The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-14

her four children, went to the Duchess
de Angouleme to beg her husbands life,
but was rudely repulsed. as was also
Madame de La Valette. The Duchess de
Angouleme was the daughter of
Marie Antoinette, had been imprisoned
with her mother and aunt and had seen
them led off to execution in the "Reign of
Terror" and yet this memory gave her no
heart for the woes of Madame Ney. The
shameful executions that followed 'the
Hundred Days" were so numerous that
the time is known as 1.-THE White Terror"
and these merciless executions of gallant
men who had loved Napoleon not wisely
but too well were greeted with acclama-
tons by the royalist women, when many
of their male representatives hung their
heads in shame and the British army Of
occupation did not conceal its disgust and
horror.
Now, what does this proven Not that
women are naturally worse than men, but
that women, when they become desexed,
or lifted out of the shelter of the domestic
circle into the public or political swim,
behave no better than men; are
always just as hard, cruel, passion
ate and ferocious as men, and
not seldom worse than men. because they
have less power of self-restaint, less policy.
less caution, less thought or care for conse-
quences. In other words. de-sex. de-shel-
ter women, make them part of the madding
crowd. and women will behave worse than
men because they have on the average
less brains, and, because they have less
brains, less capacity for feeling outside Of
the personal objects Of their love. Shoot
somebody that woman loves and she
would be fearfuliy shocked, but the shoot
ing of a number of persons that she did
not know or love would not shock her
half as much as it would the average man.
The horrors and wrongs of slavery were
of kind that ought to appeal specially to
woman's sensibiiity rather than mans.
but as matter of fact the Southern
women never showed half as much regret
Sisters Grimke, of South Carolina, and
Mrs. Frances Kemble Butler, are the only
Southern women that ever rose up in re-
volt against it. and Mrs. Butler was bred
an Englishwoman, leaving the stage to
marry Georgia planter. Women's re-
puted superiority of sensibility over men
is but superficial; it disappears the mo-
ment they become queens, rulers. or part of
the general public life of men. Desexed,
de-sheltered women are never better than
the masculine swim they move in; they
are generally worse, because they have on
the average less brain power, and are
therefore less humane and philanthropic
in a large. phiIosophic, governing sense
! than men.
A woman can lovs her lover, brother,
father, sister. mother or child more pas
sionately than q man, but q woman can
not love a people, country. state, .
nation or . cause except just 90 far as
those she loves love it. But a man can
love principle or a cause most passion
ately; he can feel the appeal of philan-
thropy, humanity, freedom, federation,
justice, entirely outside Of the limitations
of personal application, private interests
and affections. The average woman loves
WAds ACA 1ONCI ouu OtiACI AONCu OucS lOF0
and hates cordially what they hate; that
is the limit as a rule of her humanity,
philanthropy and justice; the full ex-
tent of her sensibility, which in
the largest sense is inferior to that
of man because in the largest sense
woman Is the inferior of man. When
women have any wide sensibility in the
sense that men have it they are always
women of masculine intellect and charac-
teristics, like George Eliot, Mrs. Stowe
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The type woman loves and hates not
principles, but personalities: if her good
man or men goes right or goes wrong she
goes with him SO long as he is not false to
her; the average woman's motto Is "Not
principles, but men,"