Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-04-18
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This round green globe Of ours, (or 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
psriSon to many Of the lesser planets Of
our system, while it scarcely il, large enough
to serve as respectable moon to some OF
the greater ones i; but As the theatre Of great
events, the scene Of immense ideas evolved
and the witness Of mighty triumphs Of "mind
over matter" &c actually don't believe there
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 sppurtensnces, taken collect
lively, can without the utmost selceonceit
on their part, pretend to any sort Of com
parison with it.
Perhaps the brightest era, the g"eencst
spot, in the records of transactions. mum.
dune, is the present excessively great age
the moon Of the nineteenth century," As
one Of our great townsmen loves to call it
when morality has become one the sciences,
religion one Of the fane { and honesty one
Of the lost arts, and things generally have
reached an excellence quite unknown to
our fcrcfathers;'' and in which this glorious
liberty-loviog casle-screaming land is ia,
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 50 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 eye,
the hook Of his nose, the carriage of his
body, his walk his gesture, his manner Of
splitting tobacco juice, if he uses the weed;
his manner Of blowing his nose, if he don't;
and philosophers are SO extremely sharp.
~ 10 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 il
any, should tho coat have been bought ready
made, or its fashion left entirely with the
tailor, We don't know.) When all great
contradictory questions are adjusted on tho
principles o! animal magnetism. When
revelations impiously claiming to b, greater
than those made to Moses, on the mount,
in the cloud Of fire, attended with lishtninss
and thunder, commissions of nature, and tho
most imposing supernatural solemnity, are
made in more dignifed anil philosophical
manner; by mysterious rappings Of three-leg-
sed tables, diyertins 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 obstrepcrous
and noisy ghosts, and by means Of speaking
mediums possessed by departed English
Hindoo. and Choctaw orators. In this age
when men have "afinities," 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-
.:hty are Of the sane seq as Our mot,te,;s ~
(And why not Of our srandmothers, too }
In this exceedingly wonderful age Of this
very wonderful world, we say, We were
not at all surprised, astounded, 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 statesmen, before Freelove
societies and Womens' Rights conventions
ever commenced their goings on and that
it was owing entirely TO the superior sagaci-
ty, wisdom and perspicuity of tho female
persuasion" that the children of Israel es-
capped from Egypt. We were very much
odifed At this, as We had always entertained
= notisn 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 Of
a 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,