Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-25

that she does mot hold property on equal
terms with men 50 that, if a husband dies
without making a will, the wife, instead of
taking at once his place as head of the fami-
", inherits only a part of his fortune, often
brought him by herself, as if she were a
child or ward only, and not an equal part.
ner.
1--WE will not speak of the innumerable in
stances in which profigates and idle men
live upon the earnings of industrious wives ;
or, if the wives leave them, and take with
them the children, to perform the double duty
Of mother and father, follow from place to
place, and threaten to rob them of the chill
dren, if deprived Of the rights of a husband,
as they call them, planting themselves in their
poor lodgings, frightening them into paying
tribute by taking from them the children, and
running into debt at the expense of these
overtasked helots. Such instances count up
Ivy scores within my own memory. ! have
seen the husband who had stained himself
by a long course of low vice. till his wife
was wearied from her heroic forgiveness, by
finding that his treachery made it useless,
and that, if she would provide bread for her.
self and her children, she must be separate
from his ill-fame. | have known this man
come to install himself in the chamber of a
woman who loathed him, and say she should
never take food without his company. have
known these men steal their children, whom
they knew they had no means 10 maintain I;
take them into dissolute company, expose
them to bodily danger, to brighten the poor
woman, to whom, it seems, the fact that she
had borne the pangs of their birth, and nou-
rished their infancy, does not give an equal
right 10 them. ] do believe that this mode Of
kidnapping, and it is frequent enough in all
classes of society, will bn viewed by the next
age as it is by Heaven now, and that the
man who avails himself Of the shelter of
mems laws, TO steal from a mother her own
children, or arrogate any superior right in
them, save that of superior virtue, will bear
the stigma he deserves, in common with him
who steals grown men from their mother-land,
their hopper, and their homes. = = = =
Men must soon see, that on their assumption
that Woman is the weaker party, she 0ught
10 hare equal p, rejection, Mat aUouM make such
oppression imp0SSi6ie."
Since women have begun, in spite of eve-
ry impeachment, to think, such complaints of
the injustice and subjections of their lot, the
of their sphere, begin to be eve-
rywhere uttered and heard. Yet more as a
thinking, pure young woman naturally reyolts
at the idea of being educated, dressed, and
exhibited in company mainly with a view to
her attractiveness in mans eyes, so does she
to question the propriety and even de-
Iicacy of a development which looks mainly
to f,;;nr ber for tbo d;rector oc 60" |L9
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an,in,,hy IN Tho marriod s,a,a - ~,
which NAV from ;nf,rcy ba oors;JoraI L..
nrobahle DESTINY. but nv M means ;nevi,abIo
A fection unraoni,ad or mjsnIonad a. Jaa,L
ofa loved one f,iInre r. recoTriaa ~ ann
one who ~nroCrers MARKED .t,en,io5s ,hosaon:,
lilies of mind and heart wbicb arc esson,;aI
n an ahsorbing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ~ ali Of
these NAV render celibacv the natb If honor
neace. and hanpiness. Nav. in tho eastarn
half Of this Union. the mere numerical nre-
nonderance If woman renders il matbe,nati-
callv certain that a LARGE norton of them
must live unmarried. Il is the dictate If
wisdom. therefore. no less than If ramaIe
DIGNITY and delicacy, that every woman should
be educated for independent usefulness and
bappiness, as well as 10 Discharge wisely and
noblv the duties Of a wife and mother. II
the younq women of our dav are moi ;mnel.
led to an immodest and DEGRADING ANXIETY n
marry. it is because the puIitv of their nature
overruIes and su5dues the base Influences
whereby thew are surrounded. 4 maiden co
educated that her substantial acouirements
are such as to suppose the state of wedIock
as their sphere of activity, and these SET off
by accomplishments which are nIainlv inten.
ded to fix the regard and win ne admiration
of men, is inevitably tempted to regard mar
rage as necessary TO her future baoniness
apart from any sense of deem affection fol-
him whom she is to accept as a husband. In