The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
From the Maryland Field audi ireside
Washington VS.. Delhi

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The mute lips cad only endedvor
yainly to syllable che heart low
pIeadingprayer. God 0mniseient
and Omnipotent, manifest Thou
thyself with the right ih>this Ma,
tional contest. Soldier may meet
soldier on the battle field; sword
clashing with sword. and musket
answering masket, speak'for their
e%arncstness and proves. The
blood Of each, running in one
stream over the sod, attest the f.
delity of each TO lis cause. Men
in the counsel chamber may CON
fer, appeal, command, exhort it is
their position, their duty there
and titus engaged should they be.
Woman, as God appointed, as God
willcd, as her own feelings tend,
lives, thinks, feels, endures within
the close, pure bounds Of home
Not hers to lead the van of war
ring hosts, nor from the public
rostrum urge the adoption Of a
principle. Not hers to shout the
battle cry; or in council, debate
the legality or Illegally Of points
of civil and international law.
Nay, we may not throw from the
full heart, sympathy for a cause in
which our braveSt and dearest are
engaged. 1t is objected that sub
iects more strictly refined should
engage lips and pen.
o.! little souls, think ye that
woman feels not? Is it not her
right, her duty-stern and high
to plead for justice and humanity
anywhere and everywhere? Is it
not an obligation entailed on all
who suffer, or witness the innocent
endurance Of others, to lay that
cause before the people and God.
Think you, ye puny minds, that
true womanhood shrinks when jus
T tice is outraged and liberty bleed,
ing? From whence should sym.
pathy go forth if not from the
homo ALTAR? If not from the fire,
, side, fragrant with purity, from
! whence should arise and expand
! the expression of faith in free
hearts, strong arms and God oTer'
head?
:, If dwelling souls, by theil
slladowy ideas of refinement an(
pitiful mock ~reticence, can prove i
wrong for woman to WELD heI
=, pen in defence of our gagged pres
!, and manacled limbs, then was i
a false and shallow principle 70.
which Hungary blcd, Poland died
, and these thirteen Colonies, guided
T and strengthened by Almight.
! Wisdom, nobly indicated.
AS l write, the tears gather ant
o fall, not because I am a woman
and do write; but that there are ST
few equal to the day in which the.
4, live ; so few prepared for the time
upon US. While vainly suppresse'
sorrow gathers and glistens, tn
g blood tingles warmly from cheel
q to forehead-not that, with unfal
tering hand, l register my nam
d against usurpations, but for m
country-for manhood and woman
nhood imprisoned.
i No four years since, the civil
;, lied world stood aghast at tn
contemplation of outrages commit
: ted on English residents IN India
It Christianity shuddered at hea
r. thcndom incarcerating England
h daughters. Humanity wept.
: Seven English women in Delhi
Those few words hung on the liz
of men in the public rostrum, an
- trembled in the hearts of children
1t awoke the sleeper (; when SWORD
9 FLASHED on the plains Of Hindot
rs stan, indignant hearts cried on
,e through the medium of the pc.
r. against the crime. r
"a Now Hear 1t has been hear
and seen and known. More tina
a q score of American women d
ot prived of their freedom! Mo.
than a score of American womc
y. in prison J! .'..l
ii Womanhoodin letters! Woman
Il. hood under the power of militar
authority! Not in Delhi, whe
is but the faintest light of GOO
ID word had as yet penetrated, but
Washington, in the wide glare
Christianity. Not in India, whc.
mon are governed by gross passio
is knowing nothing, or at most, b
le little of religion, but in the city