The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-03-01

because we can't help it; Ills a fact,
and we cans undo i'll RWe, neverthe-
less Sbold itS toa be Fan experiment,
WHICH, if itSffails,, will result in we
don't know what, but in n6thipg much
worse so we take the course of hu-
man events quito ooolly, restraining
our angry" States Rights passions
withiplths, bounds Of moderation.
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Hanging Played Out.
J The editorial Of the Republican
against hanging as a punishment for
murderisssingularly out Of place at
this time, and was written, beoau>c
Editors, We suppose, must keep wri-
ting. We know most positively that
among tho blacks a stupid idea pre-
walls thaI, uuIer tlis government,
there is to he no hanging, and few of
them fear the apenitontiary. Now
this idoa il stupid in the extreme, bo-
caIse there have been cases Of hang
ing to refu'e it, yet it does prevail,
and it does cause lawlessncss. With
that peculiar mysterious shake of the
head that they deem an especial mark
Of wis dom, a black man remarked to
a gentleman commenting on the bru.
tai murder of Mr.. Dubard. "dat ting
(hauging) used to be-" And here,
it may jnst as we'll be said as not, the
people generally nre, we believe, dis
posed to wink at Ku Klux outrages,
SO long as the blacks expect favorit-
ism from the government.
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The Family the Political Unit.
The State is collection of fami.
lies, aud not simply of the individ>
uals composing them, and The family,
and not the individual is the true so-
cial unit, and should act politically
through its representative head
This theory is deduciblc from the Bi.
bio view of marriage that man and
wife are no more twain, but one flesh,
and from tho record of creation that
man (,he siugular) was created male
and female. No religion gives such
pl oniboncc to the doctrine Of tho in
finite worth Of the individual, wheth-
er male or female, bond or free, Jew
or Gentle, and yet mono insists 80
positively upon the completeness of
the marriage union. Ia the church,
individual rights are sacred and COM
mon, belonging to both sexes; ; but
administrative privileges and services
arc plainly confined, by both New
Testament and Old, to men. And 30
they should be in the State. We ad-
NIT that this involves the subjection
of the woman to the man. But this
is suhjection enforced by nature in
the very constitution of the sexes,
and blessed Of God by the domestic
harmony and happiness that result
from it. For authority in the
family should rest with the man, and
a great deal Of domestic uuhappiness
is due simply to the fact that it is not
exercised. The responsibility of rul-
ing thoir households is shirked by
many men, who, therefore, find it
harder to rule themselves, and this
excess Of liberty, this domestic indi-
vidual license, breeds disgust for
home aud home duties and associa.
tlons. A. true woman rcjoices in
husband that is truly tho bead Of his
house. "1 81 a
Let this distinction bctwccn person.
al rights and social administrative
privileges be borne in mind, and we
are in hearty sympathy with much of
the Woman's Rights agitation of the
day. Women should have fairer
field for labor, and more righteous
rewards for it, than at present. Their
rights Of property should be secured
them. Public opinion should be edu-
Gated to encourage, rather than dis
courage thcm in broader spheres of
effort than those to which they are at
present confined. AS to nll this
there is sense, there is virtue, there is
heroism in the demand for woman's
rights. But with the fanaticism on
the subject of the ballot, and politi-
cal office, &C., we have no sympathy.
Indeed one will get no Office by print.
Ing it, but the ballot is not yet prov
cd, to tho satisfaction of sober reason,
mott to be a dolusion aud sham.