Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-09-28

ing the recital of such scenes-suchI
fruits of the rum trade as this before
you, will work together for your own
and others good. Go forth and listen.
If you hear little voice crying hot corn
think Of poor Katy, and of the hosts of
innocents slain by the remorseless ty-
rant, rum. Go forth and seek better
spirit to rule over US. Cry aloud, twill
he come - and tho answer will be,s'yes
yes, he is here"
An Grafton by Daniel s. Dickin--
SON.
This distinguished Ex-senator deliv-
cred an Grafton at Syracuse on the 4th
ultimo. The performance is replete with
practical thoughts, wholesome sentiments
and patriotic aspirations. We quote that
portion of it bearing upon Women and
Reforms. The Syracuseans are annual
ly annoyed with Wonen's Rights Con-
ventions, and Syracuse was just the place
to give the reproof administered by Mr..
Dickinson:
Our institutions repose not upon ply
steal foundations of standing armies and
warlike material, but are upheld by the
virtue and intelligence of free people.
The patriots hope for their enduring pu-
rity rests in the fabric of social order,
which is deeply indebted for its strength
and beauty to the influence of woman,
who fashions the structure of society,"
In the sphere which Heaven destined
her to fill she holds undivided empire );
she purifies the fountains of social and
domestic life, and casts the impress of
her moral image around her like the
smiles of gracious Providence. That
dream of poetic fancy which suggested
that the domestic hearth was the only
spot on earth uncontaminated by Satan
in the fall of our common progenitor, was
Ia beautiful conception, and is exemplif-
ed in the pure and holy influences of
mothers love. The characteristics of her
nature are gentleness and peace. In ev-
cry lane of life where it has pleased Hea-
ven to cast her lot, whether at the fire.
side of home, where, by influences which
fall like evening dews upon the vegeta-
BILE world, she sways the moral senti-
ments and refines and elevates the affec-
tions, or in heather lands; whether in
the mansions of affluence or the lowly
cottage !; whether lingering by the couch
of the dying, moistening the fevered lip
and wiping the death-damp from the
throbbing forehead, after her companion
has sunk beneath or fled before the de-
stroyer, she is rninistering to the neces-
sites of suffering man, and fulfilling the
mission of that same angel of mercy who
was last at the cross and earliest at the
tomb of her Lord and Master. Who
would desire to see her transferred from
the domestic altar fires to the political
arena from the culture of infant minds
at the vestibule of existence to the fra
ming of legislative reports and penal sta
tutes; from teaching infant lips to pray
to mingle in the harsh contests and angry
debates of the forum from being the
presiding genius of happy home to pre-
side over grave courts and wrangling
conventions I? Her physical and mental
structure indicate not that she was des-
tined for sphere inferior to that of man,
but that she was called to exercise vo-
cation more interesting, delicate, and sa-
cred. The conceit that she has been de-
graded by society from her true condi-
ton is the diseased offspring of morbid
fancy. Wherever christianity and civil
ization are known she is mans compan-
ion and equal, and in social life the arbi-
tress of his destiny. She enjoys privi-
leges and immunitIes to which he is a
stranger, and escapes many and grievous
burdens which rest upon his shoulders,
and, like pharisees Of old, she occupies
the uppermost seats at feats and receives
greetings in the markets and the refor-
mer of modern times, while prospecting
for the fossil remains of her lost rights
should remember that if, in the discharge
of common duties and common offices, e.
quality is the point to be attained, she
should commence the reformation, of re-
storing, for mans equal enjoyment, ma
ny prerogatives which she has usurped
and monopolized. He who should insist
upon the equal rights of metals which
are usually employed in transacting the
business of life, and to that end should
seek to fashion implements Of husband
ny from gold that il might enjoy equality
with iron, would be pitied for lunatic,
and meet with contempt and ridicule for
his reward +; and he who would desc
crate and despoil Heavens last best gift,
by transferring her from the exercise of
her social functions, where she holds
mysterious dominion over the heart, to
discharge duties and engage in conflicts
suited only to mans sterner nature, sho'd
be remembered only with execration for
the wrongs he has inflicted upon society,
for his endeavor to dim the lustre and
mar the beauty of the female character,
by hurting il down to darkness from its
orbit, where it has so long shed light and
loneliness around it.
Every age has furnished its self-con-
stituted, restless, 5uzzing reformers, who
regard society as an organized evil, and
hence have essayed to uproot and recon
struct it according to their own Utopian
schemes and dreamy speculations.-
Hitherto, fortunately, these moonstruck
conceits have been confined to the idle,