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Written for Neat's Saturday Gazette.
Oft THE ANIVERSARY OF MY
BOTHER'S DEATH.
BI MBS. JANE Q. SWISSHXLM-
*Tia years, six long years, mother, since
We wrapped the winding sheet
Around thy worn and wasted form—
Thy rest was calm and sweet.
Death came in his good angle garb,
And freed from racking pain
I would not then for worlds hare called
Thy spirit back again.
But Earth is very silent now—
It wants thy pleasant tone
Its holiest, brightest light is fled—
Thy loving smile is gone.
I listen in the twilight, to
The plaintive whipporwill—
The sighing of the zephyr's breath.
And murmering of the rill—
Thy voice, thy dear voice, moth«r mine,
Is wanting, wanting still.
The sky with all her brlliaht eyes,
Could ne'er look half so fair,
Did I not think thy spirit pure
Looked down on me from there.
When siekness lays his iron hand,
To press my faint head down
'Tis then, 'tis then, my mother dear,
I feel that thou art gone—
No love is half so tireless then,
No hand is like thine own,
When friends, kind friends are around my
bed,
And loved ones standing near
To speak in tones of sympathy,
Their kindly words of cheer—
I turn in utter loneliness,
To whisper, mother dear,
That sound of mother, mother dear,—
Earth has no other word
With half so much of melody.
How has my full heart stirred
To hear it poured from cherub lips
Like notes from some glad bird.
No wonder that I turn mine eyes,
Tr**fc""-^«5ng
looks above—
The world is very
Without a mother's love.
Fair Play for Woman.
A LECTURE BY GEORGE WM. CURTIS.
The following is the New York Trib
une** report of the Lecture on Woman's
Rights by Geo. W Curtis, in that city.
A large audience greeted Mr. Gr W
Curtis last night at Mozart Hall, where he
lectured on the above subject. said
that whoever had heard public speaking or
read public discourses in this country, had
[AppUwwe.] Just in the degree that the
worn! advances, every question of right and
responsibility is subjected to a most search
ing discussion. It does no good to lose
oar temper or call names. When this
nursling of a question grows more robust
scolding may quiet it, and when it grows
older and tags at your coat tails, swearing
may do or frightening with the bugaboo
bat still later, when this poor little baby of
a question, at which you laugh has grown
learned well the art of "not how to say it,
There was always some party to be corapro- This was in early times and while there
mised or some prospects to be ignored.—
Happily, to-night, there was no party, not
even a committee to be compromised by
any plain speaking. I stand here to-night
alone in a sweet and good cause. I say
ing what I think of it I speak only for my
self, though I may speak also for many of
the good and true who hear me. The sub
ject is of such a nature that those who speak
about it may say nearly the same things
and arrive at the same conclusion. Al
though anew subject to a popular audience,
it already has a literature of its own, many
advocates of its own, and has become as-fa
miliar to those who have thought of the
question as flowers are to May. Whe we
see something that ought to be done and
may be done, we soon begin to consider
how it shall be done. I will therefore hope
thai oar talk together this Spring evening
may be like the talk of Boaz when he saw
Ruth gleaning in the fields and said to her:
it far from me that when we reap thou
shouldst but glean lay thy sheaf adown,
oome share my harvest and my home."—
The essayists, who catne next, patronized
women they gave them advice about
hoops, and treated them as elder brothers
treated very little sisters, Pope said every
woman was a rake at heart, and yet he was
called a poet! What dreary women were
portrayed by Fielding and Smollet, and
even Goldsmith's women were only milk
and water and water and milk. Until
this century women were the toasts
of convivial hours, the toys of a moment,
the pupets of a court, the slaves of parents
and brothers, the drudge of the household
an the field. This was in the days of good
old England, when the King said "if beo
bles vill be boets and bainters, let 'em
sdarve." I France there was then a
bloated and sensual court, while thousands
of women were crying for -'bread! bread 1"
and suckling the French revolution. A
English Judge then decided that a man
no* .. T-i^tto chastise his wife with a stick
as large asTiis W but if it were no
larger than his wit or Ms mankoo4, & cord
of such thumbs would no form a stick large
enough to make a babe tingle. The whole
theory of modern society is in the Cochin-
China proverb, that "woman's hearts bear
a good deal of breaking." I is not changed
so very much. Women are sold by par
ents from Circassia, and they mean by the
sale precisly the same as the fashionable
woman now means when she calls a good
match for her darling Jan anything in
trowsers with twenty thousand a year.—
have been some variations in the social con
dition of woman, there has always been the
same general estimation that she was of an
inferior sex. And although the loveliest
traditions of Christianity are interwoven
with the names of the Madonnas, the Mag
dalens and the Marthas—although in its
theory woman is brought to an equality—
yet she practically has no legal and indus
trial equality. In the celebrated debate in
England, Mr. Gladstone said, when the
Gospel came into the world, woman was
elevated to an equality with her stronger
companions. So she was in theory. Bu
if Christianity taught the equality of wo
man, it taught that men were brothers yet
in Christian nations, as a matter of fact,
women have not enjoyed that equality any
more than man have enjoyed that brother
hood. A that very time the English law
of divorce was denounced as disgusting
and demoralizing in its operation, barbar
ous and a disgrace to the country, shocking
to the sense of right.
I have thus far spoken of other times,
but if we now come straight to this land of
the free and the home of the brave, we
discover a whole people bowing and giving
the best seats in cars and lecture rooms,
and even not allowing a woman's drunken
husband to squander her wages: we shall
exclaim, here is a nation where woman has
her rights as a member of society and
there is doubtless a general feeling in this
country that women are about as well off
as they can be, and it is very silly to talk
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to be a problem to solve, not to be frighten
ed, when it seizes your feeble fists and pum
els you with its own, you will either have
come to terms or be reduced to an intel
lectual and moral jelly. This woman ques
tion has grown to be robust, the child has
grown strong. "When a woman, not far
away from this, refuses to pay taxes without
representation when theSorbomie in Par
is gives diplomas to 200 women as teach
ers when the most eminent men in mod
ern times protest against the injustice done
to their wives when women everywhere
doing more than half of the most menial
work in the world quickens the humanity
and the invention of man, and as society
condemned the great mass of woman to
the needle, the sewing machine comes in
to relieve the few and send the many into
the street or the grave yard. Th woman
question, or the candid inquiry whether
women are to have the same chance in the
world as men, has become a very robust
question, and is not to be put off with slops
and sugar much longer. Th question is
not whether women are men. Men are"Every
men, and women are women no boy is so
contemptible as the she boy, while the he
woman puts all men to flight. But we men
have treated women as slaves, or have al
ways made them subordinate to ourselves,
and for no other reasons than the same by
which the big boy takes the apple away
from the ii«tle girl, and the white man
makes the black man his slave. I the
earliest times women were absolute slaves
they belonged to the man who could take
them. The Hebrews and Egyptians were
polyganrists, and in Athens, as among sav
ages now, they were not allowed to sit at
table with their lords. Yet even in Greece,
Sappho sang, and Arete lived, and Corinna
bore away the palm. True, they called
Sappho hard names but that we do to the
Sapphos now-a-days. Th Romans did
better, and among the northern nations,
there was a mysterius religious respect for
women. Chivalry was the offspring of
this respect, but it was only a beautiful
form of selfishness. Nowhere in literature
did respect for women appear until the
days of Shakespear, when Elizrbcth ruled
England. Soon this was over, and menThis,
praised only" handsome women. Defoe
spoke noble words for women in the midst
of tile dirty* drama of the 18th century.—
about woman's wrongs, and no doubt both
men and women are better off in this than
in any other country, despite negro Slave
ry, which is both a crime in morals and a
blunder in economy. [Applause.
In some parte of the country there are
laws which justify the assertion that wo
man is respected, but this is by no means
the general spirit of our society. W may
be as gallant as Lovelaae, or courtly as Sir
Charles Grandison but this is profession,
and it is our national weakness to confound
our profession, with our performance. *We
profess to hold as a distinctive principle
that all men are born equal, yet nearly
one-seventh of our population are degraded
by the most odious system known to his
tory.
W also claim to be a Christian nation
when a cardinal principce of Christianity
is love to God and to our neighbors as our
selves. W all know whether people go
down town every day to love their neigh
bors. [Laughter.] W all know whether
the universal principle of trade is not
man for himself and the devil for
the hindmost.'' W are ex-ofiicio Chris
tians, just as a boy is an ex-officio Democrat,
because his father is a Tammany Sachem.
These are simple facts, and I mention them
to show there is a great deal more to be
done than has been yet done, and nobody
need look for the Millenium bofore the, end
of the summer. Is the practical p'jjlic
opinion in this country a just and iffcble
one? Do we open to woman every indus
trial opportunity, and admit her to equal
rights in society When we hear that
old Herodotus said that there was a place
in Babylon where they sold women, we re
mark, "That was before the Christian era."
When we are told that wives are sold in
Asia, we say, '•Those are uncivilized lauds."
But how about this in Paris to-day, when
Cotilda is taken from a convent and married
to the old roue of 70, whom she has *|ever
seen, or having seen, bates'/ How about
this in London, where Ethel Newcouic is
sold to the Marquis who bids highej$?—
Does she not protest, with all her heart,
and—submit? How thj?n about New
York Bu no—I put off my shoes.—
Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward."—EXODUS,
I am told, I a Christian city- -tins
is no Constantinople. Here, we marry for
love. This is no London or Paris. Of
course it is not [Laughterr] May we
not read in the morning papers of thotHe de
lightful public dinners at which men only
are present. When serious business was
disposed of when the great speeches were
made that complimented women so pretti
ly, and the privileged ladies were behind
the screen after the orators had retired the
army and navy were drunk with cheers,
and the songs had been sung, the hist toast
is proposed, '-Woman—Heaven's last and
best gift I is received with many cheers,
and the gallant editor of the Weekly Flop
doodle responds many shod tears after
which those of the company that were able
rose, and, hallooing W won't go home
till morning," hiccupped to their homes.
[Great laughter.]
There are hundreds of young men in this
city saying to hundreds of young women
that life is a blank till they will consent to
make them happy and when the long
worship is over, they settled down to their
sphere and become either a beautiful flow
er in the parlor, or head cook and superin
tendent of brcaih©£ buttons!
Are these pictures unfair? Do they not
occur here continually? Is not the position
of woman in this country, after all, some
what similar to her position in the Turkish
harem I unmarried, Is she not obliged
to drudge for a living, and be laughed at
if she strives to rise above that position
If married, does she not become a simple
mother of children, a lay figure for milli
ners a figure head for her husband's table?
I hope there are women here who are in
dignant at this discription.
In painting, sculpture, literature and
science, a few women are patronizingly said
to be doing very well for women. And in
the English census of 1851, there are a
certain number of women classed as in the
learned profession they are pew-openers.
Though women are peculiarly fitted to
soothe suffering humanity, they are met
with stormy troubles when they attempt to
obtain a medical education. But, thank
God, there are women who fight their way
through that, within a stone's toss of the
place where I am speaking, there are noble
women, who, under the bane of public doubt
and contumely, have chosen to do what
God has given them power to do^ and to
answer to God and not to Mrs. Grundy.—
Literary women are still sneered at. Bu
among the industrial classes, where always
must be most men and women, there are
sadder sights. Thousands of miserable
men and women surround us. The men
have their work, their votes, and in the last
extremity their strong right hands. Bu
th© woman—even their needle is now stolen
away from them by the subtle brain of man,
and what resources have they? Pretty
girls, they become what you are not even
expected to know they are not far from
here. You shall meet them as you go home
to-night. I the gas light they are very
gay in the midnight you shall hear them
laugh and see them reel no leper so out
cast, no slave more forsaken. Not more
aily in these April days does the robin
Ckttf §isikr.
ST. CLOUD, STEAMS CO., MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1858. NO. 11.
and the bluebird flit and sing than in that
mother's arms docs taat little child laugh
and crow—and now the dark river sweeps
her to sea with all its foulness. Might we
not as well stop bowing and compliment
ing, and request the gallant editor to take
his seat, and ask ourselves, whether when
we drink with enthusiasm "Heaven's last
gift," she is not most likely to be cared for
and elevated by our cups or by wholesome
regulations in our laws and workshops.—
As honorable men we must concede that
every human being has a natund right to
do what God has given him the power to
do within the limits of the moral law. W
must certainly concede to them the same
right to be physicians as we do to any long
haired, dissipated, sallow boy in spectacles.
Whe we see women like Florence
Nightingale watching the sick and woun
ded women like Grace Darling going on
to the stormy pea to save men's lives when
a Mrs. Patten steering a ship home when
we see a woman ignorant and poor, escap
ing from a land of slavery, and yet going
back seven times at the peril of her life
after three of her own flesh and blood, we
look in vain for greater heroism, and pray
that she may be eneblcd to go back and
eomc again seventy times seven. [Great
applause, at the close of which we heard a
hiss, when the applause rose again, louder
than before, and for three or four times,
till all hisses were completely drowned in
the storm of applause.]
The right of these women to do these
things was where Washington's right was.
Is a man talking in public foolishly, so
phistically or worse, more to be respected
than a woman who asks the right to the
money she earns to buy bread for her star
ving children, and that it may not be sto
len from them by her drunken husband
The State must show that women are in
competent, and l»y what authority they are
determined to be so. I bearing arms be
the test, the reply is that many men are ex
cused, and many women, in days of trial,
will not be excused. I do not suppose that,
if the polls were to be opened to-morrow,
many but the ignorant women would avail
themselves of it. They would do as the
men do now. Yo have to look on the
cloth of the parlors and not on the slime of
the grog-shops, for the cause of your bad
government. When 1 voted for President
I entered" a* line with ten or twenty men,
and in ten minutes I had done all I could
to make Mr. Fremont President. [Ap
plause.] I it improper for a woman to
spend half an hour at the polls and highly
proper to be crowded for hours into a lec
ture room or a church, to hear prurient
poems in a play or see the pretty spectacle
of an opera? Unwomanly for a woman to
drop a ballot in a box but quite modest
and lady-like to whirl in a polka in the
arms of a man she never saw before, and
have her cheek fanned by his tipsy breath
That there are children now in some cities
who will now go to the theatre and lyceum,
who will one day go with their wives to the
ballot-box, I just .s firmly believe as I do
that women are quite as well informed in
political subjects. I believe that women
are as intelligent as their gardeners, or as
those of our fellow-citizens who land here
ignorant of our laws and customs, but
whose eyes are annointed with political sight
by the tobacco spittle of the City Hall. I
know how busy and dangerous is prejudice
in all its different forms but it is our duty
to keep ourselves free from prejudice, and
to call our friends around us with sacred
hospitality "and be ever generous to every
movement which tends to the welfare and
elevation of our common humanity.—
[Great applause.]
E A I S A I W have the fol
lowing extract on a homestead exemption
law, from a letter written by a distinguish
ed Judge of Tennessee:
"Secure to each family, whose labor may
acquire it, a little spot of free earth that it
may call its own—that will be an asylum in
times of adversity, from which £the mother
and children, old age and infancy can still
draw sustenance and obtain protection
though misfortune may rob them of all else,
they can feel they are still free, still entitled
to walk the green earth and breathe the free
air of heaven, in defiance of the potency and
power of accumulated wealth, and the dom
ineering of the pretending and ambitious.
The sacredness of that consecrated spot will
make them warriors in the time of eternal
strife. These shocks of corn, said Xono
phon, inspire those who raise them to defend
them. The largest of them'in the field is a
prize exhibited in the middle of the stage
to crown the conqueror. Secure a home to
every family, whose labor may obtain one,
against the weakness, vices or misfortunes
of the father, and you will rivet the affect
ions of the child in years of manhood bv a
stronger bond than any consideration that
could exist. will remember where he
had gamboled in his early youth, the stream
upon whose flowery banks he felt a mother's
love, and the green spot within that little
homestead where sleep the loved and the
lost."
Rev. Dr. A O of Onachita
Parish (La. shot one of his negroes re
cently for insubordination.—Ex.
CHAP, XIV, VERSE
CORRESPONDENCE.
PKICETON MIX. APRIL 19th.,
Mas. EDITRESS
The dastardly attempt to "crush out" free.
dom of speech in St. Cloud by the destruction
of your paper, has aroused the country. To
think that in the center of the New England
of the West, a press should be destroyed be
cause of its noble advocasy of rights of the
poor and the down trodden, almost staggers my
credulity.
Shall a Slaveholder crack his whip over the
heads of the citizens of St. Cloud? That is the
question. Most emphatically has the question
been responded to by your paper, and most
handsomly and unqualifidly do they sustain
you, in the good name of St. Cloud, by their
manly resolves. They ring out the true metal.
They have got the snap in them. Going as they
do before the country, along with the account
of the outrage, they more than neutralise it.—
They do more to give a good name to St. Clond
than all the windy puffs it has ever received
I own a little town property there, which,
since this event, and as a result of the winding
up of it, 1 consider enhanced in value one hun
dred per cent. No thanks however to General
Lowery and his •head laqucy—Jeems!' I leave
them to the indignant scorn and contempt of
(heir just incensed fellow citizens and to the
infamous notoriety they have brought upon
themselves.
1 inclose §1 for which please send me the
Visiter according to your terms. I will make
an effort to get more subscribers here for you.
Truly yours,
V. FELL.
Extract from private Corres
pondence.
BIDOKF.ORD MAINE APBIE 13, 1858.
I hopfyou will not be driven, but get to pub
lishing another paper again and in time you
will show those "border ruffians" that their
mob spirit is not such as can flourish in the
noble land of Minnesota.
I am pleased with the njble welcome the
Editor of St. Paul Times, made you to use his
columns. I am a Subscriber Tp nis sheet, and
I shall herafter. feel a livelier sense of his
manhood, when reading his paper, than before.-
On your resuming, I shall try to scud you a
few subscribers.
Yours very Jxuly for a Free Press, or none.
E A N S A S DODGE.
The new Kansas bill proposed by Mr.
E N I S of Indiann, as a compromise
between the two houses of Congress, is so
objectiunable to both sides, that we hope
for its abandonment by its projectors, or
its defeat when it comes to a vote. I is a
dishonest scheme, beoause it pretends one
thing and intends another. I has been
said of it with much truth, that it is at
once a bribe and a threat. Tfte people are
to be allowed to vote on the Constitution,
but they are to be rewarded if they vote
Yea, and punished if they vote Nay. Mr.
E N I S S bill provides for a grant of
three millions of acres of land to the State
of Kansas if she accepts the Lecompton
Constitution, but if she rejects it she gets
nothing, and must stay out of the Union
until a census shall allow that she has a
population sufficent to entitle her to a
member of Congress—which is now 03,420
and will be from 110,000 to 125,000 under
the census t£ 1860. Thus, if the people
reject Lecompton, they will be subjected
to pro-slavery rule for an indefinite period,
and minority will have a new lea.se of pow
er, using it, as of course they will, to
strengthen slavery in the territory, and
finally to fasten upon the people a slave
Constitution. Now, can anything be
more dishonest than this? I Kansas is
qualified to come into the Union under the
Lecompton Constitution, is she not also
qualified to come in under another Con
stitution if she so elect? Yet she is to be
told, if this project succeeds, that unless
she votes in a certain way she must be
kept out of the Union perhaps for years to
come.
But deceptive and unjust as this meas
ure is, its adoption by the Administration,
for it is said to be approved in that quarter,
involves a concession of almost everything
claimed by the opposition in relation to the
validity of the Lecompton Constitution.—
I is an admission that that instrument is
not the Constitution of the people of Kan
sas that it lacks what our neighbor of the
Union calls "legal virtue," and is of no
force until legally and fairly ratified by the
people. This is an important concession,
and deprives the Lecompton scheme of its
most objectionable feature.
Capital punishment is not inflicted
in Wisconsin, and a movement to reinstate
it has called forth in the Milwaukee Wis
consin an article argueing in favor of the
present and milder mode of punishment
by imprisonment. The writer insists that
the crime of murder has not increased
since the abolition of the gallows, and
challenges the proof to the contrary.
Punch has a portrait of "The next
ambassador to Naples." I is a seventy
four pounder, behind which stands an Eng
lish tar with his hands on the fuse.
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15. EDITOR.
!af0nv.
Death of a Revolutionary Hero
ine.
Mrs. Sarah Benjamin died in Mount
Pleasant Township, Pa., on the 20th ult.,
at the age of pne hundred and fourteen
years, five months and three days. He
maiden name, says the Honesdale Demo
crat, wa3 Sarah Mathews, and she was
born in Goshen county, N. Y., on the 17th
of November, 1743, She was thrice mar
ried. He first husband was Mr. William
Reed. served in the revolutionary
army in the early part of the struggle, and
died of a wound received in Virginia. He
second husband was Mr. Arron,Osborne,
of Goshen, N Y. was also in the army
of the revolution, but survived the war.
Her last husband was Mr, John Benjamin,
with whom she settled in Mount Pleasant
in 1S12. died four years afterwards.
She had five children, the youngest of whom
is seventy years old. She has left four gen
earations of decendants. From her youth,
until past forty years of age, she was in the
midst of rough and stirring scenes 'of border
warfare or of the revolutionary struggle.
Her temperament was such that she could
not be an idle spectator of events. She en
tered very deeply in all these vicissitude*.
Up to the latest period of her life she dis.
tiuetly recolleted the family of Mr. broad
head, whose sons, in 1755, boldly resisted
a party of two hundred Indians, making a
fort of their house. She was in the vicin
ity of Minisink when Brant, the Indian
chief, led a party of Indians and tories
through that settlement, scalping the inhab
itants and burning the houses, After the
second marriage she accompanied her hus
band in the army.
During marches she made her self useful
preparing food, and when in quarter, en
gaged in embarking some heavy ordinance
at Kingsbridge, on the Hudson, ostensibly
to attack New York, then in the hands of
the enemy, it was necessary to do it in the
night, and to place sentries around, lest
they should be observed or taken by sur
prise. Her husband having been placed
as a sentinel, she took his station, with
overcoat and gun, that he might help to
load the heavy artillery.
Soon Washington came round to exam
ine the outposts, and detecting something
unusual in her appearance, asked, "Who*
placed you there?" She promptly replied,
in her characteristic way, "Them who had
a right to sir." He apparently pleased
with her independent and patriotic spirit,
passed on. She accompanied the army,
with her husband, to the South, and was
present at the siege of York town and the
surrender of Cornwailis. During the bat
tle she was busy in carrying water to the
thirsty, and relieving the wants of the suf
fering. When passing where the bullets
of the enemy were flying, she met Wash
ington, who said, "Young woman, are you
no! afraid of the bullets She pleasantly
answered, "The bullets will never cheat the
gallows." She possessed extraordinar}* erv
ergy, even in her extreme age, and would
relate the events of her early days with the
vivacity of youth.
I N N E S O A A I A COLLEGE.
W are gratified to learn that arrange
ments have been made to secure three hun
dred and twenty acres of land to be given
to the State for the benefit of the State
Agricultural College located near this town.
W hope to see a commencement made
this season on the buildings and grounds of
the College.—Gieneoe. Register*
N E W POTATOES.—Here it is, only the
third day of May, in the year of grace,
1858, and we have baen luxuriating on
new potatoes "away up in Minnesota."—
This may be a startling announcement to"
eastern ears which seldom if ever listen to
any talc from Minnesot other than those
of starvation and snow drifts but it is
nevertheless true. Judge Orlando Stevens
has laid upon our table a quantity of po
tatoes raised this spring upon his farm at
Minnesota City, six miles out of town.
They are all of good size, and several of
them are larger than hen's eggs. This
will do to chronicle as the jirtt fruits of
the season.— Winona Republican.
A A N I W were present,
ed by our energetic and good-looking Sher
iff, George W Baker, with a most magnif
icent turnip, weighing two and one half
pounds, which was raised this Spring:—
Talk about your country "down South,"
now, will you? You can't come in. I
there is any country this side of "sundown1''
that can beat Minnesota, we should like to
hear from them,—Rochester Free Press.
t&~ The codbu|m*ess of Ohio in 1840
employed four hundred men in I860,
seven hundred and in 1867, five thoifeand
The labor of these five thousand men havo
supplied (independent of the large amount,
of coal used for fuel) a motive power, in
steam engines, &e., equivalent to the labor
of five hundred thousand men.
t&" Queen Victoria invited Sarah Bon
etta, an" African Princess, boarding at
Bhatham, to the wedding of the Princess,
and sent her dresses suitable for the occa
sion.
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