Year: 1867

spirit, if not the letter of their iniunc-
ton was, Return either bearing your
shields or borne upon them.''


Now the experience of later residents
in the south will confirm me in the asser-
ton that the women of that section are
more bitter in their hatred of the north,
and the general government at present
than during the war or at its close.


But if the women of the north are ad-
mitted to the polls, SO must be those of
TIE south and most willingly would
they if they could, take the power to do
by the ballot, what they failed to do by
the tongue, voting away all our blood
bought progress of the last six years,
and voting back slaYeholding confed-
eracy. l think we have in this single
example an illustration of the strength
and weakness of woman, and that it of
fers at least suggestion, which it may
not be amiss to heed W hen weighing the
important question Of Woman Suffrage


Nor need we look alone to the south
for women who being easily influenced
by prejudice and passion, would be un-
safe voters.


Women everywhere, being more emo
tional than men, from the very texture of
their minds, and the nature of the pur-
suits to which they instinctively incline
would be less competent to form those
cool, deliberate judgments of men and
things, which the safety of a state de
mands in those who decide its interests by
the ballot.


Why then cannot woman be content
to aim at progress and perfection in those
lines of duty or art which lie within her
sphere, rather than attempt to take from
the hands of man the avocations which
properly belong to him? Surely to be
good is better for a woman than to be
great, and even a successful career in
politics, if it were possible to few wo-
men, would not make them more woman
ly or more loveabIe 1t could not make
them more suitable companions for men,
or fit them better for the sacred duties of
wife and mother. .ia i'''< &"


Man must always go before woman In
the wide fields of politics, of literature
and forensic debate 1t is his natural
prerogative to doso. 1


But it is no less her privilege and God
given right to go before him in the re-
finements, the moralities, the virtues of
life, and thus be the guardian of the best
part of his manhood. Far from our
country and our time be the day, when
women shall descend from this high pre-
rogative to mingle in 'the strife of
tongues" and have their names banded
about by the careless multitude as candi-
dates for Offices which belong more ap-
propriately to men.


The Grave of John Brown.


A correspondent Of New York pa
per thus describes the grave of John
Brown, which is situated Ill front of the
house he used to occupy in the town of
North Elba, New York, among the Ad-
irondack mountains


'sThe lot in which John Brown is buri-
ed lies east Of the house, and corners to-
ward it, and separated from it by space
of only two or three rods. The fence on
each side is three rods in length, five
boards high rough and unpainted. In
the middle of the lot there is rock of
granite occupying space upon the
ground nearly square, and almost per-
pendicular upon all sides. The north
side is ten feet high-the opposite four,
and the circumference five rods. Across
the top, from the west to the east (stand-
ing on the south side,) you will read


John BROWN,


1853. ..


Each letter and figure is one foot high
and nearly one wide, and cut one inch in
to the rock Mr. Alexis Hinckley, the
present owner and occupant of the house
"a gentlemanly and well-informed young
man-said to me: 'This work was done
by stone-cutter, J. A. Daniels. He was
sent here for that purpose by Wendell
Phillips and Francis Lee. 1t took him
three days and half to accomplish it."
John Brown is buried with his feet to this
rock, with his head to the west in line
with the two opposite corners Of the lot
and the house. The headstone is, of
course, granite, three feet and two inch
es thick. 1t was procured and lettered a
long time ago in Connecticut, for the
grave of Captain John Brown; but, as
it did not suit his children, it was never
erected there, but remained till his son,
who lies, there, brought it to Wesport,
and there left it. When Mrs. Brown
was with her husband in Virginia prison,
as understand, he expressed wish to
be buried near his house in North Elba,
and have this stone placed at his head.
Although other inscriptions are upon it,
still, only one body lies here.


Here and thus-as [ have described
lies the body of one who, by single
daring deed, shook the world as with the
suddenness of a thunderbolt. And here
my thoughts naturally ran upon the great
events that this one deed hastened, modi-
fed or produced have never been
follower of John Brown, but, standing
by his grave and looking off and around,
l can truly say how wonderful! In this
high regicn is the rock that l have de-
scribed. To appearance, for several miles
each way from this rock, the earth is
comparatively level, though undulating
and beautifully diversified by lakes,
streams and groves. All around beyond
this distance the earth rises into hundreds
of mountains and hills, rearing their sum-
mits into the heavens and forming an en-
tire circle Among them you find Mount
Marcy-the highest in the State also,
Mount Mcintyre, Mount McMartin,
Whitefaee, and others, ranking in the
first class. 1t does appear as though
God had prepared this spot for some spe-
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