New-York daily tribune., 1850-05-01

will only add, that the Convention was in all
respects admirably managed. The President
! Principal Of the Union School at Canton perform
cd her duties with q dignity worthy Of the presid
ing officer Of any deliberative assembly. OBSERVER.
Letter f,0m Mrs. Lydia Jane P,eysoa.
LANCASTER Pa. Friday. Aphl r.
| To the MEMBER Of the Contention:
LADIES: Most earnestly do thank you for the
kind confidence and good will with which you have
invited me to be present and take part in the pro
ccedings of Equal Rights Convention, to be held
at Salem Ohio on the 10Th and Goth OF the current
month Joyfully would hasten to be present with
YOU, but am prevented by insurmo1ntabie obstacles
from proiting by your wisdom or lending my in
significant aid in the good cause you have in hand.
No person can be more deeply impressed than ! am
with the utterly wrong basis on which Society at
present rests Touse the words OF Scripture, The
foundations Of the earth are out OF course. You
express a fear that l not radical as you
would wish. | fancy that no person sees more
plainly or feels more deeply the wrongs which the
strong innct upon the weak, than my humble self.
| | have in my own rerson suffered almost every
wrong and sorrow. | nm sometimes accused OF
! speaking with bitterness but have fed on bitter
! bread and waters OF Marah How should speak
/ honeyed words
Yet as a reiormer, my views differ from those Of
some, being as ! fancy, more radical, as would
strike at the root Of the evil
] would not dictate 10 any pc SON muCH iens 10
/ Society; yet in my view, knowledge is power
Education, OF itself will make us free; ignorance
is not fit to be trusted with freedom. Ii the slave
States would educate their young blacks give them
trades and suffer them, at a certain age 10 60 out
! Free they would do their duty but If these slaves
in their present ignorance and degradation unused
as they are to provide for their own wants. were
to-day set al liberty. it would, in my opinion, be a
! deed to be deplorcd. A few Of them would make
"A living, but the great mass would prove incapable
of providing for themselves and the poor houses
aud jails would be ull OF them from one end OF the
land to the other Yet we do not understand why a
black skin should prevent man from being man,
any more than a black eye. We are sure that
education is able to raise the black TO inteec-
| tua level with bis white brother, and we believe
! that the time is near when the slave will be free
| from his master But we are constitutlonally
averse 10 all violent measures, to bring about
/ good ends. We would qualify men for freedom,
aud then it will not be possible to retain them in
| bondage. Shareholders have opposed the edu'
cation of their human cattle mpious assumption J
| from this conviction. and for the same reason man
| has opposed the Intellectual progress OF wOman.-
| But look at the results The Shareholders children
! are debased by domestic intercourse with his cat
| tie and the whole race of man is inferior in
| quence of the incompetence OF mothers, " no form
! the Young mind and effect the only lndelIble i'm
pressions upon the intellect and heart Thus man s
| idlotic pride and injustice to woman reacts upon
himself, and the degradation of part OF the popu-
lation debases whole country. Right education
can slone eradicate these evils.
Do not be offended but | am constrained to utter
my belief that the great majority Of my own sex
are at present incapable of doing service to their
country or honor TO themselves In public stations.
When we consider the deplorable ignorance OF
every thing but household drudgery OF the great
mass and the miserable tinsel that is palmed off as
education on the most favored, We see only here
and there one whose God-given intellect with
supernatural power. has overeaped all obstacles
and caught a living coal from the altar of science
These would honor their country in any station
but for every one such there are thousands of poor
weak, imbecile helpless things, more fit to touch
the chariot of Liberty than leper TO carry the
ark OF Gods covenant.
But insist that woman possesses naturally men
tai capacities every way equal to those of man
And will never reinquish this belief nntl having
enjoyed all advantages in common with him. she
shall fail 20 equal him in attainment The gates OF
science have always been kept shut against her by
popular prejoGice, and the fashionable schools for
girls have been infinitely worse than none, for il has
been their effort to smother under atectation and
morbid deicacy, the little common sense that sur
vived the restraints of the nursery After being
taught etiquette, the hyPocrucal conventionalities
OF fashion, little music, and few rench phrase
AL by rote-they are turned out 10 use their &C
complshments Tor the purpose for which they have
been taught to value them viz 20 win a husband
and secure settlement They are maued at H.
soon become mothers, are consigned 10 oblivion OF
Kept alive by a round Of vanity and dissipation
This picture, however humiatns, is true repre-
sentstion Such women are ft for nothing but to
die as they have lived.
We sometimes hear men advocating the cause
OF woman, talk OF elevsting and educating her as
II she must receive all things at his hand. We
only ask TO be allowed to enjoy the common gifts
OF Heaven. We have no patience with the phre-
nolcsist who attempts to establish woman's inicri
oriy by pretending difference Of formation in tie
heads OF males and females. That such teaching
IS hbelous, any person can convince himself by no
ticng the ads of those around him: especially
lei him go INTO q school Of young children. We
know tina, he will find one distp gushing. ger G.
raj characteristic. This assumption Of phrenology
has made the whole science false and Contemplate
D. my estimation Women have heads as large n
proportion % the size OF their persons as men knr,