New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-01


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One cannot discuss any part Of this subject without
encountering upon the threshold the question Of
"Wonans Rights" school has arisen in our day
which ssys that ell professions and oil the various
pations followed by Man should be equally common
ard available TO Woman. The leader Of this sex in
Europe lie Miss Helen Maria Weber who dresses ike
a man, with her blue dress coat bright buttons buff
vest and biped combinations. Laughter AZ it seems
10 me- there il no other one great fact Of which the
Almighty hrs expressly embodied IN our very or
uzagation that settles this question ct and for
ever. God created man-Inae and female-On the
principle Of division oflabor.
"He is but half offs blessed man.
Left 70 be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence.
Who's tginess lies IN MIN"
The female nature Is the male nature once more
purified Sic was cast in a finer mold, and tempered
at Iurer flame In their physical development, one
takes the form of Roman grandeur, and the other
Of Grecan beauty. As Burns says of Natures handi-
work:
Her prentice hand she tried on man.
And then she made lssse, o."
None but a man could have issued the inhuman com
rnsnd that all the Hebrew male children should be put
TO death as soon az born Mans force il dynamic bat
Womsns force is electric, sweeping, powerful
Miss Dix has won as many legislatures az Napoleon
ever subdued Kingdoms In fathoming the love of Man
we soon strike the bottom but the plumet is dropped
in vain into Woman's affections Il wells up from ex
haustless depths 1t may be said that the difference in
the pays and e1ioynents of boys and girls E the effect
of education but in all lands and times girls develop
earlier than boys Man experimenting nursery of
children ia like elephant Matching out eggs-la
teTl-thc more he nurses. the more he hurts them.
Even in crime the characteristics Of no less
remarkable Henry the With and Elizabeth were as
like each other could be. And yet how different
lie was made Of ten thousand bears she, out Of as
many cate Laughter The most dcyout Man counts
tie hours when prayer the most devout Woman
when che docs not. true and pure Church OF Christ
must be the highest conceivable state of society and
the Scripture symbolic this by Woman.
That respect in which the sex most nearly approach
each other is their numbers. Both sexes in any one
generation are almost always numerically the same -
Yet with this equality in point Of numbers-wth re-
pelant instincts against the grosser vces-what has
been the rank and influence of Woman for six thousand
years Man has debascd her into the object of hs own
passions She has been allowed - b. but little more
than the mother of the race If seses conhagratiOns
and slaughters are 70 be- as they have been, the
pastimes Of Kngs.f cities arc to be irradating
centers Of female abandonment-if disease and debility
are to be the rule and health but the exception, oil
mankind ct large-then it is time inquire whether
hydrorathy he absolutely needed for the publication Of
such planet The Jewsh Rabbs have legend, that
after God created Adam and lett him forty days and
forty nights in the Garden the Devil came and looked
at him. and kicked him. and then left him. Better, far
better that should have done than to have made
football of all the human For four thousand
years the Hebrews were among the most conspicuous
species Of the globe Yet during that time, how often
did il happen that the Jewish mothers gave birth 70
generation of men whose hearts inhnitude of mercy
could soften What triumphant desoGtioni Is here Why
was there not bu, Vespasia for oratory and one
Sappho for song? After the light OF Roman civilization
was exnguished, a night of darkness enveloped the
world and in all this Sygian darkness woman was ever
the oppressed But the great idea OF Professionalism
the idea OF making each soul look out for tse-has done
more than anything else for the elevation of woman
Hence women in Protestant countries hold more ee-
waited position than in Catholic countries.
Mr. Mann continues the same subject on next Tues
day evening, at the same place
Miss BacOn's Introductory Historical Lesson
The Styyesant Institute was filled TO over
lowing lat evening, with highly respectable au-
dicnce on occasion of the opening OF the Historical
Course proposed by Miss BACON to the ladies OF this
City On commencing her remarks, Miss Bacon sad
she feared that the announcement which had been
made OF a Lecture on the subject OF History, might
have awakened expectations which she unable to
crafty If any had come there to hear an elaborate
exposition of the science of history they could not
fail of disappointment She contemplated to open a
course of instruction for persons OF her sex and
had taken this occasion TO invite attention TO the @
portance ohstorcal studies and to the methodby which
I ho stu
Though she had ventured as a woman to solicit this
public audience she begged leave to dscam being an
advocate of womans rights in any technical bipartisan
sense Her purposes were scientific, not sectarian-
Truth and righteousness were moIe important to
woman than any polemic assertion OF her rights and
for her own part she had no wish to share in any
movement which brought the different portions OF Sc
cety into conflict with each other At the same time,
she could not withhold her respect fromthos who pur-
sued different course-especisly me only reward
they obtained from their Contemporaries crown OF
thorns and path OF suffering Miss B. then proceeded
10 speak Of the dignity snd value OF historical study
means Of intellectual development and suited 70 crafty
some Of the highest aspirations OF humanity. she
wished that she could express her Of the beau
tul hamones ofthe subject in voice O. sone, bat she
hoped those who loved TO frequent the heater and the
concertroom would give a gracious hearing to her
words though unSdorned with the charms OF poetry
and from a womans lips History is imporian, -
taking Us out OF the limits o. Cur own nd.vdu-
Atty, and connecting with the mRgnaccn. unity
which is developed In the solemn procession OF the
ages. The present cannot be understood, unless we
comprehend the past. Our own lives ae q mys-
terry, irrespective OF their sntecedeuts History *
plains the relations OF man with the great Whole,
without which Particular events are but unnean-ng
fragments. And this grows cut @: the very
nature OF the human mind It will not consent 20 lin
itaions Il demands nooer sphsre than ths; OF is
own isolated individually In the midst OF the perry
interests OF daily lie. the trivial gossip OF So
cety, and Tie din OF political excitement, We ar never
satisfied with the present. We long for something
more IN unison With spiritual being. We demand
communion wiki the Infinite This is the Gv indeed
OF the simplest mental operation We gain no cognii on
o the mite, without receiving al the same time the idea