New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-02
think of this late movement in favor Of " womnn's

think ofths late movement lntayorot Womans
Rights."
Now, aui at a loss to know what the Women
ofthe Worcester Convention aiming at. 1t
is clear that if we are going to live, or have any
private comforts, there must be dinners cooked
clrldrens faces must be washed and there must
be home-a home to which the mind of the
weary husband will turn to bear him up and urge
him on in his tolls for the inmates OF that sanc:u
ary--a home where he can for time forget in
his wifes and childrens society, tie tolls and
troubles of this weary world-a home which he
can never leave without carrying with him new
grace, new strength, drawn from Woman in
fuence, to enable him VIGOROUSLY and manfully
to withstand the trials and temptations of the
world Now, if Women are given the right to
vote to electioneer, to become stateswomen, why
it is an incontrovertibe fact that is, if they attend
properly to politics. that the dinners must go I'M
cooked, the children faces 1ttwashed, and home
be forgotten--unless, indeed, the men exchange
duties with them, as was proposed at the Conven
ton, and stay at home and help their wives cook
and wash the dishes.
So far from thinking Women slaves, / do not
see how it appear in such light to any think
ing mind any true-hearted woman. There is
something so superior about Woman that would
make one shrink as from proclamation at the idea
of her mingling in public with the sterner and
7corSer sex "a capitalization that raises her far
above the ntrigues OF politicians and the vugarity
of roWdiesa superiority which, Ii not acknoW
lodged in words is confessed IN actions, even by
men who, however degraded they may be- refrain
from the slightest word action that could be
commented upon IN the presence OF a woman.
The Women of theWorcester Convention seem
to have entirely overlooked the immense power
given to women in the form of Home Influence.
What pow er can be greater than mothers holy
and elevated example, which has given TO the
world so many shining lights than a mothers
gentle but impressive remonstrancc to straylnS
SON or a wifes earnest pleadngs to Wayward
husband all which would be OF no avail the mo.
ment a woman cOndescended to become roWdy
| Senator or intriguing Politician. For my part,
| look on Women as missionary angels sent among
men to remind them of their high calling and high
| duties 1t is not because men think that women
have no intellect, &c. that they consider it mex
pedient for them to vote. Mo- 1t IS common
| sense directs them i'll this Judgment. They know
! that there are two great duties to be performed
in the world public and domestic duties and as
no one can deny but that men are stronger than
women, the former generally choose the more labo
rous and inferior duties.
We must also remember, that if women gained
these absurd lights they would be obliged to
| maintain Them and this they have not the strength
! to do for which of the women at the Worcester
| Convention could knock man down If he chose to
stand mp? and what man could come forward to
protect a woman as long as she claimed to herself
the right of selfprotection 1t would be well
! enough for the ladies to endeavor to protect
themselves, if it were practicable; but what
rowdy if he met Miss Dr. So Il So out q sick
call at u o'clock at night would stand to listen to
her explanations of'' Woman's Rights p
acknowledge there are some gross iniustces
done to Women in regard to property and their
very low wages and if it to reform such
abuses as these that Women held conventions, it
would be audabe but such iniustlces seem to
take up but small share of their attention, and,
strange as it may appear their ambition seems to
aim principally at gaining the right to be Just as
undressing and bad as men One OF the ladies
outdd even the Nineteenth Century, when she
thought the inspired Apostles the companions OF
our blessed Savior might have mbibed some OF
the ignorance of the age" Truly, we of the Nine
teenth Century are wondrous wise, or either, |
fear IRE are imbibing some of the intidelity and
selfconceit of this same wonderful age. There
can be no fault found with Miss Lucy Stones de-
sire not to have it placed on her grave-stone that
she was "relict of somebody, she easily
avoid being the "relict " of anybody.
| am sorry, dear Sir, to have trespassed so long
upon your valuable time, but as knew that on
any subject you always willing to give both
sides chance, as we Yankees say, could not re-
1 train from the above remarks.
Yours, sincerely, A..