Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-11-16
THE ANTI-SLAyERY BUGLE.
Mrs. Davis's Address.

dress read to the Women's Convention at Wor-
ccster by Pauliva w. Davis of Providence. we
know not il it has yet been published, but we
find the following synopsis Of its contentsi in the
New York Tribune.-Ed BUgle
The address takes up the position of Wo-
man in the feudal ages, shows TINT she then
exercised more political rights than sne
now does, rs she then went to the pub'ic
CoUNcILs or assemblies of their nations
heard the debates of their statesmen, and
was called upon TO deliver her sentiments
and what is here worthy Of notice this con-
sequence in active scenes they TRANSMITTED
TO their posterity. Such was, in great mea-
SIRE, their state and condition in every coun-
try of the globe IN an uge of society which
knew not the cares, the corruptions and dis
tinctions of property. The author refers to
history to prove that the age which precedes
the knowledge of extensive property and the
manners and customs which flowed from re-
finement and commerce is in a high degree
propitious to Woman. They were looked
upon as having something divine in their ma
lures, they were the priestesses in the tenn
pies, they held fefs and deputed military
commands. "They held courts aud exerc-
sed Jurisdictions" aud while attending TO
these cares they were wont also to assemble
with the peers in the great assemblies of the
State to deliberate and Uote aud Judge. They
were placed in positions where they could
command general admiration, hence they
studied to deserve il. Intent ON the favor Of
their lovers, watchful of the glory of their
nation, their affections were aroused, and
they knew not the unquiet of indoiencc which,
soitening the mind, awakeus the imagina-
ton and senses. Concerned in great affairs,
they were agitated by great passions. They
partook in the greatness they communicated.
Their softness mingled with courage, their
sensbility with pride. With the characteris-
tics of their own sex they blended those of
the other.
Passing from this, the author glances at
the position ofWomen in China, in Burmnh,
in Persia, in Turkey, among the aborigincs
Of our own country, and Justly the women
of our own time and nation, admitting that
they have large privileges-she denies that
they have rights. They are spoken of here
in the language of poetry, are flattcred and
fondled and beloved. Here, instead
of being the slave of man, man, il is said, is
their slave, their humble servant in all pub
llc places; and il comes near being true that
the slave has stolen the scepter and is about
the throne. She proves that there
is more danger from the usurpation of
slave than from admission 10 equal sovereign
". Her property is taxed without represen-
tntion, aud without her having the smallest
shure in the three great principles of self
government, the making, the eXpounding
and the executing of the laws. Reference is
made TO the frequent statement that mon re-
fleet the political sentiments of women at
the polls and in the Legislative halls. This
is denied, for were this the case, there is in
woman's nature that which shrinks from
war, fiom bloodshed and oppression.
From this the author turns to those wo.
men who are compelled to labor for Their
living, and pictures the conditions of those
who crowd the few avenues open TO wonacr
with pathos, and then contrasts the etfacd
tonal rights of the sexes. Is II right tina
woman's education should he considered
complete at 16 or IL years of age, with al
expense of from 500 to $500, while young
men enter college at about the same age, ant
graduate at Harvard costs $1,000 above
his tuition fees? Fiity-seven, on an average
graduate annually at Harvard, and the fund:
paid out aud expended by the colleg,
amount to $4,000, while the unproductivt
capital of the college in land, buildings, Ii
braries, museums and apparatus is worth al
equal sum, prof Wayland's report to til,
corporation of Brown University Il
there not ground for complaint? 1t close
with notice of Margaret Fuller Ossoli.-
There was one that we had hoped to hav,
with us to-day, whose cheerful smile an,
strong heart would have gladdened us in thi
arduous work. She had toiled through th,
sterner studies till her mind was thoroughl'
disciplined, us well as richly stored will
classic lore. Bravcly and freely she gave (,
the world her 4" Woman in the NinetoentI
Century" She shrank not from the snee
of the heartless nor abated one iota of tn
truth; but, in the quiet dignity of her life
maintained tall.
"Thought- gifted, noble hearted one
| We who have known thoo know thou art no
lost;
The star that set in storms still shines upon
The DER shadowing cloud, and when we sorrow
most,
In the blue spaces of Gods armament
Beams out with purer light than we have knowr
Above the tempest and the wild lament
OF those who weep the radiance that is flown