The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 5, April, 1836Various
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The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 5, April, 1836
Various
American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals
Tormenting man and trampling every law,
Divine and human, till the very name
Of Frenchmen move to nought but hate and scorn.
Then heaven with storms, and earth with all her armies
Shall rise against ye, and the o'erwhelming tide
Of your vast conquests ebb in shame and ruin.
Then--false to honor, native land, and chief!--
Ye who could swarm like locusts on the earth
For glory or for plunder, shall desert,
Or Judas-like betray, the cause of freedom,
And tamely crouch to your now banish'd king,
When foreign swords instale him in his throne:
And laugh and sing while Prussians and Cossacks
Parade the streets of this vice-branded city,
And see without a blush the Austrian flag
And England's banner float o'er Notre Dame.
Bye-word among the nations! Fickle France!
Distant and doubtful is your day of freedom,
If ever it shall dawn, which it ne'er will,
Until ye learn, what my hate would not teach ye.
On, to the scaffold! May my blood infect
With its fierce mania every human heart--
Mourn'd as I am by none! May ye soon prove
Another ruler o'er this land like me.
WOMAN.
To woman is assigned the second grade in the order of created
beings. Man occupies the first, and to him she looks for earthly
support, protection, and a "present help" in time of need. The
stations which they occupy--the pursuits which they should engage
in--the legitimate aim to which their thoughts and wishes should
tend, are widely different, yet inseparably connected. To show the
error so prevalent in respect to these subjects, the improper mode
of education so generally adopted, and if possible, to assign to
woman her proper sphere, privileges and pursuits, is the object of
the present sketch. We have stated that woman is second _only_ in
the scale of created beings, and proceed to examine, first, the
important station which she occupies--secondly, the means usually
adopted for preparing her for this station--thirdly, the results
produced by those means--fourthly, the proper means--and lastly,
endeavor to illustrate the ideas advanced by the testimony of
history, and the observations drawn from real life.
1st. The important stations which she occupies. A daughter, a
sister--the friend and companion of both sexes and all ages--the
wife, the mistress, the mother--stations high, honorable, important.
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