The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-01-25
The Importance Of Female Chastity.

Although it is true that chastity is a
law of universal obligation. it is not
true that mans guilt in violating 1T IS
as great as that of women, because the
degree of guilt depends on the degree
of temptation, which in the case ofmen
is very strong, both from temperament
and circumstances, and in the case OF
women very weak. Mems passions are
fierce and active; womcn's feeble and
dormant. Moreover, the way i'll which
the work of life has been divided
makes mems exposure to temptation
constant; w0men's very rare. The
race has, therefore, in forming its mo-
raj Judgment on the quality of otfenses
against sexual purity, always treated
the mans guilt as less heinOus than
! the woman's, and although this rule
does occasionally work astounding in
justice, and has called into exIs
tence the great bolt on Christian
civilization, the cold FLOODED male Sc
Queer, it does in the vast majority OF
cases work what, we believe, is i'll the
courts CT heaven, as we'll as those OF
earth, recognized as substantial JUS
tice. The distinction has, however,
unitarian as well as a purely ethical
basis, and one no less important GER
tainly. Like most other OF the usages
kept up by society for the regulation
of the relation of the sexes, it has for
it's object the maintenance of the in
} tegrity and purity of the family. The
maternity of child is u physical fact,
very difficult of concealmeut, hardly
ever successfully concealed, and usu-
ally provable by many witnesses =
The paternity of child is, on the 9TH
, er hand, simply an inference which de-
rives all its strength from the impor-
a lance attached to chastity by the fe-
male sex. 1t rests simply and solely
1 on the character of the mother. It's
I incapable of proof by any other tesfi-
mony than hers. All that is known
about it is locked up in her breast, and
to weaken her scruples, therefore, is to
i throw doubts on the origin OF all her
i children; or, in other words, to strike
at the very roots of the family organi-
y cation. If we had things so arranged.
therefore, that woman thought nc
~ more of violating her marriage VOWS
. than man, we should have probably
in very large part of the world either
u to give up the family altogether, OF
~ shut women up, as they once were
= shut up. The inference with regard t.
! the paternity of children, therefore
~ has to be iealonslS guarded, not onl.
- because it is in the nature of thing
VI weak. but because it furnishes what is
~ in the present state of human nature
~, the main or sole inducement to hus
T bands to toll and accumulate for thei
wives and offspring For, let it neve
he forgotten, tho husband must, excel
NJ in an enthusiastically small number
i. cases, be everywhere the bread-wii
:, ner. Children must always look
their father for most of the arms wit
which they face tie world. Now, the'
he may come a time when, after havlil
S. heard the requisite number OF tracts,
get man will toll cheerfully for the mail
tenance and education of such childre
so, as his wife may see fit to introduce II
he to the household, without Carl
The whether they are his own or not. b
vO- we are still far away from any SUI
nd consummation. AS matters stan
She brutal man will neither dig nor del
DOL for the support of any children VIII
lid he does not possess n moral certain
her he has begotten. He acquires this c,
on tainty through his confidence in
ne, wife's purity, and society helps to j.
'ses tify it by visiting her lapse from Writ
ing with the deepest of earthly damn
sell tons. Tor he sure, the arrangem'
I'm does not work perfectly; but then
me world is full ofimperfections, brethr
lird We know YOU would have made
emit. better world if you had had chan
nee and it does seem pity that so ma
ling things. and especially the relations
l the sexes, and the manner of perpe
bed ating the species, should have bt
am settled without waiting for your
lore nearonce or consulting yOu.- Z
"ir' change.
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