Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-07-19

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upon earth, and when it raised woman
as we shall see afterwards, apprObrium
and servi,ude have not ceased for her at
the same time and everywhere : they have
ceased only where civilization has pre-
vailed every where else, she has re-
NAMED under the lot which we might
cali her natural lot. You have proof Of
it in Turkey. The Mussulman, from the
sixth century, did not, and does not as
yet, care about restoring to woman her
dignity. He has raised the four walls of
captivity and of contempt; he has heaped
up the objects Of his cowardly covetOus-
ness, not all perhaps marked at the same
degree Of servitude and infamy; bot
what matters the shade of esteem III op-
probrium, and the degree os favor in OPP
preston! The Sultana reigns as much
as one can upon a divided and dissipated
heart; she reigns as the woman of the
lowest class in The United States would
not wish to reign
There is vast number of works which
tell us Of the servitude and Objectedness
of woman in Turkey, in China, and in the
Indies, (see influence Of women, by
Madam de Mongellaz; institutions of the
people in the Indias, by NJ. Dubois !;
voyage to Tomboucton, by Caille, etc.
ETC. We read in a relation, written In
1888, the following: eThe Chinese laws
do not allow any dover to young women.
Parents may sell them as they do cattle,
Legislation condemns these horrors, but
thegovernment tolerates them); they can
deprive them of life, but they cannot en-
dow them. Boys only yinherit. Were the
family composed of girls only, all the
property reverts, in full right, to the
nearest relative on the paternal side, un-
less the father has adopted male child.
"A barbarous prejudice causes them to
consider the fair sex as degenerate
species, inferior to man. Itis especially
in the higher class of society that this
state of servitude and humiliation is obvi-
ous." The same thing exists among the
Negroes who inhabit Central Africa !;
and among the Arabians of the Delta, the
formula of marriage is this: The father
of the young woman says to her future
husband: az NitI giUs you a slaoe to keep
house for yOu. p .Niekattd's CerrsspOn-
dance from the East.
According TO the Talmud, one party of
the Rabbins allowed divorces when a
woman had only been so unfortunate as
to suffer her husband 5 soup to be burnt.
What a burning shame We should re-
late all the history of the ancient and
modern pagons, TO tell all the humilia
t1ons of woman, whom civilization has
not made free. (See the work of Non
garede, Vol. 1. t...a l 5
In certain portion of our own coun-
try, in one of our own Territories, does not
the same infamy, disgrace and humilia-
.ion exist? But l do not dare to write,
and you would feel disguised and horri-
fed, were l to lay before your eyes, the
moral terpritude, the alarming and hid
eous portraiture of the ''sPiritual wife |
system" of Joe Smith and his worthy
successor, Brigham Young, in the Terri
tory of Utah. 1 will not speak, therefore,
of the secret mysteries of MOrnonism, its
rites, its degrading humilia-
ton Of female dignity and propriey,
which disgrases humanity and dishonors
our country.
Even in our very midst, what do we
hear sonetimes7 The dull clamor of
divorce, the human beast which howls
after brutal liberty, and asks TO be freed
from aduty insupportable to his desires.
We have heard that shameful clamor it
even. triumphs sometimes in our own
country, as the statistics of the courts will
strongly testify. Their a woman, and
christian woman, is driven away from the |
family which she has founded with her
blood she ceases to be mother in ceas- t
ing to be wife; they take away from her
by diYOzce, as if they divided cattle, a |
portion of the children whom she has
carried in her womb, whom she has fed I
with her tears and with her love. Bot
the she-wol:, in the midsrof forests, when
her cubs are taken away from her, feels
the injury that is done to her; and we,
in christian country, we wrest the child
from its mother; we fear not to do her
an injury which the ligress would not for
give in the den of her wilds!
How can we explain such a. strange
overthrow Of The laws of nature and of
affection? / understand slavery. The
slave is a foreigner; the chances of war
or of birth have determined the. fate Of
bis condition; he is nothing 70 the souv-
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