The Yazoo City Whig and political register., 1839-08-02

ing than that Of the female, the mental ca
pacitE Of the male bears also, naturally. a
similtr relation TO that of the female. Such
probability seems TO be in unison with the
peculiar tie of dependence, above alluded
Eto--ind also with the distinction as to the
actifs and the passiUe between the sexes.
Man by being more active, is enabled to.
diminish the force of his feelings, and thus
to give reason greater, and as il we're,
double portion of scope and exercise. Wo-
man,by being more passive, has her feelings
pentup within her, and often times, alas! so
increasing in quantity and intensity, that
she almost seems to be cursed with su-
perfectation Of feeling-and by reason of
which, her mind is not so much exercised
and strengthened as that of man; nor in-
deed is her physical capacity adequate to the
endurance of, nor does it require so much
exercise. Some Of the most exquisitely
beautiful poetry is founded upon and illus
trates the peculiarly passiUe character of
woman. 1t may not be amiss to observe,
here that an investigation Of this subject,
although it may not lead one to certainty of
conclusion, would yet lay open to the stu
dent, and render him more capable of adj
miring the mutual adaptation and harmony
existing between the two sexes of the human
race, and between each sex and exter-
nal circumstance and would also give him
some pleasing and profitable knowledge of
the physical, organic and intellectual laws
of the universe, their operations and ten.
denotes, as it regards pleasure and pain,
happiness and misery. Upon such an inves-
tigation, he would discover the distinguish
ing characteristics of woman and man-he
would become imbued with more self
satisfaction, and be rendered more incapa-
BILE Of any species of mean and contempt
bic envy-and in regard to the subject more
particularly before US, would probably feel
convinced, that the word 6 Blue if it ever
can or ought to be at all used as term of
reproach, is applicable only in the way of
impressing our natural want of admiration
for the woman whose mind has been made
by nature, or rendered by cultivation, other
wise than genuinely feminine. The woman,
who is in the least unsexed either mentally
or physically, man cannot admire so much
as the genuine woman Of natures purest
and most perfect mould.
FALsEHooD.
And there are those who in this world Of woe
Dole, and lie, until them pure Truth
Its nature and its being seems to love,
And their whole life becomes itself lie.
THE STARS.
"Fortune, fame, power, life have named them
selves Stars BYRON.
The heavens are darken'd DER with gloom,
Save that one solitary star is seen,
Whose light, tho' in itself most chaste and pure,
Seems robd with dusky, redden'd hue, that's ta'en
Thus seemeth Virtue when tits robed with gloom,
And the thick clouds of dark adversity.
Such is the aspect of the purest Love,
Clad in misfortune-fxed in broken heart,
The nature nor of Virtue nor of Love
Is chang'd; although tits oft that Virtue thus
Doth wear the hue of stern misanthrophy,
And seem as Il were the gall of bitterness
And loves pure light is stain'd by darkest hate
And with'ring deadly curse of all around
IT'S thus that Virtues deem'd misanthropy-
And thus is Love miscall'd misogyny.
ssEfath this lovely face
Ruled, like wand'ring planet, O'er me?''
SHAKsPEARE.
In beauty and mystery and divinity are, indeed
the bright stars of Heaven and the fair women Of
earth most like unto each other: and the gentle,
IeulDHHR llSuI % GhCHS VNoL ubs
suffuseth the heart of man with purity and bliss.
See'st thou yon beautiful star,
So mildly shining from afar?
How steady pure is its light
AItho' it twinkleth to the sight!
That stars a type of woman's virtue,
The fairest flow: man doth nurture.
Like the charm of its gentle wavering beam,
Bright woman, when frail, to our vision may seem
But oh not less steadily pure doth shine
The light Of the Virtue of woman divine.
Tho darkened by clouds or dimmed by the haze,
Sometimes it may fail 10 gladden. our gaze;
/ deem not the stars soft purity gone
Nor the virtue of woman,
Tho betrayed and forlorn.
'Tis not charity's part
To pierce with dart
The bosom of maiden when basely deceived
In whose Virtue we once so fondly believed.
Sweet Friendship, though tits oft like the glitter
ing dew
Which ffeshens the aow'r, and pois'nOus pOrasite
too,
More sweet doth become, more vividly glows,
When it shields woman's heart from its venomous
And Virtue and Truth bid US ever feel sure,
That woman, tho frail, yet as angel is pure.
B. r. r.
A CoMpL1MENT TO MIssrssIpPr ENTER,
pR1zE.-The New York Times of the l4th
lit, in mentioning the Mississippi Import
no Company, adds in very complementary
eTms that, The object is to open direct
rade with Europe, by means Of steam ships.
There is no reason to doubt the ultimate
uccess of the enterprize. The Mississip-
,ians, whatever may be said of their bank
Il.