The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-24

> you want 10 near DeabI0g down or prices
and wages in perfection, listen how some
| women treat washerwomen and dress
| makers and servants. Mrs. Shylock is
more merciless than Mr.. Shylock. Women,
/ fear, will never get righteous wages
through woman's vote, and as to un-
| fortunate womanhood, women are far more
cruel and unforgiving than men are.
After a woman has made shipwreck of
| her character, men generally drop her,
| but women do not so much drop her as
hurl her with the force of a catapult clear
/ out, and off, and down, and under.
/ have not much faith that woman win
| ever get mercifuI consideration and
| Justice through woman suffrage, vet like
| experiments, and some of my friends, in
| whose Judgment have confidence, are so
| certain that alienation would come by
such process that would, if I had the
/ power. put in every woman's hand the
vote. can not see what right you have
! to make a woman pay taxes on her prop-
erty to help support city, State and Ma
| tional government and yet deny her the
| opportunity of helping decide who shall
| be ma yor, Governor or President But
| let every wife, not waiting for the vote
she may never get, or, getting it, find it
/ overbalanced by scme other vote not fit
| to be cast, arise now in the might of the
/ etern al God and WELD the power of
/ sancifed wifely ambi tion for a good ap-
proxmating the infinite.
No one can so inspire a man to noble
/ purposes as a noble woman, and no one so
| thoroughly degradss a man as a wife of
! unworthy tendencies. While in my text
/ we have illustration of wifeiy ambition
! employed in the wrong direction, society
and history are full of instances OF. wifely
/ ambition gloriously triumphant in right
/ directions. All that was worth admira~
tion in the character of Henry vi. was
reflection of the heroics of his wife Mar
| garet. William, Prince of Orange, was
restored to the right path by the grand
| qualities of his wife Mary. Justinian, the
Roman Emperor, confesses that his wise
laws were the suggestions Of his
| wife Theodore. Andrew Jackson, the
/ warrior and President, had his
| mightiest reinforcement in his plain
wife, whose inartistic attire was
| the amusement of the elegant circles in
which she was invited. Washington, who
| broke the chain that held America in for
eign vassalage, wore for forty years
! chain around his own neck, that chain
holding the miniature likeness of her who
! had been his greatest inspiration, whether
| among the SHOWS at Valley Forge or
amid the honors of the presidential chair.
! PIiny's pen was driven through all its
| poetic and historical dominions by his
| wife, Calpurnia, who sang his stanzas to
! the sound of flute and sat among audi
| ences euraptured at her husbands genius,
| herself the most snraptured. Peri cles said
he gotall his eloduence and statesmans hip
| from his wife. When the wife of Grotius
| rescued him from long impris onment at
| Lovestein by means of a bookcase that
! went in and out, carrying his books to and
| fro, he was one day transported, hidden
among the folios, and the women of be-
besieged Weinsberg, getting permission
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| them much of their valuables they
/ could carry, under cover of the promise
/ shOuldered and took with them a the
most important vauables their husbands
/ both achievements in literal way illus
| trated what thousands of times has been
done in a figura tive way, that wifely am
! bition has been the salvation Of men.
De Tocqueville, whose writings will be
! po tential and quoted while the world
! lasts, ascribed his successes to his wife,
and says:
"Of all the blessings which God has
given to me. the greatest of all in my
/ eyes is to have lighted on Maria Motley"
Martin Luther says of his wife:
81 would not exchange my poverty
with her for all the riches of Croes us
| without her."
! Isabella Of Spain, by her superior faith
/ in Columbus, put into the hand of
Il
Adams, President of the United States,
| said of his wife:
''She never by word or look discouraged
me from running all hazards for the sal
walton of my country's liberties."
! woman, what is your wifely ambi-
tion, noble or ignoble? Is it high social
! position? That will then probably direct
! your husband, and he will climb, and
| scramble, and slip, and fall, and rise, and
! tumble, and on what level, or in what
| depth, or in what height he will after
/ awhile be found L can not even
/ guess. The contest for social pos ition is
the most unsatisfactory contest in all the
world, because it is so uncertain about
| your getting it, and so insecure posses
| sion after you have obtained It, and so
! unsatisfactory even il you keep IL. The
whisk of Iady's fan may blow it out.
The growl of one bear or the believing OF
| one bull on Wall street may scatter it.
] Is the wife's ambition the political pre-
| ferment of her husband? Then that will
/ probably direct him. What God-for-
| saken realm is American politics those
best know who have dabbed In them.
After they have assessed a man who is a
! candidate for Office which he does not get,
! or assessed him for some Office attained,
| and he has been whirIed round and round,
| and round, and round among the drink
/ ing, smoking, swearing crowd who often
! get control of public affairs, all that is
| left Of his self-respect or moral stamina
! would find plenty of room on a ge omet-
/ rical point which is said to have neither
| length breadth nor thickness. Many a
wife has not been satisfied till her hus-
| band went into politics, but would after
ward have given all she possessed to get
him out.
knew a highly moral man, useful in
the church and possessor Of n bright
| home He had useful and prosperous
! business, but his wife id not think 1t
/ genteel enough. There were odors about
i the business and sometimes they would
adhere to his garments when he returned
at night. She insisted on his doing sOme-
/ thing more elegant, al though he was
! qualified for no business except that in
which he was engaged. To please her he
changed his business, and, in order to get
i on faster, abandoned church attendance,
saying after he had made certain num-
! b5r of hundreds OF thousands Of dollars
he would return to the church and its serv-
ices. Where is that family to-dayR
! Obliterated. Although succeeding in busi-
| ness for which he was qualified, he under
! took a style of merchandise for which be
! had no qualification, and soon went into
| bankruptcy. His new style Of business
put him into evil association. He lost bis
| morals as we'll as his money. He broke
up not only his own home, but broke up
| another mans home, and from being a
| kind, pure. generous, moral man as any
| Of you who sit here to-day, has become a
homeless, penniless Ibertine. His wife's
| ambition for more genteel business de-
| stroyed him and disgraced her, and
/ blighted their only child
But suppose now there be IN our homes,
az, thank God, there are in hundreds OF
homes here represented. on the wifeiy
throne one who says not only by her
words, but more powerfully by her &C
| tionas