Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-14

Mrs. SMARTLEY.--This lady has been wri-
ting some very sprghtly letters to the Sierra
Citizen. The following is one of them, on
the Rights of Men and the Wrongs of Wo-
men:
1t was my will to resume the thread of my
narrative on the rights of men and the wrongs
,of women, a good while before now, but
have had other thread to use on the moral
delinquencies of my mans outward garb |
was acknowledging one of his rights-a plea
sure rather than wrong to me.
Mrs. Sunshine and myself have concluded
that the wrongs of women are not so hume
rous as the rights of men, in any social ar
rangement We decide that " Woman's
Rights" as preached by females who pretty
nearly have beard, is kind of calico which
we cannot consent to wear it won't wash.
Those women who preach for social and po-
litical equality, and tell what woman ought
to be privileged to do, as the mother of the
human race, can't be perpendicular in all
their practices; they have the desire without
the capacity to be men, and hence we despise
them. Mrs. Sunshine and myself say that we
prefer to be women entirely, and can appre-
.ciate the necessity of distraction between men
and ourselves. Man-women and woman-men
Einguisning functions, and they are of no use
in perfeeting and beautifying society.
The rights of men are experienced in every
refined family, and in that society which re
CARDS the wife as a mans most estimable
possession and where men are haters of lib
ertinism and adultery, and are always adj
mitting, through their actions, that honora-
BILE marriage is the inviolable inheritance OF
the young and virtuous The rights of men
are not often violated out of natural perverse-
ness, in communities where each man has
pride in the comfort and eontentment, the
growing excellence of his own and his neigh
bOr's family. Whea he thus maintains his
true position, his influence is steadily against
the approach of all unehaste dangers and
the Development of his Children and the hap
piness of his wife, enlarge his own nobleness
as man and a citizen. Let him depart from
that right way of acting in behalf of himself,
and he will oyertake one little social error,
fhen another and another, till he sees gem
eral looseness in the social bands.
Here, may introduce a statement pre-
paredby Mrs. Sunshine She says:
The principal want in California is family en-
dearment. The acknowledged opinion has been,
that we want women marriageable women; but
Ihls does not half fill the requisites in the subject
There are in every California community, more
or less OF men who years ago, left families, hop
ing ana expecting to return and remain, or bring
their relatives here to live with them. OF this
class should judge there were nearly hundred
thousand; out of that number, not more than
Ten thousand are free from despondency, want
anu dlsslpaton; fifteen thousand have become
Hortliess e both to themselves and the community
One-haii the deaths that occur, except from cas-
ualty, are among this desponding class; the lar
ses. proportion of suffering and sinking drunk
@ aIus are among this class the greater part of all
eonlplalnts respecting social inconvenience and
Peecunlafy darkness, comes from this same dissat
Islleu ana careless class, who have been so long
away from their wives that wife and husband
consider the intended temporary absence actual
abandonment From such severng of ties, any
one can see as well conjecture the conse-
Mrs, Sunshine has contributed statement
which believe is plausible, and direct and
deporabc in its reference to the rights OF
men and the wrongs of women. 1t reveals
before me the adversely of a social system
under which California has grown, and out of
which she must grow and attain splendid
organization of society that will be her
queenly diadem