From Me Weekly Messenger. THE CONTRAST.
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We are informed by monkish writers of the dark ages, whohave obtained credit for other facts that they have related, that at the Coun- cil of Macon, composed of more than three hundred dignitaries of the church, that the question:" whether or not women have souls!" was solemnly and vehemently deba- ted. The decision, it is true, was, that they hare souls; yet the verity of the vote was questioned by many scrupuious prelates of that ignorant and miserable epoch. Some of these casuists, it is said, commended the spirit of the Athenian iaws--nay, cited the letter of it; which authorised husband to bequeath his wife, (when she shnuld become widOw,) precisely like any other chattel interest. And it was asserted. (and could not be cOntradic- ted,) that the mother of Demosthenes was so bequeathed, and the bequest legally establish ed, among one of the most refined nations of antiquity,