Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
From tie Union Hagazine.
The Sphere of Woman.
RY HORACE GREEDY.

"Iiven now, when supremacy has beef
transferred from music to mind, has that mos
subtle spirit, that being of most mobile fibre
that most sensitive and apprehensive orgdni
zation,-has she, whom God has placed, Il
be a a mate and a help to man, at the heaC
of his creation, the toUndress of nations, tn
embellisher of races, has she alone been lief
behind, al the very starting-post Of |civiliza
ton, while all around her progresses and i'm
proves ! And is man still the master 2 anC
does he, by a mis.directed selfloye, still per
petuate her Ignorance and dependence, wheG
hef emancipation and improvement are mos
wanting as the browning element Of his own
happiness? If, in the progress Of refinement,
he has frightened instead of breaking the
chain of his slave, he has only linked a more
strong nucleus Of evil TO his own destiny, and
bound up, with his modest views of national
and social development, a principle that too
often thwartS the progress and enfeebles the
results of his best relorms."-LADY Mon
JAN Woman and her Master.'
81 always regret it," says a French wit,
" when a woman turns author: | would much
rather she had remained a woman" In the
spirit indicted by this witticism, the world
has generally met every attempt of woman
anJ da,ormine in wbat roints and N yba,
eytent thew sbonld he changed. Let her bnt
d,ro ~ name sncb themes. and ResnectabiIi.
tv ewes her with a frown. a sbrug. and a
| sIrido, vb;,b be;nr ;rtarnreted FAMILIES.
.Vou are pnsexing. 1nnsnherinq vourself-
yon aro m,tinr yonrself a ,beme for rihald
ias, and rrayo snspicion Raj IN yorr doIIs
and Miro. vonr Iinglets and ouaariIiesi =
TIC li,che1 The nursery. and III ebe he of
thn amnont minor;,vI ,beo A r,winr.roor ora
vorr dnmain hsyoHd which Won wander in
all norii X ynn lova yonr oonnan,iaos
or yaH, rour rooi p,mo bewarar
This warning was Iong efrsc,nal 10 silence
If NO, IN convince. UanniIv. il has visibIy
lost something of its mower A few daring
s,i,its lave oyerleaned the barrier. and fonnd
,ha, ,vi,bopt as ,vithin il tbers are sna,es
and ni,faIIs for the weak and simnle. while
tho wise and strong wall, securelv whittier
thew will. Timidly at first, and awkwardlv
enouCh to iustify the ridicule of the %scoffeT.
Woman has crashed the men. and finds its
notencv as a weanon for defence or renrisal
not deStroved nv contact with her hand
ITsinr il At lines wp,kIv and nnwor,hIv v. she
has vet emnIoved i, ca often and so nower-
fnIIv in the cause of humanity. Of iustice. of
n,ogrsss, tia, | mink few wonId now serious-
Iv denv ina, man has been instructed and the
world imnrovad hv her writinrs. True they
No, form bnt a small nronor,ion of anv well.
Selected Ghrarv. bnt each are witnesses. M,
merelv a great increase of their number. hnt
a marked imnrovement in their character
The names of Hemans. Martineau. Somer.
Vile. Seduvick. Edrworth. Norton. Landon,
Sigourn.y, in our own dav and LANGUAGE, form
hui a small mart of the BRIGHT constellation Of
female authors which nan could IN afford t.
see extinguished.
First To Write. then To Think. seems to h,
| the natural order The infant must accus
tom his ewes IN the novelty of vision beror
his uaze embraces and comnrehends iii,
' world. A Sanoho. giving utterance to he
own wild. consuming passions-a Rosa Ma
: tilda coininu into feeble and tawdrv vers
the mawkish sentiment of the drawing-roon
/. "a Montauue. a Seyinue. a Burney, keenl
, observing and admirably depicting, either a
|rec,lv. or through the thin uuise of fiction
q whai ,asses before her eves8all these hav
nrecedence in time over the ANALYST. The nh.
n Iosopher. the fearless investigator but these
too. are manifested in their season. Atlenpt
" Woman reaches and ponders the questions
: sWhat am II What are INV relations
If o,bersl Are these entirely insta Do the
Afford scone for all the mood If which nv n;
tnre is capable1 Is the state of vassaIage
of which | find myself dictated by nv own fe
bIeness, nv ~unftness to encounter the peri
and ills which would else ms