The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1878-03-01
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other corner IN Your colomns, for surei
l must act on the defensive. / caDno
remain silent to the demands Of my cor
, ~stituents. while the double barreied POI
guns Of Mississippi" are belching fort
) their paper bomb 'hells upon the devotet
he, dis OF the 'lords of creation"
repeat, Dab such thugs be and not e1
cite our wonder? I am surprised. a
the course pursued by mississippi.
and yet when l call TO mind the tickle
ness OF her Sex, my surprise turns t.
pity. It is a fact almost too startling t.
be true, that mississippi" has ackno VI
edged, very gracefully too, thAt womer
are inferior to meu-the lords OF crea
ton. While this has never been a matte
of doubt to candid and unprjadice
minds, yet it is q fact that the femal,
sex are exceedingly slow to acknowl
edge but their heroic championess hal
advocated this doctrine very strongly
i'll the last emanatiou from her madden
ed brain. and now she seems more thar
willing to haul in her coiors. AID knee
for pardon at the feet If her lord
The mount.in will not come to Ma.
homet. SO MsLomet must 90 to the
mountain"
In "Missiassippi's" FIRST article she
very proudly and with = triumphant
air asserts her rights, vindic ,tes her po-
sitiou by advocating principles which in
themselves are we'll and good, but OF
which she is totally ig,!orant. She
hnrls her poisonous. but harmless shafts
at her lord and at other lords, but now
with equal humbleness she feels the
enormity OF her crime, and returns to
that state for which she was created-
the. weaker vessel. She reminds me
very much of Shskspeare's Character
Kathsrine-in "rsming of TIL Shrew."
In her former article she repr srnts the
infiexibie untamed Katharine she es
tablishes her platform, aud with the
semblance OF true bravery. she otter
mines to make every thing, even the
proud lords OF creation, bow in humble
reverence at her shrines !; but in her
last edition, after she finds that her
lances are bnt straws, she is the graceful
obedient Katharine who in her meek
ness is astonished-
"That women are 80 simple
To offer war, when they should seek for peace,
Or seek for ri lie, supremacy and sway,
When the, are bound to serve, love and obey"
The two characters are quite CONSIST
ent, are they not? Yet l extend my
sympathy to Mississippi" in her trans
tory visions of a perfect standard in
man, and plead as her excuse the spirit
ard influence OF the times. Tnis is a
season when fancy roams and the im.g
nation builds lofty aud brilliant castles.
and especially 30 during the past three
months, when there was nothing else
to while away the idle hours but to Cast
models of perfection in the p%reiudiced
mods of the mind, and wake up to hud
them dwarfed and imperfect. Rocked
in the cradle OF human vanity and
weakness, woman has from the IA II been
wrapped in the delusion of her own
importance. Six thousand years have
not been sufi cient to teach her he tx.
tent Of her own frailty, and she needs u
gentle reminder now aud then to keep
Der In her destined position-the weaker
vessel. 1t is true w have just passed
through q cloud of Crimerian darkness,
thrown over us by the rulers in high
place't in this free, conservative, repub-
lican government. But, Mr.. Eiitor,
what rivulet is SO undisturbed in it's
gentle flow, as not to be dashed into
fury by the tagging rocks What sky
eternally blushes with an autumual
glory, while clouds rest beneath the
horizons verge? What star IN its far
off home OF blue does not at Some Tins
have its luster partially or wholly OBJ
scured What heart is there. though
pure as the moonbeam sleeping upon
the landscape, that has o felt its
strings to vibrsts ct sorrows desdening,
whitening touch Truly it has been .
season for refec ion aud action on the
part of the lords OF creation, whose du-
ty it is to act in such emergencies but
wonderful to be told l.
amidst these tumults and alarms
The tender sea. ~Hnnskilled in arms,
A~rrogantly did try their might,
And did engage in manly fight"
Here they come, and with their little
hands try to guide the ponderous ma
chine of life with almost an invisible
I admit that in the face she
rules the world. and makes proud man
the lord of creation, bow in obediencs
at the shrine of her worth and power,
but out Of her place she is d WON ms
rights Convention. Mr.. e iitor. il I am
10 believe what "Mississipoi" Says
hat no one expects a woman to be as
much enlighteaed as q mani must
cease to advocate my theory that &oman
Is capable of as high sttainmsnts ia the
arts aud sciences as man. In holding
his theory I an aware that I advocate
principle not generally Admitted by the
of creation /; but nay high regard