The Women of the South [pp. 147-154]

THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH.
they are bound to good behavior, to fidelity-boiund to
make true and obedient slaves.
The consistency of the whole narrative of the trial of
man in the garden of Eden depends on the truth of the
position above taken, viz: that man was created a free
agent before his Creator deemed it proper to put him on a
career of moral obligation.
May we not, then, say that Mr. Jefferson uttered a great
truth when he declared that all men were created free and
equal —equally endowed —thlen placed equally on probation —
leaving to be inferred that, after creation, there originated
those inequalities that now characterize the relations of
social life? The idea running through this whole debate
is, that there is a cardinal distinction between being created
equal and being equal now in the relations of social lifea distinction on which reposes the whole fabric of Christianity.
ART. IV.-THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH.
WE have just been reading an admirable little work by
the Rev. Philip Slaughter, entitled "Man and Womian,"
or "Why are so many more women than men Christians?"
The work has one great defect: there is not enough of it.
This little book and the passing events of the day have
called our special attention to the women of the South,
who, with a prescience and a zeal surpassing that of -men,
urged on the present revolution, and who are now devoting
all their energies and industry to clothe the soldier, to heal
his wounds, to tend on him in sickness, and to relieve the
wants of his family.
That woman is better than man, no true and brave and
generous man will deny. She is of more delicate and
refined fibre, nmore sensitive, more alive to impressions
from without, more sympathetic, more benevolent; better,
therefore, by nature. She is less exposed to temptation,
less indurated by contact, competition and collision with
the world; and, therefore, she is better by education. Yet
we are told she is the weaker vessel. Weaker in what?
Why, she has less physical strength and ten times more
moral strength than man. Does not woman love excitement as much as man; and does not maii see and feel as
clearly as woman the evil consequences of undue excitemeint'. How comes it, then, that there are twenty drunk
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