Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-01-03
WHOLE NUMBER, 1851.

the eniranchsemenIof their ser. seem, iodiQ.
nant at the idea Of ~Oman's natural intellectual
inisrOri'y. They contend that ell the existing
inieriority arises from the limited sdueationsl
advantages and false social relations under
which she has so lOng.bssn oppressed; that shs
would With equal rights soon Sesoms Che Ia.
tellsc:ual equal Of man.
lie! Us remark:
]. That there is a false potidn Ghsoad iu a.
sPeei to the Intellect. Many educated parAonS
who ought to know better, speak Of man m q
mental and a moral being-Of his mental and
moral powers. This blunder in mental sd-
ence is more discredItabls TO the learning of
The speaker or writer than any grammatical
mistake. The fact il. the mental includes the
moral, and in one sense the moral includes the
mental, and in such form Of expression conveys
a falsehOOd in seierce ard tSutOlogy in rhetor-
ie. The correct form is Mans Intellectual
and moral powers The intellect Is the Fsass
oning department. Of the mind, Wbils the nor
seutimebtsor powers constitute he moral
department Of the mind, and both together
constitute the miad.
Hence when we asserted Homau's natural
nfeiority in intellect. we did not mean, az some
seem to suppose, her mental inieriority. There
is a vast difference bstween the two forms af
expression. II, as is the case, man be woman's
superior 10 the reasoning powers, and woman
be mans superior in the moral powers, WHICH
sr1 must be judged superior in mind7 Neith-
r. For if one man exeels in poetry and an
other in crstory, neither can be called slperi-
or to the other as a man.
| 2. Most Of these Woman's Rights sdTo.
cafes among the females seems to place high.
er estimate upon the intellectual than the mon.
al. and hence become indignant when man is
pronounced superior 10 intellect. This is q "a.
aection upon their own moral worth. II We
are to be honored after death, let il not be %
much for intellectual as for moral worth. Bet
ler, thousand times, is moral excellence with
intellectual mediocrsty, than intellectual great
ness with moral inferorty. We thought. there,
| fore, that all women would consider our posi-
non on this subject as highly complimentary
10 their sex. WOman is mans moral superior,
and man is woman's intellectual superior and
yet A Woman feels outraged at Ruch lib%
On her sexl!l
3, Nan is man, and you cannot make lin
a woman; while a man sannot be mAnuiaetuT-
ed from the flesh and blood and bones and
mind of any woman. The one cannot be tbs
other, and It's all nonsense to speak OF oneias
either inferior or superior 10 the other. W0,
man is superior to man 10 her sphere, and mAR
TO woman in his sphere, for there is the mascI-
Inc and the ft menine spheres. although thsSs
should he no law or social customs TO regulate
these spheres; nature and the God o nAtuIe
have done that. Why should woman feel %
indignant.
a. Intellect is masculine, while the moral
sentiments, the affections, the love OF the beaR-
uful, and the religious faculties are femel4ne,
The one is positive; the other is negative. Ths
one is mans peculiar distinction, and the other
. is woman's. Now to be moral, sffsctionRts.
and to love the beautiful, "A Woman seems la
rSSard as comparatively Insignificant; while e
have profouGd intellect, she considers the gls-
" of man, even though be be morally dePEA-
we'd, regiOusly an in6del, as a parent hatefRi,
as friend tracherous, sad as 9 resident among
the grand and beautiful creations of GC1p 3
blnd deseCrator and daring blasphemeIl We
cannot account for the taste Of such "A We
: man.
{ 5. The masculine in every organic depart
ment is mace on more extended scale, md
o especially endowed for the brunt Of the batsle
His body is taller, bis chest bBoader, shoalderl
more Hercuesn, and muscles more like Alag,
: for the doing of ponderous works. Hence thI
e Roman malron would advance the glory o
Y her country by the peaceful influences OF moF
8 al power alone, while the son would buckle Of
:. his armor, and march proudly over the mangltC
bodies of the foe to his cOuutry's grandeur.
J.. 6. But how do VIC know that the iutellse
II s masculine, and the moral sentiments feme
II nine? Because the world means by masculips
" strong, coarse, rigid and unrelentiug. NaScu'
1t Unity is just but femininity is generous anC
e loving. Justice is demonstrated by the intel
T lect, wkile generosity and Kindness emanat'
/. irom the moral sentiments, Femninity is of I
). finer texture, as all history declares, except {
@ small scrap Of fabulous tradition about the An
n azons.
q 7. Had wcman's intellect been equal 4
|. mans from the first, she never would haE
e been su bjugated by him. Her dependant cot
e dition proves that there was superiority in ma
% TO place her under his control at frat; 90 thl
IA the argument Of education and long continne
oppression Is answered by the fact that theE
,e was time at the beginning when their dspre'
- ing influences had not afec ted her. and The
ur had she not been inferior, she would not ha'
been oppressed,
8. The passions and the intellect were devs
oped before the moral sentiments. Hence 9
superiority Of man at FIRST. In the sour
humane progress the moral sentiment g ~ 7
forth, aud now woman having her lAais :, Is
nj ! 4 4 L