He clung to his plantation and rarely went away from home.

When sent to Europe by the South as its Ambassador in 1861, he discovered the futility of his scheme of a Southern confederacy, and, seeing the cornerstone of the philosophy on which he had constructed his pretty fabric, overthrown, he came home despairing, to die of a broken heart.
The moral alike for governments and men is: Keep the middle of the road.
III Which brings us to Feminism.

I will not write Woman Suffrage, for that is an accomplished fact--for good or evil we shall presently be better able to determine.
Life is an adventure and all of us adventurers--saving that the word presses somewhat harder upon the woman than the man--most things do in fact, whereby she is given greater endurance--leaving to men the duty of caring for the women; and, if need be, looking death squarely and defiantly in the face.
The world often puts the artificial before the actual; but under the dispensation of the Christian civilization--derived from the Hebraic--the family requiring a head, headship is assigned to the male.
This male is commonly not much to speak of for beauty of form or decency of behavior.

He is made purposely tough for work and fight.

He gets toughened by outer contact.