Kansas weekly herald., 1854-09-29
From the Raleigh IN. C. Register.
Worth Carolina Politics.

temporary of the Baltimore american, that
the country possesses some statesman, ell
evated in patriotism and commanding ali
influence, whose voice could be heard
throughout the land rallying to his aid the
conservative majority of all sections, and
bidding Northern fanaticism and Southern
ultraism, Free Soil aggression and Pro-
Slavery agitation, alike be still. We are
tired of this everlasting commotion about
Negrodom. The Southern people are tired
Of it, and they acant peace and quiet, If it can
be obtained aoithoM the sacrifice oftheir an
alienable rights. We believe, ourselves.
that the present agitation will be settled
definitely, one way or the other, by the
citizens Of Kansas and Nebraska, long be-
fore Congress could dispose Of it, and that
before the Missouri Compromise could be
reestablished, or It's repeal reafirmed, the
question will be placed beyond the terrific
rial power of Congress. Further agitation
therefore by the North can result in no
practical good. That is manifest by their
own reasoning. Why keep it up, then
All the South asks is to be let alone, and
why not let us have peace?
THE NEW CAUSE OF DIvoRcE.-We
published recently the action of an Agricul.
tural Society in Iowa, declaring that igno-
rance of wife in the art of bread-making
is sufficient ground for divorce. The N. Y.
Express noticing the same action, comments
on it as follows:
"The inability to make bread has been
declared sufficient ground for divorce by the
Jones County Agricultural Society of Iowa.
Husband and wife, by DEGREES of court and
acts of Legislatures, have been separated
for life on grounds less reasonable. But,
suppose the courts TO decide that an inabili-
ty TO make bread should be good reason
for separating man and wife, what would
become Of upper Tendom,' what of the
scores of fair faces, delicate hands, and
sumptuously educated women who are train
ed simply for the parlor, the ball room, and
the pomp and show Of fashionable life
Our good mothers all knew how to make
and bake bread. There was not one in a
thousand who were mothers, in America,
twenty-five years ago, who could not do
this, or make bed, sweep a room, dust
parlors and chambers, cook a good dinner,
&c. They could also preside at the table
with dignity and honor, carve the dishes set
before them, and economise in the great
and honorable work of being the mother
and head of the family. They could nurse
their own children too, and were slow to
trust those to whom they had given birth to
the management and control of others
There were neat, healty, tidy women then,
too. They always had changes of clothes
and clothes adapted TO the season. The
doctor was called less frequently, and for
less frivolous causes. Care and prevention
were the medicines which both ministered
to mind diseased and saved diseased bo-
dies, and the practical maxim was that 'an
ounce of preventive was worth pound of
cure
s'Many of these things are changed now,
and for the worse. The result is the dou-
bic misfortune of bad education, increased
physical ailments, and total want of prepa-
ration on the part of many who are married
or marriageable, for the practical duties of
life"