New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-26
your cordial co,worker,
ELIZUR WRIGHT.
From Rer. Samuel J. May.

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To the Romans Rights Contention TO 6ehed st Worcee',
Mas Oct. q and 81
My DEAR FRIENDs-I sincerely regret that cannot 90
presen. ut the Convention omorow and next day RS
gathering which have looked forward with oarnestex-
pecato But am i'll able, at any time TO afford tho OK
pense Of long travel aud all my spare funds are put
in requision meet tho demands that are almost every
day made upon me, aid tho wrctched men aud women
WHO are fleeing from this yraanicdt Republic; or in some
other way, Withstand the cruel desposni winch gsres
upon in the informal Fugitive Law recently enacted by
our Government, which has become tho supple too os OPP
preston. ri, ,,,,. - tItro,,y
for the great objects your Convention has in view Never
viii their rights be accorded to Woman until the rights OF
Humanity appreciated and respected In me very oe
ginning Of tho AntSlayery enterprise was occurring IN
Providence The earnest attention OF very mIellgens
nv eve So soon as len tho pulpit went speak with
her listened to YOU said She with an inerest
prehend hog much your description of the helpless do
pendcnce Of the Slaves apples equally well to tho condition
parallel and then first my eyes were opened to The Wrongs
Of Homen promised Miss Obey mat the sa6es. Sh hen
haye seem and rejoice to see that whatever brought ts
TO improve the condition Of Woman But have felt that
their rights ought TO be directly and distinetvy urged and
have accordingly oen spoken and preached and published
Women have natural rights no less than mem and be-
they also inalenabe ind more DO
naugh or dl5regarded with mpuniy. 1t will be good
for Man no less than Woman, when her rights sr9apprec
atcd and secured Their true welfare and nseper
able Humanity Is dual and yet when perfected it -
Tie relations OF life can be established only In the
union of both Marriage divine ordination from tho bo-
ginning and just far the divorced from each
other By inequalities of condition or culture do aduterous
consequences follow perfect character OF either Man
OF Woman "a compound of the virtues and graces Of
euc The excelenc.ts Which each most need are oh,
ectiye TO in the other In Jesus the dearly beloved
Of God we see much Of ienenine masculine grace.
Now. what 10 be perfect in the individual would
be likewise perfect in the community, The entire union
omae and female The true amly Is the type of the true
Suite 1t the absence ofihe feminine from the conduct OF
The Governments of earth that makes Them less
savage If there be any Institutions, departments or Gus
toms in the State in which we see and feel 1t would be
Unbecomng for women 10 participate then are those ins'
uons departments customs only haif human: The
very acknowledgment often hear, that the machinery
OF the political parties Is such ihat would dehe Woman
to touch it, is Acknowledgements that men, in the prose-
culion Of their partisan purposes are continually doing what
the ouqht to be d5hdmsd o This surely Is reason why
Women should continue 10 be excluded from their right
participation in The management OF the state az well as Of
The family. II Is enough why men should repent
lie converted, and become temperate just honorable,
honest in their political relations and conducts that they
NAV no longer be shocked the idea Of having their moth
ers and wives associated with them Tho State IL In
the condition Of ha orphondge There are fathers of The
public but no mothers. Yours truly,