Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-05-13
influence of Woman.

influence of Woman.
The Influence of woman lies not alone in her
goodness, her beauty, or her love but in all
these combined is the irresistible power she d-
rects, the devotion she commands, and the holy
love she inspires. tits to woman that we look
for the embodiment of every virtue; and in her
breast, as the sweet receptacle OF every good
thing. She leads us by a gentle influence
from the corrupted currents Of the world, into
the magic circle of her retirement. Like the
genial softness Of summers day, her smiles
tighten every darksome shadow, and her soft
Establishments are titilIations of magnetic
sleep, soothing and begulling the sad and
weary spirit TO repose. Like the spring time
sun, she calls up the sweet flowers, and bids
the heart be green again. Her goodness soft
ems the asEerities of our nature, and elevates
the tone Of our moral feelings. Virtue in her
seems clothed in redoubled loveliness, and vice
stands abashed before the ingenious eve of
womanhood. WiCkedness waits till she passes
by, or blinds her sight to the view of his villain
Gus deeds while the approval of her wishes is
strength to any enterprise.
This is her influence for good nor 90 exag-
gerate. Could delineate the char Of her
influence, and estimate its power. then indeed
would my pen want rival to it's eloqnence.--
Her influence may not all be mental, but it is
an influence, that sways the heart, and leads
the mind captive; whether it be the siren voice
Of intsrdicted pleasure, or the gentle chidings
of an angel of goodness.
"When Alexander conquered, crookedness
was comely:" and wh9n woman descends from
her Vee.a throne, the pillars Of virtue ere brok-
en-, and dissoluteness finds good apology. But
we look to woman, as theswoet harnan:st Of
llf. the fond enthusiast Of nature and the ap'
prover of lofty and magnanimous action. The
softness and refinement, 80 Characteristic OF her
sex, is the offspring of her virtue, and few can
resist the fascination of her winning ways.
The influence of beauty is hers. She comes
an angel of loveliness, and melts all hearts by
her sweet influence. EIer beauty, like a smile
from heaven, sweetens everything. Day is
Frightened by her eyes, and their soft teartnlness
tempers her kind address. Her beauty is"
not 'the crystal in the torch light ;"but the torch
light that rivals the crystal,-shinlng within,
and Of itself: "a lustre by which to test virtue,
and detect vice tor that practice, or calling
which would degrade woman. may we'll be
questioned of it's purity. An oath upon her
lips, the smell Of drunkenness in her breath. the
blight of in6delity circumscribing the aspira-
tons of her soul, reward Of crime upon her
spotIess palm, in fact any evil thing issuing
from her heart rsvolts the soul of greater sim
ner, and furnishes the bright beauty, that envel-
opes her form. They say the Sun is hard, and
dark, and hollow; and light is but circumam-
bent fluid yelling him. They tell US too the
heart is often like him,-glowing with the cleo
lric light that hides it, II it is so, it is the
beauty of woman, that fills it to plenum with
this magnetic fire that keeps it from growing
doll, and cold, as it is hard and hollow. Her
beauty will make the old heart young again,
and the cold one vain; yea, almost knde to
blaze, the dying ashes Of any clay that is coar.
ser than her own.
The influence of deep, gushing affection is
womans. The empire Of love is hers. She is
mistress of the heart, and rules it with soft and
kindly impulses. The love she inspires ele-
Yates, and sublimes the soul, and fosters SOFT
winged muse upon its bosom. She enslaves
the soul to a sweet idolatry, with charming
surer than the serpent's-with eyes softer than
doves. Who has not felt in the dreamy soft.
ness of her magic spell,-when the heart was
full of sweets to over-fowng that none but an
angel, or hypocrite would think Of happier
states. Such indeed is the mighty influence Of
her love, drawing us out of the maze OF passion
into the higher circle of all love- and heavening
the heart in vrtuous affection. Without this
love of woman, earth were devoid of its lowell
ness, and were but decking out of drab-cloth
a night without star. Surely who can esti
mate the power Of this influence 1t was all
powerful with our first parent, for Milton makes
hlm to choose rather to fall with his partner thar
to i've without her. Human nature has no.
since changed.
Every man is the first man to himself, ant
Ewes are just as plentiful as apples" Who
then shall lightly estimate the influence Of wo
!, man,-her softly moulded form, her goodness
and her feeling heart, all well ard kindly ming
led !-Dspctch.