Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-07-03
USELESS APPENDICES.
Strong Minded Women's Husbands.

woInc are of no consequence. For
that matter. few husbands r. but in
this z of minute and careful scicu-
tiic Investigation, when nothing
secinS so trivial as to be unworthy the
consideration of the philosophic
mind. 1t may not be altogether out
of place 10 gather a few facts on this
branch Of natural history.
The proposition that a man and
wife are one, anu that one the hus-
band. has been disputed by hcritics
OF this generation, bat it is useless to
deny the essential unity of the mar
ried pair.
Observation proves that either
husband and wife are ono, and that
one the husband, or that the husband
and wife are one, and that one the
wife.
Theories are ono thing and facts
another. Facts are stubborn things, T!
and men and women are stubborn
facts.
However much Il man may have
seemed to he before marriage with ii |
strong-luindru woman, from that |
fatal hour tie process OF absorption
begins. and never ceases till he dis
appears utterly as an individual
existence. The case of the husband
OF Elizabeth tadv Stanton is an i'll
stance OF this sort. Mr. Stanton be-
fore his marriage was Il young man
of fine culture, Il broad and liberal !
thinker, i young orator for whom
great fame was predicted by all who
knew him, and for some time il |
seemed that his native powers were
such rs TO enable him to cscanc the
action of the general law. But there
Is no resisting the force of nature; bv
slow degrees the process of absorp-
ton went on; little by little he sank
from view till he disappeared from
sight altogether as one of the editors
of TIE san.
Tie husband of Lucy Stone offers
us another variety. II. Il. Blackwell
was never much before his semi
union with Lucy Stone. He is less
than nothing now.
The husband of Paulina Wright
Davis is another unimportant fact of
conjugal history. |,
The husband of Mrs. Liycrmorc is
known only by tradition. There is a
myth TO the effect that an innocent
and worthy clergyman OF that name,
and OF tmc Inivcrsali>t persuasion.
married Mrs. Livcrmorc. IIav-
ing immortalixcd Lim>cIfby this feat. ,
he retired from the puolic gaze to
modest scclu>iou of tho domestic
'!rcic-as WAS very proper. :
The husband of Julia Ward Howe
lid not yield TO his fate without a
struggle. lie made supcrhuman ,
Efforts I" bring himself up by philan-
He gra>pcd at the Sauto y
Commission with the clutch
despair. but it was all in vain.
i'll the shape of Mrs. Howe,
was too much for him. Let us re-
spect the courage which deserved a y
fate. I,
The husbands OF Victoria {. Wood i,
hull have claimed tho hills of notori- :
city solely through her mcdiumship.
AS Agricola owed his immortality to
the pen of Tacitus, so DR.. Woodruff
VIII be known to fame only by the
Of his wifc's biograpller. Col.
Blood i, doing his Intellectual best to
his individuality in the col
un!ns of Woodruff and Clatin's v
weekly. His struggles are heroic.
but he may rest assured that he canio, i.
the general fate OF his class.
Su>Hn IL. Anthony ha, no husband. \
lhouSii .tcrn. >lic j. incrciiul~ Nari- r.
rus desperate and devoted men. :.
'n"morcd by her "irlish charms have d
'ssayc0 to plunge !Icadlons INTO the ,
naci>trom of matrilnony; but with Il
ifin but gentle hand she has withheld :,
hem from the false leap, noblv re-
using to accept the sacrifice. "
The list of uniiuporlant husbands VI
be prolonged Indefinitely, but .
hest are quite sufficient to prove the ii
ruth OF the general principle which "a
ave etatcd. have spoken only OF 10
he husbands Of the most prominent "
inonY str1i:S minded women. bu,
any doubtcr desire further ,c
vldenCcs, I need only reinforce my
by bringing up the husbands
II the lesser As well As the larycl II
tars in the womcn's rights iirma- =
One and all would prove that
here are no exceptions to the general \
ulc. ~
49, In
Dispatches from Philadelphia state ~,
hat the eight hour strike in that city -!
as proved a drcary failure. Ill
IL is ruinorcd in New York thai i,w"'
Dung Bennett is soon to sell the 81,
and retire from journalism. NJ
he Democratic state Couvcl-
ions OF Maryland, Minnesota and ~,
Irkaisns have indprs"d Greeley and
instructed their delegates an
baltimore to vote against all at In