Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-07-24


On the morning Of the recent Fifth O
July, the incessant cracking a
crackers was fracturing The sunny air or
every side, and ambitious pistols with wadi
IN the middle and boys &C the end Of them
were testifying the juvenile delight IN a hol
iday, and orators were doing the joyful Of
the doleful over the Nation, to the custom
airy extent, and with the usual iutensity.-
we passed an hour or two in watching al
home, more leisurely than before. the mo
tlon and operation Of that little mechanism
which Is to usher in the era Of real inde
pendence for Women, il they wisely and
faithfully avail themselves Of 1.-THE Sew.
ING MACHINE. Its silver-plsted snrface was
! pleasanter to lock at than brass-buttoned
uniforms, to say nothing Of the welcoming
eyes above il. Its flying lever aud whirl-
lug wheel delivered music not certainly 50
inspiring or so brilliant with variations, as
that Of the instruments off in the square.
but whose CHEEKY strain kept caroling on
With tireless steadinese that was fun Of
suggestions It was better than to hear
the well-adjectived sentences, and 10 see the
practised oratorical limbs put through their
neat motions, TO watch the threatening piles
Of work drawn swiftly lower, and palpa-
| bly, disappearing. And the outlook over
the Future was brighter, from that so mod
est 'coigne Of vantage than if we had safe
by the most exalted aud far-yisioned speak
er, who saw The American Eagle that day
soaring whole leagues above the zenith
and sbadowing the world With the flap of
bis pinions
To take from the labor of the needle its
drudgery, and make mechanism execute the
graceful conceptions of planning brain and
shaping eye which heretofore must be toll.
somely wrought out by the unrestiug fing-
ers TO disentangle woman from the mesh
of the filaments, fine but innamerable, and
strong In combination as chains or cordage.
that have fastened her to the level of nn.
ending sewing" and so to leave an ampler
leisure for study, culture, charity, devotion;
TO change into an ingenious apparatus.
whose very use becomes n pleasure, that
thin-eyed, polished, sharpened weapon, the
welding of which day after day has let out
the whole electric force from so many brains,
and almost even the faith and ferYor from
so many hearts, and has seemed to prick
sensibiity and faculty more sharply than
the fobric which it was designed to make
mornings do the mechanical labor of previ-
GUS weeks. and tread Of the foot roll out
clothing at the top as if goodwilled help
fol Spirit wrought between what is all
this but to make like sweeter. more copious,
more precious. to the sex whose elevation
is trophy and measure of the power Of
Christianity, and on whose culture, progress
influence, the best interests of the Race
most intimately depend
A higher level Of obligation and privi-
lege, q larger range of occupation and
pleasure, are effectively opened to all true
women by this inyeRtion. OF course many
will use it for idleness aud vanity; to gain
more time for frivolous pleasures; to put
more elaborate ornamentation on dress and
fouuce, more burdensome and bewiIder-
ing battalion Of "tucks" on baby-eloths and
child-clothes. But to those who use il wise-
ly and we'll, and do not abuse &c, it opens
the real era of independence and advance,
more surely than arguments, conventions,
or colleges. The time for remoter aud more
difficult studies, for the fitting and beauti- |
ful philanthropic endeaVors, for more
comprehensive and quickening ministry to |
the moral and spiritual culture Of the house.
hold; the unfatigued, unanrious leisure,
which heretofore has been almost unauain-
able except to the few Of largest means and |
least numerous claims, yet which is not only
q means of progress, but very condition
of true inward health ;--these are secured
to the sex by this mechanism as they could
not be before. And we doubt net the ef-
feet of them will more and more be seen,
as the coming years make the use OF it gen
eral, and as practice makes those who pos
sess it so familiar with its working that all
its capabilities are fully brought out by
them.
We think the ladies owe to Messrs.
" Wheeler & Wilson, "-and to their sever.
al competitors in the matter of making, in
different forms, these useful, musical and |
prophetic little meehanisms, "a debt of true !
and lasting gratitude which should faithful.
ly be recognized, And we are sure that
we owe to the first-meltioned firm, whose
apparatus was particularly before Us at the
time when these thoughts were suggested, !
some of the pleasantest impressions Of con-
trast between these times and the former |
ones, and some of the brightest expecta-
tions of the Future, that we ever have had |
When the talent of Woman, embarrassed |
from incessant and nerve-wasting toll, is !
left free to express itself with more easy
movement in more various forms; when her
very work is transformed to quiet and
quickening stimnlant, and she shall have
the perfect sense Of mastery and supreme |
ey over the clamorous aud exaetiBg condi- |
tions that hitherto have so strictly aud
sharply invested her iiie--it win be day
of gladaess and Of promise which no era
of proelamations ever yet paraileled, and
which a million Of Woman's Rights Con-
yeptions, rolled into one great yearlong con-
clave, could do nothing but parody So
always the doors to nobler progress swing
open at last on smallest hinges; and the
little discovery that the eye Of the needle
can be put near its point, like the little dis
cogery that the magnetic needle turns al.
ways to the pole, guides out the race to
other continents Of wealth and rest
Tue I1TFLE GIASTs oPISIoS OF rue CoLoBED
RAcE---In meeting The position Of his eompeti-
tor Mr.. LISooLE. Mr. DoUeLAs said "he didn't
beliere they were ever Intended TO be citizens Of
our Covernnenf which vVaa founded an a whifa