Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-01-21

some narrowed nedIlH-SlOne ueSOlate. am
"that strong young brother, whose strong
hand had often p%inioned her" was gone
and pale-browed grief and wo incurable had
come and set them down upon his vacanr
chair, never 10 rise again. There was wee.
ping and wailing in Alderbronk, and the mo.
Their wrung her hands and exclaimed with
the war-made widow of Scotland, "My wa
upo' ye, inen o state" Poor Fanny now
thought she could have gone to the polls. tc
a courthouse, TO Congress, to almost any
place, if she could have helped 10 prevent
this sacrifce-and like the French lady who
replied TO NapoleOn's sheer at women inter-
fcreing in politics-"Sire, in a country where
women are beheaded, it is but natural thev
should wish to know what it is for ;''-sbe
felt that in "A country where woman has to
contribute 10 the support Of a government
which has the power to deprive them Of all
they hold dear in life, it is but right she
should know what it is about, and have some
power TO prevent an evil they see approach.
ing.
Then the scene changed, and Fanny's IA
Their, the fond and affectionate, had zone 70
travel in the drunkard's path and often, Of
ten he resolved and struggled hard for liber-
ty, while looking on his wife and little ones.
but the cold serpent's coil was round him
at every corner stood a trap to catch unwary
souls, and daily was he taken in the fowler's
snare. Poor Fanny then cried out in bitter
ness of soul, "Oh! how dare these men
stand aud hold the bottle to their neighbours
head -
But they stood there by law, and that was
politics and out of "woman's sphere" So
what could Fanny do? Could she, and 9TH
ers like her, have but gone and dropped a
ticket in the ballot-box, in one short hour
they would have swept this nuisance from
the land-and could have been no more en-
posed to jostling or rudeness there, than in a
crowded theatre or market-house. Nay, the
very fact of women having votes to give
would bring them more ''respectful defer
ence" than all the petty gallantries which
varnish life can buy. Candidates at least
would be the essence of politeness.
My dream went on-the father filled a
drunkard's grave-it was but a dream-and
Alderbrook was gone, and Fanny, with her
mother, left to get their bread as best they
could, and clothe and feed the little ones. |
saw her walking, looking for employment,
tlll she was more faint and weary than her
dream describes, while standing in the court,
TO meet the insolence of footmen who knew
thelr dignity too well not to distinguish be-
tween a lady and a girl. And often did
see her cheeks grow red and burn, and biz
tears start TO scorch and blister on them. by
The 'famIllar stare" Of men who had been
by present customs that a woman's
iitle TO respect depended not on her sex, or
on herself, but on her escort.
Then came an advertisement i IN a paper for
a teacher in a yiIlaUe school Tho nIaco
wonld Just suit Fanny, but she must 90 there
70 secure l'-no one she knew was going so
sue must go atone and on a steamboat, a
neiShoor look her 10 The wharf, and left her
III t'e captains care VINO wished to be atten-
use' ou' Aau so much upon ms hands he
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