New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-15


suppose no one will be so foolish as to say
this remark does not apply to women as well ss
men, the race only being specified, and what is
here put il an external sense is not the less true
ia its more internal view.
1t is often said "a woman's world is in her az
iectionE, her empire is home" This is only in
part true and true only to part of the sex.
There are thousands OF men and women too en-
trely untitled for the family relation. Men so
dull aud imbecile where the social affections
are concerned, that they can neither minister,
be ministered to, in shis way, but who ere clear,
good abstract ressOners, apt at invention and ca
pAble OF advancing sclenCe-th0ugh cold, selfish
and unsympathslng women too, dogmatic, am
bilious, aDtsgOnistic, who would value some in
telectual triumph worth thousand hearts aud
desrer than any recognition OF the affections.
These have nothing in themselves to bring them
into harmony with the family relation. Their at
tempts at tenderness look foolish, and any lapses
into coqUetry strike you as downright attempt
at fraud. You recoil from it as untruthful II
not sinister while this womanly weapon in the
hands Of another may appear not only becoming,
but attractive.
Far be it from me to undervslue the slightest
grace of my sex it is because / recognize indi-
uality, and reverence it, that | will not apply
the same laws to all. There may be occasonally
Madam Guyon, whose affections are so nearly
spirtuAized that she may live irrespective OF the
world, and whose intellect becomes clear in its
prescienee from this ul.fountsin only. There
may be an Elizabeth Fry calm gracious, aud most
beautiful in all the harmonies of life, OF whom we
might say she was born for the elOquence of the
sanctuary, did we not see the fullness aud noble
ness OF the wife, the mother and friend. And
again, we would say surely this Is the whole De-
ing did we not hear the sllvery voice utterlng It's
In he f.rIan md
vict ship, and to the outcast OF the waysIde-
Surely this is all No, she is the timely toned
woman in the halls OF legislation and In the pal
aces of Kings. a. have seen sublime sight,
said John Randolph Elizabeth Fry at prayer
There may be Madam De 5tsel whose breath
was inspiration-whOse tongue might have won
Plato from the eloquent lips of Aspsla, but whose
life was long sigh for that love which could new
err find an entire response yet does any one be-
.lieve she did not find dOlstry such "a would amaze
the hsping sentimentalist who, content with che
shallow respons "a Of some enenOred youth, pleases
herself with the thought that intellectual women
cannot be loved-are deficient in the graces OF
womanhOod, and sigh in vain for what the most
uncouth Audry is likely to reallzei surely not
Other types there are-wOmen OF ample CUTS 10
hold the most afluently endowed Of the other sex
in thra-such as a Cleopatra, Hslolse, and so
on from the most celebrated to the most obscure
Now will any one pretend that the same laws APP
nlv 20 all of these Where is their world Can
II be narrowed down to the four walls Of the saloon
or the nursery
OF being there is a large class TO whom the shec-
tons hold very subordinate part-Women Nno
end il rksome to sustain the relations OF wife aud
mother and who would never have assumed the n,
but because public opinion has m sde II desirable
and the unequal action OF LABOR necessary
even heard OF poor woman who wltnesse1 tue
...l.k NHn Il n a AT 4
child with utter establishment, and remarked
that she was sure she did not feel so bad when
her child died. for she hadn't had 10 work near so
hard since" Now, this is pitifdl enough, aud the
naturalness Of the expression show she was en-
srely deficient in the emotion so predominant In
the other.
The have written the books, and having per
sisted in making that part OF our character Wnch
brings us in relation 20 themselves the prominent
4 subject of comment, they have ignored our other
attributes till there is vague feeling engen-
I dered that woman is the worse for large endOw
,nents of any kind whatever. lagos narrow and
coarse exposition a her vocation
ITO suekls ioOls, ana chronicle small beer
is not far from the popular estimate. Genus ana
beauty, Gods crowning gifts, are looked upon
I wiki distrust If not with dread. The lear that &
woman NAV deviage the slightest from conveD-
tionAism in any way haS become nervous ds'
ease with the public Indeed 50 lizzie 10 she
. trusted a. A creation, that one would think she
were made marvellously beautiful, and en- iOved
with gifts Of thought and emotion only for the pUr-
pose OF enoapgering her satety-a sort OF sp-liual
iocomotion with no check wheel, rare piece Of
porcelAi 70 be handled gingerly-in TACT cres-
lure with nc conservative elements within Ter.
self but left expressly thus, that men might ga P
NV them. and lead and guide, and cOerce, and ca
i,ie her rs il pleased him beat. She is 4 blind
Angel neither adapted 70 heaven uor earth 10 her-
set but II submitting grSc'ousy to nSn's sud
( snce, capable OF filling narrow some ~nts sag
XIV and very uncertain nook on this small planet,
kid possibly to win Heaven through the psrts;
tion 81 suffering here.
Let her asset the avs Of her being le. her Ssy
shs IL cspsbls of more thsn shis us,ro sphere,
thHt she griCvss and fretS 10 the case, and the
fsult IA erlsvCus. She Is III tempered, AMBITIOUS,
nnwomSrly-ss though Womsnhood hsd but enc
,isnifcation. 10 ia even reproacn FOR her 70
bSveavill Of her own. The voice Of her o wn
soul within her crying for space aud recognition
o,ust be suppressed, lest she should be less sao-
ss~vient asa wife, and less hundrum a. a moth
~. and vet the heroes Of their age were no. co-a
+ NJ vopr tame women The fishers Of Wesley and
Washington and Napoleon were far from beng
suDerior men indeed We should fS.her cali tae n
verv orderly, sensible, dull people, while taelI
nothsrs were each brilliant, ineividdslized
s,rcnslv marked characters, wiki lie healSh snd
Great personal beauty.
Nseens strange that we shoG.d neea 20 sosei
. q nlss ior tbs, faculties that 600 has gwen rs
T but ,o =, ia Che persistent use OF the oS0ox
ious word Emqis in our vocabulary Is PFooi
the heht IN vhich we sre regarded
Read bot q 1.-THE Of the tWsddS Tritsea 'l
the other sex IN regard 70 our nature ano u ' !
be seen how little we are uuderstood' IASs ~
combou newspaper which may be regaroea
an exponent OF the popular voice, and see nov
We ere talked o.. 90 creatures one WV"U sSE