Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-15
Daily Journal 14h.
LONG CREEK, Oct. 9th, 1869.

Dear Journal We hear nothing else
discussed now excepting "Woman's
Rights %; and as this is the all-absorbing
topic, thought little article concerning it
might not prove uninteresting to your
readers.
Her first right is to education. in its
widest sense, to such education as will give
her tho full development of all her person
al, mental and moral qualities. Having
that, there will be no longer any question
about her rights, aud rights are liable to
be perverted to wrongs when we are inca
pable of rightly exercising them. Give
woman health, beauty, high intelligence,
and that purity of soul and benevolence Of
heart which belong to her nature. and she
would have no difficulty in making her
proper place in society; for she would have
the forming of the thought and taste and
moral sentiment Of the world It seems
hard to regenerate the world; but the work
would be easy if we could but see the means
which God has appointed. we have only
to give full play and free development to
the loye-princinle, which finds its form
and expression in tn" pnre nature of NO
man, in order TO reform The world.
! There is no danger that We shall ever cs
tcem too highly, honor too much, or treat
with too tender consideration, the mothers
of our race No clivaIry was ever eXtrav-
agult it WAS only misguided. The i'm
pulse was holy, but misdirected That i'm
pulse gave us civilization the same chiy-
alric feeling, with more enlightenment,
will give rs that state of society that glows
in beauty in our radiant dreams of the flu
ture-physically and morally. God has
made woman worthy to be the mother of
mankind Her nature is as exalted as her
| function-love and truth and purity are
| the instincts of her being. Religion is
the grand impulse of her soul-the regen-
Grafton of the race, and the opening of
! higher and happier existence to mankind,
are sufficient motives to influence us in u.s.
| ing all our exertioLs to improve the condi-
| ton of woman while her elevation and
happiness will be the most gratifying
feature of new order of society.
| Woman must be the motive power of all
human progress. Man may be to what
ever extent we please to cOntend-the
head and hands of any trne movement !;
but woman must be it's warm heart. Hers
| is the empire of the affections, and her at
fractions are sufficient to elevate the world.
If woman, for the past century, had not
been shut out from her rightful share of
| the advantages of education and oppor-
tunities for culture, the world would have
made more rapid advances. The great
mistake of men has been to leave her be-
| hind and to endeavor to get along without
I her. Woman must mGvita,e step by step
with man ; in some things she must even
| lead and guide him, or there can he no
| advancement.
! If any difference be allowed in the means
of education and tho facilities for improve
ment, it should be in favor Of the female
sex for in the period OF our youth, it is
the highest ambition Of every man to make
himself agreeable, accepta Die to, and
worthy of, the other sex.
As philosophers, recognizing the laws of
the material and moral universe as phi
lanthropists, seeking the elevation and
happiness of our species as Christians,
having faith in the goodness and wisdom
of God, and in the temporal and eternal
salvation of his cbildren-we should work
earnestly to undo the wrongs of ages, and
give to woman that place in society for
which God designed her ; and that oppor-
tunity for the development of her gifts
and graces which would secure her own
happiness, fulfill the promise of the future
and make her the glory of the race--in
that condition of social order and moral
| harmony to which all the attractions of
humanity tend, and in which the highest
earthly destiny of the baman race shall be
accomplished
"GLAUcUs."