Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-29
MtsfeUanfous
LYCEUMS AND NJ

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woman in connection with the influence of the Ly-
ceum. ..
Approaching the Lyceum system MS | CO, look.
ing upon Il MS one Of the departments OF the Ma
tionsl schools, truly American in its origin, and
eminently Republican in its character and end,
bis voice would have done it Justice. For this is
no common evening, Mr.. President The great
boast OF New England is, liberal culture and toll
GRAFTON. Easier to preach than to practice Many
lyceums have opened their doors to men of differ
en-. shades of opinion, and some few have even
granted a fair amount Of liberty in the choice Of
subject, and the expression Of individual opinion.
But you go. gentlemen, an arrows fight beyond
tbem all for, recognizing the essential character
Of civilization, you place upon your platform the
representatives Of each sex and ofboth races. Yes,
ladies and gentlemen; you will listen to consum-
mate eloqrence, never heard in Boston before
from the Lyceum platform, because guilty Of q
skin not colorcd like our own" applause And
you will listen, besides, to a woman, gracefully
standing on a platform that boasts itself the source
Of national education. Fur decen, justice has new
er been done to woman, in regard to her influence,
either upon literature or society and | welcome
with inexprcssible delight the inauguration of a
course Of lectures, national and American, in the
proper sense Of the words.
There are men who pirate about Nationality"
and Empire" and manifest Distinguishing
brave words, when their minds rise no higher
than some petty mass of white States making
money out of cotton and corn. My idea of Anne
rican nationality makes it the last, best growth of
the thoughtful mind of the century, ~treading un-
der foot Sex and race, caste and condition.,
and collecting on the broad bosom of what
deserves the name of an Empire, under the shell
ter Of noble, just, aad equal laws, all races, all
customs, all religious, all languages, all literature
and all ideas. l remember, q year or two ago,
they told us Of a mob ut Milwaukee that forced q
man to bring gu. the body of his wife, born in
Asia-which, according to the custom of her fore
fathers, he was about to burn and compelled him
TO submit to American funeral rites which his soul
athorred. The Sheriff led the mob, and the press
Of the States vindicated the act. This is not my
idea of American civilization. They will show
you OF Rome the stately column of the Emperor
Trajau. Carved on its outer surface is the tri-
umphal march OF tho Emperor, when he came
back to Rome, leading all nations. all tongues, all
customs, all races, i'll the retinue of his conquest.
and they traced it on the eternal marble, circling
the pillar from base to capital. just such is my
idea Of the En- e,-broad enough and brave
enough 10 admit both sexes, all creeds, and all
tongues in the triumphal procession Of this great
daughter Of the west Of the Atlantic. loud ap-
pfause. ! That is the reason why 7 hail this step in
Boston-the brain Of the Union-saying 10 the
negro aud TO the women, Take your place among
the teachers Of American Democracy Zap
piausc.1 "
T said justice had never been done to women for
her influence upon literature or society. Society
is the natural outgrowth Of the New Testament,
and yet, nothing deserving Of the name ever exist
ed in Europe Until two centuries ago, in France,
woman called it into being. Society-the arena
where character is formed and studied-the cradle
and the realm Of public opinion-the c,ucible Of
ideas-tha. unmasks pretension and stamps real
merit-the power that gives government leave to
be, and outruns the lazy church in fixing the NOR
al sense of the age,-who shall! 6tly describe the
lofty place of this element in the history of the
last two centuries. Who shall deny that, more
than anything else, it deserves the name Of the
most controlling element In the history of the two
centuries just finished ? And yet, this is the realm
Of woman, the throne which, like o first conquerer,
che founded and then filed. Eli. Il
So with literature. The literature Of three CEN
turtles ago is not decent to BIO read we expur-
gate it. Within a hundred years, woman has be-
come q reader, and for that reason, as much or
more than anything else, literature has sprung to
a higher level. No need now to expurgate all you
read. Woman, too, is now an author and ! un-
dertake to say, that the literature Of the next CEN
fury will be richer than the classic epochs, for
that cause. Truth is one ever, absolute but
opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the
blood, the disposition of the spectator. Man has
looked at creation, and given US his impression, in
Greek literature and English, one-sided. halfway,
al awry. Woman now takes her stand to give
us her views of Gods works and her own crea-
ton and exactly in proportion, as woman, though
equal, is eternally different: from man, just in that
proportion will the literature Of the next century
be doubly rich, because we shall have both sides.
You might as we'll plant yourself in the desert, I'M
der the changelcss gray and blue, and assert that
y~oushaye seen all the wonders Of Gods pencil, as
maintain that q Male Literature, Latin, Greek OF
Asiatic, can be anything but a half part. poor
and oae-sided as well deyelope only muscle
shutting out sunshine and color, and starving the
flesh from yonr arsalar limbs, and then advise
man to seorn Titien's flesh and the Apollo, since
you have exhausted manly beauty, as think t
stir all the depths Of music with only half tn
chords. (Applause,) The ~diapason of human
Thought was never struck, till Christian cultur'
supamoned woman into the republic Of Letters; anc
experience as we'll as nature tells us. "what Coz
hath joined, lot not man put asunder." LAP
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TOBACCO GaowISG.-If there is any dirtier worl
thsn raising tobacco, except chewing it. we should
like TO know it A gum issues from green tobac
GO. MAT covers everything that is comes in con:ac
wiaa~ltis sometimes q practice among tobacco
growers to put on a shirt outside of their clothes
and wear it without washing all through the sea
son: At the end of the tobacco year. II indeed j