Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-07-25
Lead Us not Into Temptatien-,AA. a.
Woman's Plea for Woman. q "a
From. the Louisvilze Commercial.

From the Louisville Commercial. =
There is one sin in this world which
with all It's fearful consequences, i
confined to woman alone, visited
with undying wrath upon her defense
less head. committed d as a curse te
the memory Of hersSefmdrer,a M and
placed bar before her at the very
threshold Of Heaven, while it touche;
man scarcely as crime. I shall cal
it by no pleasing pseudonym in thus
article, but by the name which scathes
her with a tongue Of fire. l shall
call it adultery |
Every now and then we hear d
some weak woman caught in the
tolls, held up to the public and care
fully dissected, all her inner life laid
bare aad gloated over, all her past
goodness and respectability treated
as sham, and all the props efiept;
ward defense pulled away from life
which, at it's best, and with the grace
of God to support it, can only be
weak and erring; her name made a
by-word and reproach, and published
throughout the land for everybody
to read; even her children taught by
careful induction the crime of their
mother, while every avenue TO escape
from the consequences Of her sin are
ungenerously shut out by the good
people WHO dispense advice and tracts
to sinners, and think they are cheat
ing Heaven. .
1T is source of painful speculation
to moralist why, any woman, with a
happy home, or even one that was
merely a habitation, should give the
sworlasa chance to- snatch this -happi-
ness from her, and shut its noisy iron
gate upon her, and why, when this
woman has reached years Of sober
maturity, and passed ysafeiyszall1the
pitfalls OF youth and passion, she
should fall voluntarily in mid life.
1t seems to me like this: a girls
life is shielded for her before she
knows there Is danger ). she is,marri-
ed, and Believed to be beyond it : a
young wife is the centre of attraction;
her husband is loving. and attentive ;
them come sehildrelS the strange
niysteriohs life Ihatscomssfrom Heavi
en- makes,a thousand responses from
the sacred Depths of a mothers heart:
by and by the baby is taken out of
her arms, it may le by death, or it
develops into an independent life Of
it's own; the husband has grown care
less by this time-husbands do; he
has,found the. .congeaial spirits away
froM Home! aid the wife misses the
tenderness, tana the{ lenaearment that
her woman's heart still Graves; the
husbanais also immersed in business
all day, and sleeps like a Jog all night,
and seems to forget, when with hs
wife, that petting and caressing are
the aim of a Wonan's life. He is a
very willing .thatfhis partner OF his
friend should be fherescort to the the.
atre and parties, when be is too tired
or too busy to go. He thinks she is
no longer young, and gay, and he is
sure OF her love, as she is his wife.
She can look.life in the face without
bleshing. It has no sealed book for
her, Therein lies her danger. She
tasted. the sweetest, drafts of loye,
and now when shelr thinks it is all
past, some one offers her the enchant-
ed cup, offers it, with earnest protss-
tations of love. She knows it. is Il
sin to listen, but you and | both know
that sin is sweet. BY dallyirg with
temptation she fails. You may cali
It what you will-,love, depravity, III
fatuation. The crime and sweetnes;
were another's, the sin and shame arc
hers. .''' :,
And there is no woman that vii
stand up and. be- her friend. They
will fondle and praise the tempter
and hang on his smiles with delisht
he is so fascinating, 50 elegant, s.
lsallang.f .fie ssas ihipfliasaaf, andA ID
discreet if amarried man, a shock
ing, naughty l.mickedffelldw- .bst she
nv good people, aOas c'in'mm.
And sopae considerate friend writes
an anonymous letter to her husbaHd
for fear that he should not know tha
she was rs bad as he. And havid'
descended to that depth Of meannes
which has no beyond, waits until h'
or she reads with rapture, "A iu'
account Of domestic infeiicit5, IN th'
morning papers.
Well, for1the people who walk th'
streets With the Scarlet letter branae'
on their hearts, / pray God they ma,
never be uncovered, bnt I think i
might prompt them to little charl
ty. when one defenseless woman i
being torn to piecesby human wolves
And to those men who publish thel:
shame and that of their children
would say that, rse5!o !, Joseph ] bong
righteous; man, was minded to pu
her away privily," but that they ar
littlstIike the ,Josephs of either tn
Old or New Testament, men 4l, s,a
,i.sln -ifIet
!. BRows's LUcK-Brown, downn
Darby keeps a grocery, store. Il
had been very much troubled oy pur
,eiars,ssliohad broken into1hls essao