The Yazoo Democrat., 1851-05-28
fNRoADs on TME pREE cREs.

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20 6nd place in the Democrat.
1NRoADs on TnETzEECEEs
There seems to be decided tendency
of the age towards the assumption. by the
gehtler part Of humanity, of their proper
and rightful position in society, from which
they have been long excluded by the moEoP.
olizing spirit Of man. We published yes.
teTday al account Of an able argument
made in one Of the civil courts in France
by 'ady, in an important and difficult
commercial suit, The counsellor opposed
referred to her as his "learned confrere"
We think women would make good advo.
catts. Their intellects are certainly quick
er than those Of men, and :heir tongues
work infinitely faster aud more gIibly. AZ
TO their eloquence, their power of pers0a-
sion, their quickness of perception, and
kecness of discrimination they are certain
ly superior 10 men.
We never saw but one :ady arguing q
case in our courts. Il was Mrs. Gaines,
in 1912, appeared in the First District
Cour', Judge Bucharan,) accompanied
by her gallant husband, in unlress uuifom,
with sword buckled to his side. II hap
pened that Mrs. G.'s lawyers, becoming
dissatisfied with some decision of the Court,
retired from the case, whereupoR the dig.
nifieG veteran advanced towards the law
yerS table, leading his lady by the hand,
and begged that the Court would allow
the lady 10 plead her own cause. The
scene was quite an interesting one. There
stood on one Size an array of our Oldest and
most learned couuselors. who We're resist
ing the !adys pretensions with all their
skill and ability, with q large battery OF
i law books lying before them. On the 9th
er side stood the bright-eyed, handsome lit
tie lady, aud the erect aud war.worn vete-
ran, her gallant husband. The claim OF
the lady TO be heard in her own case could
not be denied. She Proceeded IN her re-
mark, but soon became so piquant aad
personal that the Judge in'e fered and beg.
ged her to confine herself to the argument.
rhereupon the gallant General arose, aud
in a slow and measured style, stat
ed that f1r eVey thing that tie
lady should say he held himself personally
responsible in every manner and form, in
court and out of court. This allusion pref.
ty soon quieted the smuggling of some
young attorneys who were present. and
who appeared nightly tickled with the
scene. Mrs. Gaines was permitted to 60
un aud argue her case to concusicn.
This is the only case of a lady ever APP
peariLg as counsel in our c-ur.s. We
wonder tha. it should be the only case.
It would have been better for great many
widows and orphans if they h; attend
ed TO their own cases i'll person, rather
than leave them TO attorneys who have too
often scooped out the fat ovs'e. for them
s;Ives I'd left the dry shell. - :hei un,ls
pee ing clients. Our women are educated
ia deplorable Ignorance and helplessness
III reference to their legal rights. This
condiuon renders them. the prey OF designing
executors and lawyers, and thus the labor
aud devotion of husbands and fathers, to
accumulate a support for their families are
otter rendered vain aud useless 10y the de-
pendant ignorance Of their r gats in which
their families are lett at their decease.
The teEdecy of innovation on the sex,
has lately displayed itself III quite ano,her
palpabIe form.
The idea has been Lroached at the North
OF indu;ng the delicats forms of our ladies
in the cIose6tting garments, which have
hitherto been appropriated by man to his
own exclusive use. This is an admirable
idea, and Notwithstanding the Injury may
inAict, as Green, of the Boston Posi-, su-.
gests on the manufacturers of side Saddles
we think it will prove, in the end a great
improvement.
All artis. and students of nature know
that women greatly exceed men in the
symmentry of their forms,-of iheir phys.
ique, as we'll as in the harmony of their
moral endowments. Ard yet the style
OF dress which has prevailed ia christen.
dom for the last two thousand years has
virtually deprived the sex Of much of the
advantages of their superior grace, delica.
cy, and symmetry Of limb and figure
Nothing could be better adapted 20 con.
ceal def rmity. itregulariy, aud want OF
symmety i'll some of the most delicate
and graceful features OF the "human from
divine" than the present mode of female
attire. II will do well for these who are
mishap> n. No doubt it owed tits origin
to some mighty Empress or Queen, whose
cruralties were curvillineaTlY Inclined
whose hips were too angular, or whase an
c:es did not maintain their perpendicular.
ty.
But why should nin.ty mine out o! one
hundred female figures be condemned tc
to these horrible guises, ,convoIvements,c ,con-
cealments. and utter obliterations Of Ho-
ganh's line of beauty, and of the most fas.
cinating characteristics Of the female 6g
ure, in order to please the taste or suit the
interests of some homely specimen OF the
sex? This is not sound republican doctrine.
The majority ought to rue, and the major.
iry, we assert, owe il 70 their own resistless,
but ioo-loEg concealed Charms 10 aban.