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as good a thing as could be done for the people of the state. The General is a high Mason in common with the generality of other of the ruling officials & most liberal men of the country.

The priests still have the women of the country in a state of subjection even in many of the families whose men are advanced liberals.  In many cases the men who are masons conceal the fact from their families in order to avoid the unpleasantness that might arise from this if it was known to the women.  Women are regarded as an inferior class & are watched constantly & kept behind barred windows while young & even when married they often gain but little more liberty.

I heard of one authentic instance in which a married woman never quitted the walls of her house for years and various people told me that it was no uncommon thing for a husband to lock his wife in her rooms while he was out at night.  The men are notoriously unfaithful and this is well known