M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-07-31
Women and Politics.

II has been conceded that in no country upon
the earth do the ladies command so much re-
spectful attention as in our own. This Difference
70 the fair portion Of creation has become char
ucteristic of the American people, and it will
probably always so remain, unless, indeed, the
she men and he women of the Abby Kelly and
Wendell Philips school should succeed in their de-
signs and confound all sexes and colors, Should
such an event ever occur, no doubt Jonathan win
place his hands in his capacious pockets with an
emphatic thrust, and with Achilles declare that
-"no more he draws
Ills conq'ring sword in any woman's cause.n
Until some such social calamity shall happen,
however, the gallant Yankee will always be rea-
dy to exclaim with - somebody
"Madam, do, as bound in duty,
Honor the shadow Of your sh0e-tdn
Entertaining such respectful sentiments for the
ladies' but few blamed Jessie for running away
with Col. Fremont, deeming It one of the prlyil-
eges Of the sex to do so-a privilege, by the way,
first exercised by Helen, who eloped to Troy with
her Paris. As nobody feared Trojan war and
the destruction Of million Of men, of course
little attention was paid to the wrath Of Jessio's
old Spartan father. One of her poetcal, as well
political friends, indites the following showing
how little he cares for old Thomas;
"If our Johnny WOO his Jessie
From auld Tammy's eye,
=, Win his Jessie, wed his Jessie,
Need auld Tammy cryn
Tobe sure he needn't How very foolish for
u r.tl -.
daughters marriage Besides, how well Jessie'
elopement has "turned out" How exceedingly
fortunate for the world and Col. Fremont, sine
his runaway has hccomo an evidence of his fit
ness for the Presidency Hereafter, nobody nceC
hope TO be nominated for that Office by our oppo
nents, who has not run away with some woman
1t must be particularly agreeable to the refine,
sensibities of the wife and her family, to hca
their private affairs journalized and commentc,
upon throughout the land! 1t must be peasan
to Frcmontto hear his clopcment characterized a
gallant act but when he learns that his fatlc
possessed the truc grit also, having as the Rich
mOnd Dispatch says, run off with another man
aSys his happiness must be unbounded
But we must not lose sight of Jessie, who Ia
turned out such trump for our opponents
such glorious power behind the throne.' i
support of her claims, it is alcdgod first, that sh
is Col. Benton's daughter; secondly, that Co
Fremont is her husband thirdly that she is Co
FTemont's wife fourthly, that she has baby
filthy, that the baby is handsome; sixthly, thG
her husband isits father; seventhly, that she OF
posed slavery in California; If any doubtin rel
erence to Fremont's qualifications for the Pres
dency remained down as far as "sixthly," it WI
at once dispellod by reading " seventhly." A
opposition journal states that when some lodi'
begged her to use her influence TO make Caliio
mia slave State, she made this sublime declar'
ton: "Rather than have California made sla1
State, would-do my o'Cn hOuse acork :"
u Heroic Jessie! self-sacrifcing Jessie! who no
can dispute thy claim to be the wife of him WI
galantly ran away with thee and captured Il
woolly horse