Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-06

/ So surprised was I with these figures,
that L went to lady who moves among
those who call themselves" fashionable" :"
to learn her views. She made her fig
ures at my request, and said: "a very
nice outfit could be had for So. .097; and
that 81 000zwould doIvery well indeed
Twas consoled for many Of my friends
have daughters. She told me, however.
that a very fine iperson-Miss L.--had
just been married, &" who was worth, as
she stood at the altar, $25,00O.'' }ale
1t is quite certain-and every honest
woman will agree with me-that the
spending of money does notinsure hap
piness.: It is quite certain that the su-:
lperb wardrobe I have, heretofore set
downs does not,in any perceptible de.
gree insure a blissful marriage; that
wealth oven does not insurea it in any
known degree !; and lyetlthese infuences
are poisoning society, and driving people
into strange courses; one Of which leads
toYice, another to celibacy,. and all to.
sel6shness and ruin. - NJ ssm!1 8as.
1t is not Unnecessary, I believe, to assert
that | am the friend of woman. It,is
because I am SO deeply and devotedIy
her champion and admirer, that 1 write
this sermon. And as 1 am. writing it,
let me say that, while Miss Susan AN.
thony and Mrs. George Train are clam
oring, for women to vote, and to work,
and to sing bass if they wish. we are,
clamoring. for heriright to- be ia wife and
a motherga which the tendencies of the
times threatened torob her of. We ask
her to- stand for that-lto insist upon that
forever We affirm, aud challenge the world
in its defence, that woman is the equal
Of man, but not the same---by no. man.
ner of0means; quite, quite other than
man; not intended by the Creator to be
the same, or to act in the same sphere,
or to do the same work. Our mannish
women and womanish men have got into
a'sad confusion of ideas in their efforts.
at sensation, which seems likely to be
a failure. Clear up that confusion.
Woman and man are equal but not the
same g each completes the other. There
is no perfect man, and no perfect woman
without marriage and children. Each
completes and perfects the other, or
would do so were marriage what it was
intended to be-. One step further: man
can do his work best, and woman can do
heruwork best; utsthe question is, and
a vital one too, what is hssa work and
what is her work2 1.O0ZaIT7TA
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Train, if I
understand them, claim that woman can
do Just what man does, and has a right
to do it, and can do it as well. Now I
claim and assert that man cannot do just
what a woman can do, nor do it as well :;
and part of it he cannot do at all. II
claim that, the great function of woman
is to be a loyal wife and a loving moth 4
er; and I defy the world to prove that a
man can do that at all. II assert that
there is no work in this world equal or
comparable to the production of royal
race of men and women; and that l af-
firm to to be the greatest, vitalest, mob
lest work awoman can do. l affirm that
no woman, be she doctor, artist, writer,
law-maker, or soldier, can do, anything
comparable to that. I affirm that, the
very moment she abandons her great
work, and attempts to do the work of
man, she is likely to fail; and if she
proposes fo>subvert the laws of her own
being, which are the laws of her fCrea-
tor, she will 60 to the wall. la.Ai ~ l'a
In, the great business of the world,
woman can not compete with man, be-
cause she cannot do them as well. She
is perpetual invalid, as all know, and
cannot be relied upon to do man 8 work
year in and year out; that is one great
fact of her existence which cannot, be
ignored, and it settles the question, if
nothing else did it, Of her inability to
compete with man. There is no world 5
work in which she is equal to man.;
not even in some directions where men
fancy she is supreme Man invents and
works out even the: fashion plates which
show women how she is to dress herself;
and even in cutting and making her own
dresses, man is her superior One small
fact will explain this curious inability
to do business; for several thousands
Of years, woman has insisted ON button
ing her own clothes, and her 'children's1
clothes behind; SO that by no possibility
can they dress themselves without help
1t is most curious and significant iahiilIi ll
I may grant and must grant that VI