The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-11

"Dusy of American Women to their

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One of tho innusefailo family Of Beeshefs lsas
undertaken TO edit, the wsrll by looh on the
duty Of American " omen h. their Couiftry." We
are strongly Inclined to question the compe'encyof
| the fair author to enlighten her coun'rywom"n Oh
that subject Judging from the practical ustr"t''"
which has been Afforded in the personal and itsf"
~ career Of the most celebrated of the fan"i "
| II. b. Stowe IL she is model Of American ',h'"'.
patriotism. then American women ought 10 "'Sei'
their homes and so gaddinG ahont the "o'l',
dancing attendance upon foreign 1' - anu
purchasing lis smiles by abusing theii ha''e ianu
and its institutions. writing books aeofF'hs 'he
character of their people ana seeking TO bring
| H., NJ, General contempt and odum throughout
| all Christendom.
| ucbeva no donht that American Women under
| stanj ,t,ir duty e. their country Just ~ we'll as
they can learn II from any such anthor or any of
her kifh and kin. They showed In the war of the
Revolution and even in the late war; before any Of
the present generation of Bcechers was born that
they could he faithful, patient, seIfdenying. and
| even heroic, in devotion to the country Of their
| birth. The Duty Of Women. not only to their
country, but in their domes tie and social relations,
was laid down many hundred years ago by better
and more common-scnse writer's. than the Beech
| ers, and il would I've we'll if these old standards
| were more frequently referred TO- There was one,
| especially, who though gentleman and an old
| bachelor knew more If these things than all the
| men in petticoats aGd women in hreeches who ever
| figured in Exeter Hail or the Broadway taherna-
Cle-we mean one Paul, the Apostle, who, in his in
structiou- upon thi. subject exhOrtcd young women
to be discreet. to lac keepers at home loving their
! children ohcIitnt to their husbands, and old We
| men to be in behavior as becometh holiness, not
jtl1~ 0ceR~yS. not given to much wine. OF course.
81 Paul was behind The age. and was not orthodox,
b, Sides according to the standard Of New England
puritaaism being not Il iously unsound on the sla-
very ad~sfion and having forfeited the respect OF
all Congregational clelgymen and their families by
| inducing fugitive slave ~ return to his master.
! Nevertheless, havo more confidence in the ca
pacity Of the apostles 70 instruct American women
| or any other women in their duty than in our
| modern reformcrs Trae they say nothing Of the
| duty Of women 10 their country. except under the
general directions applicable to all Christians, of
oLeying the laws and respecting the powers that
| be- They dill not cDnntenance the idea that women
| had ANY palt t. play on tn theatre of public af-
! fairs hat held that home their principal field
of action, where, if they performed their domestic
duties faithfully. they best performed their bga-
| tion- 10 their country Hence. they enioined wo-
men to stay at home: to adorn themselvea, not with
| the adornments Of fashion. but of meek and quiet
spirit: To- devote Themselves Ia their husbands and
| children, and not to 60 Gaddins ana S0ssipplng
| about. We should think it would not be beneath
! the dignity of one of tho Reverend Reechers to
write preface for the next edition Of Cncle Tom,
| founded On the text. tuoS G!iys a-ctsrfE.'