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In Cochin China the women are beasts of burden. They
do all the hard work. ‘Their male protectors have a proverb
hat ‘*a woman has nine lives and bears a gréat deal of kill.
Men sell their wives; they hire them out, both for
vice and Inbor; but the woman who sins without her lord’s
Does this protection protect ?
To Mahommedan couutrics—without one exception—women
are kept in seclusion and in absolute subjugation to the men,
‘They are prisoners for life by reason’of their,sex. Does this
protection protect ?
‘The Moors make their women support them, and beat them
for the most trivial offences, When foreigners express an;
surprise at their treatment of their women, the Moors who
hold the Herald's views abuut the male symbolizing strength,
courage and protection,” reply; ‘Why should such inferior
creatures be allowed to eat and drink with"us ?
All over Africa women are held in slavery, with rare excep-
tions. In Senegal the girls work, the boys play. A man can
sell his danghters and his wives if he cau detect them in any
fi e has only to expose one to a temptation he knows
she has not the strength to resist to enable him to sell her as
‘a the slave coast the son inherits the harem of his
father, which he takes as his own, selling as many of his
father’s wives and his own sisters as he finds it convenient to
dispose of. In Java the slaves, who are merely the nominal
wives of the King, if taken in au amour, are punished with a
most horrible death, When the King dies his six favorite
wives are buried ative with him.” Is this protection ?
u Georgia and Caucasia, until a few years ago, the males
“protected” their females by selling them to stock the harems
of Persia, Turkey and Egypt.
Ia India, no Hindoo woman can gite evidence in a court of
justice, and a Brahmin has the right to kill an unfaithful
wife. But the wife has no such privilege. She can’t protect
him by slaughtering him when He is an offender. The females
are betrothed in infancy. If the young male person dies be-
fore he comes of age, the betrothed is doomed to a life of
celibacy. When they are married the “ protecting male” can
Jend them, or sell them, or gamble them away.
n Tonquin an article of the Protecting brand can sell his
daughters or his wife, or he can divorce his wife for the
slightest cause, and he has the power to have her trodden to
death by a trained elephant if she is caught in a violation of
her nuptial duties. She can only get a divorce from him i
he is guilty of the gravest crime, Aud he takes no elephant
with
It is hardly worth the tronble to call’ the catalogue of the
other pagan nations; for it is a rule, with here and thore an
exception, that among all barbaronsand savage peoplos women
are held as slaves, regarded as mere beasts of b -rden and
treated with the greatest cruelty. .
ow, it is no answer to this evidence to say that these
are not Christian or civilized nations, because the question
is not one of creed or culture, but of sex, and wh itever else
these Protectors may not be, they are males, and therefore
they ought to prove the truth of the Ierald’s theory by their
histor; .
‘y-
No, the theory is a false one; for the truth is that there
is no human being good enough ‘to hold absolute power over
auy other person; there is no class good enough to rule any
other class—each nation, each sex, each class, each person
should have equal rights, aud thereby the power to protect
itself or himself or herself,
Massachusetts prides herself in leading the vanguard of
She does nothing of the sort, Wyoming, for ex-
th
peated in a dozen Western States before we cease to babple
theories that have been exploded a dozen times. Old Eng-
land gives the suffrage in certain cases to women of property,
and Massachuse:ts is still talking about the « protecting male”
and about ‘‘sanctity” aud ‘unsexing” and r stuff that
is now so old that it has long since ceased to offend even by
the ouce antiquated but now vanished odorof its dusty decay.
The age is tired of “protection.” That’ patriarchal busi-
ness is bankrupt. What women want is not protection, but
justice—not gallantry, but equal rights; and after six thou-
sand years of absolute power, and yet cf absolute failure, to
protect, or to do justice to women, the sooner men cease to
talk about the ‘natural order,” and about not wishing to
‘drag women into the political arena,” the better will it be
both for thom and for us. As a sex, we ‘have
to women. ot us cease to be hypocrites.
as protectors. Let us give them equal rights! Place aux
lames | -
o——
A DRUNKEN JURY'S VERDICT OF DEATH.
The following is the letter of Mr. William O'Brien, editor
of ‘United Ircland,” to the Dublin “ Freeman's Journal,”
on the jury that convicted Francis Hynes, for whose publica-
tion the proprietor, Mr. Dwyer Gray, High Sheriff of Dablin,
was thrust into prison, without being afforded any time for
defence: i
Impertat Horen, Duanin, Saturday, Aug. 12,
Dean Str—I think the public ought to be made aware of
the following facts: The jur, the murder case of the
Queen v. Hynes were last night locked up, as it is termed, for
the night, at the Imperint Hotel; where i
was awakened from sleep shortly after
sounds of a deuaken chorus, succeeded after a ti
fing, rushing, coarse lunghter, and horse play along the cor-
ridor on which my badcoom opens.
ssemed to me, were falling abont the passaga in a maudlin
state of drankenness, playing ribald jokes. TI listened with
patience for a considerable time, when the door of my bed-
room was burst open, and a man whom I ean identify (for he
carried a can lle unsteadily in his hand) atoggered in, plainly
© influence of drivk, hicenpping, “*Hatlo, old fel-
low, all alone.” My answer was of @ character that indneed
him to bolt out of the roon in as disordered a manner as he
hvdentered. Having rang the bell I ascertained that these
disorderly persons were jurors in the ease of the Queen v.
Hynes, and that tho servants of the hotel had been endeavor-
in, in to bring
It is fair to add that no more than. three or four men
appeareil to bo-engaged ia the roaring and in the horse-play
that followed, The facts I,am ready to prove upon oath.
: : Witeiam O'Bara.
REDPATIVS ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.
THE POET OF THE SIERRAS,
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOAQUIN MILLER.
\ ¥ last Interview landed the Wandering Minstrel of the
Sierras in Nicaragua. He had joined the command of
Gen, Walker, ‘the grey-eyed man of destiny.”
J. B.—How long did you stay in Nicaragua ?
JOAQUIN'S RETURN TO OREGON,
Joaquin Miller—I stayed two or three months, Gen. Walker
was soon shut up in Revas. Revas is not far from Lake
Nicaragua,—above Virgin Bay. We were in a constant state
of siege and had battles every day. ‘We got more and more
pent up. Every day we had to go foraging for something to
at.
Tcould not rest inactive: so I always volunteered to go
with the foraging parties. One day, when I went out with a
few others, we were ambuscaded.
Most of the men were killed or wounded. But the wounded
escaped—all except myself. I could not get
and I was taken prisoner. It was
were ambuscaded. ‘There were eeveral beantiful women.
there. They said I was too little to kill and they kept me
there. The Mexicans soon rode on and left me with these
women. I was badly wounded in my left groin,
J. R.—I have heard it said that you were not lame—that
you only pretended to be lame—because Byron was lame!
J, M.—(Langhing) I never heard that story. Byron was
lame in his right foot: I am lame in my left leg! Well. very
soon a ship came along going North for lamber. The women
put me on it—they took me down to the coast and let m
—to join the Americans in Columbia. t
putup in Columbia but sailed for the Columbia River in
regon. I was landed not far from where my father lived.
Iwent home, I was eighteen or nineteen years cld then.
My father was Surveyor-General of the State. So ] settled
down and studied law under him. In about a year I was ad-
mitted asa member of the bar. Mr. Williams, afterwards
. 8. Attorney General, was on the Bench. He administered
the oath to me himself. He was the Onief Justice of Oregon
at that time. This was about 1859.
JOAQUIN IN IDAHO.
Soon after I was admitted to the bar, a party of us went
out to prospect in the direction of Idaho, which was then not
named—nor heard of.
“Others found gold. My party did not, But I think I
had sowething to do with the naming of Idaho, I -ho in
the Indian tongue means light on the mountains. Sunshine
on the mountains in that clear atmosphere in that noble coun-
try gives a peculiarly beautiful halo.
Thad begun by this time to write letters to the papers. ‘The
first time the name of Iduho was ever in print was in a letter
wrote toan Oregon newspaper. No white man had ever
stepped on that mountain then, The Indians heldit. After-
ward the Indians were defeated aud the whites took possession
of it and found it rich in gold. ‘They called it Idabo as I had
used the name in writing about it before we reached it,
EXPRESS MAN AND EDITOR,
As I bad a bad leg and a bad arm, and as I was not too
anxious to get down to work in the mines, I started an express
and carried the gold and letters of the miners to the nearest
post office and city, I made several thousand dollars and went
back home. As there was no strong Democra ic paper in the
State,—the Democratic Register in Eugene City needed help
a bad
started by Anthony Noltver, the present State priater, I be.
i I wrote for it. The paper was suppressod by the mili-
tary authorities and forbid the mails.
I.—Are you a Democrat?
J. M.—Oh, ‘yes ; I always have been a Democrat.
In the meantime, I was married. In 1863 or about that
time I went with my wife to San Francisco. I tried to write ;
I tried to act on the stage. I made no headway in anything.
I got very few of my things published, and those few were
not paid for—and I think they deserved no higher considera-
tion than they received. .
Discouraged, I went back into the mines of Northern
regon—what is now Grant County, Oregon—in 1864, .
FIGHTS THE INDIANS,
J. R.—Now, let us finish Oregon at this interview.
J. M.—The Bannock Indians attacked our camp. I w:
rking as a miner—down deep into the mines shoveling ditt
into the sluces; muddy, wet, and cold. I had worked hard
all that winter and made po money. I had always kept a
good horse, and good pistols and firearms of all kinds. and
when volunteers were called for I ontered as private and was
elected to command the detachment.
chose two Lieutenants of volunteers, went out, followed
and fought these Indians for three months, This gave the
camp plenty of rest and peace, but the Indians finally beat us,
I fought the Indians in connection with a force of the regular
army. A small detachment of them had come up under the
command of Capt. Waymine, a brave and capable soldier,
and as true a little gentleman as ever lived.
hoy then, but he fought and acted like a Trojan,
a
dead, but we had to leave them unburied and go back to
Canyon City. :
J, R.—What number of men had yon in these expeditions?
J, M.—I started with something about 200 men, but they
soon began to dexert. It was a terrible time to keep them to-
gether. ‘There was dee; won the ground. We had
rometines to drive our provisions with sledges over monn.
tains, Our horsex were poor and gave out every day. Measles
oke out in camp and we bud to stop, form temporary
hospitals, and leave the sick behind ns, so that when we
fonght the Indians we had less than fifty men, Waymine
lost one of his officers aud three men, I lost abort the same
nuimber—perhaps one or two more men,
We got back to Canyon City. :
@ meaatiine, Grant county had been organized and an
election ordered by the State.» It was named in honor of the
President. .
JOAQUIN ON THE BENCH.
Withont my knowledge, I had been nominated and elected
Judge during my absence. was not quite 2), I thiak; but
no questions were asked, and I was qualified and sat on the
bench for four years, And with one law book and two six.”
shooters—there they are, hanging up—I administered law
ost effectively. Dawn! if I kuow whether it was lav or not,
but I tried to administer justive, ©
PUBLISHES SONGS OF THE SIERRAS.
‘Then I began to write. I published two little pamphlets
of poems and wrote for the newspapers. ‘The pamphlets
were the Songs of the Sierras, They je no sensation.
Only Bret Harte gave it a favorable notice, which encouraged
me to again try literature.
Then I was ambitious to have a place on the Supreme
Bench of the State at the end of my term of four years,
t to the nominating convention to secure the
position,
My wife in the meantime had returned to her mother's
house. When I was at the Convention papers were served on
me fora divorce, It was immediately obtained by mutual
consent with her attorneys. I abandoned my politicel am-
bition, and next week started for Europe with my bundle of
manuscripts and everything I had written.
I was 28. I ought to have said that after I left the bench
I practiced law for a year or two.
en I went to San Francisco—in 1870—stayed there «
few months, met Bret Harte and some other literary lights
there, mong them was D. Colbreth, ene of the brightest
and best women in the world, who deserves more fame than
I do, for she has done better things,
FOR AND AGAINST THE INDIAN.
I left New York in the ship Europa, of the Anchor Line,
and landed in Glasgow.
J. You seem to have been impartial in your military
record—you fought both for and against the Indians! Some
persons would think that you fought for the mere love of
fighting, without regard either to the red or the white man’s
cause ?
J. M.—Well, there ara good Indians and there are bad In-
The Indians I fought for were thousands of miles
apart from the Indians I fought against. In my first battle
the whites had attacked the Indians. I found myself amung
the Indians, and fought for them. At Canyon City, where £
had command of the whites, the Indians had attacked the
whites, I found myself with the whites, and again fought
for the defence. Further than this, it is within the memory
of living men that Christian Frenchmen and Christian Eng-
lishmen chronicled the most martial battle fields in history,
and at the same time they have since fought side by side in
the Crimea. Now, Indians, I think, have the same rights,
At least they practice that Christian virtue of war. Oh,
d—n it, the Indians will fight: they fight among themselves
like dogs—almost like Christians,
HI5 POEM ON WALKER,
—What do you regard as your best poem ?
M.—“ Walker in Nicarauga.”
in Honduras, bore this couplet
“Here lies brave W. W.,
Who will never more trouble you, trouble you."*
Then I wrote ‘ Walker in Nicaragua” in about three daye,
My publishers insisted on giving it enother name and refused,
for some time, to publish it—saying that Walker was a pirate
and brigand and known only to be hated and dispised in
England.
This interview ends the savage life of the Poet of the
Sierras, One incident only I have omitted—his fight with a
sheriff and a posse, in which the future singer drove back the
force when they tried to arrest him for stealing horses, and
dangerously wounded the sheriff himself. It is too long for
this letter.
in the topic of domestic troubles, Mr. Miller is reticent for
reasons highly honorable to his character,
friends know the true story of his home life and they are
pledged not to tell it to the public. He prefers to give his
former wife all the advantages she choses to take by telling
an uncontradicted story. :
P. 8.—Since this interview took place the lady has died,
—o—
ARE WE AT WAR WITH EGYPT ?. ©
tHE Eprtor or THE 5 As an American resi.
To
dent of Egypt for the past eight years, and an eye-witness to
the scenes lately occurring here, as well as a su
— Sir:
armed with m' ammunition, and
Gatling guusinthe city of Alexandria on the 14th day of
July for the purpose of assisting the British, but without be-
ing requested by them {0 do so.
Lhave searched the late London papers, but cannot find
that Congress has declared war, and Iam at a loss to under.
tand by what authority Admiral Nicholson dared to take
upon himself the responsibility of makin; war; for it isan
act of war to land armed men upon the soil of any country.
Who is this Admiral Nicholson, this autocrat, that has made
the name of American offensive to every native Egyptian?
He certainly was not prominent during the war, as Farragut,
Dupont, and others were. never heard of him until he
came here interfering in the affairs of a country wi i
the United States have always been at peace,
Americans have always enjoyed the highast privileges,
Who gave American marines and sailors the right to march
around the city day and night, armed to the teeth with loaded
muskets and revolvers, capturing, detaining or fring w
whomsoever they chose? What has Ameri
The few of us residing at Alexandria or Cairo have hitherto
been treated with marked kindness and respect by all, whether
nsulat
he be a pasha, bey, or fellah. The United States Cor fe
here was neither plundered, destroyed, nor burt, but, on. the
‘ashe ;
for Ismailia under armed escort
European could obtain, .
regard for America and American institutions; but it is ‘all
us blush to be Americans,
‘The gallant Admiral you sent over here has. made
aution Americans to erase, hereafter, Egypt and the Pyra. “A
mids from their tours of the East, for their lives will not
safe after the part displayed this naval officer. Let th
American peoplé take the matter in hand. Recall him home
before he gets us into war with a country not 80 weak as
the Egyptians. Court martial or dismiss him for what he has
done, and let him retire to private life. He is entirely incom: |”
petent to continue in active service. 7 oo
Alexandria, Aug. 5. AN AMERICAN IN Rarer