ht upon
our rivers, our lakes, and upon the high seas.

The labor in our fields, sowing, cultivating and reaping crops
must be discharged _mainly_ by the male sex, as the female sex,
for want of physical strength, are generally unable to discharge
these duties. As it is the duty of the male sex to perform the
obligations to the State, to society and to the family, already
mentioned, with numerous others that might be enumerated, it is
also their duty to aid in the government of the State, which is
simply a great aggregation of families.[38] Society can not be
preserved nor can the people be prosperous without good
government. The government of our country is a government _of the
people_, and it becomes necessary that the _class_ of people upon
whom the responsibility rests should assemble together and
consider and discuss the great questions of governmental policy
which from time to time are presented for their decision.

This often requires the assembling of caucuses in the night time,
as well as public assemblages in the daytime. It is a _laborious
task_, for which the male sex is infinitely better fitted than
the female sex; and after proper consideration and discussion of
the measures that may divide the country from time to time, the
duty devolves upon those who are responsible for the government,
at times and places to be fixed by law, to meet and by ballot to
decide the great questions of government upon which the
prosperity of the country depends.

These are some of the _active and sterner duties_ of life to
which the male sex is by nature better fitted than the female
sex. If in carrying out the policy of the State on great measures
adjudged vital such policy should lead to war, either foreign or
domestic, it would seem to follow very naturally that those who
have been responsible for the management of the State should be
the parties to take the hazards and hardships of the
struggle.[39] Here again man is better fitted by nature for the
discharge of the duty--woman is unfit for it.

On the other hand, the Creator has assigned to woman very
laborious and responsible duties, _by no means less important_
than those imposed upon the male sex, though entirely different
in their character.[40] In the family she is a _queen_. She al