The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-27

mission, and ran on for some tme with most
pleasing wit and cutting sarcasm, IN relation
TO ths.lost themes for the lecture room, chief
among which was s.the colored individual"
He said, for forty years, the pulpit the ros-
trum. and the press had found; in the institu.
ton of slavery and the colored race fruit
fu theme of discussion, but now that sla-
very was abolished they must look for some
subject besides the colored individual for
their lectures. His hits on this subject we're
keen and sarcastic. He even thought that
white women were almost as worthy Of con-
sideration as negroes, and thattheirs proper
education, training, habits &c, &C., were
quite as important to the world. Although
the vast majority of American women had
not unsexed themselves and clamored for
their rights, yet few had set up clai!ns
which should be carefully and candidly con
sidered. They claimed that they we're ex-
eluded from scientific and industrial pur-
suits, and from the right to vote--and de-
manded these as a means of making them
were excluded from any of the employments,
and said that he dad not hear any clamor
from the women of America because they
could not hold the pillow, or work on the
farm, or in the mines, or in the shops or
foundries of mechanics, or attend the stable
or the saloon, or engage in trade or COM
merce, or explore the untrodden wilderness,
or navigate the ocean, the lakes or the rivers,
or build ships, houses, stores, railroads or
locomotives. They were not excluded from
any of these employments, but they were not
suited for them and did not desire them
Bat they had nearly monopelized the school
room, and were, by nature, peculiarly fitted
for~such employment. And they occupied
large space in the literature of the day, while
they nearly monopolized the magazines
Delightfully."-, step by step, he led his hearers
through his beautiful lecture, showing, in
detailed and unanswerable argument, that
the proper sphere for woman was to be the
mistress of christian home and the mother
of a christian family; that the morality, in
tegrity and Culture of a nation was but the
aggregate of the morals and intelligence Of
of the families Of the land; that, no.
where, could woman do so much
for the nation, as in rearing
and intsructing christian family; that no.
where, could her influence be so widely felt
as in the sphere which God had wisely
designed her to fill. He concluded that
there could be no perfect or legitimate Fife
on earth without the sexes, that, except for
the transgressions of natures laws, there was
a man for every woman and woman for
every man, AID that the highest perfection
of human happiness, honor and usefaleness
was in the married state. and in the rearing
Off christian family and the adjoining of
happy christian home. Upon the subject
of woman suffrage he was equally happy and
convincing, showing that, first, the wo-
men of the land did not ask or wish it; and
second, that it would not conduce to the
peace, prosperity or happiness of the people
if they had it.
We have not the presumption to attempt
to give DR.. Hollands beautiful language or
the delicate and fine points ofhis argument
but we are simply giving, this evening, from
memory, some idea of the charming lee
ture we heard last evening. We only wish
that every man and woman in Rock Island
could have heard it. Where Artemus Ward
would have been quaint and droll DIR. Hol-
land showed wit Of the brightest kind where
Cough would have roared and ranted DR..
Holla nd was eloquent and polished; where
Wendell Phillips would have shown bitter
ness and invective DR.. Holland was calm,
pleasingly persuasive, and convinced by un-
answerable argument.
The next lecture will be by DR.. Hayes, the
arctic explorer, on Tuesday evening the
18th of December.
H6ARRIED.