ing a farewell glance of beautiful Granada, his proudhearted mother said, scornfully, "You do well to weep for it like a woman, since you would not deend it lik a man."

The old Hungarian women, when their country was invaded by the Turks, performed prodigies of valor; and now, among the predatory tribes of Illyria and Dalmatia, he who attempted to insult a girl, would find that she wore a dagger and pistol at her belt. But Christianity, which has done so much for woman—which, at a time when its pure maxims could produce nothing better, by reason of man's own evils, brought forth the generous spirit of chivalry from the iron despotism of the middle ages— Christianity is removing the garlands from the bloody front of war, and teaching her sons and her daughters that evil must be "overcome with good."

Women are apt to be more aristocratic than men ; for the habits of their life compel attention to details, and consequently make them more observing of manners than of principles.

Where the Mohammedan religion prevails, man's reason is taught to bow blindly to faith, and his af fections have little freedom to seek their corresponding truth; in all such countries women are slaves.

If women had perfect freedom to exercise their faculties and feelings, unobstructed by partial laws or false customs, their development in all departments would doubtless retain a feminine character. Mrs. Jameson says: "Almost all the women who have attained celebrity in painting, have excelled in feminine

portraits; and when they painted history, they were only admirable in that class of subjects, which came within the province of their sex. Thus Elizabeth Sirani's Annunciation is exquisite, and her Crucifixion feeble. Angelica Kauffman's Nymphs and Madonnas are lovely; but her picture of the warrior returning home after the defeat of the Roman legions is cold and ineffective. The physical organization of women must be changed, before we produce a Rubens, or a Michal Angelo. On the other hand, no man could paint like Louisa Sharpe, any more than write like Mrs. Hemans." Many women have excelled in the graceful and poetic departments of literature, and a few in science; but there is among them no Dante, Shakspeare, Goethe, or Newton. In the fine arts they have rarely evinced great genius.

Many silly things have been written, and are now written, concerning the equality of the sexes; but that true and perfect companionship, which gives both man and woman complete freedom in their places, without a restless desire to go out of them, is as yet imperfectly understood. The time will come,

when it will be seen that the moral and intellectual condition of woman must be, and ought to be, in exact correspondence with that of man, not only in ts general aspect, but in its individual manifestations; and then it will be perceived that all this liscussion about relative superiority, is as idle as a controversy to determine which is most important to the world, the light of the sun, or the warmth of the

sun.

A SEPARATE article is appropriated to this subject, because slavery everywhere produces nearly the same effects on character; but the story is briefly told, because the details of that system are alike discreditable to man and woman. A recent writer who defends slavery has said that in slave-holding countries "women are not beasts of burden." This is a gallant phrase to apply to all those ladies who live in countries where the traffic in human beings is not introduced, like a plague-spot, into the social system; but

the chief fault to be found with it is, that it is founded on the common mistake of leaving out of the estimate all those whose complexions are not perfectly white. In ali slave-noiding communities, colored women are emphatically" beasts of burden;" yet, under kindly influences, they are capable of the same moral and intellectual cultivation as other human beings.

One of the worst features of this polluting system is tha temale slaves are neither protected by law, ot restrained by public opinion. Their masters own them as property, and have despotic control over their actions; and such is their degraded condition, that to be the mistress of a white man is an object of ambition rather than of shame. The same result would be produced upon any class of people under similar circumstances. They are taught from infancy that they have no character to gain or to lose; and their whole moral code consists in one maxim-obe. dience to the white men. The personal kindness of their masters, though founded on the most impure feelings, is likely to shelter them in some degree from harsh treatment, and to procure for them those arti. cles of finery upon which all ignorant people p.ace an inordinate value. The idea of obtaining money to purchase freedom is likewise a frequent incentive to immorality. It is not proposed to disgust the reader with a recapitulation of facts in proof of these remarks. It is sufficient to say that female virtue is a thing not even supposed to exist among slaves; and that when individua. instances of it occur, it sometimes meets with severe castigation, and generally with contemptuous ridicule.

It may well be supposed that those who are delicately termed "favorite slaves," sometimes become very pert and impudent, in consequence of their situation in their master's family. A female slave in Baltimore was, for obvious reasons, very odious in the eyes of her mistress, who let no opportunity escape of getting her flogged for some misdemeanor, real or pretended. The master, for reasons equally obvious, was always reluctant to give orders for her punishment; but he was sometimes obliged to do so, for the sake of domestic peace. On such occasions, the slave flounced about the house, and boasted that every whipping he ordered her should cost him a handsome sum for broken china.

Stedman relates that Mrs. S-lk-r, of Surinam, having observed, among some newly imported slaves. a negro girl of remarkably fine figure and expressive countenance, immediately ordered the poor creature's mouth, cheeks, and forehead to be burned with redhot iron, and the tendon of her heel to be cut. These cruel orders were given from mere prospective jealousy of her husband; and to gratify this wicked passion, the unoffending girl was maimed and deformed for life.

One of the most observable effects produced by this system, is that it invariably induces the habit of not considering a large number of men, women, and children in the same light as other human beings; hence the most common maxims of justice and morality, recognised in all other cases, are not supposed to apply to slaves. The dimness of moral perception