The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-08-26

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gardly breadth of sentiment, II has finally
been yielded with a whole-souled grace
sufficient to make amends for past injus-
/ tice. The returning sense of truth has
Wrought this noble work. 1t has been
done without the rickety machinery of
cJnyeltions and the hypocritical sym
b isn of creeds that exaggerate truth
until it swells into lie, and intensity
virtue into the fanatical fury Of a vice
/ 1t has been done silently, but surely; and
W. are now witnesses OF the fact that the
growth Of generops and sympathetic feel
Ings are able, Cf themselves, to remedy
abuses and rectify errors, We have learn
ed that woman is welded 10 man in all
relations that ie is his counterpart ev-
erywhere and IN every position; aud be-
cause f this ten lency in all things to
! fo,m an alliance with her, We have come
/ to feel that s..e is the heart OF business no
e 5 than the heart Of home.
! But-to take up the stitch we dropped
in this sentence-knI ting-let Us return
t. the newspaper. We say, then, that
the idea of family newspaper ought to
have especial reference to Womap, Not
! exclusive reference, however, for that
would be an extreme almost rs unfavora-
( bic to her true culture in the affairs Of
daily life as her entire neglect. What
she needs in a newspaper is such inform
alton, such forms of thought, such incl
lectual, moral, and social action on he
nature, rather than on her intellect, as
shall expand her mind and mature her
character in that experience which Is
common both 10 woman and man. Cons
PEELED as she IS to have, In some things,
her own exclusive range of ideas and
emotions, there is danger that she may
condne herself too much and too intense
Iy to this separate field !; and hence the i'm
portance OF fenlsting her attention and SYM
pathy in behalf OF those objects that appeal
to Us outside of the pecullaritles OF sex.
Side bv side with man she may thus be
educated in all that concerns real life.
She may remain ga keeper at home aud
yet 60 abroad; may acquire full know
ledge Of the world, and not pay the pen
atty Of too much intercourse with it. BY
this means she may be fitted to supply
want that men often express, viz, intel
Icctual and social companionship III mat
ters that are above routine, etiquette, and
drawing room gossip. The positions OF
the two sexes, viewed in relation to the
interchanges Of mind, are certainly not
linked together as they should be for mu-
tual Improvement, nor are they as sym
pathetic in kindred Offices Of sentiment as
their happiness demands. Every intelli-
gent person Of both sexes, has often felt
this painfully. But how shall it be I'M
proved? How many men as men, and
women as women, meet on common
ground without abatement of faculty, each
retaining his and her epdowments, both
Themselves in natures best sense, and yet
opening their minds to each others inhu
ence in hearty fellowship Of thought and
feeling? How may these sympathies
which now so frequently weaken the IN
tercourse Of mind between the sexes be
converted into agencies Of strength and
vigor? But one method has ever occurred
to US, viz, to put them both in possession
of the same sources Of intelligenoe-to
train them, after attaining mature life,
under the influence Of the same master
thoughts, and through the same general
instrumentalities-t give them a COM
mon property in the intellectual life Of
the world, and let their hearts throb alike
beneath its inspirIting energy. \ family
newspaper meets this necessity. ltoffcrS
woman precisely the sort Of information
and discipline which she requires for con-
yersational charms The spirit Of first
rate newspaper is the spirit Of active, en-
ergetic, daily life, with mind to give it
dignity and ready tact for versatile adapt
alton; and this is just the spirit which
our better class Of women demand, to en-
able them to fulfill their intellectual and
social relations with becoming propriety
and effect.
\ family newspaper, then, Il ust report
the world every week, as far as it can and
ought to report it, for the instruction, en-
livenment, and happiness of the family.
1t should be biography Of life, history
of action. All that is attractive in SCI
ence, beautiful in art, inviting in letters,
with whatever else may ;nvigorate and
refresh mind BY careful devotion to what
is good, and heagty homage fer What is
great, it should command in sufficient
measure for its paegs. 1t must be a
newspaper in every meaning Of the Eord
one that shall faithfully depict the
great surface of the world as the restless
ness of passion, the mutations ofopinion,
the changes of mighty events speed over
it; and one, too, that shall look deeper
than the surface, and contemplate those
principles in which the order Of society
IL Il. .r-lE.ra aE a-:nLnrnn La-o thnir