Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-04-18
THINGS GEN SWISS
HELMS LECTURE

THINGS sENENAI.LY-Mns. SWISS.
nEl MS LECTURE, &C.
This round green globe Of ours, Tor who.
soevcr else's it isl is great world; decided
~ great world not in point Of bulk, for
in that respect it bears but poor com.
parison to many of the lesser planets Of
our system, while it scarcely is large enough
to serve as respectable moon to some Of
the greater ones but As the theatre ofgrcat
events, the scene Of immense ideas evolved
and the witness Of mighty triumphs Of "mind
over matter" sc actually don't believe the re
j. planet in the solar system, from Mars,
to Leverrier-nay, further, that all the suns
planets, comets, &c., in the universe, with
all and singular their attendant moons, sat
elites, rings bolts, tails, and other ap.
pendages and appurtensnces, taken collect
lively, can without the utmost selceoncei,
on their part, pretend to any sort Of com
parison with it.
Perhaps the brightest era, the greencst
spot, in the records Of transactions. mum.
dsne, IS the present excessively great age
the moon Of the nineteenth century," Is
ono Of our great townsmen loves to call it
when morality has become one tho sciences,
religion one Of the fine and honesty one
Of the lust arts, and things generally have
reached an excellence quite unknown to
our ferefathers;;" and in which this glorious,
liberty-loviog eagle-screaming land is far
ahead Of all ''out-side barbarians." When
old ideas are discarded, old roads deserted,
and men universally patronizs short cuts
northwest passages-to knowledge. wealth
and distinction. When the perceptive facul-
ties have become so perfect. that it is an
unnecessary trouble to test mans char.
acter by long and favorable acquaintance,
because it can be told just as we'll by the
bumps on his head, the squirt of his eve,
the hook OF his nose, the carriage Of bis
body, his walk his gesture, his manner O!
splitting tobacco juice, if he uses the weed;
his manner of blowing his nose, if he don't:
and philosophers are so extremely sharp.
As to be able to judge Of a mans moral quail
tiles, or immoral practices, his capabilities,
virtues, vices or vagaries, by the cut Of his
coat. (What difference it would make if
any, should the coat have been bought ready
made, or its fashion left entirely with tho
tailor, We don't kuow.> When all great
contradictory questions are adjusted on tho
principles of animal magnetism. When
revelations jmpiously claiming to b. greater
than those made to Moses, on the mount,
in the cloud of fire, attended with lightnings
and thunder, commissions of nature, and tho
most imposing supernatural solemnity, are
made in more aIgn;fed and philosophical
manner; by mysterious rappings Of three leg
ged tables, divertins antics by broken backed
chairs, moved at the request Of modest me-
diums by the spirits Of Washington, Cicero,
Socrates and other great men; by means of
books, written in very poor style, by the
shades Of eminent writer's and divines :
by means Of tin horns blown by obstreperous
and noisy ghosts, and by means Of speaking
mediums possessed by departed English,
tiindoo. and Choctaw orators. In this age
when men have ''affinities," and women
have EMISSIONS" and when some wonderful
genius tells US that females deserve better
treatment than they get because he has
made the important discovery that-that-
'::hsy are Of the SINE seq as our ,not5ieys 4! !''
(And why not Of our grandmothers, too )
In this exceedingly wonderful age of this
very wonderful world, We say, We were
not at all surprised, astouuded, or taken
back at hearing Mrs. Sw:sshelm's lecture
on "Women and Politics" on the fifth inst,
and which we were last week too crowded
to notice.
Mrs. Swisshelm commenced by showing
that women were statesman, before Freelove
societies and Wo,nens' Ri hts conventions
ever commenced their goings on; and that
it was owing entirely to the superior sagaci-
i y, wisdom and perspicuity of the female
"pcrsuasion" that the children of Israel e.
capped from Egypt. We were very much
edited 1t this, as We had always entertained
notis.n that Providence had hand in
that affair; Mrs. Swisshelm's arguments con-
WINGED US Of our error. We yielded at once,
with humiliating consciousness Of the un-
certainty and instability Of ali obtaining hu
man opinions.
She next proceeded to show that the care oil
q household, required, in perfection, all the
the qualifications necessary to transact
State affairs. Military talents, we suppose,
in placing in proper order and rank, saucers
cups. pie plates and crockery ware; judicial
in settling disputes about marbles and tops,