Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-21

the same--tlat each human being, whether
rich or poor, learned or ignorant, bond or
free, mule or female, is
Part and proportion Of our wondrous whole I;
This fraternizes man-==this constitutes /
Our charities and bearings /
The Convention declared, "that epery hu-
man being of full age, and resident for a
proper length Of time on the soil of the na-
ton, who is required to obey the law, Is eu-
titled to voice in its enactment; that eve-
Try such person, whose property or labor is
taxed for the support Of the government is
sentited to direct share in such govern
'ment; therefore, that women IRE clearly en-
titled to the right of suffrage, and to be
considered eligible TO office, the omission
ito demand which, on their part, is pnlpu-
blc recreancy to duty; and the deniuI of
which is gross usurpation on the part
of man--no longer to he endured and that
every party tehich claims 10 represent lie hu-
u,anity aud The progress Of The age, is bound
TO inscribe on its banners, Equality before
the law, without distinction of sex or color"
That's the monster which so disturbed
Mrs. Swisshelms equauimiiy, hoof horns
and alll Will she pretend thnt the Couven-
ton could have stood on any narrower plat
forum Would she have had it plant IL
self where the colored woman, Tor, as her
Georgia friends whom she is so dcsirous to
conciliate wonld say, the 'wenches, could
not come between the wind aud tile 'nobili-
~ of her white sisters? We cannot for
moment believe that such was her desire,
and yet her language aud the spirit Of her
criticism would appear to indicate something
of the sort. The allusion to color was a
mere logical incident, as every one who read
the proceedings of the Convention must
have seen. II indicated no disposition TO
draw the Convention away FROM its leglti-
mate business; nor was it thus drawn away.
Having laid for itself foundation as broad
as Humanity, it proceeded vigorously 10 APP |
ply universal principle to the particular |
subject before il; if it could have been incar- |
mated in Mrs. Swisshelm's person, We don't |
believe il would have done its work any bet
ter or stuck to its text any closer Mrs. SIS
story of the boy and his carrots is not fair |
illustration of its course. The Convention
did not link the two subjects together in IL |
action at all. Acknowledging certain phi |
losophical relation between them, it yet took |
the Woman question by itself, and confined
its action exclusively to it. 1t made no bun
de,' but did precisely as the father told the
boy to do with his carrots. 1t foundthe two
objects bound te-a.L.- {. rmhraa1 1ass~-.
general principle, acknowle9 fd tIFt both
ought to go into the cage, br ATTEMPTED the
task of putting in only one, leaving the 9th
er to be taken care of at another time and
by another body, organized for that purpose.
The charge against Parker Pillsbury and
the reiormers of the school TO which he be-
longs, that they insist "that our starving
seamstresses shall not strike for higher
'wugos unless they put in protest in favor
: of the boot blacks-that woman shall not
every man that wears one" &c. is mere
rant and fustian, for which nothing that they
have said or done, either in the Convention
or ont of it, affords any justifable pretext.-
They have no desire to see the cause of Wo-
mems Rights linked with that Of the Slave
in one and the same general movement.
The charge against the Convention of a
breach of trust on no other ground than the
incidental use of the word color in single
resolution, is too ridiculous even for Mrs.
Purtiugton. And then the ominous threat to
remember the dreadful outrage when 'our
name is asked for again! Mercy on us!
what ,ciH be done in this awful extremity?
Mrs. Swisshem's declaration that ano reso-
luton should have been passed at that Con-
'ven,on that would not have been as ac-
'cepta5le to the citizens of Georgia as to
those of Massachusetts" don't strike us as
remarkably sensible, in view of the we'll
known influence of slavery upon the char
acter of those who practice it. However, if
Mrs. S. prefers the company of shareholders
to that of Abolitionsts, perhaps she does
well TO conciate the former by abusing the
latter; hut if she expects to win the co-ope-
ration Of those who sell women in the sham
bles and connve at a system of universal
prostitution, she must prepare herself to
do more than eschew the admission that peo-
pie of color have rights-she must abandon
all her theories Of the equality Of her sex, and
give countenance to no Wonen's Conven-
lions. Catch the shareholders, whose con-
tempt for wotnan's equality is equnlIed only
BY that they feel for their 'niggers'-cnicll
them attending Woman's Convention -
Talk of mnkiug such Convention as ac,
ccPfaLle' 10 them as to The people of Massa,
chusetts Was suslI folly ever heard of be
= fofei When the doctrine of wonian's equal,
. ity becomes acceptable in Georgia, you
need not despair of gathering grapes from
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