Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-01-03
PENSsYLvASIABURo, RIPLEY Co IND.

Dec. ga, loOf.
Dear Amrioan,--SIR: We, or all those
getting your paper through the above p.
o., did not receive the American Of Dee.
18th until week following its issue.
The issue due yesterday has net yet ar
rived. l attribute IL TO the recent change
Of time The l. & G. II II. OF this,
however, am not sure, and should you
be better informed, and able to correct it,
so that we might get our paper as hereto.
fore, we would consider it as highly salts
factory.
will also, Ia connection with this,
take the liberty to comment on the last
efusion Of your Illinois correspondent.
la speaking OF woman suffrage, he says:
III see no Nay for justice TO be done the
colored race, or for a stop to be put to Sab.
bath-brcaking and wiisky-sclling, but
by letting the Women vote" How justice
to be done the eolored race Is dependent
on women suffrage, we cansot conceive
That women are less ready TO lay Of
prejudice, We cannot deny, as their more
vivid imaq tk1on tends to carry them be-
You'd reason, or the real, IL the former e.
preston IL too harsh. Women are seldom
philosophers; aud that there is common
prejudice TO, overcome in regard 20 the
eolored race, we must all admit; besides
the desire for woman suffrage is not ~
strong Ms fanatics and few strong mind
ed women suppose. Women MS mass
in this country, do not ask IL. Those
not laboring under the excitement Of some
political idea, know that the exercise oil
the elective franchise Is but an additional
burden TO their many duties, and II cause
for strife not eongenal to their sphere
Even admitting that some might attain
political honors Il would always be, more
or lcss. ut the sacrifice Of those finer in
exprossiblo feelings natural TO women,
which, whep clothed In them. Is strength
IN their very weakness, that man, howov
or rough, instinc,iyoly respects, which
however, by too frequent inlermingling
must become lost. Women, 40 sublime in
their devotion, are seldom capable Of the
continuous trmnesa OF mind, the impor.
turbabiliiy requisite for political plan
Their politics are In their hearis; their
passions trench NO closely on their reason
or all the Virtues which free government
requires, they have but courage. OiIen
heroes. they arc never staichmen. Marie
Antoinette, daughter Of Marie Theresa OF
Austria, aud afterwards Queen to tho III.
faied King, Louis XVI, was another cx.
ample Of lhh. She did the king ineredi
bic mischief With mlnd niinitcly al.
perior, With mole soul, moro character
than be, her superiority only served Il
insplre him with miAchleyous oounsela
She was at once tho charm Of his m,ior-
tunes and tho genius OF his destruction
She conducted him, step by STEP, to th'
scnilod. but she assembled II with him
The intefcsis OF woman aud man nfe on,
aud tho sane. The interests Of women
while under the pnieu,al roof afe repre-
scented by the father or the brother; whou
wife, by The hnsbund-ihus remaining
infepaubly interviewer.
Your kev. correspondence then Fses on
"Then America will no, become, ~ Il l.
now becoming, goddess Germany W,
Justly expect that one makiog compare
sou ought nj least TO be partially ac-
queiutrd with the subject 10 which he
chooses TO make his comparison. III,
epthot, vs. applied to Germany, IL found
ed upon total misconception Of their re-
lIgious principles. In Germany there II
no child, except the jewish, that !. moi
baptized aud after due religiou. in,truo-
tons before its 10Th year, received into
one Of thu Christian churches; though IN
after lie, II Is true, they do not take nd
vantage Of the ciOak Of religion, as they
do in this country. Morality, however, u
pr,dominaing with every class Of people
there. by tho fruit so shall know the
tree" ia comparing tho number OF
crimes perpe,raled In tho two countries
In proportion TO their population, this
country far exceeds that Of Germany.
prunkard, arc very few there, aud delri.
um remcns, 80 frequently met with 10
this country, Is scarcely known. Though
proud Of being Nh American myself,
Justice 20 whom justice IL due.
Ia regard 10 his depuncialion Of our
Office holders Us beer guzzleis, wipe.bib-
bers, vhsky.so,s aud Sabbalh.breukcrs,
can only shy, Il remains with ito whom II
may coneern.' " H. D.
Christmas al Mt Carmel.