The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-07
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"Our uniform answer is to keep
COOL restrain your feelings, exercise
the highest philosophy and patience,
and bide events. Utterly powerless as
our people are to resist any wrong or
oppression to which they may be'sub-
jected, they will only make their sit
uation worse by vain opposition, and
compromise their dignity and man
hood by prohtless lamentations and
protests"
The Richmond Wing also begins to
be reasonable:
"The Southern States may not con-
slider themselves called upon any long
er to champion a lost cause, which it is
as much the duty of others as theirs to
uphold and defend. They have sacri-
feed their all in support of self-govern-
ment. They may consider it enough
for them now, seeing empire in the near
future, to adopt such measures as will
render it's ddUent as little Injurious to
them as possible. They would, if they
could, avoid forty years OF devastating
wars among contending chieftains,
such as have laid waste Mexico, and
embrace at once peaceful empire and u
| magnanimous and omnipotent Cesar.
Perhaps universal suffrage, under the
tutelage of martial law, will supply the
surest, the speediest and the safest
means to that consummation."
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle
leans the same way:
"Under the provisional government
we have the military and negro suf-
frage; If admitted into the Union, we
have negro suffrage and get rid of the
military. Pending the provisional
| government, the men prescribed by
the third clause of the amendment can
not vote; they can vote when the State
4 TG nd 1T t. l.
sidered: the quicker we get into the
Union, the better, there we are State,
and we can control our own affairs
changing our State constitution if neces-
sary. There we are out of the jaws of
the beast that is ready TO devour us.
"Again the quicker this Stateconsti-
tuition is formed, the greater will be
the influence ofthe whites in shaping
| 1t. Postpone, and the radicals will or
ganize the negroes against us. And
lastly, If the legislature does not call a
convention, Bolts and the negroes will
by primary meetings.
| 1--WE are not recommending either of
these courses. We are inviting the
public to think"
WoLEN's FoREBEADs.-when phre-
nology first began to attract attention,
and claimed to be a science, high fore
heads of women, as we'll as men were
associated with intellect. Every mem
Der of the opposite sex, however dull or
uncultivated she may be, admires mem
tai gifts, and has no objection to the
reputation of possessing them herself
Consequently she determined to have
the seeming if not the reality, and
stripped her forehead of the clustering
tresses, and even removed the hair by
artificial means that she might present
a front which would awake the enthu-
siasm of Gall or Spurzheim. For a
number of years this mania for high
foreheads ragged in spite of the patent
fact that they detracted from their
feminine loyeliness, giving it hard,
bold, masculine expression that should
be sedulously avoided. All the classic
models of beauty, whether in marble or
| in flesh, from the Venus and Phryne
down to the Marys of Raphael and
| Magdalens of Murillo, the picturesque
damsels of the Campaigns and the clas-
sic Suliote maidens, instead of high,
have quite low foreheads-something
our own women seem at last TO have
discovered.
Horace and CatulIus and Ovid all
sang of the fair, fond creatures whose
white foreheadS CLEANED like the cres-
cent moon beneath the dark cloud of
silken hair. Artists have so painted
feminine beauty. Men of taste and
| gallantry have admired such, Phre-
nology has ceased to be connected with
aesthetic subjects; and therefore we have
returned TO nature and art.
Indeed the passion now is rather for
exceedingly low foreheads, for hair
over the temples, and love-locks that
shade the luster of deep eyes. This is
rather overdone; but still it is prefera-
BILE to lofty foreheads and stripped
brOws that make the face more fitting
for Roman senator than a gentle, ten|
der, womanly woman. Every man of
taste must rejoice that something like
an approximate to the old models and
correct standard of feminine loneliness
has been established; and that we are
no longer panied with
high white fronts that tell of power
/ which ne'er Is fashion'd by the gentle