Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-05-04

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THERE is not, perhaps, in The wide field of
reform, any one subject so difficult TO discuss
as that OF Woman's Rights. | use the term
~Woman's Rights" because It is technical
phrase. like not the expression. IL is not
Womams Rights ofwhich l design TO speak,
bur of Womai's WJongs. shall claim moth
ing for ourselves because of our sex--l shall
demand the recognition of no rights on the
ground of our wOlnanhood. IN the contest
which is now. being wagcd in behalf OF the
enslaved colored nlan ia this land, | have yet
TO hear tho first word in favor of Ibis rights as
a coiored man the great point which IS
sought TO be established is this, that the coll
ored mnn is human being, and as such, en-
titled to the free exercise of all the rights
which belong TO humanity. And we should
demand our recognition as equal members
of the human family MS persons TO whom
pertain allthe rights which grow out oil our
relations TO God, and TO each other, as humon
beings; aud when this point is once es'ab-
U.l6lRfnil,a aaeEAi - w plnau'a Righis viii be- |
come obsolete, TOR noli.- VIII eiitcf tuin t,'e
idea that the rights Of women differ from the
rights of mem, Il u then, human rights 10 for
which we contend. i,sif M Is, s,Ieg 6,.ii ~,
But tho woman bns no rights peculiar 10
her sex-none which belong 70 her because
she is a woman; yet she has wrongs, great
wrongs, which are peculiar, TO her7-wrongs
political, wrongs social, aye, and wrongs re-
iigious II is more difficult, repeat, to ex-
hibit those wrongs, and 10 awaken interest OH
this question, Than on almost any otlier-
When we speak Of American Slavery, we
exhibit the literal chain that binds The cap,
tive, we show the iron collar that has Called
his flesh, we bring TO view the cutting lash
dripping with gore, aud with these cinDleHs
fl.of MI pcain
exists. We speak of the mother who has
been robbed Of her little ones, aud left in
B loneliness and dcsoIation of heart; we show
how man has been degraded by bis, brother,
how lIe has been driven from the abodes OF
men and forced to take refuge in the dens
and the caves of the earth, aud we never fail
TO excite sympathy in their BEHALF ,.-7 /.
So OH tho subject of War; we speak OF
strong men laid low on tie battlefield, OF
the wall of the dying, of the piercing shrek
of the wounded, of surviving friends search
ing among the maugled bodies of the slain
for a father, q son or brother who has fallen
md all the sympathies of those who listen
are awakened in relation TO such a, fearful
sacrifice ofhuunan life. asr.a .ifils -l.rif !,
3 Then again in regard to Temperance; we
have but to depict the evils, the brutality, the
deep degradation growing out OF this vice,
. and we awaken emotions of lively interest
tiist result in energetic action.
But not so with the political, social and do
mestic wrongs of woman. She appears not
before the world as a sufferer. Her very
name is associated with happiness aud hope,
with freedom and love aud beauty. She APP
pears in public assemblies with u proud aud
lofty bearing, and scarcely any one can be
made to believe ihut she is "A victim of or
preston. Weineet her at her own fresde,