Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-11-23
ntiefelloneous.
An Objection Answered.

IA correspondent of The Tribune, in on
hrtcle called forth by the proceedings of the
Worcester Convention, thus states very
common objection to Woman's participation
In governmental affairs
snow, am at loss to know what the
Women of the Worcester Convention are
aiming at. 1t is clear that, il we are going
to live, or have any private comforts, there
must be dinners cooked, children's faces
must be washed, and there must he home
ia home TO which the mind of the weary
husband will turn to bear him up and urge
him on in his tolls for the inmates of that
eabctuary--a a home where he can for time
forget, in his wife's and cbildren's society,
the tolls and troubles of this weary world-n
home which he can never leave without
carrying with him a new grace, new
strength, drawn from Woman's influence, TO
enable him victoriousy and maniully to
Withstand the trials aud temptations of the
world. Now, If Women are given the right
10 vote, to electioneer, to become states
women, why it is nm incontrovertiblo fact
THAT is, If they attend properly TO politics)
that the dinners must go uncooked, the
children's faces unwushcd, aud home forgot
ten-unless, indeed, the man exchange du-
ties with them, as was proposed at the Con-
veDtion, and stay at home aud help their
wives cook and wash the dishes"
A portion of Greeey's reply to this letter
Is quite too graphic and too feorlessly to the
point, not TO be quoted:-l
As to our correspondents fear that but
tered toast will run short, and childrens
faces get crlsted over, in case the Political
Rights of Women are recognized as equal
TO and identical with those of Men, we do
not share it. We know the people who sup
posed that, when Slavery was abolished,
there could be no more boots BACKED, 10
wood chopped, bacon fried, &c. hut we see
that all ncediul operations go on, though
Slavery is abolished throughout this re-
gion. We see not why it may not be so in
case the slavery of Woman should in like
manner be abolished. We do not see how
an enlargement Of her liberties aud duties
is to make mother neglect her children or
her household. She now performs her ma
ternal duties because she delights in so do
ing, and not because man requires il.
Our friends delightful picture of the
home presided over by an exemplary wife
and mother we appreciate, but all women
are not wives and mothers. Marriage is in
deed honorable in ALL when il is marriage
but accepting husband for the sake of
position, home and support, is not mar
riage. I'VE must be excused from stating
what it iS.) Now one radical vice of our
present system is that it morally consirains
women TO take husbands mot to say, fish for
them) without the least impulse of genuine
affection. Ninety-nine Of hundred young
women are destitute of an independent in
come adequate 10 their comfortable support:
they must work or marry for living. But
in Industry, Woman's sphere is exceedingly
circumscribed, and her reward, as compared
with the recompense of masculine effort,
very inadequate. Except as household
drudges, it is very difficult for seven single
women out of eight to earn comfortable
reputable, independent livelihood in this
country, and il is generally much worse in
others. Hence false marriages and degrada-
tons more scandalous if not more intrinsi
cally vicious.
What Woman imminently needs is fal
wider sphere of action, larger opportunities
for the employment of her faculties, and {
juster reward for her labor. Ii is n shame
for example, that there should be severa
thousand male Clerks in our City dealin,
out dry goods mainly 10 women; thes'
Clerks should have more masculine employ
ments, and their places should be filled b,
women. The teachers in our schools shoul'
nearly all he women; the number should b
doubled and the compensation largely in
creased. Matchmaking, tailoring, an
many other branches of manufacturing in
dustry, should in good part be relnquishc
TO women"