Year: 1869

and soil, the same sunshine and rain


as does tue oak, so woman needs an,


should receive the same rights ane


privileges as man, in this great fiel,


of life. JUSTICE.
For the Jeffersonian


Ed. JEFF.-In late number of th,


JEFFERsoNIAN / read en- article on


the rights of womaa. conclusive tc


the author, without doubt. and like


Mistress Pogglethorpe after making


his deposit, he caekles and cackle.


until the sir reverberates with the
noise. Yet, after all, there has moth
ing new been discovered it is but {
repetition OF the same old thing, and
the grounds of argument rest upon
the same basis as they have since
the commencement of mankind


"that might makes right" With ap


parent candor, he asserts that she is


the equal of man in mental endow


ments, and in other quail lications


his superior. Still, with all this


wisdom, she is deemed incapable OF


knowing orjudging of her own needs


and the influence that freedom would


have upon her sex, and by his owD
admission, an inferior being consii-


tutes himself the umpire for woman,
arrogates to himself knowledge OF
the designs OF Deity. His wonder
full ken eomprehends the past, and
the future is alike open to his inspec-
ton. Truly he is a marvel oil
greatness unto himself; but if he wall
but listen he will hear the same
ordinations in another part OF the
with apparently the same
delight. Th effect of franchise upon
woman rs nature, collector thinks,
woul he deleterious that it would
beget independence, and thus destroy
or remove the attritious beauty sur
man and he would appear
like a gnarled oak or puny sapling-
not complimentary to the sterner
sex, we admit, but happily we
know there are exceptions to this
pen picture. How eloqnently he
upon her perfections and
eogaiz1nt Oh her peculiar
her sensitiveness to
publicity, and the aptness with which
she receives knowledge, the docility
which she evInces in adversely, sug-
gests the idea that she may become
with liberty, and be no
longer pleased to occupy a place
to man. What effect
has freedom on mankind &? Is it de-
basing in its tendency? Does it DE-
stroy their manhood, enervate their
energies, or disqualify them for a
participation in the pleasures of life Z
Oh no it increases them a hundred
fold-death is preferable to the loss
Of liberty. Then why, ask, is wo
nan debarred the inestimable boom
Of liberty2 Does she not require
The same aliment as man? And il,
as granted, her capacities for the ac-
luisi.ion of knowledge are as great,
Why should she be limited to certain
sphere of action in the great tread
mill of life !? its monotony crushing
her aspirations, compelling her to re-
main cipher in the scale of exis
tence, with intellect dwarfed by the
vacuity her pursuits, and her affec
lions chilled by the hollowness OF the
oak, whose emptiness and deformiiies
are concealed by the luxuriance of
her affections. Away with all ful
some 1attery; the time for that is
passed, and the fact is apparent that
freedom as is necessary lorvoman as
man and it will be the beginning Of
q new era in the worlds history, ami
the evils that are sapping the foua
1ations of our country will disappear
like mists before the health giving
rays Of the sun: the moral atmos
phere will be renovated and the
whole economy cwasre will bear
On it's face the evidence of its rcjuve-