Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-03-26
Aadics Department.


! We come before you, kind readers at this
time, to speak of our hopes, our prospects, our
determinations and our wishes Our hopes are
bright, and our prospects cheering. Our deter
limitations are, to persevere in the good work
now commenced, until every mountain Of evil
and oppression shall be brought low-every val
ley of prjvation and want be filled with Justice
and equality, Our wishes are, that every wcH
mjShr to human improvement, and the elevation
of our race, as mass, should lend helping
hand in this cur holy enterprise The Female
Labor Reform Association, consisting, for the
most part Of operatives now actively engaged
in the mills, have purchased Of Mr.. John Scsm,
of Fitchburg, the printing press and fixtures be-
longing thereto, on which the Voice of Indus
try is and ever has been printed They have
made their first payment, which was one hun
bred dollars; the next will become due in three
months, in six, nine and twelve months the re-
mander. They will be grateful for the small
est donations, from individuals disposed to aid
in this, their novel enterprise. We feel that if
there is place in the wide universe where true
liberty and freedom should be enjoyed-where
the press should be untrammelled-and where
woman should take her proper place and stand
ing in society, as rational intelligent beng-a
! fit companion and friend of man, not a slaoc-
| it is in the United States Of America Cahj-
cation alone, is what our necessities demand
and cultivation it is, which will give to woman
that true dignity and moral worth which nature,
reason and christianity proclaim to be her high
exalted privilege, her sublime destiny Too
long has she been considered an inferior being,
merely capacitated to bask in the sunshine Of
fashion and rosperty-contributin to the hap
piness of those around her, by offices of kind
ness and abors of love Her mind and intel.
lect suffered to dwnde, through lack of cult
yaon and mprovement-her sphere of action,
being exclusively domestic, she rarely presumed
to think or act independently or clearly, on any
subject. Those days thank heaven, have passed,
and new era in the life of woman, has dawn
ed upon her hitherto prescribed and limited
sphere Of action. Men are beginning to realize
that woman is blessed with an iaictLcct, which
if rightly trained and expanded, will be product
i've Of incalculabe blessing and real advantage
to the weird, as well as the pure, ever active
affections, which flow forth, shedding life and
joy almost like heavens, around the sacred altar
Of domestic love. They are no longer willing
to commit the destnes Of the young and rising
generation into the hands of the uniformed and
inefficient, knowing that it is in childhood, cor
rect principles and love of knowledge, must be
implanted in the soul, This has been STYLED an
age OF improvement, and why should the advan-
tages which accrue thereirom be confined to the
lords of Creation alonel Why should not wo-
man seek to improve, elevate and raise higher
her standard of moral and inte ectual worth, in
order to keep pace with the age in which she
lives! We surely can see no propriety in
such aspirations and exertons. And until we
are convinced that it is unleminine and out of
place to labor and toll for the best good of all our
race, we shall devote the time which heaven
may allot us here, to this great-thls all impor-
tant work; and we would most earnestly and cor
daily invite all who take any interest in the pro-
gress of our race-in the cause of "Labor Re-
form" or the elevation of the mass from igno-
rant servitude, and blind devotion to the god of
this world, to high table-lands of promise where
universal brother and siserhood shall encircle in
its charitable arms, all the families Of the earth