Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-25

iecease of their husbands, widows have
seldom to expcct any mitigation of theil
lot, but have in general more reason to ap
prehendl an aggravrtiOn of their sufftrings
They are. either sold by the relations o
their husbands, or plundered of their little
property, and expelled from their habita
tiOns."
These traits of black "manhoOd govern
mentn for women, which characterize AT
rican instincts, are kindred to suca as are
found to belong to our own tribes OF lndi-
ans on this continent. Our philosophical
historian brings out the gallantry of our
cOpper-colored nation toward their brides
from the journals of Charlevain. Bosser
Carver, Falkner and Others. much of which
1 suppress, being too indecent to be told
however true. This is touch of the mos
tolerable: sIn the northern regions ol
America, to give the bride collar formed
of a leather thong of considerable length
and bread&h. a kettle, a pile of wood, The
first to signify that she is to perform all
the domestic drudgery-the second, thai
she is to dress the food for her husband
and the third that she is to carry all the
wood.
an many countries it is usual for the
bride to collect, previous TO the nuptials, q
sufficient stock of wood for the winter. Ii
we except hunting and fishing, the making
of weapons and the construction of canoes,
the women are burdened with all the con-
Germs of domestic economy, both at home
and abroad, so that they enjoy scarcely a
moments repose. Very few of the savages
assist the women in the cultivation of the
earth, or in collecting the produce; while
the men occasionally go out to the chase
with a musket or bow, the women are
obliged to wander through the forests and
swamps, often with one child in their
arms, another at their back, in quest OF
plants, roots and fruits. Nay, they are
frequently compelled to labor in the fields
with a new born infant at the breast, eX-
posed to torrents of rain, or the most in
tense heat, and with scarcely any nourish-
ment. -- r--c --r.l... -...--r.} =---rrr F. .-.-.
'While the men return home at night
without any burden, the women are sink
ing not only under the weight of the chill
dren and of the provisions they have found,
but also the game which their husbands
have killed. Thus the poor wretches are
frequently obliged to transport from great
distances, their tyrants giving them no 9TH
pr information than indirect hints where to
fihd it. When finally the men returned
from the chase are amusing themselves, ca
rousing or quaffing chica, or reposing after
debauch, the unfortunate females are forced
to pass great part of the night in fetch
ing wood and water, and grinding maize
for the purpose of making fresh supply
of chica for the succeeding day-all these
painful, incessant labors are rewarded with
most barbarous usage. All travellers among
the savages consider the females OF Amer
lea (Indian) as the most degraded of their
sex. Many of them prematurely destroy
the fruit of their womb, break the necks
of their newborn female children, or bury
them alive, that they may preserve their
offspring from the misery by which they
are themselves reduced almost to despair.
"Many savages content themselves with
one wife at a time, but they drive her away
with her children whenever they think
proper, so that, as DabriZhofer informs us
they may change their wives oftener than
Europeans do their shirts. In case the first
wives are not sent away they must submit
to one or several more youthful females In
the capacity of slaves.
"Young widows, on the death of theil
husbands, do not recover their liberty, but
devolve, with the rest of their property, tt
their family, by whom they may be sold ol
given away; and as long as male of the
husbands family exists the widow can moi
dispose of herself in marriage" ...-.
must now give scrap from one author
on the third new element which Is drawn
into our manhood suffrage to cover the
universal equality of the many colored cit.
izenship in which our Republic is now, fol
the first time, embarked. The Chinese, who
are greatly multiplying on Our Pacific
shore, in voting for our countrywomen
will not come prepared with high ideas Of
the subjects OF the important trust confided
to them. This is what our author says Of
the condition of women among that people
who are now inundating our Pacific slope
and who are not to be excluded from the
suffrage son account of race. color or pre-
vious condition of servituGe."
'lp China, Siam, and almost all the Other
countries in the south OF Asia, the condi.
ton of the sex, and especially the concu-
bines, is so truly deplorable that it cannot
tail to awaken the senslbility of the Euro.
pean reader, though he is at the same time
convinced that the stupid, uninformed anC
abiect Chinese women are less above the
wrt tchedness of their situation than the
sympathetic nature of remote region o
the globe while perusing a description o
it. @ a
sThe Chinese, like the Calmucks, theil
parent stock, frequently betrOth their sons
and daughters even previous to their en-.
trance into the world, and sell ard marry
both without their consent. Females Yht
receive from their parents a dowry equa
to the price paid for them by their bride
grooms, are thereby invested, it is true
with all the rights of legitimate wives, anC
a tyrannic authority over all the husband.
concubines and their children, but never
theiess they are themselves obliged to pay
the same blind and implicit obedience tt
the husband as to the fathers and the sub
iects to the sovereign.
"As the Chinese are jealous to such s
degree that they permit their wives tC
receive no visitors of tie other sex, anC
remove them from place to place in strong
vehicles secured with iron bars, tn,
women, indeed, continue as unpublished a.
when they were first taken from the hand
OF their mothers and attendants. On tn,
other hand, they possess the advantage o
being excepted from the labors OF tn,
field and other painful avocations that ar,
incompatible with their seclusion. E
"If, Notwithstanding the care with which
she is guarded, a witeis guilty of infidelity
to her husband, he has the right to kill tn,
adulteress in the presence of her relations
The first or legitimate wives of the South
ern Asiatics are only treated with indigni
ty, but the concubines are subject to every
species of inhumanity, and, in fact, ar,
more despised than even the female negroe
and Americans. The jealous wives fire
quently cause them to miscarry, and trea
them in other respects with such cruelty
| that the husbands are obliged to remov
their concubines to different house in or
der to release them from the persecution
of their wives. fra -sdss-4 cd 80 .s5U15.
1.-THE children of the concubines are re
garded as the offspring of the legitimat
| wife, and even they consider them as such
| They show, therefore, not the least respec
to their real mother. manifest no grief a
| their decease, and reserve all affection TO
the legitimate wife, whom they are habit
uated to honor as their mother. No les
abhorrent is the right given by the laws o
China and Siam to the lawful wives ant
their sons, after the death of their husband
and fathers, over tn. concubines and thei
children. .s.E.F !. 5.t5 -
1.-The former totally exclude the latter
the concublines, at least, from all share il
the property left by deceased (for in som
cases the sons of concubines inherit a
adopted children of the legitimate wife,
and may turn and sell both. especially 'th
concubines, for whom there is no redress.
The Radicals found their universal sui
frage doctrine on the idea that it is the on
| ly security for freedom. They hold tina
the emancipation which has been concede