Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-03-31
rns province OF the centler Sex.


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There is something so gentle, SO lovely, re-
fined and elevated in the natural disposition
and actions Of the Sex, we are almost repclled
from CHASING them with the stern reality
known among the objects of creation as man.
They are certainly an anomoly in the list of
created beings. When forming woman, the
Great Architect must have deviated from the
general laws Of Nature; and while designing
an assistant and hclp-mate for man, has form
ed creature, who while in form and associ-
alton belonging TO the frail mortal species, in
disposition and the noble attributes of het
nature, is to be placed the higher rank Of an
gelic beings. Whatever is harsh in its ma
turo, discordant in its functions, or Stern in
/ itszecments is tircly banished from the
] enchanted circle of her operations. Even
; Truth, land it is with no disparaging view
we make the assertion, is goddess too stern
in her commands to fill the throne at whose
shrine the gentle and delicate, the noble sex
bow down and worship. The eccentriella
dolph of Roanoke, on certain occasion
truly said, ''brought up from earliest infancy
to disguise their real sentiments, 1t is the
! privilege of ladies to be insincere, and we
should despise them, and justly too, If they
had that manly frankness which constitutes
the ornament Of our character as the very re-
verse does of theirs" In this dissimuation,
| this freedom from the cold formality of aus
tere trlth-mingled with the natural purity
Of their natures, and mildness of their dispo-
stion, consists the fascinating charm which
every candid man will acknowledge has gent
ly drawn him into the meshes of its pure net,
preventing him from pursuing the opposite
path of vice, to ruin. We use the term man
in its strietest and purest sense, fully aware
there are many degraded wretches who claim
TO be designated by the same title in it's
broadest sense whose base natures have pre-
vented their mingling in the pure atmosphere
Of female influence, tie result Of which has
Been their lives, spent in the rcvelings of ruin,
have ended in pertlition. This assertion may
seem bold and rash in its origin, but it is
made in all sincerity, and certainly facts will
bear out the proof. Whatever may be the
primary position in society Of that young
man who can boast of his entire freedom
from pure and virtuous female associations,
his ultimate goal must necessarily be far
from exalted or noble. ~ 'ss ~
The particular province Of the sex, (which
we have SET out upon as our thenc,l is indeed
wide in its application, and fearfully respon-
sible; but ncbly have they acted their inn
portaut part The relation which woman
sustains TO the human race, and the influence
she wiclds in guiding the dcstinies of nations
in the paternat re!ation,-has formed the
theme for praise. and adulation of poets
ard orators, the source of speculation for
philosophers, and subject of legislation OF
statesmen, in all ages and overy cline
Greece .-sent forth her devoted children quick
ened IN a mothers be7ledicfion, 10 return with.
their shields or on thenI," while the purity of
the Roman vi es and natrons, and the in
fuence they erted indirectly in the affairs
Of the repuH is notorious In every where
\ her worldwide fame is recognized.
a But there is another position which the
sex successfully filis, which " e claim is more
responsible so far as civil society is conccrn-
ed, moro difficult to occupy, and if possible
more nobiy performed-4we. .alludesto1the po-
sitiono Of ladies ingcueral gociety---inth their so-
eial relations; the influence which thoy ex-
ert upon the sterner scx at that most critical
period, when in the pride OF their manhood,
cut loose from the tender and afiectionate ties
of maternal guidance, they enter into the
wide world 10 mark cut for themselves path
] upon the broad oceans of iife-7mipgling in
the gayeties and 'plessaresa Of fashi9n and
Efameslb His inauences iyrmedtby their psr7
sonal purity ahd tl.e chastity Of their minds,
wbisha at that IN sieIesiipg age is the sstropgest
atand Rruest Of fstheir livsa5 Truly forms ''fis
fbfoadest and most s suhstsntialg eonerl Stone
fupon which acfsiIscsissy rests q. The cllarrp
Y fsRfhieeh' he ifcasis 9psa .asa q apea 1bouha
each member Of every rank and division d