The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-09-30

she no interest that her posterity to th,
remotest generation shall breathe pure
republican air, and be protected by the
broad ages of a republican Constitution
Has she no tender sympathies Have
the gushing fountains of her love become
so scared and calohs that she would ex.
perience no painful emotions on seeing
the tyrants heavy heel press the soil
where the names of her bright ancestors
had much higher degree Then in
deed, have we greatly mistaken her char
acter; and then indeed should she be
deprived of the right of suffrage but if
on the contrary, she is possessed of all
these feelings, we claim for her in the
name of justice and good policy, that
that right be extended to her. Have
the opponents to the extension of Female
Rights proilited SO little by the lights
history and observation, as to rest an OBJ
lection on the grounds of her capacity I?
How stands that question! Has woman
a perception less keen, a judgment less
correct, mind less capable Of high and
expanded attainmentS, and a soul less APP
preciatiye of all that is great and emo
bling, than man In what las she ever
been found deficient. when mental right
and accumen have been brought into re-
QUESTION Is she not universally more
intelligent on those subjects with which
she is familiar than our sex? | grant
that her intelligence is not generally so
varied as that of mans, and for the rea-
son. that her opportunities and facilities
for acquiring it are much more circum-
scribed. According to custom, woman's
scholastic education ceases just at the
point where mans is fairly commenced,
and at the point, too, where she is but
prepared for high intellectual efforts and
developments. Woman Sintellectual cul-
ture is compressed into the short space of
less than score of years at most. while
Mans is prolonged to three score, at
least. Woman S ceases with her acade-
mic years, while mans continues through
a whole life time. Again the studies pre-
scribed for woman for the short space al
lotted for her education are not of the
character to give intelligence, muscle and
power. But rather enervate and sicken
the faculties of the mind, while mans
are designed to give mental expansion,
force and efficiency. Woman's education
too, is confined to books, without any OPP
portunity for practical application, while
mans book learning is combined with the
scanning Of observation, and practical ap-
plication, which serve as condiments,
giving his intellectual appetite relish
for the food it is called on to digest.
Educate the male, if you please, as
the female is educated rear him up in
S.so; ia tenderness and ef'eminacy of wo-
mans sphere. Gut him off from the as
associations, the strife and contentipTA Aof
the world-cut him off from the advan-
tages he enjoys over woman of practical
observation-let his course of education
be limited to the few brief years and
sickly studies to which woman is limited.
Deprive him of physical exercise, that
great adjunct Of education in giving men,
tai health and strength; and then show
me the measure of his superiority over
woman in intelligence. He will be in
firm immeasurably infrm /! !! 1t is not
nature, then, but education that gives
maI his intellectual superiority, if indeed
he possesses it. 1t is not nature, but
education, that has been parsimonious of
It's DeStOWdlS Oh WohioH, anu WY 10 oae
thus meagrely educated! Because she
is not permitted to take part in those
things that are supposed to require high
intellectual endowments. Ask the fathers
and mothers of the country why they do
not educate their daughters more liber-
ally and you are either told that it is
because they are afraid they will write
love letters to the young men, or that 1t
is useless to educate them as if for law
yers or politicians that it does not re-
aaire much education to make them low
ING and ebedient wives. Only extend
her privileges then Only make It ap-