Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-07-27
Mllscc!lancolls.
From the Spirit ofthe Ase.
WONAA-Her Postum and Daio

| NONAA-Her Postum and Duties.
| begin BY asserting, what to me is an axiom
that Ho1oon must 6e ci.ter n slare and irosiapl
I m ire and chaStc. There is no middle ground
Kepress no longer the full action Of women
! powers; favor the free Development Of their in
taliect; present truly noble end for their activ
~ and all fears for the weakness OF their hearts
/ or the decisions of their imacinatons may b,
/ laid aside
You wish 10 knit more closely the bha1s Of
/ family, oh men! yet yon suudcr them nv the
maxim, Man for the forum and workshop. wo-
| men Tor the domestic hearth Separated from
husbands and sons. fathers and brothers. what
remains for women but to console themselves.
in actual isoation and servitude. by dreaming OF
celestial country. where they they shall have
lfue rights OF citizenship, and be no more pressed
down by Inequalities and privileges denied
Nan!F you cndeavor to establish civil eqtqlirv
now; Noci"ty rests en- the family: 50 long as the
family IS founded in inequality. socety will re-
race It's old devious PATHS and sink back apain
INTO what IS called ',ho natural order OF things -
FROM the beginning Of the world there have
been slavaS ana masters. the oppressed and ty-
raPtS, the privileged by ser, race. birth ca~ie.
fortune: these viii coniiHuc iust so long as Won
refuse 70 tulhi the plain dutjas Of ratsrnitv to-
wards those whom God ha, given YOU as sisters
and companions.
Do you ask, what viii b the mission Of wo-
man beyond the limits of the family What.
indeed! She viii come To aid vou-in ra-ostal-
h>AlnT order IN the Wretchcdly mismanared cs.
adjustment witch is called tie State.-in sub
s'lttIag joSt distribution Of the products Of toll
FIR lha habitaal Iriyation meath which the bro
ken down aborer now eroans and suffers.
mot1crof a family worthy the name. loves
by preference the weak and suii',rinr anonr her
Children bat with anxious soicitude She seeks
70 protect all equally from hunger and cold. and
strives to awaken in all their hearts a sentiment
ofmutuaI sympathy win She not do for the
great family OF society, what She now does for
the small household, as soon as the narrow cir
Gle OF domestic affections is enlarged and raised
to tic level ct high humanitary interests.
1t Is as Christians as Cij-ens. rs Mothers.
that women should reclaim tie POSITION which be-
longs 10 them, in tie Church, in the State. In
tie Family
As Christians bacause they are Ike mon.
children Of God. and Christ himself has sum-
moned them to be his aroStics.
As CEisons, because they too are a rart of
tie people, emitted 10 TIE rights Of liberty and
equality enjoyed by other ctiscns.
Especially as Mothers, whose sacred fnrc-
tons arr SO often considered as incompatible
vita the duties Of ciJisensli2, should women re-
claim thcirrfght to watch over and guide their
children not only in tie acts Of civil in but
through The whole range Of political duties.
Ihns lar IN Ia" worlds History, Politics has
boon used As the art Of Expressing, ra;h than
Ct governing, the people: and governments lave
been forced, therefore. 10 maintain power by The
bdyon,t. 40 govern III thought. is 10 roprasS
moro CT less Eii.lUly. more or less bruta,iv ac-