Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-25
From tho Home journal.
BY GENio c. SCOTT.
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The following article, evidently dictated rom
the love and high respect for the women OF Eng .
land, is equally applicable to this longitude eS' :
pecially as there is q greater number in this couh- 9
try, than in any other, belonging to the class 9
to which the writer elludes with such exu''a y
ton = =
The condition of women in every country Jul,
nishes us with a guage for measuring Its clVnlNa
ton. it's refinement, its religion, The purify VI
the female character is the safeguard oil te
state. The mothers Of one generation stamp
their impress on that which is to follow. lnen
sons arc its rulers. Their daughters it's Wives.
These also, in their turn. leave their stamy a."
,hnso ,ybn are To succeed them, and thus the intu'
once of woman goes on increasing until the conrSe
of time establishes the national aggrandize'
mcnt. .
1t may be argued that we are in this way es-
,ahlishine the supremacy OF woman. Far from 1t.
An that we say is simply this, the standard-in-
tellectua.ly, morally, and religiously-which man
has attained may be estimated by his treatment
of women.
Let it be understood that We are speaking Of
women collectively, and not OF the exceptional
class. Those who are born TO rank and wealth
in every land are nursed in the lap of luxury, and
know nothing Of the contradictions and depriva.
tons of lowlier fortunes, Putting this class out of
the question, let us see how women fare across
The channel. in the most polite nation of the earth
pass through Dinon, and find your way obstruct-
cd by the poor struggling sheep lying in your
notb with the legs tied together in couples. They
have been shorn. They. have lost their robe OF
fleece, and the operation has been done so unskil-
fully. so barbarously, that the blood is stifening
on many a new-made cash. Women have done
the work which seems to have brutalized all that
was soft, tender, lovable, gentle in their nature
The streets Of the old town are INSTRUCTED with
blood stained Heeces, and you tread your way with
n revolving disgust. Oh, but you will say, That
was a long time ago, like many other old tales"
We beg pardon only the last month. "Wel', but
we all know that Dinon is a century behind the
rest of France" Then let us 60 Paris.
We 20 to Paris, and what is the first thing that
strikes us2 A deluge of rain has fallen, and ihe
e. streets are rivers of mud. We look out of the win
dow in the morning, and we see that the scayengers
ne are ,comen. Yes, there they are, wading in such
on streams of foul denominations as to make US ieei
o.. mingled shame and indignation that the daughters
he of tn at heaven.born Eve-all perfection OF beauty
an in her first home of Paradise-can thus be sub
ire Iiected to this unworthy and debasing drudgery IN
do what its citizens call the metropolis of the world
her Let us Toxic a different grade of life. Let US
Use Took Mt those whose labor is merely that of dainty
of fingers, and not of course and deteriorating ma
the ture. W. scarcely know whether it is fair t
ad- count it as a stigma on a class, but we give tn
an fact-and fact it is. A frst.rate dress maker il
nts. the fashionable practice in Paris has just fd
or herself compelled to dismiss summarily half-a.do2
, of en- of her fairy fingered assistants. Their fauI
,ty. was one which would scarcely have entered
v to feminine English brain. The six girls went to
IN maSQuoTaue, uTps6eu IDm " INV INV u
Zouaves. The derelictlon was 100 oroad 10 m
$ so federation, and expulsion followed the offence.
the We pass from scenes like these to look on on
and motherland with feelings of national pride an
national ingratitude. There are specks IN tn
self. sun and women of England have their faults
bus, with all their faults, they are still genuln
SUI women-feminine in feeling. with uncorrupte
thus Affections and untainted delicacy of nature. There q
n to religion in the heart of England and where thei
is religion good is as inseparable as light from tn
able sun. In our creed the graces are all Christian
lie to In heathendom they were corporeal with us the
own are spiritual. Even when religion is not the ind
viduaps blossom lord" it yet SO gloriously sub
ives mates and enlightens the general atmosphere tn
not the national soul is purified and exalted, and pu
very lie opinion takes u higher STAND. IL mas oet
e as we'll said that hypocrisy is the homage whlt
vice Days to virtue" In one sense, indeed, 1T
neo- better than shamelessness in sin, since it prov
atri- that crime must hide Its head ana veil its ieatur
eful- before the great tribunal of a rcproving world.
With what refreshing feelings of the spirit v
+ lis turn to those mighty impulses Of educational a
vance which are, at this moment, upheaving tt
bosom of our own dear country, from one extrer
of its widespread sovereignty to another. III
+ by word education meant a far different thing in Il
lllen last generation from what it does in our own
giant Then it signified a few tunes on the piano-fort
OBJ badly played a few flowers painted, as unlil
1T of nature as possible a sampler with u strawberl
as border round, and dates, urns, and hieroglyphi
suit, within o stiff, low courtesy taught by the dan
rch. ing-master. Now, the word education means
fair practice of all the faculties, a memory stored wi
ewd- the history of the worlds great family, makif
the heart kno " and own its vast relationship,
ting mind made capable Of communion with the mast
'orn, spirits of the age, powers cnerglzed for good al
useful action, courage to meet lite's cares, endu
ance to support its evils. 1t means the practic
power of domestic rule, the ability to guide
hus. house the knowledge how to work in the gre
the field of benevolence; above all, it means tn
life. mental grasp of high purposes OF life which Ell
.lone bles woman to train her children with some desr
posi- of fitness for their future destinies, to carry the
titles safely through thu shoals of superstitions and t
very rocks of prejudice which beset their early yes
i'm to and which, if once suffered to make their ma
She upon the child, so corrode the after.life, and, Ii
ID as wounds received in the cradle, are carried even
,sible the grave. 1t means that noble elevation of
hurt woman which enables her to project a moral a
nifty. intellectual power strong enough to stamp
,ss in character of the generation which is to succeed |
epen- own.
him In speaking thus of female education, let it
her be said that we are aiming too high. So
folly, from this being the case, we actually desire to
en- a empt those who have been rocked 10 silver Grad
still which is bodoed ronnd bv nride encIos;nn In
less No doubt there are those within it whose honor
she the greater because they have broken through
nds ; houndarv which senarated them from, tbe;r faI
Ting creatures 10 disnense the benefts which NV
max only entrusted to their stewardship. We a
leaving out the opulent, whose Incidence is t
ntei privilege Of their station. We are speaking
that Inc mossns r. il these which en- orr 60,
cher with that leavening of good sense oood aoo,
and and thrice.blessed affections. which tefIs mon :,
up to whole constitution of society. These nlain no
btru- oct ,bose coIaen u;,t,os rn.La 49, - n,A ~
nine' birth the land of our love.
,g, as
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Inter GOVERNOR CHAsE's LETTER TO TIE
MIN GUN I'LL ND GHI nyn a