Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1853-03-17

high ana molly place OF minIstration. TO
mix her UOicc with worse than brutal
and scottish stupidity. yet charity suggests
TIT we should bear with each others
weaknesses.
The reader must be satisfied then. that
when a woman places herself in the atti-
tude of i public lecturer. or public ex-
pounder--in the sacred desk, on the
stump. or through the medium Of the
press, she at once sacrifices all claims TO
a par:iaiity so usual OH the part of our
sex. and subjects herself to the opposi-
ton Of those who may differ with her in
sentiment. Thus it should be, else false
and r%uinors creeds might be heedlessly
taught the rising generation. and greater
humbugs (if possi5le.) than spiritual
~rappiGgs gain an ascendency. especially
in such rugged fields" as ours.
A few Inconsistencies which our fair
authorizes has permitted to creep into her
address. rather indicates such a want Of
connection and harmony in sentiment, as
we might find in The productions of sew
eral authors upon the same subject. when
thrown together by an inexperienced rhet-
orlclaa. She commences By saving that
she wilt meet the kind invitation ITO
make the speech with q few remarks of
a strictly practical characters" yet mostail
of the speech is a simple narration of the
/ history and origination Of the society Of
Daughters of Temperance. and their re-
~lationship with the Sons, and a part of
that SO full OF su~pererogation and ego
tlsm as TO deiract from its Illustrative
force. Other portions in a relative sense.
must say. are failacinus if not ridicu-
!ous. In speaking OF charity, in the Sd.
column, she says:
1--WE so not remember that the fault Of our
brother or sister may be enc that We ourselves
are guilty of; and instead Of viewing them with
that spirit Of love that nerer iaileth, we at
once condemn. The Scottish bard has beau
tifully said:
:EOh, would some power the gifie gle us.
To sec ourselves as ithers see us"
And Illus leach Us 10 show that mercy. that
consideration and tenderness towards the Ell
mig, that we would hope for al their hands.
We wOald by no means, c0nfne the exer-
else OF this principle 10 the members of our
associations; but We should in the ~fullncsS of
this spirit, seek the iallea. the vicious, Tie de
! PRAYED, tho degraded of whatever RANK, what
ever coni,tion,'
And again. in he same column. she
says:
"'if duiy calls rs even TO the lowest, foul
eSt hauntS OF vice aad impurity, let us go"
&c.
This doctrine is good. and partakes OF
that spirit Of kindness SO lovely and COM
mendoble, especially in the female char
acter; but ia the fourth and adjoining
column read as follows:
"Ne have read of females actually tearing
down a ros-shop ~-iemoiishing Z distillery,
whipping ana incorrigible rumseller-sewing
Up III a sack. Il Wsiking rumcaSk in the shape
OF a husband, AMI SOLDERING Lin by an effect
ual dose 0: tic OIL Of hickory, and many other
acts OF coercion"
Then, IN the same connection, she says:
'If men refuse, or what amounts 10 the
same thing, Gclly TO put away the evil from
or midst, will she not be justified, acting as
she does nself defence, in r~esorting to any in
struinentality in her %rower?'
81 wife better fulflls her marriage VOW
when she kindly and aGicctionaiely incarcer-
ates her husband who cannot take care of
himself" &c.
Now. Mr.. E';itor. imagine that you see
this devoted sister seeking. in The full
ness of the spirit of charity. those she
never knew or saw before--in her own
language: the fallen. the vicious, the
depraved, the degraded of whatever rank.
whatever condition. And now see her
stop by the way 10 lift that worse than
"brHtGl' stranger out OF the ditch. and
then trudges along in pursuit of the pris-
on officer TO come TO her rescue; and find
IA place in some of his dark and lonely
dungeons for her own bosom companion!
The partner Of all her JOYS and teaFs-the
father of her own onspring-wlio. when
sober. faithfully minislered TO all her
wanis-repentei OF former wrongs and
strove TO hate the bow. with as strong q
passion as he loved his wife. Oh, my
sister.-Womani shrink from such an
unnatural act. 1t may be yours, howev-
er, for the sake Of a little narrow APP
plause ia such a rugged fsld' es this.
10 recommend the performance of such
reckless Inconsistency and cruelty, but
il ever has been, and will continue to be
the work of the true wife--thc genuine
iady-whose love and pure affections are
worth courting, To scorn the idea and
ubominate the deed.
But in our next quotation, we can find
an excuse for such an argument. Our
fair authoress says:
"Much has been written. and much moro
will be written upon the kindness due ron
the vie to a scottish hnsband. The praise OF
gentle woman who tamely submits TO the in
dignities of a blOated loathsome relic oil n man,
because he was once her husband, her joy,
her pride, has been sung and applauaed in
every part of our enlightened country. But
for my own part, must dissent from any such
false notions of the duties Of the w. e, and re-
pudiate all such encomiums."
In what part of our enlightened coun-