Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-01

ment, sought to break through the
barriers of political disability by
which women are refused psrticips-
/, ton in affairs Of state, and force from
men, willingly or not, q share In the
burdens that in the United States are
fast passing to the a r of the rabble,
or such thieves as have in seven years
stolen 600, 100000 from the South
$38, 600, OO0 Of it from Tennessee. Bul
the question Of the fitness of women
for the duties Of suffTagsns was not so
much discussed by the ReUie10 as the
actual condition of the sex in society,
especially in that sphere labeled
upper ten" In the progress
Of this discussion great injus-
tice was done the sex. All
women were held responsible, not only
for the boldness which characterized
the advanced sisterhood, but were
charged with sharing in certain weak
nesses, which, rs we believe, origi
mated with their adorers. In last
Sundays APPEAL we published an
article of this import, in which the
most sweeping charges were made
against the women Of France by a
reverend gentleman, from whose lips
we may well believe there never
passed the sentence so full of divine
charity, "He that Is without sin, let
him cast the first stone" How frivo-
lous and vicious this gentleman made
al Frenchwomen appear we will net
repeat, because, unlike him, we have
profound belief, based upon Observs-
lions in the old as well as in the new
world, that all women ere just what
men make Them Men make the
constitutions upon which our laws are
based, and these give body and form
tn the state; and religion, although up
held by the trusting faith and conf
dence of women, in all its forms ard
ceremonies is directed and admins
tered by men; so that it is only in the
family circle that women reign,
as they ever should, SUI
preme. But even here, her supre-
macy is but tolerated. The man
may, and too often does, break in upon
it with rude suggestion, raider oppOsi-
ion, and what is worse, with gross
habits, setting an example that, as
to boys especially 7, ruins the edihce of
piety, obedience and resignation,
combined with resolute will, reared
with so much care in their hearts by
a good mother. And it Is just this
struggle at home, this constant, wear
ing struggle 10 maintain the supTem-
scy Of goodness, of which least has
been said, when women have been
discussed. We have had them painted
as leaders Of fashion, as the butterflies
of fashion, az factory hands, as writers
Of hippsnt essays, and more hippsnt
and injurious novels, as brsWling as
sistants on the stump and ia the lee
tUre-rOOm, as nameless and shameless
perpetrators Of vice and discord, and
occasionally some good heart has
shown US what she is as the reverse Of
this in the hospital, beside the
wounded soldier and the sick stranger {
On the bed Of death; but not 8 word {
ior the patient, never-wearyipg,
s~elfdenying wives and mothers, :
who in ali countries best illus !
rate what Is most divine in wo- s
nan. To their steady devotion l
he world owes its progress. How !
many they are and how few the !
.trong-miBded and the vicious as l
compared with them we may learn by [
Dur statistics of population, which as I
five persons to every family, L
lives US two in every five women full I
Hing the duties of maternity, per .
'etuating the State by men and wo-
nen, reared under their influence, di-
ected by their tuition. And this
verage viii hold good as to all civil 8
5ed countries. Were it otherwise the c
ace would IS rapidly become extinct I
s the Indians in the last two cen a
lries. We're this not severe wO- Il
zen the loose, taWdry, sOulless, cold v
esrted things the Saturday ReVieO o
yould have us believe, instead OF the g
cod mothers, sisters, wives and fC
aughters we know them to be, the e.
rorld, instead Of having advanced by Il
Re aid Of the scientific discoveries of ii
re sons Of goUd mothers, would have a:
ecome all that the hoaTy- headed, Il
-hisker-dyeing roues would have it 70
the men who, having long suspended Il
Intercourse with polite society, paint q:
I women as those are painted "
no nightly auction their charms. IN
God men make gOoG women, and,
ice UeFS0, bad men make bad women. ST
|, as st. Paul says he should be, the a
ian is the head Of til house, and sets 70
a example Of blended dignity and fe'
eedom, as Burke did, not only the M
lie will be good, bu5 the children, sh
IOIlAAk " al NAFRdtluk CAau4pAC, "a
III also be good. The man who &C
aves the cares Of business, bis ledg- al
S and day-bOoks, ia his Office, al o.
avs enjoys a cheerful and peaceful M
,usehold, especially SO If he regards Ok
8 wife, not as an inferior creature, sh
t a one who in the scale of crea "a
N is his equal, who like him will tn
We TO account to God, whose mer. 1t
S are found In the same RedeeL1eF, Or
d who can know no escape from tic
responsibilities which the Creator do
poses upon all his creatures alike. foI
Iere are Wiliul, stupid, frivolous Pr
,men, just as there are Wilful, stupid SCI
frivolous men; there are very ocl
d women, as there are very bad Ur
~; but the worst women Do
We always that within them diff
Itch makes them queens over men ssr
ne nervously organized, they are acs
t TO go to excuses, and, from a GER thc
u p~erversity Of nature, born Of this We:
rvoUsness TO do what can only be cit
ltehedb by very vicious men. But rae
IN these, the unfortunates Of whom be