Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-04-27
Hom R,ah Durdaie.

Dear Friend, CYNTHIA NJ. PRIcE Thy in
terestng favor, received the evening previous
TO our setting out on journey to Pennsyl- |
vania, caused thrill of Joy truly inexpressi- |
BILE, that the subject of Woman's Position was |
claiming the attention ofgiited minds--minds
alive alike 10 the deep responsibilities of our
common nature, and the injustice, the deba-
sing influence existing legal enactments ex-
ert OH us. Good will result from agitating
the subject; seeds of truth (even though they
may be long germinating,) will not be scat
tered in vain, but will finally yield fruit Long
and patiently has woman submitted to fla
grant injustice, and the cruelty debasing
male-created laws" that govern her, with
out raising her voice in remonstrance laws
that tax her property, leopard her liberty, and
even destroy tife ITSELF without having hud the
slightest share in their enactment. Is this
just ?-is il gencrous9 Was it not taxation
without representation that caused our rcvo-
lutionary sires to denounce as tyrannotls the
British government, and finally severed the
ties that bound them to the mother country?
What show ofjustice is there in rational in-
telligences being held amenable to laws to
which their consent WINS never asked or Civ
en-? j was delighted with a remark Of our
talented sister, Jane G. Swisshelm, touching
this subjects: "Ifwe are too angelic to be pol
iticians, we are too sublime to be subject to
taxation; five are too silly TO see thro' State
affairs, we are too simple TO count per cent
age with the tax-gatherer."
The willing will sneer, the politician smile
with supreme contempt at our efforts to
emerge from our dobasing and false position,
(which has its influence on themselves, tho
they see it not,) yet let us not ihlter, tho we
may not speedily attain a redress of wrongs.
While May, Johnson, Garrison and a
. Wright, with the true spirit of Christian feel
ing, advocate Woman's claims TO equality OF
rights, and claim for her the same privileges
they so highly prize themselves, may we not
be cbeered with the hope that n brighter day
J is dawning, when her petition for redress Of
time-honored grievances will be met with
manly argument instead of ridicule, (so of
welded against her,) and instead of fllsomC
} flattery, the simple justice VIC claim will be
conceded her by more enlightened public
opinion
! should have esteemed il high privilege
TO have assembled with my sisters on this
highly interesting occasion, had crcumstan
ces admitted, and will be pleased to learn the
result of your deliberations, which, from the
talent l hope will be enlisted, will be benef.
cial TO the cause in which we are 30 deeply in
terested.
1 May the spirit and temper that was in Jc
E sus SO clothe yours with meekness and wis
dom, that your efforts for the oppressed may
not be in vain, but may be instrumental il
: "opening the blind eyes and unstopping thu
deaf ears" of our self-assumed law-maker
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ri Ye have my prayers and hearty God-speet
in your work. Farewell. ~ g..' ..f.f....' II.
Thine, in the bonds of womanhood,
/; Hnf faa RUTH DUGDALE.
/, Lioyisgiiie, Belmont Co., o., - 20 nis
4th mo. 9th, 1850. dei} ai ae D. AZ