Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-07-15
THE RUTLAND WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY a- 1869

ladies in adjusting and decorating the
and arranging its tinsel or
and debating what shall be re-
garded good taste relative to the great
variety of household affairs ? These,
and like questions, carry with them
their own answers. 1t is not for
want of genius in either sex, but
special adaptation that has from time i'm
memorial assigned and secured to each dis
tinct parts. And neither man nor wo-
man need complain Of their appropriate
sphere as being too limited; nor will they
if they maintain due regard for life's
great work, serving their generation by
the will of God Woman was ordained
by the Creator a helpmate for man, and
mutual adaptation to such relation has
been obvious in every age, and the viola
lions of such relationship has proved
calamitous in proportion to their magni-
tude. Take, for example, facts from the
history of people which Jehovah "raised
up to his NAME" by which to display his
universal supremacy in defiance of the
pagan Gods. When they changed the
republican form of governm ut, instituted
for common benefits, for the ppular ag-
grandizement of despotism, thy departed
from the proper purposes of government
the public weal-and opened an arena OF
competition for the perverse and unscru-
pulous pursuit OF luxury and notoriety.
The right being thus abandoned, both
male and female were out of their proper
place in this, their career. The first
king, moved with envy as the virgins
sang in dances, Saul has slain his thou
sands and David his ten thousands, ex-
hausted his energies against personal riv-
airy, to the detriment of his kingdom,
and his own destruction. The second
king was beguiled and deeply involved
in poligamy by females who would share
in the royalty. The third fell into the
same error to an extent altogether insult
ferable by the people, and which proved
in his successor the severing of the en-
pire Still similar course was followed
by both Judah and Israel, course of des-
potic rule in pursuit of despotic royalty,
for and with their Jezabels and their
Athalias, until Jehovah least the nation
out of his sight" as having become Carl
cature rather than an ex ample to sur
rounding nations. The queen Of Eng
I loud har that gf WIS In
and virtue, to sit as nucleus Of the gov
ernment committing and leaving affairs
of State to an appropriate board OF tunc-
tionaries. We may note in contrast the
ex-queen of Spain, by struggling against
the laws of humanity, struggling against
her own destiny.
Bonaparte received important and essen
tial aid from women, ambitious OF royalty,
in giving bent of purpose to youth; and
might not female influence, bent on a
proper purpose, be equally, and more sue
cessful, in establishing moral law-law OF
equal rights, in individual minds, and
thus promoting the interests Of peace,
humanity and good will And indeed all
the true interests Of the State, than all
they could hope from by direct contri-
button of governmental power, added by
the female part of community, to that al
ready embodied in the State. Tha female
power by proxy, as much rs that OF men
by force, rules the State. And the CON
trast, and yet affinity OF the two, made
inherent by the Creator, constitutes a re-
lationship which no substitute can supply,
and which may not be violated with inn
punity. What, therefore, God has made
distinct, let not man assay to blend. What
God has joined together, let not man at
tempt to sunder. b.
Pittsford. July s. 1860