ehough, for I
have teen the people of France rife
from the depth of degradation, and
from the bosom of slavery to the pin
nacle of glory and Republican virtue.
I have lived long enough, for I»ave
seen a more aftonilhing prodigy than %
this, a prodigy which Monarchical
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