The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-07-04
woMEN'S POSITION.

women little more chance. In tht
I Tribune we find smother Of her ar,icl es
from which we clip a passage or two:
i "The lions have written the books, ant
having persisted in making that part o
4our character which brings US in relation
10 themselves the prominent subject O
comment, they have ignored our oihel
attributes, till there is vague feeling
engendered that woman is the worse
for large endowments ofany kind what.
ever. lagos narrow and coarse exposi.
tion ol her vocation =
| To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer
is not far from The popular estimate. -,
Genius and beauty, Gods crowning gifts,
arc looked upon with disirust, if not with
dread. The fear that woman may de.
viate The slightest from convenlionalism,
in any way, has become nervous dis
ease with The public. Indeed, so little
is she trusted as a creation, that one
would think she were made marvellously
beautiful, and endowed with gift Of
thought and emotion, only for the purpose
ofendangeling her saleiy--a sort ofspirit-
ual locomotion with no check-wheel, a
rare piece of porcelain to be handled
gingeriy-in fact a creature with no
conservative elements within herself, but
left expressly thus, tha, man might supply
them, and lead, aud guide, and coerce
and caiole her as il pleased him best.
She is a blind Angel, neither TO heaven,
nor earth in herself, but if submitting
graciously 10 mans guidance, capable of
filling narrow somewhat smoky and very
uncertain nook OIL this small planet, aud
possibly TO win heaven through the per-
fecton Of suffering here.
Let her assert the laws Of her being,
LET her say she is capable Of more than
this narrow sphere, that she grieves and
fre,s in the cage, and the fault is grew
ous. She is i'll tempered, ambitious, un-
womanly--as though womanhood had
but one Specification. is even a re.
proach Cor her to have a will other own.
The voice Of her own soul within her
crying for space and recognition, must be
suppressed, lest she should be less sub.
servent as a wife, and less humdrum as
a mother; and yet the heroes Of their age
were not born Of your tame women. The
fathers Of Wesley aud Washington aud
NSpoleen we're far from being superior
men; indeed we should ratt er call them
very orderly, sensible, dull people, while
their mothers were each brilliant, indi-
vidua,ized, strongly marked characters,
with fine health and great personal
beauty.n ~. ID,
"Hereafter, in the progress ofevents, l
see no reason why the influence Of wo-
mar should not be acknowledged at the
ballot box; indeed, when we consider the
disorder and venality. prevailing there, il
would seem that her voice may be tie
great element needful 10 reform. The
fact Of her dropping ticket into recep-
tacle Of the kind, does not look hazard
ous TO her leminity; she might seem to
do this with little or no commoton, and
return in conscious dignity TO her house
hold, and there infuse. a b:aver cheer,
aud insil into the immature judgments
of these committed 10 her care, nobler
lessons OF life."
"Our right to a full life 10 the excer.
else Of full life-is the foundation o:
plea not that of the nursery and kitchen
merely-not tha, of the luxurious'saloon,
the haunts of fashion merely--for, dis
guise as men and women may, this per-
petual adulation, this fostering ofour pet
illness, our vanity, our love of luxury, is
but the mode ofhold'ng US in The pupil
age Of sex-recognising orly our rela-
tion in one aspect Of life and ignoring
all other claims. ] do not undervalue
the harmonies ofloye-.every woman owes
much of the graces Of her life TO these
the affections are all holy and beautiful,
but the laws of these are as diverse as
the mental character of their owners; and
while 10 some they may be all, 10 others,
however strong, they are but the frame
work, the foundation Of a great and har-
monious superstructure.
A SWIFT WIrNEss.-I'he Cincinnati
Commercial, Of this morni ig, giving the
following report Of a case before one Of
the courts Of the city, in which witness
illustrated his testimony in the most strik
ing manner:
l., arg ing the case of Brennan against
Cook, an action Of trespass, in the Com
mon Pleas, 10 recover damages for an
assault, an amusing description Of the
manner Of the prosecuting witness (when
the case was before magistrate upon a
criminal information, was given yesterday
by Mr.. r. H. Stone. Cook had been
charged with assaulting Brennan, drag
ging him off a horse by the hair Of the
head; and the witness in testifying 10 the
fact became so eagerto impress the mind
of the court with true picture Of the
aAray, that he seized spectator sitting
in Court by the hair, and shook him So
roughly that the man, bouncing from his
seat, threw himself into pugilistic atii-
tude, and swore he would punch his eye
out if he attempted any further practical
of that kind--in fact. the