Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-01-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
From lie Pittsburgh Saturday ViSiior.
TWO DREAMS.
BY JANE G. swIssHELM.

And so Lizzie, you never read Fanny For
%resier's "Dream !'-Wel really, you ough
10 be ashamed 10 tell that | thought every
body had read every thing ever Fanny wrote
and 1t is a shame il they did not. What i.
the use OF being gentle and playful, ladyllkt
and sweet, and writing that way, If every
body does not read. Iou know Fanny was
the sweetest writer we have ever had, and
the most popular; but | should have liked
her better If she had never written thai
"Dream." ] an sure every body read it, and
as you did not You are nobody Lizzie, but
must tell you what il was.
You see one day Fanny sat down by the
fire TO read an article on "woman's rights y
and as Fanny had never been made to feel
womdn's wrOngs, she thought it very dry and
fell asleep.
Then she dreamed she saw %"cousin Bel;''
trndging to the house in the midst of a furi.
Gus snow storm-her face and neck red and
swollen with the cold--her hood blown back
OIL her head-"her veil carocoling in the air,
and her cloak tapping around her like the
wings OF some great bird" Poor Bel was
In a sad plight struggling through the deep
snow, against The wind, until she sunk down
- cN'"HS'Co, btIu |DlH DdH JU1pS WHO
could have tuck Bel under his arm as easily
as a Kitten came along and just said trough
walking, Miss" but did not try to help her
up.
When Belle got to the house, and found
breath 1t turned out that she had JUST came to
tell Fanny the critics had been dissectinp
her, because a glorious reform had came and
women had got their rights. And as a mat
Ter OF course there was to be no more weak
ness--no more delicacy-no more depend
ence. After some time Bel persuaded lNan-
ny to try her new liberty, and start on a
North River steamer without an escort
Here Fanny had a terrible time. One man
trod on her dress and did not apologise pref
tlly, because men and women were on terms
OF equality no one handed her to the table,
and gentlemen stared at her. When they
landed the cabman jostled her, and some of
them fought to see who would yet her trunk.
In fact the people on the North River beha-
we'd TO poor Fanny like a regular set of Sava-
yes, and not at all as men behave now to-
wards one another.
Then Fanny got into a crowded courthouse
a woman--the word lady had got out
1t date--was pleading law in an inhnuman
manner, while one lady Judge was busy CO.
with a gentleman iudge-lhe Jury
'qually divided, men and women, were sim
larly engaged and no one paying any at
.ention to the poor p~leader, who screamed
until she tainted, and was carried out.
AS she was borne out who should it be but
cousin Bel.
Dreams are always contrary, and Fanny's
was no exception. They carried Bel out
when she tainted but poor Fanny herself
had to stand all this time. No one would
give her a seat because gallantry was all
gone, and nothing but s~elfshness and equal
liy left. So when Fanny was falling in a
faint she caught something which proved to
be a big fellows head, and he turned round
with clenched fist TO knock her down; but
nobody gave her any assistance; and | could
not see what kept her from finishing her
swoon, unless it was Mrs. C's reason for 10,
ialntlng on the bridge ''because there was no
clean place to lie down"
1t appeared a little odd too after men had
forgotten all gallantry, and women all depen-
dence, that one Of each could not sit on the
Judges bench without getting up a airta-
ton.
] know half a dozen old ladies now Liz
Zie, who could transact business with any
gentleman, any place, without thinking of
making a conquest of him but Fanny woke
up from her dream, and was very glad it was
all a dream, and that women were still
"wrens" gentle little wrens to be loved and
protected--while men were the eagles"
made to battle with the storm, and all that.
The same song that poets have all sung, Pa
gan, Mahomedan and Christian, time out of
mind.
How did Fanny ever come to dream of
such "A Dream" She surely is the first
that ever dreamed of the "reiorm" she speaks
OF. Yet Just so surely a reform is coming,
not to spring up as MONDAY from the mid
night, which would dazzle us TO binding;
but gradually it comes, like the pale of morn
ing, led on by a small star preparing all
things for its coming. Never TO make wo-
men harsh and warlike, as is deemed the
p:ide Of men, but to make it felt that man as
well as woman, was made in the image of
God, and "God is love"--that the Divine
command, BE kindly affectionate one TO
another, in honor preferring one to another"
was addressed indiscriminately 10 all-that
men are bound TO show due courtesy to one
another as well as 10 women. The man.
even now, who is strong and robust, and
would keep his seat in a crowd, and see one
of his own sex fainting without offering as
s~istance would be thought a brute. The
name ''lady" may act as a talisman to part a
crowd, because it supposes wealth or pow
er but "women'' get leave to %jostle their
way as they can through the world. But
gentle Fanny is, as she says, like a wren, a
Gagged wren at that, who has spent her win
tiers in a heated parlor, and her summers nee.
ping through the foliage of c%linging vines in
the nook of some sunny window. And what
knows she of storms which howl around the
forest homes Of wrens as gentle as herself,
who seek their food in snow-drifts, or pick
up seeds in some old garnet? Fond fathers
rear their daughters, husbands shield their
wives as greenhouse plants, unfit 10 bear the
breath of heaven and do not think of the rude
storms of adversely which are so apt to sweep
around these fragile heads, when theirs are
in the grave. sat and thought of all these
tbipno and xaa1 ha. gn..-- It'll