Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1874-11-10
Ancient WOman-Bayard Taylor on
Egypt.


At lecture delivered by Bayard Taylor
recently he said {:
Even the subject of wOman's rights was
gravely discussed by Aristophanes, and the
recent discoveries in ancient Egypt shows to
what an advanced stage her people had at
tanned. The history of Egypt is we'll pre-
served in her monuments and her temples.
In no part of the world had people such
favorable conditions under which to develop
and grow in wisdom and power. She was
blessed with climate without storms, soil
which is eternally fertiIizing itself and nature
cast around her bulwarks of defence in the
seas and the deserts Under these circum>
stances the people "beyed the eternal law of
development, and $4,000 years ago had
reached point in civilization which placed
them far above surrounding nations.
The scientific knowledge of the Egyptians
covered nearly all branches known to our
modern world. They first divided the circle
into $50 parts. Long before the Chaldeans
they observed the motions of the heavenly
bodies. They first divided the year iut0-565
days Women among them were as highly
privileged as men. On the tombstones the
wife is always mentioned as the supreme mis-
tress of the house, and sons often bore the
fathers. There was, indeed, no important
right which the woman did not share with the
man.
The great era of Egypt was long before the
time of the Pharoahs spoken of in the Bible.
The older dyrasties were marked by origi>
nality and development. But in Egypt, as in
Rome, with power came corruption, and her
people went backward instead of forward
A VETERAN.-Ex~Go Governor Joseph John,
son. who lives at Bridgeport, Harrison county,
w. Va, is now in his eighty-ninth year. A
correspondent Of the Religious Herald visited
him lately, and speaks of him as follows:
In all my travels in both hemispheres 1
have seldom met person SO easy in all his
manners as Governor johnson n served
fourteen sessions in Congress, was elected
Governor OF Virginia, besides being five times
elected to tie Legislature and once to Cons
stitutlOnai Convention. He is emphatically
the last Of past generation He was in Com
gress with Clay. Webster. Calhoun, Haync,
Silas Wright, Martin Van Buren,. Thomas n
Benton and that class of mCu WHO are now ali
gone. 1t was pleasing to hear him delineate
the character of each of these great men, Who
performed 50 important part in their daV
Born in 1888, h" is older than the conetitu~
ton of the United States has lived t. see
twenty four States sdded to the glorious thir>
teen, and the population increased from four
to forty millions. lie remembers when the
country mOurned tic death of Washington.
and has been personally acquainted with the
Presidents from Jefferson to Buchanan In
all his long and eventfu life there has never
rested stain upon his public or private char
actcr.
a SPLENDID VICToRY The many spen
did achievements of the Democracy at the
late elections in Indiana. Ohio aud West Viz
ginis are not only gratifying in extent and
com lcteneSs, but in liberal localities are of
the highest character. Among these, there
is no one which gives promise of so much
good to the country as the election of Hon
Charles James Faulkner formerly minister to
France. to Congress from the second District
of West Virginia. Mr.. Faulkner is pure
and g:f'e,i statesman of the old school, and
while his election to the National Legislature
you'd, at any period Of our couutry's history.
have given for general consrat;1latinn,
in these timcs Of political dcvcucracy it u,srks
an era which will be hailed with delight l,v
lovers "f good government throughout the
land. Mr. Faulkncr's strength at home is
somewhat auestcd by the fact that his cIac-
ti"n in this District which has been rcpre>
scented hv Republicans ever since the creation
Of West Virginia, shows gain of over six
thousand votes for the Dcmocracy
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