Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-11-14
AsHTABULA, OHIO; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER. IA, 1868

| GUS lt1lSSIOH VI EYE DcHlS, w HefI SnC SHGcfs
the arena of political strife, and completes
with the physically ruder sex for the So
called rights, which she has no capacity
in her nature TO maintain, and which she
cannot assume and seriously undertake
to exercise, without disastrous issues up
on her own comfort, and upon the gen
eral welfare of society. And we hoLe
never to see the day when the distinctive
sphere Of woman shall be merged in that
oflnan, and when the dignity of her sex
shall be dragged in the mire of those car
nal ambitions which SO often convert the
happiest portions of our globe-into acel-
damas, and when her instructive delica-
cy shall be swallowed up by aspirations
which are abnormal to her entire phys
ieal, moral and intellectual, oreaniza-
| tion.
Men thirst for empire over their fellow
men. Few men have grace to resist the
| assumption Of dominion over others. if
they arc conscious they have the power
to exercise it. Power for sake OF empire.
therefore, is craved. Where powers
conhict, the strongest rules. 'eLight
gives right" according to the practical
faith of the world-a cruel, bloody max
i'm, repulsivc to every true principle of
Justice and humanity, and the chief cor
ner stone CT every system of oppression
and wrong. But woman's empire is not
the creature of the uncertain and ever
varying will of popular masses, whether
aseertained by the free choice of the bal.
| lot-box, or by the more precarious results
of political revolution. She is neither
elected to her throne, nor does she occu
DIV j, by usurpation. The power by
which she rules-by which She wields
empire, is God-deriYed and sclfinherent.
1t consists in the formative and repula
tive power with which she, in her ma
ternal capacity is invested over the char
acter, syrnpathies, affections, dispositions,
and intelligence Of every succeeding gen
Grafton of the children of men and how
ever she may fail to appreciate this pow
cr, or abuse it to the injury of her sub
jects, her empire still remains. 1t is
founded in the eternal ordinance of Aeav-
en- to be perpetnated till the last child
shall have been born-till the last wo-
mans descendant shall have ceased from
the face of the earth. And it is founded
IN the nature of things.
And what benevolent and benifccnt
arrangement it is which has ordained this
fact Where woman is true to herself
and to her empire, as her peculiar enlow-
ment of God, how happy, how blessed
are the results to the character and con-
dition OF mankind! Whose melodious
voice is the first to arrest the car of new
born humanity 1t is the mothers.
Whose eyes first beam the look of fond
and cherishing love upon it? The moth
soothingly upon the infant ears, and wake
the symphonies of music in the infant
soul ? They arc the songs of fthemother.
Whose caresscs are the first to thrill the
infant heart with emotions oftenderness,
and elicit the reciprocating affection
They are the mothers. And is there no
power in all this to wed the heart of man
to the heart of woman? Is there no en-
pire here? Why should childhood, and
youth, or even manhood in its utmost
maturity, ever reneunce the dominion of
4 mothers love, and refuse to reverence
l mothers couDsel2 1t is not because
there is no original, inherent potency in
the maternal relation, to mould, and form,
and temper the soul in the susceptible
period Of its existence, SO that, ever af-
terward, its passions, Its desires, its will,
its conscience, Its Judgment, its under
standing, its purpose, its habits-aA shall
be derived from its first educator; but it
is because that inherent potency, it it
ever losses its Influence for good, has not
been welded as it should have been, un-
ler the guidance of wisdom and truth,
and in accordance with the laws Of God
and nature. In some way or other duty
has failed to be performed, follies have
been perpetrated and tolerated, inconsist-
encies have been alpable in the mothers
conduct, and the child, as consequence,
is induced to despise where it ought to
love, and to rebel where it ought to obey.
1t, therefore, grows up in insubordina-
tion and heart-obduracy, not to bless, but
To curse mankind.
Anne Martin, French author, says,
that ''out of sixty-nine nlonarchs who
have worn the crown of France, only
three have loved the people and remark
able circumstance, all three were brought
up by their mothers" Napoleon is said
to have observed to Madame Campan, OIL
q certain occasion .-..i-
"The old systems of education are
good for nothing; what is wanting i'll
order to train up young people in
France?"
"Mothers," answered Madame Cam
pan.
'Right, madame" responded NapoE
con. "Give us well educated mothers,
and France will be regenerated."
And never did sentiment drop from
the lips ofthis extraordinary man more
worthy of his profound statesmansLip
than this.
And in this consists the empire of wo-
man. 1t it the empire of a mother over
her child, and through this medium it is
woman's empire over the destiiies of our
race. The power behind and under the
thrones of the world is the power that
rocks the cradle. Will, it not, therefore,
be our special care, looking forward to
the worlds progress and the future ele-
walton of our race, not only to educate