Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-03-11


ieved that redeeming spirit exists in the
Commonwealth which, in the end, will place
the question on the true ground. It is not
known what course the Governor will take.
Should he refuse to sign the bill it cannot
pass either House by the constitutional ma
jority and the next year may find differ
ent state Of things in the Legislature.
The preceding gives but a very general
account of Legislative transactions for the
week. The subjects, however, that have
mentioned are the principal ones that have
been under discussion and have filled up the
greater part of the time.
On Tuesday evening highly respectable
meeting of the friends of the existing ad-
ministration, in the Legislature, was held {;
and the present Chief Magistrate of the
Commonwealth was nominated for Governor
by unanimous vote. This meeting was
gathered on the right principle-the only
one, as mentioned in my last, which can or
ought to unite the views of honest and ho-
norable men.
A meeting of the Federalists, friendly to
the election of Jackson, was held at the Elk
change last Thursday evening I was not in
town at the time, and know nothing person
ally of the transactions. But am told that
the meeting of the " friends" was very thin,
while the audience, the spectators,were quite
numerous. 1t is said to be rather weak
effort Yours, &c.
MEssRs. F. g., J. ANDREws-You have
undertaken to become the organs of public
sentiment, and, on topics of general interest,
informers of the public mind. The under
signed feels therefore perfectly warranted
in claiming your most active exertions for
the diffusion of the following information.
A general change in the structure of socie-
ty must of all things most deeply affect the
interests and the happiness of mankind, and
such revolution now come forward to an
nounce.
/ The sex to which l have the honour to
belong, so long styled in humiliating terms
the Fair Sex, as if our merit were but skin
deep, and the Softer Sex, as if our energy
of character never rose higher than sigh
hereby declares itself to be on the eve Of
bringing about thorough change in the
existing order of things in the community
that it win no longer submit to be consider.
ed and treated as the weaker vessel, MOI
hereafter continue to revolve in the narrow
orbits of secondary planets, circling round
the male part of the species as so many cen.
trail suns, for light, heat, and direction, il
their ee~-ses Such. it cannot be denied
has been our general lot, though there have
been, and are, thousands and tens of thou.
sands of triumphant exceptions, which amply
redeem the female character from the other.
wise inevitable charge of incompetency tc
the Office of controlling the wishes and &C.
tons of the rival sex. Our management
too, often as it has been seen, has beer
oftener felt. The husband has come Out
and gained the praise of men for displays Of
talent, which had been worked up in that
curious workshop Of subtlety, the female
mind. This is no longer to be so. Having
always managed the world in fact, we are
now to do it in name; we shall ourselves
thrust the sickle into the rich harvest Of
honour and profit that we have hitherto rails
ed and almost reaped for others.
This is not the first time that schemes fol
the general emancipation of the sex from
masculine thraldom have been started they
have been nourished for ages, and indeed
came near successful execution in the Clio.
rious reign of Elizabeth. She unfortunate.
lily died when the arrangements were fast
drawing to head, and this blow Topped of
the right arm of the conspiracy. But with
women, whose spirits are always rising fresh
like the waters Of boiling spring: with
women, defeat never inferred despair. The
idea of revolution never died. But you are
surprised that the sworn foes of secrets
should have been able to keep one so i'm
portant, SO dark. In this is our triumph
All our loquacity has been assumed IL the
deepest fnesse men have been thrown of
their guard by it, and never were eyes Sc
blindly bandaged to plot as theirs have
been to this.
Every thing is now ready, the whole sex
organized, success entirely ensured, and we
can with perfect safety give this short warn
ing between the lifted hand and the dealt
blow. Men shall cast one fearful glance
into the volcano whose brink they are stand
ing on, before its eruption.
As a general thing. the sexes are tc