The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-03-30

the foot prints of angels on the sands Of life
We leave you dear reader TO decide which pic
ture breathes of the most Happiness.
The Siclkles ARair--whas . woman
thinks OF IL.
Among the innumerable articles with which
the press has groancd relating to the unfortu-
nate Washington tragedy, We have failed to see
one which expressed the sentiments Of a woman
The communication below is the first, and We
have no doubt it will be read with interest By
all who see it, We need not commend the
writer--her pen Is one Of vigor and eloquenee.
and it speaks for ITSELF We cannot agree with
the writer in requiring from the grossneas of
man such purity of life and character as We in.
stinctively credit TO the fair. though We admit
that the scales Of propriety Id which the con.
duct Of opposite SEXES is weighed, are infer
nally out of order, and efforts to tight them are
laudable. Men usually anosl.icize women too
much, and when they fall but one notch below
the celestials in moral excellence, they are con.
signed to the lower gulf without opportunity Of
purgatorial remedy while man too often revels
in sensualism and boasts Of his honor All
can see the errors Of social organisation, but it
will probably require an entirely new edition
OF the race to effect q radical change
Friend Riehardson In an editorial refer.
ing to the murder of Mr.. Key. the Atty. of the
U. s. for the District Of Colombia. By Hon.
Daniel +. Sickles Of the N. York: City dele.
CATION. you say che could not have lived had
he not taken vengeance ON the willy scoundrel
who robbed him Of bis position and disgraced
his name.'
Iconfsss that your well-worded paragraph
has given me new idea Of the source whence
the position and name Of your sex are derived
had supposed that mans virtue was inheren,
"a part Of his own nature and not simply re-
flectien Of the virtue of his wife. But with
the utmost disposition to be charitable. must
infer from this that when Hon. Mr.. Sickle,
went to Congress. his position. his name, his
honor; depended upon the chaste behavior OIL
Mrs. Sickles-his wife,-and she m Italian a,
that: The beautiful woman, captivated BY the
graces Of a handsomer man than her husband
sins, is discovered, exrosed-and Mr.. s. the
only innocent person in the affair, shoots Mr.
Key, not for betraying his Oye but for dishon.
oring him. O egregious sel6shness Mr.
Key was known to be not man Of immaculat,
purity-hc had achieved other conquests-bu,
because he was friend, Mr.. Sickles believed
him incapable Of violating his hospitality by tn.
| Y1,iu of vutf un had l.
no reason. founded in nature orjustice. TIL.
man who will betray one woman. will be un
faithful to another, and be who expects chastity
in his wife must assiduously desire its cultiva
ton not only in his own household but every
where else. You say The could not have livet
if he had not killed this scducer."
1t is strange, Mr.. Editor, how differently ou
sexes are constituted. Women. survive these
disagreeable developments every day II Mr.
Sickles had hired this designation house ane
there met Mrs. Swizzles, do you think tina
Mr.. Sickles would have gone out to shoot tn,
faithless crinoline who had stolen her husband
No sir Women do no such foolish thinss AM
why Because. if We arc virtuous we hav,
confidence in our virtue and We feel that n,
dereliction Of the husband can or ought to at
feet the virtue Of the wife. But suppose @,
some inc S. bbath morning all the women i,
Washington who suspect their truant lords
should sally out, Sword and pistols by .hei
side to chastiss the dear creatures who had st.,
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interesting epoch in history? And how many
Of those journals so eagerly defensive of Mr.
Sickles. would have justified her under the sam,
circumstances
1t seems to me too, that the honorable gen
tleman owed something to antccedents which
should have impelled him not to publish bu
to conceal as much as possible, this affair. He
took his wife upon trust-the daughter of q
foreigner of loose profession and loose rrin
cipes-several years younger than himself, and
thrown at once into that field of admiration
which is notnriously dangerous to morals, it is
not very wonderful when we consider her sur.
roundings, that she fell. How easy it would
have been for Mr.. Sickles to have considered
the rendering up O. the marriage ring the pre-
Jude to permanent divorce but because al
Washington knew it, he must not bear the
stigma without Revenge! BY this it is pub.
lished to the world. 1t passes into history and
becomes the property Of posterity. And vet
this man, who could not meet the hollow shells
Of humanity that formed his society at Wash
ing'on, until he had indicated his honor, mus,
now meet assembled multitudes at his trial.
He must hear the coarse jeerings of imp Incl
pied iberines. He must confront this wife
whom he magnanimously promised mot to in.
Jure,' He must hear again and again with ex.
aggsration and minutia. the whole history Of
bis misery revived. Hs must meet the wonder.
ing looks of his little one turning from father
to mother for explanation of this mystery, and
in after years be tortured by her recurrence to
this first chapter in her lifes reality If he
can do all this and dare to meet his Maker q,
last with the brand Of murderer on bis soul
and yet could not meet the tallow- faced
mustachioed puppies of his club room. tell me-
in Gods name, in what consists the superior
courage Of manhood, and if this is the stuff Of
which our national representatives are made!
And now. Mr. Editor, if you are not wearied
with these platitudes, will you look with me a
little while at the manner in which this event
has been received by the press of the country
generally Why. sir, it is a real nice, cosy,
little romance. enough to make tho fortune Of
any small dealer in such matters, with the New
York Ledger and kindred journals. Such a
captivating, all-killing man as Mr.. Kew. such q
beauty as Mrs. sickles- but strange to say,
no one ever heard ofihese resplendent graces till
they developed themselves contemporaneously
with this history of human passion and misery