Litchfield enquirer., 1859-09-01

... nel ioine, nane 5 maA'e oe is from Sam Houston's late speech, preceding the election in Texas:
 Ladies, know that politics are always nninteresting to you, yet believe you have in their general result an abiding interest. It is always qualification to me to behold my fair country-women in assemblages like these. It is guaranty that their husbands, and fathers, and brothers are men of intelligence and refine ment, who appreciate their mental capacities, and desire their countenance in their undertak- ings. Your presence exercises calr:ing in1u- eDce upon those antagonsms which are too oft en engendered in the heat of political contests. All parties desire your approving smile, and therefore all are encouraged by your presence know that in the direct administration of po- litical affairs you have no share but yet, reigning as you .lo, supreme in the realm of love, your influence often controls the destiny of nations. Woman's love is the great lever which rouses man to action. The general, as he plans the strategic combinations which are to ensure victory, looks forward to recom- pense dearer than the laurels upon his brow l; the soldier, as he trudges along on his weary march, or mingles in the scene of the battle field, even with death around him, forgets awhile the carnage, and turns his thoughts to the fond girl he left behind him the mariner, tempest-tossed, driven by rude waves, sings merrily aloft, as he thinks of the little cottage by the shore, where his. wife and dear ones await him the statesman, as he devises amid d,ep and painful thought, plans of government which are to tell upon his own and his coun- try's fame, never loses sight of the joys which await him when cabinet councils are over and he enters the portals of home the sentinel, as he paces his weary watch, loves the moonlight tramp, that he may look beneath it's rays at the dear memento of mothers or sisters love. Over man, in all his relationships the influence of woman hangs like charm. De- prve us of your influence, which dignifcs us and stimulates us to noble deeds and we be- come worse than barbarians Let it be ours, and We can brave the cannon's mouth or face danger in ten thousand forms. You stimulate all that is good. You check in us ignoblc purposes. You have also an important influ- ence upon posterity. The early impressions which the child receives from you, outlives all the wisdom of latter days. Stages may reason and philosophers may teach, but the voice which we heard in our infancy will ever come to our ears, bearing mothers words and mothers counscls. Continue to instil into your children virtue and patriotism. Imbue them with proper veneration for the fathers of lib- crty. Learn them to love their country, and to labor for it's good, as the great end of their Bid them proudly maintain our in Point them to the deeds of their ancestors. Make these their escutcheon, and bid them hand it down to their children as free from stain as it came to them Do this, ladies' and your influence will not be lost in the future. In the language of the poet, it will still be said
 Woman is lovely to the sight,
 As gentle as the dews of even
 As bright as morning earliest light
 And spotless as the Snows of heaven"