Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-08

has no ALTERNATIVE. IL is lOr those WHOSE
talents and pecuniary abilities enable them
to reach into the future, in a measure, indie
pendent of the present, to form n precedent
which shall lead to the emancipation of the
sex.
And in labors of a more intellectual bear
ing, there are many provinces peculiarly
suited to woman. Every body acknowledges
that women are the best teachers of child
rem. Boys and girls, young men and wo-
men, are only children somewhat further de-
veloped hence it follows that if women had
education equal TO the work, they would be
the best instructors of these and those
"higher departments" of teaching ought of
right to be placed in their hands. The stu
dy and practice of medicine Ito which one
also peculiarly adapted to their tastes and
powers. 1t cannot be but that in the "heal-
ing art as much should depend upon SYM
pathy, q nice tact in reading the feelings of
the suffering, and i'll soothing them, as on
scientific knowledge. Far be it from Inc to
under-rate the value of the l%atter.l And
who so well as woman can do this? Amongst
physicians it is proverbial that no one who
is not a good nurse can be a good DOCTOR
l need not say that women are the best, the
only true nurses in the world. Combining
their tenderness and tact in administering to
the wants of the suffering, with the scientific
and practical knowledge which physicians
possess, what might not woman do III "heal-
ing the sick?
Yet all these points upon which we have
been treating, while they are far from being
without a moral bearing, still have not that
as their leading aim. There are others, in
which women should be engaged, that have
such bearing almost exclusively. OF such
class are the special moral reforms of the
day, in which a small number of women
nave been active, and done nobly. Yet that
number needs to be increased, until it shall
comprise the great mass of womankind.-
And startling as may seem the thought, wo-
men should assist men in the councils of
State, the labor of government. There will
never be any true Polty or policy, without
such union of labor. And why should we
be shocked at the idea? Despotic govern
ments acknowledge the rule, Queens and
Expresses then why should u State which
claims the sovereignty of tho people, de-
throne half its sovereign body? 1 know that
pictures, ugly enough, may be drawn of wo-
men being present at, and partaking of the
disorders of " election" scenes-the drink
ing, and the " bungcd-eyes,' and " broken
shins," sc. Yet i flatter myself that these
things would not be if women were there.
| have no desire to see women engaged in
politics as now conducted with us; yet | see
no reason why they should be thus conduct
ed, unless it be that in such affairs men have
not the refining, restraining influence of wo-
mans presence. There is no true govern
ment policy where a legislative hall is held
a less sacred place than a church, and where
the science of government receives less dis
interested attention than do the sciences of
Chemistry and Astronomy. | have doubts
OF governments ever ceasing to be the tool
OF interested men, to advance their own sell
fish purposes, until wonan's presence is felt
and acknowledged, not merely by proxy, but
personally, in all the councils of State.
There is no danger of woman losing her
truly feminine character in consequence of
being engaged in any noble work. 1t is the
ignorant and ambitious who suffer this loss,
and such ambition is only stimulated by our
present false relations. Substitute for these
something better, md no one need fear the
result. Nor need he fear that labor in CON
%Juction with man will take away from her
refinement. Monks and Nuns, and those
who live as they do, arc the coarsest people
living. Correspondence of the sexes, in true
and rational relations, is all that can produce
genuine refinement. OF this fact we have
constant illustration in society.
The influence of the sexes upon each 9th
or Is omnipotent. OF the sexes is formed
the world of soul, so far as we know it,
When that influence shall be brought to bear,
as it is capable of bearing upon that world,
when men and women shall unite in all
works of truth and right, stimulated, in
spired ever by each others presence and
counsel and sympathy, to holier aims and
lofher works, then shall that which now
forms the glorious heaven of domestic life,
shed its halo upon all human relations. ALI,
what a glorious day will then have its dawn!
Then indeed, as of old, shall the morning
stars sing together for joy" Not that | be-
lieve that this relation can become perfect
while those who form it are imperfect; but
through the improvement of the relation
more than by any other means, can the be-
ings be elevated. C.