Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-16

strain, and knowing how essential were tire hues
Of gorgeous fancy to the handling of such theme
he has called me to the task. But, alas! to my
Iunpoetical Soul-the ladies of the West SubSlde
into women, simply women. Instead OF heavenly
blue eyes, and dangerous black eyes, gleamlngllke
PeTis, under the umbrage of our primevai forests
my mind cannot help but wander off to the cabins
on the Hooking and MuSkingum, or i"-the North
West.
The hardy stocks OF industrious scionS-theSe
women of the West, with their generous hospital
ity and pioneer energy, make up the great army OF
western women. They are not of ths ''strong-
minded" kind. They seldom harraSS socletyuoout
tue reciproctes Of taxation and representation
T'bey are as afraid Of q Bloomer as n rattesnake.
They read their Bibles, and regulate their homes
content, though unconsciously, to lay the iounua-
lions of hardy race, who like Their pioneer lam
ers, of whom we have heard SO much and SO agree
ably-shal become the creators OF great States IN
the West, the inStitulorS OF free laws and the
guardians Of Republican freedom
But there is another class, somewhat different
who make up part Of the women oil the west:
do not mean our Amelias and CareyS, whose ethe-
riol renis has given the lie 10 the libel that Pc
gassus cannot canter we'll under side saddle
But mean that cultivated class, whose grace anu
modeSty intelligence and worth, give tone TO west
ern mind, and by preserving in crystal putty the
fountain of '.Sweet Home" send forth blessings 10
society IN the channels of active benihCence and
dSintereSted charity.
II is this class from which western society re-
ceives its finest impressions. II is oil women oil
this class of which editors love 10 speak; for she
comes home TO their business and bosom. She
resurrects their editorial WEAKNESS. She reaseS
for him the verse OF Spenser "a drachm OF sweet IS
worth pound of Sour." 1t is TO her. ofllneS, the
reaLer owes the Vivucity of the mornings leader.
and the beautiful extract is often clipped by her
scissors Ii is 10 her that editions we'll as others,
inpart their sorrows and cares, and find by divi-
ding, alienation.
The strife of human passion which marches i'll
fI,a NI,nFI1 C,NE
the editorial brain, until he is almost ready, like
FaS.af, to swear at the damnnbe iteration, vanish
before the cheerful smile and answering look. The
warm breath of enthusiasm passes over the hardest
material and solves 1t into the refinement OF gene
roUS emotion.
1t is not my wish to pay eulogy to women with
out qualification. l would speak only of those
women OF the west, whose hearts IRE as 6oundlcss
as our prairieS, and their lives embossed as with
their flowers. Such women the SOlace of our
genial western life. They supported our fathers IN
their eaIly hnTdshipS. They knew how 10 pick fintS
and melt bullets when wolves were their only mu-
sic and block houses their only refuge. They will
sustain the sons Ill preserving the institutions
which were planted amid the tangled underground
of the wilderness, and the CHARGED and smoking
stumpS of the primitive landscape.
They the suTeSt pledges against the retro
greSSiom of man, the best ratchetS on the wheel of
Time, tile most effectual barriers against private
vice and public corruption. They are the CORN
THAN capitals in State edifice, the jewels in
the bit OF patriotism. They smooth the usPerItieS
of politics. as the brook rounds the pebbles over
which it sings. They lead man, albeit moving
with reluctant step along the nisleS OF devotion,
and like the prayers of Dante'S Beatrice hurry up
his grosser 10 the source OF love and light!
Wherever happiness iS-there Is woman; whetl-
er i'll one point OF the compass or another In the
East, where the Yankee maiden, coy almost TO
PrudiSh odnesS, behaves marveliouslY proper be-
lore her exemplary mother; in the South, where
the wine OF life bounds through her VEINS and CIV
eth its color in her cheek and ilsSparkle to her eye
TIE one approaches you by the application OF me-
tallic tractors and thus elecreS, The other is like
the voltaic battery which strikes at the touch
But In the West, is the golden mean between the
extremes. The Christening influence of the one
blends with, 10 restrain the etvent gush Of the ether
I-entwining double strand of soft sweet pathoS,
winch fills life's goblet 10 the btim and makeS it
"run CT with glndness.'
May it not be an uniting conclusion to propose
this sentiment to my editorial brethren:
The Women Of the Press Of The West-the Pu-
rity of the former ny never be tronspoSed into the
spirit OF the latter.