“He either fears his fate too much,
    Or his deserts are small,
  Who dares not put it to the touch,
    And win or lose it all.”

A woman, writing of woman, has truly said, “There are but two ways open to any woman.  If she loves a man, and he does not love her, to give him up may be a horrible pang and loss; but it cannot be termed a sacrifice:  she resigns what she never had.  But if he does love her, and she knows it, and if she loves him, she has a right, in spite of the whole world, to hold to him till death do them part.  She is bound to marry him, though twenty other women loved him, and broke their hearts in loving him.  He is not theirs, but hers; and to have her for his wife is his right and her duty.”  “And in this world are so many contradictory views of duty and exaggerated notions of light, so many false sacrifices and remunerations, weak even to wickedness, that it is but fair sometimes to uphold the right of love,—­love sole, absolute, and paramount,—­firmly holding its own, and submitting to nothing and no one, except the laws of God and righteousness.”  Well and truthfully spoken.  Lift up this principle, and behold how it showers benedictions upon all classes and upon all men.

Much is said against amalgamation, as though it were a crime.  There is no crime in it or about it.  There is much of prejudice, but no crime.  Soul marries soul.  If a white man loves the soul of a black woman, there is no law in God’s code forbidding the union.  God made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth.  Complexions may differ, owing to climate, or temperament, but the blood is the same.  The race has a common Father in God.

In this intermingling of races, coming to this land from all climes, we perceive the seedling of a glorious hope.  The future American is to be the product of this blending of the distinctive features of all the various nations of earth.

Against this result there is an immense amount of prejudice, born of slavery; but in Europe it does not exist, nor is it in fact so universal in this land as many suppose.  Many a white man has found his helpmeet in a black woman, and many more will find helpmeets from the same source.

2. “Woman was taken out of man.”  There is significance in the locality from which she was taken.  Not from the superior part, that she might think herself superior to man, or endowed with the right to rule him.  Her sin consisted in her failing to recognize the position assigned.  She was created an associate and an equal, and acted independently, and as an adviser.  She took advantage of her position as wife, and became an ally of Satan.

She was not taken from an inferior portion of his body, that he might think her inferior to himself, and to be trampled on by him, but out of his side,—­from his rib,—­that she might appear to be equal to him; and from a part near his heart, and under his arm, to show that she should be affectionately loved by him, and be always under his care and protection.