The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-03-30
Wood4lill, Jan 90, 1853

| TuE w, MANS Nj JvEMEST.-Among the
good things in Putnam's last, is most original
article from some some golden mouthed teacher
of our day, upon ''Woman and the Wo-
| man Movement" The writer does not presage
any directly valuable cults from the move
ment in regard TO woman's rights and woman S
proper sphere, although he says he has an album
dant respect for it, considered as 'sa feature OF
that healthfal discoB.eat, which is Pervading
| all minds and conditions, and which surely be-
tokens the ultimate enlargement of society.
/ The position of woman, according to this elo-
quelt essayist, is set forth as follows:
| stNo man believes, nor ever will believe, in
| woman, as a teacher or preacher, until he has
grown ind .fferent to her as a woman. It's IN
motive loyalty forbids him to believe her Ca
paLe Of any serious didactic intention. He
| Will believe any good things yon have say OF
her; any wonders you have to tell of her devo-
ton to her lover, 10 her husband, to her child,
to her friend, or 10 the needy at her door. He
will believe you when you speak of her disin
terested affection, her cheerful sell denial her
blithe aud gentle activity and the power which
these things give her to redeem the longest dry
f,om iedum, and people the darkest night with
eminent stars OF hope and consolation But he
ously taking the great sinwashed condition of
humanity at large to heart, and drawing on the
seven hague boots of philanthropy, TO 60 forth
upon mission Of reform. For woman in her
true aud unperver,ed estate, is incapable of phi
lanthropy, which is the love of all mankind
She loves only man; aud cannot bestnw her
affection upon the race. The conception is too
vague for her affection, the motive too vast for
her strictly prac ,cal genius She believes only
in the concrete, the tangible, the visible, and
her mission, as they cal ii, is sriclylproport
Ennatc. OF course, she is so b.is sfuly sylnpa,he
tic creature, that if her lover husband or
friend, conceive a concern for the Ratagonians,
and give up his substance to proselyte theChoc-
laws, she will very meekly toll up to that cheer
less height of virtue, purely by way of keeping
him company But she will not stay there
single moment Of her own accord. She would
see ali Patagonia hanged, and every Chectaw
in Haitian, bef,fA she " ould get up any origi-
nal treuidalion on their behalf For the cred
.ibie Paagnnan to her Imagination, is the lover
or husband OF her choice, and the only irresis-
tible Choctaws to her affection, are the dimpled
little daguerrotypes, whose sunny faces look up
to her from her own floor. The only mission
God saw fl to endow her with, was that Of civ
ilizing this private Patagonion OF hers, and ev-
angelizng these little Choc,aws of her own in.
tention; and no wider ambition would ever en-
ter her beautiful head, had not her native in
stncts been grossly sophisticated by morbid
sen inenar.ty. By natural and divine right,
she fully believes in her capacity TO make the
individual man happy and blessed, and precisely
On so far as she INDUCES this perfectly womaiIy
aspiration, she must ofcourse remain blind to
the forlorn estate the huge rest of the world