The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-11-01

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! CA lecture before the late Woman's Rights
Conv ention in Boston.1
He said that he shared in the belief of the
| Anglo-S Saxon race, that woman had n ra-
tional nature, and they are more delicate
| than men, and as the more impressionable
| they were the best index Of the coming hour
AS more delicate Mercuries of imponderable
influences, what they say and think were the
shadows of future events. Man was WILL
woman sentiment In the ship of humanity,
will was the rudder, sentiment was the sail !;
and when women attempts TO steer, the rud
| der was a masked sail. When women en-
gagged in trade. II was only as resource
not IA primary object. The life of the affec-
tons was primary to them, so that there is
| really no employment or career they will not
with their own applause and that of society,
quit for suitable marriage. Laughter.
| They cast all their fortunes on the die, and
! lose themselves entirely in the glory of their
husbands children, while man stood Devil
| dered by a magnanimity he could not attain
| to. twas true that In painting, poetry and
| sculpture, woman had not yet produced a
master and he then proceeded to point out
the respects in which lay their peculiar excel
! lence. The first of these was their power Of
conversation. They furnished society with
| manners. The second attribute was their
ceremonial nature. They embellished trihes.
An OK ran to the water when thirsty, or to his
corn, regardless of obstacles, and said no
thanks but man delays; he paints the de-
sired object all over with forms he invented
| majesty, etiquette, courts, drawing rooms,
architecture, dress, elegance, privacy; he Gre
ated dignlties, the union of the sexes; and
how should we measure the gulf between the
IF IN plH A I on
don or our American capitals that
and the hedgehog existence of the diggers of
worms and eaters of offal, than by signaliz-
| ing thlss department of taste or comeliness
Yet herein woman was the prime genius and
| ordainer. There was no grace taught by the
master of manners, no style adopted in the
etiquette of courts, but WAS first the action Of
some brilliant woman, who charmed the be-
/ holders with this new expression, which man
copied and he thought that we should mag
1 nlfy their ritual manners.
There was no advantage without compen
satIon. oman was more vulnerable, more
lntirm than man. They could not be such
! elegant artists in the element of fancy if they
did not give themselves to it; they were po-
cts who believed their own poetry-they
dwelt more than men in the kingdom Of liu-
sion. They admitted into their atmosphere
waves over waves of colored light and they
: saw all objects in the warm tinted mists which
envelope them.
But the starry crown of woman. the throne
of her affection and sentiment, and the inf
mite enlargement to which they lead was the
passion of love-painter and adorner Of new
and early life; but none suspected in its
bushes and tremors, what tragedies and i'm
moraities were beyond.
Mr.. Emerson went on 10 show that as soci-
ETY. had progressed, 50 had the position Of
woman changed and improved; and concur
ded by saving that he did not think it vet APP
1 peared that women wish an equal share in
public affairs. But it was they, and not we,
who were TO determine it. If we refused
them vote, we should refuse TO tax them ;
according to our Teutonic principle, no rep
resentation, no tax.
AT all events, this appearing Of new opin-
ions In many minds was a wonderful fact.
Whatever is popular is important, as show
ing the spontaneous sense of the hour. for
aspiration Of this century will be the code
Of the next. A masculine woman is not
strong, but lady is. Let US have the true
woman, the adorner, the ceremonial, the
hospitabe, the religious heart. The amei-
Grafton Of manners had brought woman's
amelioration of course, hence this huge de-
sire for better laws. This new movement,
he said In conclusion, he looked at as q tie
shared by the spirits of men and women
and they might proceed In in faith that
whatever woman desired man would accom-
plish.