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

enough to bear the additional weight Of all tho
colored men in creation. True, they may get
on board, If they covet the honor OF the COM
pany already there; but the chance is the whole
concern sinks, As an individual we have done
all VIC felt able to aid the colored man. we
would still lend him an oar or show him how to
make one; but we do not want him in our boat.
Lot him row his own craft He is as large and
strong as woman; and II we judge him right
ly, he would prefer the exercise, and separate
quarters, to getting into such very bad compa-
ny. II he would motif he is either so lazy or
so selfish that he would peril the life OF
others for poor chance of saving his own, he
Is not worth saving, and VIC would very cooliy
cut the fingers off such loafcr, throw him back
into the water and SEQ him go down.
As for colorcd women, all the interest they
have in this reform is as iooDien. All It can do
for thom is TO raise them to tho level Of mep OF
their own class. Then as that class Iiscs let
them rise with it. We only claim for Q white
/ wood sawycr's wife that she is as good as
white wood -sawyer-a blacksmiths mother is
as good as blacksmith-a lawyers sister is as
good rs lawyer; at least this is our way OF un-
derstanding this question but had that Non.
vention seen fit to specify any particular class OF
| women--women with black faces, rod noses, or
brown hair--it had right to do 50 but it had
no more right TO discuss the question Of the
| position of colored people as a class, than Of
| farmers, or mechanics, or Dutch or Irish. The
call was explicit. 1t was to discuss the rights
OF Ser. We signed that Gala call for Wo-
mans Rights Convention-0ud had no thought
il was 10 be converted into an abolition meeting.
With quite as much propriety it might have
been turned into Temperance or Law-Reform
meeting, or a meeting to express sympathy with
the Hungarian refugees. We repeat again, the
color question had no right to hearing there.
We never would have signed a call for the con-
joint discussion of these two questions, or OF
any other two questions. We feel as it our
name had been used for purpose ior which wo
did not give it, ard we know others Of the sign
crs Of that call who arc in the same prcdica-
ment. 1t was breach of trust, and ono we
shall remember when our name is asked for to
another call.
To us it is a matter Of great wonder that any
friend of woman's elevation should link her
cause to that of the negro in America, or that
any friend of tho negro should be willing that
his cause should be identified with hers. True,
our Constitution manufacturers have agreed in
uniting the two. Negroes and Women are
placed upon the same level in nearly all our
Constitutions. Their cases are disposed of in
the same sentence, "Whito malo citiacns,' to
show that two such insignificant portions of
creation as women and dark skinned men were
not worth two sentences in tho immortal COM
positions of the Solons who wrote them but
these Solons we look upon as the enemies OF
both prescribed classes, and can see no reason
why their friends should follow in the footsteps
Of such "illustrious predecessors"
We read these structures on their first ap-
penrance with much regret and some sur
prise, and time has in no respect altered the
impression they made on our mind. Their
effect upon MS was certainly not the result Of
any peculiarly of mind or temperament, for
not Few of Mrs. Swisshelm's wermest ud-
mirers were both grieved and njh.sseSts;als s;a
| find her talking in such strain. Women's
Conventions, it would almost seem, are fitted
to provoke her indignation rather than ava
ken her sympathy. She found fault with
the one held in Salem on what seemed TO us
either ridiculous pretext or an absurd mis-.
conception; and now behold how she does
scold over that held at Worcester!
And what, pray tell, is it all about? OF
what dreadful misdemennor was the Wor-
cester Convention guilty, that her lash should
fall upon it with such severity? The read-
er, with nothing but her bill of complaint
before him, would naturally conclude That,
instead of attending TO the business for
which it was called, it spent at least half its
time in discussing the question of color,
aud got the two causes of Woman's Rights
and Abolitionism doubled and twisted to.
gether and tied in knot so hard that they
could never again be put asunder. Surely
/
he would say, il must at least have Gt
tempted something quite as bad as this, or nc
woman, advocating the equality Of her sex
would have raised such n tempest about the
matter.
In reality, however, it did no such thing
Nothing like il. The question of color a,
such, was not, so far as appears from the re-
ports, alluded to by single speaker. TIL,
Convention bent its whole energies, and tina
right earnestly, to the consideration of wo
mans rights and wrongs, her relations ant
duties 'Ah! but it alluded in one of ii
resolutions to distinctions of color" Sur,
enough, but in what way? Was the q,ies
ton stenIthily ioistcd in by some cunnin,
or 'doggedly obstinate .nboIitionist, il
order TO commit tile Convention or il.
! members to an unpopular sentiment
and thus, under cover of Woman's Rights
d TO help break the chains of the slave
a No such tng-the farthest from it possible
!, If such thing had been attempted, the very
. persons whom Mrs. SwissheIm so ilippantI,
accuses would have been the first TO remou
strate against it.
5 In whnt, then, ii will be asked, did the sir
$ of the Convention consist? What was th,
> head aud front of its offending? We viii
Q tell you, candid reader, and then you shal
n judge whether it deserved Mrs. SwissbeIn'
= y castiga,ion-nay, whether il did not ralhe
4 deserve the thanks Of every friend of ou
o ragged humanity. In seeking basis for III
|. Equality of Woman, the Convention natura
= Iy and instinctiyeIy went hack to v1ps