Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-11-09

ing articles OF faith were promuigated as the
object those reformers have in view. We be-
gin to tremble for the safety of our trowsers
1--WE must tell the plain truth, no twaddle
no milk and water; but we must make thc
ears fdespotic man tingle. for the degradation
in which he has kept woman bound down for
50 many ages" [Lucretia Mott.
"Women must have equal political rights,
franchises and privileges with man."
Mrs. Price.
%Resolved, That We viii not cease our ear
nest endeavors to secure for her political, legal
and social equality with man until her proper
sphere shall be determined, by what alone
should determine it her powers and capacities,
strengthened and refined by an education in
accordance with her nature" Mrs. Rose.
Il do not talk as a woman. scorn to talk
as q woman. speak as thurman being, and
of men and women as human beings. / do
not come to ask my equal rights, but to claim
them; not to beg them but to demand them.
= We have our rights and the right
to revolutions, and the right to cut threats, if
men have in the defence Of their rights. We
are equal by nature, and only unequal by =ia-
very." Abby Kelly.
"Mr Charming argued that the prostitution
Oh WOtuGB III OQE Gth1cSs ESSu4bGO nun Oul
present false, vicious and despotic state of So
ciety.'
aNow married white woman myself,
though don't suppose although the law
might forbid, that white woman should or
would obey the law if she desired to marry
otherwise. Marriage should be left TO regu-
late itself as between man and woman"
Mr.. Buffman.
HWe must break down the barriers of feu,
dal and Hebrew despotism, (the laws and the
Bible) and begin at the formations of society"
Phillips.
@The pulpit and ST. Paul in teaching wo-
mans obedience are responsible for the en-
slaYement of the sex" Mr.. Foster.
"Poorly cultivated as the hearts of either
sex are, were both united in politics it would
be impossible for an act so heartless as that
for the extraditien offugitiVe slaves to disgrace
the national statute-books."
IElizure Wright's Letter.
aBut I am iIl-able at any time to afford the
expenses of long travel and now all my spare
funds are put IN requisition to meet the de-
mands which are almost every day made upon
me, TO aid the wretched men and women who
are fleeing from this tyranical republic; or in
some other way to Withstand the cruel despo-
tism, which glares upon US in the Internal Flu
gitive law recently enacted by our government,
which has become the supple tool of oppress-
ion" Sam'l NJ. Jays letter from Syracuse.
an the first place, in order to meet the cav
ling of those conseFvators who sneer at the
idea of woman's going to the polls with the
rabble citizens, of her shouldering the musket
in defence of5the country, DC, let me remark,
that it is my deliberate opinion that any act
wrong in woman is equally wrong in man
that if it be right for man to fight, it is also
right for woman to fight-if it be right for man
to tolerate Towdyism at the polls, in Congress,
in the cofee-house, it is right for woman to
mingle in il and contribute her share to this
kind Of of righteousness"
Letter of L. A Hine, Cincinnati.
HShould our ladies' insist upon the right to
attend their husbands, brothers and fathers to
the cofeshouse, the house ofshame, the gamb
ling he'll, dc, DC, how promptly would he
discontinue his visits: to these wicked haunts,
and unite with his companion in advancing
their mutual Improvement in all thati good.
and truel But the legal distinctions now
maintained between the sexes are the basis of
all social distinctions which are so unfortunate
for the moral welfare of the community; abol-
ish the former, and the latter will cease to ex-
istD Same Letter.
By Wendell Phillips:
ResoIped Thatthe cause we are met to adj
vocate, the claims of woman for all her natu-
raj and civil rights, binds us to remember the
million and half of wronged and foully out
ragged of all women: and in every effort. for
an improvement in our civilization. we will
bear in our heart of hearts, the memory of the
trampled womanhood of the plantation, and
Al, 49,
we claim for ourselves.
Resolutions from the Business Committee
WHERRAs, the great fundamental law of
truth, that moral and intelligent beings are
bound to obey God rather than man, is as
much binding on woman as man; therefore
ResolVed, That it is the imperious duty of
every woman to obey the dictates of her own
enlightened conscience in all matters of reli-
gion and benevolence, without asking the con-
sent of her father or husband.
The following resolutions we're read by Mr..
Claiming from the Business committee:
R0soEUed,, That as women alone can learn
by experience and prove by works, what is
their riQhtful sphere of duties, we recommend,
as next steps, that they should demand and
secure:
/. Education in primary and high schools,
universities, medical, legal and theological in
stitutions, as comprehensive and exact as their
abilities prompt them to seek and their capac-
tiles fit them to receive.
3. Partnership in the labors and gains, risks
and remunerations of productive industry, with
such limits as are assigned by-taste, intuitive
Judgment, or their measure of spiritual and
physical vigor, as tested by requirement
s. A eo-equal share in the formation and
administration of laws--municipal, state and
national, through legislative assemblies, courts
and executive Offices.
{. Such social and spiritual union as will
enable them to be the guardians of pure and
honorable msnners-a high court of appeal, in
cases of outrage, which cannot be. and are not
touched by civil and ecclesiastical organiza-
tions, as at present existing. and medium of
expressing the highest moral and spiritual