Of Women

I do Dot hcsitate to sny that the woinen givo to every natinn a moral temperament which shows itself in its politics. A buiidred times havo I secn weak men show real publio virtue beoause tbey had by titan sides womcn who supportod tlicm not by advice as to particulars, bat bv fbrtifying thcir feelings of duty, and by dirocting tbeir ambition. More freqoently, I must 'confess, I have observod tiio domestic intliicnce gradually transfbrminc a mur, naturally geuorous, noble, aml uoaelfisb, ii j to a cewardlj, oommonplace, place-hun i'n?. ■ self-secker, thinking of publio busilis only as n meana of male ing l.imseif ODOífiwrtáble, and tbis simply by contact wiili a well con duoted woman, a faithful ffife, an excollent mothtr, but from whose mind the grand notion of public duty was cd tire); absent. .