The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-02-07

life in which the influence and Importance of
i the female character are net more or less mani
test There is no such thing as penetrating
beyond Its reach. Man does not possess the ca
paclty OF dlvesting himself Of a desire to enjoy
Woman's approval. Indeed it might with
great deal OF truth be asserted, that this is the
main spring to every laudable enterprise, the
motive to every noble and generous action. 1t
/ IS this that stimulates the student in his re-
searches after knowledge, and fires the bosom
and nerves the arm of the warrior for the
battle. Butin no capacity is the influence of the
female character, more prominent than in the
family circle. Here We find her as wife, moth
err and sister. Nature designed her preami-
nently for these stations. AS wife, we sec her
devoted to all the interest of him to whom she
/ plighted hervows at the hymenial altar, willing,
with all the generous eonfdings that none but
she can feel, to share his griefs; ready to make
| any sacrifice for the alienation Of the sorrows,
| and disappolntments, that ever and anon come
across the pathway of life. We see her under
the saddest reverses of fortune, uttering the
words of encouragement, and with an out
stretched arm, ready to tighten the burden of
mans cares. As a mother, we find her en-
phatically our ministering angel. Panegyrics
have, thousand times, and in thousand ways,
been lavlshed upon woman in this capacity, but
none have ever represented her in her true
dignity. In her real power no pen can ade-
quately portray the majesty of her moral ex-
celence. She is above all praise, she cannot
be described; as well may you undertake to de-
scribe the tenor of the storm, Or the brightness
Of the sun in its monday spendor it can't be
done Mother! what SO much like what we de-
light to reverence and love? The one with
whom all our well being is identified. She who
watched with ceaseless vigilance all the tedious
hours Of ourhelpless infancy, who impressed
upon our childish hearts the lessons Of piety,
| and taught our feeble stammering tongues to.
/ lisp, "our Father who art in heaven whose
highest happiness, is her childrens good, who
makes their happiness the burden of her night
dreams, and their eternal destiny the medita-
ton of her waking hours. As a sister we find
her the ever gentle and loving companion,
evncing that affectionate regard and tenderness,
which constitute her very nature, and which
more than all things else, are calculated to
soften the asperlties of our perverse wills. AS
friend and councillor, she is peculiarly fitted to-
| advise and lmpart consolation, bring her in eve
ry situation, and you will find her sympathies
So strongly interviewer with all that's elevating
in character, and inspiring in moral sentiment,
that the conviction irresstably forcesitself upon
US, that woman is emphatically, "Heaven's
best gift to man. J. P. CAMPBELL.
Collegiate Institute.
Wenake the following eloquent extract FROM
the address of bishop Doane, delivered at Bur-
Engton college, on the 4th of July. 1t is not
inappropriate to the times:
"E PLuR1BUs UNUM-Mark for one moment
how amazingly this problem of plural unit
is practically worked out in our immortal con-
stltutlon. 10 every nation in the world-Ja-
pan and China, now are not exceptions-there
must be the foreign and domestic SIDE The
side which it turns to its own people for the
protection, for encouragement for consolation;
and the side which it turns to the whole world
beside, for sovereignty and independence; cen
emes In warm peace friends" In our in
lmitable Union this is supplied BY the State gov
ernments on the one hand, and on the other by
the general government. AS Jersevmen, as
Georgans, as men of Massachusetts,, all that
is private, individual, domestic, social, in its
more immediate and endearing forms, is clus-
tered about New Jersey, Georgia and Massa-
chusetts, and sheltered in their shadow We
live at home among our own people, We know
each other, all. We grasp each others hands.
We feel each others hearts But when the
world is to be met in commerce, in diploma
cy, or arms-when the nation is to rise and
rally at the angel summons of beneyolence, or
at the clang OF the war trumpet, we are one
single people. We are all Americans. There
is one country for us oil, with one all-compre-
hending constitution. One glorious baldrc,
blazoned with the stars and stripes. One
monarch eagle, that from his eyrie in the AL
leghanes, mounts to heaven with all 'sthe ter
rors of his beak and lightning of his eye."-
One broad and blessed and perpetual Union:
the union of our homes and of our hearts; in
domitabe, impregnable, imperishable: "In-
dependence now, and independence forever
And are there those upon whose homes and
hearts this glorious Union sheds the blessings
OF Its bow of peace and love and hope, that
have the heart to stop and calculate its value?
Will they count the stars? Will they register
the pulses OF the ocean as it lashes the bold
shore Of freedom? Will such an one measure
his heart with carpenters rule? Will he
map for us the heartfelds of his home? Is
there value in arithmetic for his wife? Or
an algebrc formula for his children? There
is no such American There is no such man
If there were, would fear to stand with him
beneath the arches of the constitution, lest
rock from them should fall for his destruction,
and involve me in his just ruin. Were hem
son, he should take his feet from off nv hearth
And could he be an alumnus of this college,
his alma mater would freeze him vjth one
fierce frown into perpetual stone. But, not
cannot be. The invaluable can no more be
calculated than the infinite be measured And
second only to blessings which flow immedi-
ately from the Cross, are the benefits which
BY the Union Of those states have been secur-
I'd tous; and with Gods blessing on our faith
'ulness, shall be our heritage forever.
The st. Louis Herald states a case of q
roung lady of the most undoubted respecta-
ollity, who entered shoe store in that city,
md asked to be shown some gaiter boots; a
lumber were shown to her which she examin-
ID and tried on. While the attention Of the
torekeeper occupied with another Gus
omer, several pairs of CATERS disappeared
Fhe lady concluded not to purchase, and he
vas compelled to accuse her of secreting his
hos. she denied If and he insisted and nro-