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Christian mother 10 form head for great nation,
the lustre of whose name will live so long as
our Republican States exist, broad shrine Tor
the worship Of freedom. III then the greatest as
well as the brightest example of woman's form
ing influence existed with u.s. i'll our own happy
land, why is not the cultivation of that power as
highly esteemed as il should be by our own fair
country women? In no country, perhaps IN the
world, where Christianity is taught, is woman so
little sensible of her vast powers and influence
as in the American States. The reason of this
is obviously because women here are domestic
in their habits beyond those of other countries,
and do not mingle in public assemblages. At
the fire-side is the stronghold of her power
there is that influence diffused and felt, while she


who exercised it, is totally unconscious of the
great momentum towards good or evil, she is
giving the growing characters around her. Could
they know that upon them devolyed the RESPONSE
bility OF making men virtuous or otherwise, how
lightly would they deem mere external decora-
lion, that only catches the eve and imagination of
the other sex, in comparison to the cultivation of
mind, that controls and influences them. it has
been said by an eminent author that the color OF
a nations morals is imbbed from its women.
Ii this be the case, Americans should be less
corrupt than all nations, for certainly their wo-
men are, as yet, more modest and religious than
those of any other country. Among us, the


marriage tie has ever been regarded sacred, and


society sternly frowns down its violator.


In other countries some females, with the dar-
ing ambition that characterizes strong intellecs,
when combined with undsciplined passions, have
avowed themselves inidels, and striven to shine
as stars in the hemisphere of metaphysical philo-
sophy; but where, in all America, with an extra
ordinary exception, the traveller point to an
atheist woman; and that exception has sunk too
low even to attract the finger of scorn.