St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-04-11
amids, while the i. s. build likean inverted

cone, with women and niggcrsEfor q foun-
dalton, masculine superiority for bulwarks,
and man for an apex, just toppled, over
as it was all right it should. Men are
very useful in their sphere and when one
of the best Of them is thoroughly governed
by good wife, he makes a very good
King, Emperor, President, Governor or
the like. But any set of people WHO be-
come so God-forsaken as Voluntarily to ell
evate muddle-headed old bachelor to the
highest post of honor, may expect nothing
but disgrace and ruin. Our country had
such natural elements ofgrowth that phys,
ically she grew, in defiance of the, side
growth Of selGshness and corruption, re-
sulting from the lack of womanly influence
in tho management of her affairs. There
has always been some wifely influence to
keep our Presidents from going, where all
men are prone, viz, headlong to Old Nick,
until Fillmore's time. He made tremen
dous plunge downward, and would no doubt
have got to the bottom, if his time had
been longer; but Mrs. Pierce got to the
White House in time enough to interrupt
the descent little and leave our country
with its full measure of external pros
perity. ..n
The great mass of men regard money as
the all of human good. Their coarse Or
ganization allies them to material things,
and they regard i justice and mercy as
womanly sentimentalisms when they come
in the way of their material aspirations.-
Well, they have had it their own way
in this country for near century and
built mp what they regarded as an immor-
tai monument of human wisdom. A gov
crnment which surpassed all governments
in all the excellency Of the art; but sud-
denly the world-renowned pinnacle topples
over, and they are at their; wits-end
while that old Spanish pyramid regarded
as tottering to its fall through the influ.
ence Of the selfshness, cupidity and cum
ming which has supplied the place Of con-
science and moral sense in her male ru-
lers, suddenly looms up as a firm granite
pillar, restored, repaired, rebuilt by a
woman. All oar hopes Of our own gov
ernmcnt rearising soon lie with Mrs.. Lin
coin; but it is said she takes no interest
in State affairs. If SO, the Ola Rail
Splitter will do nothing but split his party
as Buchanan did the government, and We
will all go helter-skelter until some first
class woman 6oto oom1naud IF uul RatiUn-
al purse and sword. She may have it in
her own name, or in the name Of some
man who will simply act as her agent and
with tie meanness of the sex claim all
the honor, and persuade himself and the
world that it is his of right since she be-
longs to him. No great matter how this
may be, the result will be about the
same but none but woman can bring
our. government to basis Of true great
ness. So long as the almighty woman is
supplanted in the government by the pu-
sillanimous dollar, so long will the cal
mighty negro" or something else called
"property' continue to monopolize the at
tention of statesmen to tho dctriment of
humanity, justice and mercy; so long will
We plunge from one disaster to another
and see our blind guides stand scratching
their curly pates as you now do Brother
Goodrich, wondering what is the matter.