The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
O,rHcrhIr in women.

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Ihe man vac brute. OF course. but he ina
an opinion tn~t girl who had given her
self To him, IL the completest surrender tia
: a woman can make, v as in some salSe his
that her giving herself to another Involve,
his diShener-and that his property in he
was 10 be defended 10 the extremity D
death. A prominent new psper, while re-
coFding the facts OF the case. takes the occa
sion 10 say that this idea of ownership II
women Is the same barbarism out Of whlel
grow he evils and wrongs that the WON ~
movement" Il intended 10 remove. II W,
were 10 respond that ownership In w6men
only biindly apprehended as IL WAS by oal
/ brutal gallows- bird, l. the one thing III Al
saves Us from the widest doctrines anC
practices OF the free-lovers. aud is one o.
/ tue strongest con ,ervStive forces Of society
Il IL quite likely that We should b. misun-
! derstoed; but we shall rua the risk, ana
: make the assertion.
There is an iestinct In the heart oftvery
4 u oman which tells her that she is his e.
I " HON she gives herself anu Isis alone-an
/ in~tinct which bids her cling 10 him Will,
/ site lives or he lives-which iden ihes h,r
J lie with iil~-Wiiich makes OF him and hp
/ twain. aue flesh. When this gift Is once
! Made TO true man, he recognizes its sig
Hlncanee- lie j. TO provide for her that
! which she cannon provide for herself; he l.
/ "a protect heI 20 the extent of his power :
I she l. To share his home, ard to be his closest
companion. HIS ownership in her covers
has most sacred possession, and devnlVes
apon him the graveSt duties. If it We're
Otherwise, why Is il that woman who
gives herself away unworthily feels, when
9h- finds herself deceived, that she i lost !:
that she has parted with herself to one who
does not recognize the nature OF the gin,
and that she Vho ought 10 be owned, and.
by being owned, houored, is dsowned and
diShOnOred? There is no true. pure woman
living who, when she gives herself away.
does not rrioice in the ownership whici,
makes her forever the property of one man.
She is not his slave 70 be taxed and abuSei
because she is the gift of love aud not the
purchase OF money; but she is his, In sense
his, in sense in which she cannot be an
other mans without dishonOr to him and
damnation to herself
Our gaIlows-bird was, I'm a brutal way
right. Ii he had been living in savage So
ciery, withOut laws. aud with the necessity
of guarding his own treasures, his act would
have been looked upon one of heroism by
all the beauties and braves of his tribe. The
weak point in his case was, that his owner
ship in what he was pleased to call Ibis
girl was not established according to the
laws under which he lived. He was not
legally married, and had acquired no rights
under the law TO be defended. What he was
pleased To consider his rights were estab-
li~hed contrary To law, and he could not APP
peal to law for their defense. lie took the
woman to himself contrary to Jaw, he de-
tended his property in her by murder, aud
he was hanged. He was served right. Hemp
would grow on rock for such as he any
Where in the world. There is no cure for
man who seduces and Stays but a broken
neck.
There is nothing more menacing in the
aspect of social affairs in this country than
the effort among certain class of reiormers
to break up tn identity of interest and feel
ing among men and women. Men are al
luded to with sneers and blame, as being
opposed to the interests of women, as using
the power in their hands-a power usurped
to ina intan their own predominance AT
the expense of woman's rights and woman's
well-being. Marriage, under this kind OF
teaching, becomes compact of convent
eLce into which men and women may en-
ter, each party taking along the personal
independence enjoyed in single state, with
separate business interests and separate
pursuits. In other words. marriage is re-
garded simply as the legal companionship
of tw o beings of opposite sexes, who have
their own independent pursuits, with which
the boud Is not permitted To interfere. 1t
contemplat no Identification of life and
destiny. The man holds no ownership Ia
woman which gives him right To a family
of children, and lite devoted to the sacred
duties of motherhood. The man VINO eX-
poets such sacrifice at the hands OF his
wife is regarded as tYrant or a brute. Wo-
men are 10 vote, ana trade, ana practice
law, and preach, and go 10 Congress, and do
everything that a man does Irrespective OF
The marriage bonds. Women are to be just
as free to do anything outside of their
homes as men are. They are TO choose their
careers and pursue them with just AS little
reference 60 the internal administration of
their families as their husbands exercise.
This is the aim and logical end OF all the
modern doctrines concerning woman's
rights. The Identification of woman with
man, as the basis of the institution of the
family, is scoffed at. Any ownership in
woman, that comes OF the gift OF herself TO
him. and the assumption OF the possession
10y him, with Its lifelong train OF obliga
tons and duties, is condemned. Ii il as
sumed that interests which are, and must
forever remain. identical, are opposed Ia
each other. Men and women are pitted
against each other in u struggle for power.
Well, leL il be understood, then, tn men
are opposed to these laJter-day doctrines.
and that they will remain They are de
termined that the identity of interest be
tween men and women shall never be de-
stroyed; that the sacred ownership in
women, bestowed in all true marriage, shall
never he surrendered; that the family shall
be maintained, and that the untold millions
of true women in the wO-ld who sympa-
thize with them shall be protected from the
false philosophers and destructive policies
OF their few misguided sisters, who seek To
turn the world upside down. Official con-
ventions may throw their sops to clamoring
reformers, but they mean nothing by it.
They never have redeemed pledge TO these
reformers, and we presume they have never
intended 10 do so. They expect the matter
TO blow over and, ii we do net mistake the
signs of the times. it is rapidly blowing
over, with more or less thunder aud with
very little rain. In the meantime, if the
discussions that have grown out of these
questions have tended to open a broader
field to woman's womanly industry, or OBJ
liberated uni ust laws from the statute-book,
let every man rejoice. No good can come
TO woman that does not benefit him, and no
hal IN that does not hurt him. Humanity Is
one. and man and woman rise or fall to-
gether.-Dr. +. q. Holland, Scribner's for
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