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rights m the earnings Of her own hands. or the
savings OF her own prudence. ? In this defence.
less plight shehas. in hereto TO procure sustel
nance, to compete with those enjoying the fullest
protection Her very destitution5 aud need are
taken advantage Of by thossa who grew, rich iii
buying and selling the labor. softhe poor, and IA
the great mart Of human tolls hers is rewarded
with less than halflhe wages of a man. Not vet
invested with a widow's0rights she already feels
all widows dissolution. And should the desert.
ing husband be 50 merciful as to leave her chill.
dren with her, these are added to her burthens:
and the support Of these, properly the task Of both
parents dcVolves upon her single strength -
protection, maintenance and education afford il
maintenance with woman's poorly paid la
bor and without right to Feeeivethe ehildfcn's
little carnings-education, svitIoutthe legaI power
of4government and correction.nald ic@ = ! sEdf
AIHue, the law provides for!the support OF ehiJ
arcn thus descrtcd and lays no dul3 IN thai re-
spect upon the mothers; il is only tho law Of na.
tGre by which the love of her offspring is made
paramount to the principle of seffpresefvaliorf
that compels her TO toll Without rest and suffer
without STINT that those she loves may not fall unG
der the laws terrible protection or into the hide
Gus jaws Of its alms,house charity For she
knows that the ponper-children may be removed bv
the poor-law officers to wherever they NAV choose
TO support it, and at these officers will bound out
to some master, to be his bond servant through all
the years of Its childhood and youth and TO con-
sute her children paapers and subject them to
such control, it IS only requisite that in some mo.
ment of her sore need she should ask and receive
Of the public charity bag OF nieal ora busIieF Of
coal. Yet the mother who brought them into the
world nurtured and sustained them, worked suffer-
ed and wept for them, has no control over them.
1t is the Devil Of whom is said that If inortals
do but once call upon him in their need and accept
ofhis aid, they thereby become his, both soul and
body forever. But the Devil is usually more lib
eral than the amoners OF public charity, and buys
his victims with gifts Of principaIitics and powers
while they purchase theirs with small mess Of
remarkable rnusty pottdge. 2, " p~- 80 I'<asa ff'i
And here tell me not, ye men, -givers to wo.
men, that you dare nottrust her with dominion over
property because she lacks the strength skill and
judgment required to acquire and mana &c t. Have
you no confidence in her when YOU impose on her
shoulders burthens yourseIYeswiIl not bear2 Have
you no confidence in the deserted wife when YOU
leave her, thus impotent, TO match herself with
cunning men in keen competition for a livtlihcod7
0, large is your confidence in her irmness, Lr-
bounded your trust in her courage, when YOU
abandon her unshetered TO the rude blasts Of d sell
fish world, totread unshod It's 1Inty ways, to make
bricks without straw, to sow where she may not
reap, and strew where she may not gatherl ~ 'Il
The reIotire' rights are public md private.
The private or domestic relations are those Of hos.
band and wife, parent and child, guardian and
As to the relation of husband and uotfs, the
hardship in the slaves condition is that he may
be separated at any fine from his partner, at the
masters will; and ofthe wifes, thai she may be SO
separated at her husbands will without, howevet,
the power Of herself leaving him when it is she
who drsres the separation. She his no right to-
her husband. We have already seen that with
herto be deserted is not to be enfranc 5ised :"
Guardian and Ward A slave below age, has
no right to guardian his masters is his suardiah:
it is precisely so with the wife, 't.'"
Master and ServGnk, A slave may be pacedin
authority over his fellows, and the wife may, If
her husband wills II, be allowed TO superintend
his other domestic 81 rvants. But the authority Of
neither belongs 10 them in their own right, il IS
only mere delegated power TO be withdrawn al
pleasure. As servants, neither can demand any
recompcnse for thcir' services beyond bare sup
port. 80
Parent and Child. Herr; The Iot Of lbe, slave,
is indeed hard, in this that he has no right to the
child OF his body. Aud, while writing of the LAWS
of Christian people in CIVILIZED times, 1 wish
could say that This parallel ceased here, But not
i'll the writings of the fathers Of the law, nor IN
the year books, not in the modern cases nor in
moderntreatises onthis relation canI fnd one
single line giving to the mother, while aEwife any
single right to the care custody control or conn
panionship of.the child of heribody-4h0tlheri
to, give it suck. Such. power she smHy indeed lre-
ceIve as delegate t0r the utheF, but only bV his
direction or suferance can it be exercised That
she has a natural rightlo her offspring, none who
regard the anologics Of nature deny All na.t
ture proclams it. With few and faint exceptionsg
the care and nurture of tho offspring is in every
branch Of the animal kingdom thrown upon tho
female To ensure the performance Of tiis ddty
she is endued wihinn instinct ofloVe strong burn
ing, intense active alike in the birdavho follows,
its nestiings into captivity, dndIhe human m0ther
who, drowning, sinks, holding her infom az arms
length over her head; warming the. .tigfess 10
tenderness, and isaaE,ng the dove wilhafe fercFness
There is not female thing of earth, air or sea-,
that will not die to defrnd its yohng. This dutys
the object of the woman's existence as a sex, and
the great function Of her life, well and faithfully
does she pcrformtIe All the years of her youth
and the prime of her life devoted oshef chill.
dren caring for their weakness, suffering andt0h!
ing for their sustenance with watching and te6fs
sitting beside the cradle to guard the young life
that Aickers there from the more tfant 0 bcfts
which disease sends to destroyit sEIafd fSitttdt
such devotion has hotavaIcd 10 purchase Tor her
some little, some slight property in THIS issue OF
her being, the fruit of her anguish, the thing of
her strong love. But so it is that the vefies ahi
NAL ia the husbands HOUSEHOLD has as much
rightlin this respect, as she. At the pletsdrc Of
another it may betorn from her arms, to bosrear.
ed and educated as he shall please, and Ii what
creed he shall prescribe. Ofall the suffehders of
natural right which we aEeloId are made byuhn