The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-01-20
From the Golden Age.
STRONG MINDED WOMEN.

STRONG MlNDED WOmEMe
Their Husbands Historically Dissec.
ted-A Womah Writes mp the 0at>
ter for Theodore Tilton. IL
The husbands Of strong minded
women are of no consequence; for
that matter few husbands are: bnt
in this age Of careful AMI minute L
scientific investigation, when moth
ing seems so trivial as 10 be IN
worthy Tho consideration Of tho
philosophic mind, it may not he
altogether OH, o! place to gather
y few facts on this branch OF nat
ura' history
The proposition that man and
wife are one, and that one the hus-
band, has been disputed by some !
herctics of this generation, but it
is useless to deny the essential
unity of the married pair.
Observation proves that either |
the husband and wife are one, and
that one the husband, or that the
husband and wits are one, and
| that one the wife.
Theories are one thing and facts
another. Facts are stubborn things
and men and women are stubborn
facts.
However much a man may have
seemed to be before marriage with
q strong minded woman, from that
fatal hour tie process Of absorp-
ton begins; and never ceases till
he disappear utterly as an indiv i'd,
ua! existence. The case of the
husband Of Elizabeth Cady STAN
ten is an instance Of this sort. Mr..
Stanton, before his marriage, Was
young man Of fine culture, a
broad liberal thinker, young ora
tor for whom great fame was pre-
dicted by all who knew him, and
for some time it seemed that his
native powers were such as to en-
able him to escape the actions Of
the general law-but there is no
resis ting the forces Of nature; by
slow degrees the process Of alb
sorption went on; Little by little he
. sank from the public view, till he
| disappeared trum sight altogether
, as one Of the editors of the Sun. 4
The husband of Mrs. Pauline
Wright Davis is another unimpor-
4 tans fact Of conjagal history. &
q The husband Of Mrs. Livermore
is known only by tradition: There
4 is q 10y tht, the effect that an in
nocent and worthy clergyman o
that name, and Of Ahe Universal,
!. ist persuasion, once married Mrs
Livermore. Having immortali-
. zed himself by this feat, he retiret
from the public gaze to the mod
= est seclusion Of the domestic cir
d cle-as was very proper.
y The husband Of Julia Ward How
Of did not yield to his wife without
10 struggle. He made supcrhumaI
is efforts to bring himself up by rhi
! lanthropy> He grasped at th
San.o Domingo Commission wit
the clutch Of despair, Int it sswa
all in vain. Destiny, in the shap
Of Mrs. Howe. was too much fo
ne him. Let US respect the coursg
ve which deserved a better fate.
Is, The husbands of Victoria c
il Woodruff have climbed to notori'
Of ~ solely through her med;umshil
he As Agricola owed his immortal,
oh to the pen OF Tacitus,so DR.. WOOt
- hall will be known to fame only
= the annals OF his wife's biogrG
~ pher. Col. Blood is doing his il
rs cffectual best to retain his indivit
ne uality in the columns Of Woodhu
IL & Claims Weekly. His s.ruggl'
las arc heroic, but he may rest assure
,st that he can not escape the gcner
ma fate of his class.
IN Susan B. Anthony has no hu
"a band. Though stern she is me
:. ciful. Various desperate and d.
me voted men, enamored by her gil
ish ish charms, have essayed 10 plum
tit heudlong into the maelstrom
ind matrimony; but with firm but gel
md tie hand she has withheld the
led the fatal leap. nobly refusing j
accept the sacrifice. -
,,h This list Of unimportant husban
81 might be prolonged indefinely. b
p'e these are quite sufficient to pro
pom the truth Of the general princiE
the which have stated. / have sp
'ith ken only OF the husbands Of 81
his most prominent among the strou
try minded women. but should a
M doubter desire stronger evidence
IN I need only reinforce my positi
Tho by bringing up the husbands
the lesser, as we'll as the larl
stars in the woman's right firm
"n. ment. Ono and all would pro
Of that they are not exceptions to
ters general rule. M ?.