The loyal Georgian., 1866-02-03
WOMAN AS THE HELPMEET
OF MAN.


Woman, as the helpmeet Of man, is
Surrounded by duties as numerous and
pressing as his, however different tie
nature Of them may be. They labor
through different means for the accom~
plshments Of common objects. This is
fully true in those countries only,
in which w man holds the position, uni
versally accorded in their and many other
civilized countries. .satoaa1
Among many nations woman is degra-
ded. She has little or no education
her mind not being exercised or developed
is, of course, lacking in strength and
power, and she never attains to any real
perfected womanhood. She then becomes
either the pampered slave or household
drudge of man. The Indians and other
runeiviiized tribes oblige their squaws, os
they call their women, to cultivate the
land, to raise and harvest their scanty
crops, bring in the game which they have
killed, and perform the worst menlal SER
vices for them. a4a assu i
In many Eastern countries women are
kept in the harems of their lords, shut out
from all society. save among themselves;
and er occupations are of the mcst
triding nature. Their mental and moral
natures are entirely neglected their souls
are entirely uncarcd for. Their idle and
luxurious life is no less life Of servi-
tude than even that of the Southern
slave. Raise your hearts in gratitude to
God, freedwomen of the South, that yow
live under different institutions; that you
live in land where books and schools
are as free to women as to men; and n0a7,
as free to black as white;-where woman
may think and teel and act as ability is
given her. Il. aaiA se
With the glorious gift Of freedom,
God lays upon you responsibilities to be
borne, burdens, not grevious, but for your
souls good. Those faults which slavery
has engendered and myrsed may not be
tolerated in free people the sins that
linked unreproved in the darkness of its
shadow will be put to open shame by the
light Of freedom. Your position has
been suddenly changed from that of
chattles to that of free, responsible
beings. You are endowed with the right
to acquire knowledge, to be respectable,
virtUous and chaste; the law alloaoS it,
the Lord required it, Mothers bear in
mind every day and eveyy hour of the
day, that the children whom God has
gwen you are to be reared, not for the
Slavp.pen or autlyn block but for free.
DIM; that when the little limbs are grown
and the tender mind matured, the child
grown to be man or woman, he or she
must thant and act for him or herself
and Thank too, that yo<r son may be re-
spected and respectable, your daughters
chaste and virtuous, or the reverse OF
these, according as you train them in
childhood. God has given to none of us
gravcr responsibility, a more sacred
charge than this. 1t has been said that
among the colored people, children are
severely whipped by their parents, when
in g passion. This IS a relic Of slavery,
and a shame and daSgroce to all who are
guilty of it. Are you tempted to be
angry with your child? stay! think of
your Heavenly Father, whose children
we all are, and who is, Stoa0 to anger
aud or tender merclesi con'rol Y0~r
oa0m passions and correct your children
in a spirit of love; you will thus plant
ia their little hearts seed, that shall, in
later years, spring up and yield an abun
dant harvest.
The mothers, wives aud daughters of
the colored people have an important part
to perform in the elev tting and ref lug
of their race. Slavery scarce recognized
their sex; on the plant tions they were
worked in the fields, side by side With
men-they were without education, and
had little opportunity for the develops
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