St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-03-26
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WOMAN AND THE REBELLIONa1A-l17E
TVRE By MRS. JANE u. SWISSHEEM.

WOMAN AND THE Observation-Disclosures
TURE By MRS. JANE u. SWISSE&A1Id. &
From the North American end United STATE.
Gazette, Philadelphia.
1t is often pity and an Inconvenience,
but it is fact not to be quareled with,
in these days a wonder is scarcely won.
der until it finds Barnum to explain to,
the world that it is wonderful. In like
manner intellect, enthusiasm, faculty of
any kind, takes long to make it's due I'M
preston ou~ the public mind without the
essential preparation Of public announce
ment. ~
We were foreibly struck with this on
Wednesday evening, when turning into
the hall of the Spring Garden Institute, we
found slight fraii looking woman, quiet
in tone and unassuming in manner, speak
ing to such an audience as might be ex.
pe;ted from her almost unheralded advent,
but uttering thoughts Of such force aud
value as might have filed the Academy Of
Music to edi6cation. Her subject was
"Woman and the Rebellion" Woman in
her obligations, her short comings, her i'm.
rortance as power in the nation ut this
time Of trial with mans need for her in.
telligent sympathy and cooperation in tho
vital affairs Of the day:
The speaker, without making any claim
for woman to intellectual equality with man
demanded earnestly and solemnly, for the
veal Of man and woman, that the full re-
sources Of each should be open to the couu-
try in its great necessity.
She cited, among many others who had
interfered to advantage in the policy of
nations, Isabella Of Spain, who succeeded
in restoring distracted country to peace,
re-modelling its government on, tho prin-
ciples of justice and beuevolence, ruingit
with efficiency, managing and concealing
the deficiencies Of weak, jealous and
troublesome husband, and fulfilling the part
ola devoted nurse to an afflicted mother;
Elizabeth, great in craftsmanship, and even
not deficient in those faults accorded fem.
inine, which men seem almost as 10th to
separate form their ideal Of woman as their
feminine virtues Mary Of Scotland, the
most accomplished necdle.wvmau OF her
day, and MARTA, from whom laws were
collected and published under the title of
the Marian Code, and became the foun-
dation Of our present jurisprudence, were
noticed at some length.
The speaker, quoting Mad. de Stael TO
the effect that if women bad right to be
beheadcd, they had right to know the
reason why, went on to say that if women
in the south had right to be whipped at
the block, and have their babies torn from
their arms, women all orer the world had a
right to know the reason Why.
We could wish that this lecture might
be repeated to filter audience, but that
she has question still nearer to her heart
on which she proposes to speak on Friday
evening, at Spring Garden Hall. The 1n.
dian massacres in Minnesota; the poor H.
dian, what must be done with him.
Mrs Swisshelm has long been we'll
known as the editress of liberal paper
in Minnesota [the St. Cloud DEMocRAT y
has lived among the Indians has seen and
suffered the things she describes. She is
sent by the people Of Minnesota-by the
west to the east-to tell Of what she has
seen. She has already told her story with
great effect in Washington, and is called
to New England to repeat it. But mean
whilo she must b. heard in Philadelphia;
aud We can freely say to those who can ap-
preciate, even dramatically, sarcasm and
pathos-to those who desire to express
their sympathy in the efforts Of . sincere
and earnest woman-and, above all, to
those who are willing to hear the true story
of the people of Minnesota, told in words
perhaps even too Jealous and indignant, let
them go to hear Mrs. Swisshelm On "The
Poor Indian" at the hall Of tho Spring
Garden institute, tonight.
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