Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06

vanished and the glory of her women
| departed. Then the deluge. Then the
Huns and Vandals rushed in and Rome
, was no more.
Are we nearing such state IN
/. America? Has the great prosperity
and the accumulations of wealth dur
ing the last quarter of a century pro-
duced symptoms in this country like
those which fell upon Rome? Are we
approaching such an era?
Macaulay said: "As for America
appeal to the twentieth century.
Either some Caesar or Napoleon will
seize the reins CT government with a
strong hand, or your republic will he
as fearfully plundered and laid waste
! by barbarians in the twentieth century
as the Roman empire was in the fifth,
with this difference; that the Huns
and Vandals will be engendered with
in your own country and by your OWL
institutions" referring probably tn
slavery.
Unless it be our purpose and desire
to "uproar the universal peace and
pour the sweet milk of concord into
hell" let not the sphere of woman be
COMPOUNDED with the sphere of man;
let not her soul be unsexed to do the
work of man"
Mrs Elizabeth Strut declared that
there is sex in our souls" and to IN
sex man or woman is to upset God 8
work, and destruction and decay foy-
lows.
! Miss Olive Logan declared that d
woman has a right to vote, to hold a
seat in Congress because she is as good
as negro" DR.. Bledsoe replied: "We
think she is far better than a negro,
or white man, either, and that there
fore she eschew the dust, dirt, the
fray and fury of a contest with ne
groes for a seat in Congressional she
had better keep within the high and
holy sphere for which both nature and
the God of nature intended her"
Superior men, as a general rule,
says an historian, ARE the children of
their mothers" DR. Bledsoe adds:
Infancy is the decisive moment in
education" In the earliest years is
formed the strong bias which gives
shape to the later life. These years
belong to the mother Dr. BledsOa
says Paganism took them from het
and gave them to the senate; but the
Lord, at his advent into the world,
| took them back from the state and
gave them to the mother They" the
| children, ARE too delicate and import
/ n nj fnr 10 rfn 90. fD,. CIV ,srars n
NEEDLE with, and they are too exacting
for the father. For the training CT
the young, aptness, time, opportunity,
patience, long-suffering, and self-sac.
rifice, are wanting in all persons ex-
cept the mother. she alone is fit for
the work which God, in his providence
has appointed her to do"
But some one has said that women
can rear children and vote, too. Nay,
verify, See the experiment of Rome.
The experience of mankind has shown
that the mother with one child has no
time for the hustings, when her home
duties, and duties to her normal, na;-
ural and proper social life are per
formed, The glory of womanhood IS
unlike the greatness of manhood, al
though affiliated like light and heat are
affiliated, but different in purpose and
effect; or like the glory of the rose
with the affiliated and protecting
thorn. part OF the same life and stem.
Woman is superior to man in all
that is womanly Man is stronger than
woman in all that is manly There is
no contest for superiority between
them There is no rivalry except
when woman or man departs from
the lot or mould in which she or he is
cast. Sex began at the original crea-