The ladies and the Convention.
The ladies continue to attend the
Convention with persevering patriotism.
We commend the attention with which they listen to the harangues of the speakers to those who say that women cannot keep silence.
There was a cynical old Scotsman who once argued that there could be no women in heaven, because St.
John declares in the Revelation that on one occasion there was silence in Heaven for half an hour, and of course no woman could have kept silent that long.--Well, they keep silence in the Virginia Convention for three hours a day, and the
Convention is anything but a heaven.
We might say, that it looks like Heaven, those angels in the galleries; but the women have been flattered so much by the various speakers on the floor, that we have not the face to utter one word of that kind.--In truth, we commenced this article for the purpose of suggesting that the ladies are becoming thoroughly nauseated with the complimentary references to themselves which some of the speakers lay on with a trowel.--This is a new feature in an assemblage intended for grave deliberation upon the most momentous subjects.
Imagine allusions of this kind in a deliberative body of
France or
England!
We do not think that the women of
Virginia are as soft as the compliments they receive, or even as some of those who utter them.
There are mothers in
Israel, and high-souled wives and daughters who comprehend the whole subject which now agitates the country better than many of the men who have seats upon the floor; women whom no one but the grand old Marshalls, Henrys and
Madison of other days have any right to instruct.
