The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-05-18

of God, by the improvement of his whole nature,
intellectual moral and physical, and the welfare
of all around him, whose happiness can be affected
by his conduct
Compared with such farmer to the eve of
reason and common sense, how contemptibly des-
pcable do the herd of vulgar great appear To
mass of dishonesty, fraud, and deceit, which would
well nigh disgrace a penitentiary; disgusting,
boating vanity; mean, base contracting selfish
ness, at war with every noble and generous emo
ton Of the human soul-tne latter characters not
unirequently add the indispensable stupidity of
believing that their wealth or their station entities
them to superiority over the honest, the intelli-
gent the virtuous and the patriotic farmer, con-
trasted with whom, in the estimation of every
viItuous and intelligent being they occupy rank
no less inferior in dignity and worth than that of
the most worthless prohigate, swindling culprit,
when compared with the most honorable and ex-
allied of those distinguished benefactors humankind,
whose virtues and whose talents have shed lusre
on the dignity of human nature.-Ien Farmer.
EMPLOYMENT OF WoMEN.-In every country,
from Turkey upwards, woman has her certain
place. In Italy, in Switzerland, in Germany, in
England in Scotland, and, more than all, in
woman adoring France, have seen her, in instan-
ces without number, performing offices of hardship
and notorety, with which her heaven-given, wo-
manly nature seems to- be totally incompatible.
That the age ofchivalry has passed from Europe,
needs not the meagre evidence that no thousand
swords leaped from their scabbards to save the beau
tiful Marin Antoinette. Travel over Europe, the
proofs shall stare you in the face wherever you go.
In Munech woman does the work OF printers
devil. In Vienna have seen her making morter.
carrying hods, digging cellars, and wheeling forth
the clay; and there have also seen females har-
messed with man, nay, with dog, and once even
with jackass, to a cart dragging the same through
the most public streets ofthe metropolis. In Dres-
den she saws and splits the wood, drags coal about
the city in little wagon, and wheels eatables for
miles through the highways to market in huge
barrow.
In all these places, in France and in Italy, may
you note her with a basket and scraper, Fastening
with all speed to monopolize the filth just fallen
upon the public routes. In France females do vast
ly more degrading and out-of-door work than in
England, and in Paris they are in as great request
as the mirrors themselves. A woman harnesses
diligence horses. A woman cleans your boots as
you rest them on her little stand at the Pont Neuf.
At the theatre it is woman who sells you your
ticket, and other women who take charge of the
boxes. At many mere business offices it is a wo-
man who does the business.-Would you bargain
at Chantes for load of wood, you bargain with
woman. Would you be conveyed publicly to the
south of France you receive your ght to place in
Coupee from woman. There is no shop of what
ever description, in which woman is not concern
ed. There is indeed hardly department in
which she does not seem to be efmanager.
London and Paris Adr.
Query-How is "acoman employed in South
ern Rice swamp!