Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-06-28
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A BeantIfuI Essay on Women.
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Below is Mrs Sigourney's Introduction to
.Noble Deeds of American Women" . work
recent , published BY Geo. H Derby q Co.
We bespeak, in especial, for the concluding
remarks on the sphere ofWoman. the candid
consideration of the. female There, is no
greater humbug of the age than WonGn's
Rights Convention: so9as 5Hsis.aus Ii ,asssi.
/ The advantages Of Biography are obvious
and great. To the weight Of precept, it adds
the force and efficacy Of example. 1t pre-
sehts correct and Beautiful models, and awak-
ems the impulse to. initiate what we admire
Other sciences, strengthen the intelleebthis in
huencesand amends the heart Other subjects
interest the imagination, this modifes conduct
and character. Bv the recorded actions Of
the great and good, we regulate our own
course, and steer star-guided, over life's track
less ocean. Il 7sst It 7iie 4o ft5laaslfs a6f
In remote ages, the department. Of Female
Biography was almost a void. Here and
there on the pages of the Sacred Volume, a
tlineament, or form, is sketcbed with graphic
power, either ASIA Warrington bright with the
hues ofheaYep. Yet uninspired history, tho
She continued TO utter cher dark sayings upon
hthe harp" was wont to relapse into silence at
Ethe name OF woman. Classic antiquity scarce
lly presents aught that might be cited as a
sustained example. In the annals of ancient
Greece, the wife of one of its philosophers has
obtained place, but only through the varied
ltras, by which she contributed TO perfect his
patience. Rome but slightly lifts the house
hold veii from the mother of the jGraecii, as
she exul,ingly exhibits her hearts Jewels
Cleopatra, with her royal barge, casts a daz-
zling CLEAN over the Cyndus, but her fame is
like Tie poison of the reptile that destroyed
her Boadieea rushes for moment in her
rude chariot over the battle field, but the faces
and the chains of Rome close over the scene.
Modern Paganism dscloses a still deeper
abyss of degralion for woman. The aborig-
inal loud of the american forest lays the bur
den on the shoulder ofbis weaker compaion,
and stalks oniin unbowed majesty with his
fquiyer and bis tomahawk. Beneath the sui
! try skies of Africa, she crouches to drink the
poison water before her Judges, having no bet
! ter test of her innocence than the deHVefer,
death. In India. we see her plungiug into
the Ganges her female infants, that they may
escape her lot Of misery, or wrapped in the
flames of the burning pile, turn into ashes with
the corpse of her husband. Under the sway
of the Moslem. her highest condition is a life
long incarceralion, her pest treatment, thatloi
1 a gilded toy--.la soulless slave, Throughout
the whole heather world, woman may be char
1acterized. as Humanity, in Central Asia has
been. by an elegant French writer, as always
remaining anonymous, us,-indiferent TO herself
mot believing in her liberty, having none
and leaving no trace Of her passage euPor
earth ... .1..- .' ~.
i Christianity has changed the scene. iWhtr
ever her pnre and plying spirit prevails, the
sway of brute force is softened, and the weak
er vessel upheld. Bearing in. her hand tb,
3 blessed Gospel, "a light to tighten the Gentiles
4 and the glory Of the people Of Israel she add
to the literature of the world new volume
the History of Woman. She spreads page
for which the long, slow ages bad neither look
ed nor inquired neither waited for, nor imag
ined, the page of female biography, q E n.
i So liberal have been our own immediate
times in supplying fitting. materials. that al
extensive and valuable library might readil,
be selected 10 this department alone. Sine
5 knowledge has shed her baptism upon III
head of woman, her legitimate sphere of du
tyf has become extended, and enriched by in
cident. We see her not only brought forwar
as teacher, but entering unreb1ked the field
of science and literature; we see her amid th
: hardships of colonial life, displaying a martyr
2 courage. or ascending the deck of the missio
ship to take her part in 'perils among th
heather, a3
The venerable moralist of Barley Wood, ,wh
so persevereingly encouraged her sex to re
feet TO discriminate, to choooe the good sn
refuse the evil, who, after attaining the ag
of sixty years, presented them with eleven ne
! and instructive volumes, has not long lai
down her pen. for the rest and reward of Ii
n righteuos. That high souled apostle of errin
suffering humanity, to whose dauntless bene'
d olence crowned heads did bonor, who's
melodious voice l almost fancy that
again hear as in the plain garb of her orde
she stood as. tutelary being among, the COZ
C victs az Newgate-she has but trecently arise
r to that congenial society of the just made pc
!. |. feet, who rejoice over 'one sinner that repen
d eth sasb 4 ni45f s4allog bs7.s5es 4gsf.
Q And the harp ofthat tuneful one, so recen
ly exchanged for purer harmony, still breathe
upon our hearts the echoes of her varied la