Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-09-16
Woman and Man.

w men woman makes the quaTrel anu
man has to shoulder it, the relations of
the sexes are imperfect. Even under
the ancient custom, which limited wo-
man to social affairs, the quarrels she
has provoked has cost many tall man
his life, who felt obliged by chivalry to
take them up without regard to their
merits. The field promises to become
much greater when woman becomes an
elector and enters into the fierce strife
of parties and of office-seeking. Wo-
man is very intense in feeling and in
speech, and is without that restraining
influence which comes from sense of
responsibility for words in hard knocks,
which moderates man. To yoke her
intensity in making quarrel, to mans
serious responsibility, is a bad conjunc-
ton.
In politics an example of this une-
quail yoke was given by Chicago wo-
man, who, by favor of her Romanist
connection, was alleged to be potent
influence in the school board. One of
the teachers, in a private letter, de-
scribed her in words which were the
equivalent of an intriguing politician.
The member let out the letter. No
man would have been disturbed at such
characterization, but the woman SEEM
ed to think it an attack on her charac-
ter which only blood could wash out.
She took her weak-minded husband,
who put pistol in his pocket, and
they rode in hack to the front of the
teachers house, where sat the teacher
with his wife and children. He called
the teacher down to the front yard as
if to speak with him, and the result
was the teacher was shot before the
eyes of wife and children, while the
murderous woman sat in the hack, in.
fating her emotions like a raging IT,
gress.
Another example of this imperfect
relation was lately given in Virginia.
Mamie l.. Hatchett wrote Richard Gar
land letter as strong as she could
write. From the letter it appears that
Mamie heard it reported that Garland
said she was flirt-a vague term,
which is not in general thought serious
But Mamie took it seriously. She
wrote at first that she "merely denied
it Indignantly as horrid falsehood
emanating from the fertile imagination
of some idle mischief maker, who fol
some unknown cause wished to wreck
what value infinitely more highly
than lite itself, viz: my reputation
not, however, until had registered &
vow that if you had ever made such
an assertion, | would trace it up if il
took my whole life to do it."
From this specimen of the style may
be seen the pitch Mamie was keyed VI
to. From this she went on to give the
young man pen lashing in the same
strain, to a length that must have taker
half a dozen sheets of foolscap. Their
she handed over the TRADE to hel
young man, Joseph Addison, who hat
to take it up. He inclosed it in a not,
, to Garland, saying that he was "per
sonally accountable for her words.
The sequel was street encounter, il
which Addison was killed. He dice
as the fool dieth; that is to say, he dice
for a fool.
All this shows the imperfection o
the relation when woman makes tn
muss, and man has to fight it out; ant
the moral lies in the application tina
woman should not mingle in affair
which are liable to give play to her in
tensity, so long as man has to take u
her quarrels in deadly combat. We
man would better not enter into poll
, tics, if her character is so fragile tina
the mention of her as a political in
triguer is to madden her so that she ha
to drive her man to take life. Woma
i, should never write as strong as she ca
!, to a man, when she is going TO put he
: her insulting TRADE on her man to tax
up with his life.- Cincinnati Gazette.
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