465               THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

to the great discomfort and horror of men- after having both seen her and
read her
no feeling of that sort.                   speeches.
                                              The above is not a perfect
likeness, a. one
  If God has seen fit to create, or, if in the rae sees pot a    is;fbut
it  as tae
operation of his laws there has come to be, a  rarely sees a portrap t that
is; but ir ras taken
woman with masculine powers and tastes, s   the general featurea and  what
little expres-
that she prefers to do man's work and can do  sit n of face she has-except
that it does not
i   t better than he, w  hy should wie quarrel with fairly exhibit that apparent
self-consciousness
her about that, any more than with the Scotchwhcno  uplantymrseraead
                                             which nowe unpleasantly marks
her pale and
Giant for being so tall or with Tom Thumb not very expressive countenance.
  It was
for being so ridiculously small? God's laws probably taken before she had
come to be the
are pretty well poised, and we should have no lioness she has since become.
fears of their being tilted over and completely  Her stature is small, her
shoulders drooping
upset because we find here and there an ex- forward. Her gait is easy and
graceful, her
ception to them. Exeeptio probat regulum. It is
                                             dress sufficiently elegant and
becoming, her
the exceptions that prove the rule, and there  air that of one who fancies
herself a genius
is no need of being frightened.   If Miss
                                             from the ranks of the aristocracy.
Dickinson or any other woman proves a genius  As a speaker she is recitative,
rapid in her
for enlightening the public mind, and for con- utterance and rather monotonous.
 Of her
tributing, in the least degree, to the purifica- speeches themselves, our
renders who have
tion of the dreadfully turbid political elements,
                                             seen them can judge as well
as we. They are
 why, in the name of Truth and Purity, not neither remarkable for originality
of thought
 let her do everything in her power for its  nor power of expression  A man
making
 accomplishment ?  Are mental blindness and     powersof expresson. A man
    aking
 moral and political corruption calamities of so Just sah speeches gould
not on that account
 little moment that we should not be willing to  be  ra tors of the  th 
e respect,
 have them cured except by the touch of our phers or orators of the age.
In one respect,
 owne themaculned fingers by Shetuch a os n ir however, she does most emphatically
excel:
 own masculine fingers ? Such a sentiment is she has more cheek. No man would
have the
                                            face, on an occasion of universal
partriotic
   But then here is one thing that Miss Dick- sacrifice, such as was the
Northwestern Fair,
 inson and every other woman of her kind to ask and receive for one lecture
the exorbi-
 should think of: The world will only excuse tant price of $500.
 so wide a departure from the usage of her   Miss Dickinson is said to have
been born in
 sex on the ground of unquestionable genius Philadelphia, and to be of good
Quaker stock.
 for the very work undertaken. There must She is only about 23 years of age,
and it is
 be in her a power of attraction and influence quite possible that she may
yet become all
 of a higher and very different nature from the that her enthusiastic admirers
believe her to
 mere novelty of a woman on the rostrum; be already.
 else she is leaving the glory of her own sex
 and coming short of that of the other. She  RICHES beget idleness and idleness
begets
 may make notoriety without regard to this poverty. For a person to be idle
because he
 principle, but she cannot make solid resputa- is rich is just as disgraceful
as to be poor be-
 tion, nor yet enjoy the consciousness of doing cause he is idle. There is
no more reason
 a noble, unselfish work for her country and why the possession of riches
should absolve
                                             a person from labor, than that
the possession
                                             of health should render the
observance of
    It is our private opinion that Miss Dickin- temperance unnecessary. If
for nothing else
  son will prove to be obnoxious to this ob- the rich should labor for the
sake of affording
  jection; and we make the suggestion only example and encouragement to the
poor.
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