Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-12

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which the leading religious denominations OF
America are in full sympathy a religion tnat
would burn at the stake the man who would
"break every yoke, and let the oppressed 60
Free" that would "open the prison doors TO
them that are bound" No doubt, those who
oppose such a religion, are infdels! Don't
saw, I have made the American Churches
responsible for an isolated case. They hqGe
made themselves responsible for IL. Would it
be possible for the Presbyterian Church to
exclude VIM. S. Plummer from her commu-
Mon, or cast a condemnatory censure upon
him, on account Of the language ! have quo
ted And on account Of this ~iniquity, can
any Of the other leading denominations be
brought to disfellowship the Presbyterians
The fact that these questions must be answer
ed in the negative, is abundant proof that the
American Church, as such, is as guilty as
Plummer himself. Who, then, taking the
American Church as the representative of
Christianity, would not prefer open infdeli-
ty? Here, | rest my proof, that, in all de-
cency, the Chu;ch and Clergy are the last
that should raise the cry of inGdelity. True,
l might strengthen it by quoting from the d.
rect acts of all the denominations implicated
but it is unnecessary.
come now TO your objections to ',.fs,aab
ieciming.' You ask SIS Mrs. Foster pure
in character IA true woman in the best sense
of the word 2" W., do you intend to insin-
uate that she is not true and pure in the best
sense of these words? An insinuation to that
effect would be most unjust and slanderouS,
were it intended 10 refer, in any manner, to her
moral character. The connection, however,
seems to show that such was not the design.
The object seems TO be, to consure her Sc
verely, because she takes the place Of a fe-
male lecturer Taking this view of the mat
ter, I pass it with the single remark that, to
me, other language would be less objoctiona-
Bile.
More than half of your letter is occupied
with an attempt to show that the reason why
Mrs. Foster has not been successfully met, is,
ga woman speaks" OF this cry against fe-
male lecturing, | should say nothing, did not
you echo it with such vchcmcnce. | admit
that it is a matter of taste about which there
may be honest differences Of opinion. But,
W., you 90 too far when you consign Mrs.
Foster, or any one else, to contempt, because
she may think it her duty, and does accord
ingly, address public assemblies.
Where is the objection! In what does it
consist? If a woman may net speak as a
lecturer, may she speak at all beyond the do
mestic circle! If she may, where shall she
stopl / know not what answer you would
make to these questions, unless it were, I" Let
an i%ntuitive sense of propriety direct" will.
In all heather countries, the intuilive sense
Of p~ropriety makes women slaves. viii you
follow your rule here! In enlightened coun-
tries, You are aware, this sense Of p~ropriety
differs. Here, on the Reserve, but very few
"noses grow deformed," as woman steps up
on the forum. | believe the truth to be this
The practice in question is not common there
fore, it is not popular, and, therefore, it mus
be denounced. Much is said in respect t
the "sphere of woman Novelists make i
to lie within a circle, sacred against all, eX
cept the "Angel Beauty her clover,
''nectar," and-'oob' heads. And the La
dies Schools" are, generally, the exact coun
terpart of this picture. | am not at all sur
prised that public sentiment should be wha
it is, on this subject. 1t would be strange
it were otherwise. But shall we pander to
public sentiment that makes woman a play
thing.
But you entirely mistake, if you suppos
it is because a woman throws down Tn
glove of Defiance" that Mrs. Foster has no
been successfully met. The idea of answer
ing g sarcasm with sarcasm" when it come
from a woman, is nothing like so horrible t
me, as it seems to you. True, if she condC
sends to blackguardism, he belittles and be
means himself who notices her. But non
the more, because a woman speaks. If
man does the same, he degrades himself JUS
as much that notices him, as though he wer
to take the same stand with regard to woman
/ have seen Mrs. Foster in debate with thos
who differed from her; but have never dis
covered anything of that terrible feeling
restraint which you have made out to be S
overwhelming, at the end of your h" molasse
story" But /" you are so lily prepared to d
Mrs. Foster i~ustice," that Won have done he