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being, be absorbed and annihilated Ia marriage
be sn extinct world, gone-out soal' 10 tne mas
OF household or, If she does not 90 'hs,
proof positive that she could not that there never
was a coxcomb or a fat who could succumo 70
her charms that in default OF leading one ape
here she must be doomed 20 lead ten " down
below" Hen iachrymans! Unhappy woman
hood.
Property confers dignity and a certain position
on the other sex, and there is nothing in the ma
ture of things why it should not upon ours. Men
become absorbed in science or literature, aud
make wretched husbands and fathers. Women
have the same ambtion-a kindred power OF alb
stracsion, and they make anything but comfort
able wives | know 1t is the fashion tor magazine
writers 20 talk sweetly about the tenderness and
notabtv of women of genius. 1t may be so
where their companionship is true and genial, but
il is not the less true that the woman or the man
who marries a genius does so at peru, and must
be content to be merged in the other, or II both
are alike great the intensity and sensitlveness OF
two such natures would be far from healthtal'
Now, were girls from childhood up educated
not IN reference to marriage, but in reference TO
the entire unfolding of a creation which, admit
in it's heathiest and most harmonious manliesta-
ton would result in the relations OF sex, THESE
relations would take place under circumstances
of true dignity and not as now under necessity,
a mistaken opinion that they must ake-piace,
that a woman is nothing without them. Mar
rage would have then holy and beautiful sig
nifcancy-a solemn and sweet import, a sancti-
ty of relation that could no more be violated
than the great and immutable laws that hold
the eternal spheres in their Joyous and neyeriall'
ing harmony. But am anticipating
would not say as has been said, women have
right TO our Halls of Legislation, our Courts OF
Justice, our Military posts, and each and all
spheres where men most do congregate, for In
that pure state of society of which human asplra-
ton is so prophetic, which poets and philosophers
have seen in Divine vision, and for which blood
has been shed even to the agonies OF Gethsemane
and Calvary1 believe many of these needs will
pass away; men will waste their godlike ener-
eies less upon these grounds, and women Will
learn her holy and true nature that OF link to the
spiritual world But till the good time coming
arrives let her be free to her own lntultlons-l
her cast her mite into the treasury OF reform that
shall redeem the world. Let the avenues OF
wealth and distinction be open to her as freely as
TO the other sex. Let her not be trained to LIE
which in fact may be made demorasing and hu-
initiating in the absence OF soulstrrlng need, a
life giving sentiment; and taught the exercise Oh
the faculties, Godmparted faculties, which should
raise her to the dignity of the Miriams and De-
borahs Of DID, to say nothing of the great army OF
women who since their day, have nobly achieved
a distinctive existence, whether married or other
wise, and are numbered among the great spirits
of the world
Every true woman should assert her right TO
pecuniary independence-to a position secured
Independent of the affections; and these hottest
aspirations of her nature should be free will OF
fering no more to be fostered 10 marriage than in
apy other way. She should shudder at the bare
thought of such desecration. Before the great era
of her life, when these shall become well spring
of happiness to her, she should have been taught
To look upon herself as filling distinctive position
in societv secured by her talents or INDUSTRY OF
-. ooosstonce has been awarded by inheritance,
It should be used with that forethOught and dscre-
ton which belongs to her construction OF mind In
a higher degree than in the other sex.
If she has been accustomed to this before mar
rage, she will find no difficulty in the proper or
deripg of her household afterward Another rea-
son why a woman should be trained In this way,
is, that she will escape the pettlness too common
in the other sex in the marriage relation. One
fruitful source of discord between husband and
wife arises from the penuriousness OF the former.
Wives without doubt are extravagant. Held IN
blindness and pupiage as they are this IS natural
But have heard hundreds of women say they
would rather 90 without money than ask for 1t
tbey feel mean and childish to have it doled out to
them in little sums, and then be obliged to render
an account of expenditure. Others, again, nave
lot breadth of feeling enough Tor this, and they re-
sort to all the artillery OF coaxlngs and endear'
ments true or false-in the one case an outrage,
in the other a humliation-and thus obtain the
coveted sum. Others again, having neither dig
pitv nor tenderness, are petuant and crafty, VIZ
enish and turbulent according to the strength OF
the lower passions, but each and all inconsistent
and unworthy of the high and holy relation which
God designed man and woman should occupy In
relation to each other.
Itmay be thought that, in claiming the right
and the dignity OF labor for my sex, | am depart
ing from the order Of Nature-that the curse and
the blessing of womanhood were to come through
her affections, and the curse and the blessing OF
man were to come through the sweat of his brow.
But the curse was at the exile from Eden, and
the new blessing is to spring from the new law,
the divine testimony Of the new Christ Jesus
even the law Of love, whose emblem is not the
thunderrgs Of Sinai, but the descent OF the dove
and this new order cannot be received into the
world till the whole denominations Of degraded
womsnhood and fostered affections are obterated
in the race Woman must be accepted as Gre
alton, and if society is so organized that the re-
cognition Of her as such must come through the
medium of labor, the holding OF property then let
her be no less woman nay let her be what she
is not row, a true woman-dlsdalnlng to be re-
ceived by the being most dear to her as an ex'
change al appendage. but as a divine revelation
of a great and beautiful need accepted reverent
IT, and fostered with manly protectiveness and
heart inspiring tenderness.
There is an inherent dignity in the woman who
steadily pursues an avocatlon OF emolument or
reputation weak men may call 1t masculine and
unfeminine, but the great voice OF God within
the soul EFFORTS from them an instructive hom-
age. and when the sex shall have asserted their
full rights to any and all positions for which their
faculties are best adapted, refusing to barter their
woman for weslth or position; choosing labor as
a good, by which they earn the right to independ-
ence individuality and respect, one great step
will have been taken ia the great movement of
reform. Men will then retire from behind count
ers, and leave vast field Of light occupation for
the gentler sex-they will betake themselves to
the plough and the machine shop, and leave the
world Of taste TO women
COURT or APPEALs-Al60ny, Jan. Ie.-fne ar
eminent in No. 80 concluded by Mr.. Reynolds.
No 96-Harbeck and another, respondents, agt.