Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-10

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MEssRs. EDIToRs.-Thc subjolned extract from
the American Presbyterian, expresses the opinion
of so many of your readers on the sxbjecl of So
called "Womans Rights" that take the liberty
of enclosing it to you, with requeet that you
morals and religion have cause to rue the day
when such backward Revolutions shall have been
accomplished
"We have always preferred to believe that
womanhood involved something essentially char
acteri.tic; that woman was tenderer, purer, more
refined, made of more exquisite material than
man. We have not yet unlearned our Milton -
:. For softness she and sweet attractive grace,
For yalor no and contemplation formed"
"Quite another doctrine is likely to be forced
upon us in the new, coarse gospel of Woman's
Rights. Away with oil the poetic, the romantic,
the chivnrousand the Scripluml ideas of woman
hood. Our fair sisters are about to be josted
into nearly every masculine position aud relation.
Possibly much of this Is demanded by the hard
necessities of the age. The cry for woman's
rights may be but the misinterpreted moan for
bread aud for respectable livelihood. II so, is
not our age hard one-an iron agei Is not u
civilization which compels the unsexing of wo-
man and robs life of the charm which it gets
from the tenderness and sacredness Of her pecu-
liar position, in the decline2 Are we not In the
midst of an attempted Revolution" backward
which gives itself out very pompously as move
ment III quite anolner direction
Letter from Dr. Brown.
A DEMOCRATS VOLUNTARY TESTIMONY TO THE
EXCELLENCE OF RECONSTRUCTION.
Mr.. EDlTon 81 have Just returned from Vir-
ginia, where took look after those colored me-
chanics you made so much ado about In the last
canvass, and find them doing well.
The people generally are much better off than
one year since. Both tue whites and freed
n. hnxr tDGn at.ut..
terests cannot be separated, and very many who
one year ago had very little or nothing ahead,
have now sufficient provisions to last them while
making another crop. j. A. Brown.
PRoPosED RAILROADS IN CHESTER COUNTY
Tho Republican suggests tnat 1t the West Chester
Railroad Company would alter Its route by lop-
ping off the farther end, and run their line by
way OF the Steamboat Station, making connection
with the Chester Valley Road at or near the
White Horse station, they would more than dou-
BILE their present business. They would reach the
Valley Road In two miles less distance than they
would thus be saved, would realize them almost
| sufficient means to grade the new track:
Besides this, we want road from West Ches-
ter 10 Phnnixvllle, and If the point above indi-
Gated on the Valley Railroad was once reached
we do not think much difficulty would be encoun-
tered In securing sufficient stock to warrant Its
extension. Our great Valley OF Chester teens
Win iron ore That at present finds market at
Ph@nixville and Pottstown and which would ne
cessarily piss over the road. Add to this the i'm
mense amount Of coal that would likewise find
market over it, and we have grand total that
could not fail to make It successful and profit
able Improvement. We may likewise safely cal
cuate that road from Pbnnixville along the
| French creek to the valuable Iron ore mines In
Warwick township will be built at no very distant
day. ALI the inhabitants living In tho Northern
section Of the county would then find their way
tS the county seat over these two roahs.- WSs
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