Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 August 1870 — Page 3

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IS THERE SEX IN O UIL T. Among the most odious of inequalities is that which gives to the same

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committed under the same cir-

& cumstances, a different degree of guilt and punishment, according to the social position which one holds. It was to equalize rights not only, but to cqualixe moral obligations, and to bring all men before the law, both for protection or punishment, on just the same foot-»-*i ing—whether they are nobles, burghers priests or peasants—that the great Revolution in Franco was waged, and in it is to moral and political equality that our Declaration of Independence in great part refers.

We nappily abolished the distinctions which existed in Europe. The law knows no distinctien between one class and another in duties or crimes, or in v- rewaads or penalties. The only invid' ious and unjust inequalities that yet exi.st, in law, are those between the sexes. Public sentiment still lags behind the just demands of the age on this subject.

Women have no political rights, nor the same rights of property tnat men have. Public sentiment refuses to woman the same opportunity to earn wealth which mon nave, but the law refuses to protect their earnings as it does men's earnings. Worse yet, public sentiment, following the modevial bias, gives to the same crimes, committed under the same circumstances, a greater degree of guilt, if committed by woman, than when committed by man.

Nor are very able and upright journals wanting, which deliberately justify this unjust distinction. To treat impurity in woman as more guilty than in man, is not so much to increase the

responsibility of virtue on woman's part, as to lighten the responsibility on man's part.

To make a woman more guilty than a man, for doing tho same acts, In the same circumstances, is a violation, not less of reason and natural justice, than of tho divine teachings of tho Word of God. There was no sex in crime in the old Hebrew code. It is remarkablo, that in Oriental lands, under the glaring sun, and amid tho fervid passions of Eastern pcoplo, and with such lax, or

least liberal marriage institutions,

there

should bo found such simple justice in meeting out punishment to domestic infidelity, alike to man and woman. Neither legislation nor public sentiment In our Christian nations has yet reached the level of that natural justice, as between the sexes, which is found in the Mosaic Institutes. Adultery was death to botii man and woman.

There is evidence that in our Saviour's time public sentiment had alroady lapsed, or else, why should a woman taken in adultery be dragged beforo Christ, while the man went tree? Yet the Lord refused in every instance in which he was called to act in similar cases, to treat women as moro guilty than man, for tho same offense.

Nothing can show moro clearly tho want of education and just moral ideas in respect to this social question, than a recent sad history in Cortland in this State. A woman, convinced of the infidelity of her husband to his marriago vows, instead of stabbingliini, or shooting his evil partner, drowns herself. The case could not but touch tho sensibilities of'the whole community. There ... must be sure testimony against immorality so fatal. A party of young men in an out bust of virtue, repaired, not to the house of tho husband, who had by his criminal conduct driven his wife to •"'"Jnsanit.y

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filicide, but to tho houso

f^orill-l'ame to which he had been occus"**tometl to resort, and there seized tho ^fwretched woman, led her forth, tarred

leathered her, but at her earnest entreaty spared her life. It was the woman, it seems, that sinned. The husband was not supposed guilty enough to requiro any penalty. From a report in tho Tribune, wo quoto "It appoarod at the coroner's inquest that Mrs. Mooro's husband had been improperly intimato with a depraved Woman living in tho village, named Melissa lllytho, and tho vordict of tho jury was that tho knowlodgo ofsuch intimacy had renderod Mrs. Moore insane, and while in such inontal condition she had committed suicido. A strong feeling of indignation roso against tho woman, and a party of young men forced the doors of her houso and snbjocted her to a treatment of tar and feathers. She was first draggod to tho street, whoro a promiscuous crowd of alout 200 had gathered, and there sho was entirely disrobed. In this condition sho was taken through tho streets to anothor part of tho village, where tar and feathers were applied. Sho was thon suflered to go her way and tho crowd dispersed. While this outrago was going on, tho woman begged sonio members of tho party to spare her life, and appealed to them JUS friends, who had known her intimately. Tho citizens are indignant at the outrage."

Does an one suppose that in tho eves of the Divine Judge this woman was guiltier than her paramour? ^ller gtMieral life was disreputable, and his respectable. If thoro was any difference in the guilt of their common sin, was nottheniun farthonioreguilty?

A A S O

A Philadelphia paper says: There is a doctor in the north-western part of this Consolidated city who is especially remarkable for being, ns the women call it, "short and crusty."

A week or two since, he was called to visit a patient who was laboring under a severe attack of cheap whisky. "Well, doctor, I'm got the tremendous deliriums, you know."

Tremens, you fool! NN hero'd you iget your rum "All over in spots broke out promiscuously, doctor." "Served"you right."

Father clied of the same disease it took him under the short ribs and caririod him off bodilv."

Well, you've got to take something immediately." You're a trump, Doc! Here, wife, I'll take a nip of old rye!"

Lie still, you blockhead Mrs. It., if your husbiind should get worse before I return, which will be an hour, give him a dose of that trunk strap maybe that will fetch him to A sense of his'follv."

The doctor sailed out grandly, and within an hour sailed in again, and found his friend of the "tremendous delirium" in a terrible condition, writhing and struggling with rutin.

His wife—a female of the kind, but ignorant school—came up, anil laying her hand on the doctor's arm, said

Doctor, I gavo him thestrap, as you directed." Did vou thrash him well "Thrash him?" exclaimed tho astonished woman. "No! I put the strap into hash and made him swallow I "Oh, Lord, doctor!" roared the victim, I swallowod tho leather, but— hut

Hut—what -1 1 swallowed the whole strap, but 'I'm darned if I could go tho buckle!"

The doctor administered two bread pills and evaporated.

A rAGE OF HISTORY. In the last number of the Revne des Deux Mondes, M. Albert Reville brings to a termination an instructive sketch of the grandeur and miseries of poor King Louis of Holland—king by the grace of his brother Napoleon. His Slajesty had been obliged to marry Hortense, the daughter of Josephine Beauharnais, and this ill-assorted match was fruitful of discord. In one of Napoleon's letters to his lieutemnt at the Hague, he wrote:

Your quarrels with the Queen penetrate to the public. Assume at home that paternal and mild disposition that you display in your government, and in affairs that severity which you exhibit in your household. You treat your young wife as one would a regiment (!). Distrust the persons who surround you —you are only surrounded by nobles. phe Catholics begin to fear you. Why don't you employ some of them Should you not protect your religion?"

Alter being instructed to protect religion by giving Catholics civil employment and sweets of office, King Louis received further lessons in tho art of governing a conquered people under dictation. Poor Louis was always try ing to escape from his purgatory and abasing himself, but Napoleon insisted that he should remain on his throne and carry out tho policy of France. One of tlu- principal bones of contention was the continental blockade. The Dutch, as Canning afterwards sang in his famous despatch, were fond of trade to blockade their ports was to ruin the country, which, as Louis very properly remarked, consisted of large towns whose existence depended on trade,and in no way resembled France, with Marseilles, Jiordeaux, Havre, and a fewother ports. When the rupture with Sweden came, Louis, who was dragged along with the larger constellation, was driven almost to distraction, but he was not only ordered to seize the Swed ish vessels in the ports, but had to endure hearing his brother call Holland an English province and the King tho first smuggler.

King Louis complained bitterly to the Russian ambassador, who observed: Ah! sire, il est avec le eiel des accommodemens." "Oui, monsieur," replied his Majesty, "mitis il n'en est point avec l'enfer."

The Emperor, enraged at the manner in which the blockade had been violated, publicly declared Holland an English colony, and threatened that it should be eaten out. In a conversation with Louis, he said, "I wish to bo the only master you may take your choice either to finish your days as a French prince in France or elsewhere, or to accept another kingdom in Germany, as I shall soon have an opportunity of giving you one. The only thing now to be considered is the best mode of uniting Holland to the Empiro. You can abdicato of your own good will or declare war with me. In the latter case I should have no pity to show Holland in the former you might stipulate several conditions advantageous for that country." It is difficult to read this scene without laughing. Louis is forced to roigh and he is then commanded to nbdicato voluntarily, or to light with his own brother for a kingdom ho does not want—tho donor and the most redoubtable warrior of modern times. Shortly afterwards appeared a strange noto in tho Moniteur, commencing,

Holland is in reality only a portion of France," Ac. Louis protested, and Napoleon excused himsel?,' on tho ground jiiat tlio 2uto4i Frtinoo.. "You should understand," said he, that 1 do not separate myself from my predecessors and that from Clovis to*tho Committee of Public Safety, jo me tiens solidare do tout, ct que le mal qu'on dit do gaito de coeur contre les gouvernemens qui m'ont precede, je lo tiens com mo dit dans l'intention do m'oflfenser." At last Napoleon consented only to take tho left bank of the Rhino "on cortain conditions. Louis threatened to return to Holland with his oldest son but ho was accused of wishing to raise the standard of revolt, and ho and his son, the present Emperor's brother, wore placea under the surveillance of tho polico. In the end Louis had to givo way and cede what

rovinces

his brother desired, and final-

ho abdicated and sought rel'ugo in Austria.

CONS UMPTION.

Consumption is not a disoase of the lungs, but ono of tho system, showing If you fully

iiself^in the lungs. prehend this, you aro for the senso treatment.

coni-

conimon

Avoid all local treatmont by inhalation, all the panaceas, including whisky and cod-liver oil (fashionable to-day oxploded to-morrow), employ those natural methods about which wise doctors have never differed. 1. Walk, in all kinds of weather, two or three times a day. If too weak for this, begin with tho saddles. 2. Hanging bv the hands in rings suspended from the coiling nbovo the door, swing backward and forward, sideways and in a circle. Tho effect on tho wails of the chest is very remarkable. I navo known such swinging to reduce tho pulso very sensible in a week. In each exercise continue until slightly fatigued.

Wash the entire skin with tepid water and good neutral soap, every morning, on returning from tho first walk, and rub the skin to redness every night on going to bed with sharp hair gloves. Luwranco's English Patent gloves are tho best. All druggists sell them. 4. Sleep much, retiring beforo nine, adding a nap in the middle of the day. Never forget that good ventilation during the hours of sleep is vital in every case of diseased lungs.

Eat lor breakfast and dinner oatmeal, cracked wheat, beef, mutton, plain bread, potatoes and other vegetables, except tomatoes- Use no pastry or other trash. Eat no supper.

Cultivate jovial peopie. Laughter^ is the most precious of all possible exorcises for chronic lohg suffering.

AN item is going the rounds of the papers that "a boy of thirteen, in a Western town, has run away with a circus." We do not know anything about this lx»y but we suppose, of course, lie was educated by pious parents, that he went to school, and that he lisped on his mother's knee. And yet this wretched child of sin. in tho very morninjar of his days, dashed into tho maddening vortex of vice, and legan a career of crime by stealing a wliole circus We are not appalled so much at the gigantic character of the undertaking as wo are at the promise for the future of th's boy. A youth who can einbe«lo a circus at the'age of thirteen will have no difficulty in stealing the island of Cuba or the State of New Jorscy by the time he arrives at years of discretion. And if he is put in the penitentiary, It is altsolutefy certain that he may bo depended upon to confisCate the institution and run off with the whole concern, convicts Included. It seems as if some children were horn with special qualifications fbr tire State Legislature!

TERRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. AUGUST 27, 1870.

ISAAC NKWTOK'S COURTSHIP.—Sir Isaac Newton was urged by one of his friends to marry ho excused himself by saying that he had no time to court a wife. His friends said they would assist by sending to his apartment a woman of worth. He thanked them for their offer, and promised to receive a visit from her. His friends applied to the woman, and requested her to dispense with the usual ceremonies of courtship and wait on the philosopher, which she consented to do. When she came to his apartment, and produced her letter of recommendation, he received it politely, filled and nred his pipe, and sat down by her side, took hold of her hand, and conversed on the subject. Before they had brought the point to a close, some question about the magnitude of the heavenly bodies struck his mind with such force that he forgot what he was about—he turned his eyes to heaven/took his pipe out of his mouth with his left hand, and being lost in study, without design took the lady's left hand, which ho neld in his own, and with one of her lingers crowded the tobacco in the bawl of his pipe, and held it there so long that her heart as well as her finger took fire, and she in a huff sprang up and went off, paving the philosopher to finish his study alone.

TIIK brain that teems with illimitable thought will never recognize as his creator any power of Nature, however irresistible, that is not gifted with consciousness. Atheism may be consistent with fine taste, and fine taste under certain conditions may for a time regulate a polished society but ethics with atheism aj:e impossible and without ethics no human order can bo strong or permanent.—Lothair.

WHEN women are tho advisors, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do then they act upon it, and, if it syoceeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it if it fails, they generously givo her the whale.—Little Women.

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