Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-11-30
Unreasonable.

The New York Mirror rails at the Wor-
cestor Convention, and excams in plren-
sy:-
"IIer offices are those of wife, mother,
daughter, sister, friend. Good God can
they not be content with these 2"
What unreasonable creatures these wom-
en- are {; but sorry to say the men folks have |
set them bad example. His offices are |
those of husband father, son, brother, friend. |
Goodness gracious can they not be content |
with these? Don't we let them wear whisk- |
ers and cultivate ousiaches-look "divine" |
and often killing? Havn't we given them
leave to wear straps TO their pantaloons and
wadding in their vests, to improve their
plumpness? Didn't we make them false
bosoms, plated, starched aud ironed, until
they are as ribbed and stiff and smooth as
the platform of rail road station, with its
innumerablc tracks? Don't we allow them
TO wear white kid gloves, satin vests of the
same color rings, breastpins aud chains P
Don't we permit them to carry fans and par
asols, aud make themselves generally useful;
and don't we listen TO their declarations and
say, 80 la Now Mr. Smith declare ?"
Havn't we encouraged the pretty darlings to
utter soft nothings of mornings, when the
purlor blinds are down; and havnt Our hearts
gone into delightful flutter, to respond to
the pit-pat knocking inside the Yadded vests?
and yet the pretty dears are not content to
make love aud dress the sole object of their
lives Why will they tangle their whskers,
soil their hands, aud tarnsh their boots dab
bling and wading in politics, law and learn
ing? What OCCASION can any of them have
to vote himself farm, when he has n wife :
Why should they covet the legal power to
protect their lives and property, and want re-
Enumeration for their labor? Are they moi
! husbands, fathers, sons, brothers? What use
can they have for bread and butter, beef and
, potatoes, when they fill all the endearing re-
lations of life /? The old colonsts were O
pretty set of numskulls to object to the prin.
cipe Of taxation without representation =
They were husbands, and fathers, and SONS
aud brothers; but still they must needs as,
pre TO be Legislators nlso-to be their own
law-mukers over and above and into the bar.
gain too, the other great rights already en-.
joyed.
: The women of the present day appear tC
, be following their example, and this Mirror
, man is distressed about il. But he has no
F, enumerated nearly all the rights they nov
enjoy, for in addition TO being wives, moth
> ers, daughters, sisters and friends" they arr
taxpayers sufferers by unjust or unwisl
laws-contributors to the general wealth. la
borers in the common field. They spin ant
weave, aud sew aud wash, and reap, ant
rake, and dig, and hoe; and every one O
them we ever knew had habit of eatin,
! food and wearing clothes. Government ha
!, not denied them this right, but has adde,
! the privilege of paying duty to the custom
. house for almost every article so eaten an,
f worn and yet the ungrateiul jades are nc
. content
$ If we were in Mr. Mirrors place, W
should not suffer them to be wives, mother.
,, daughters and sisters any longer. lie shoul
S exclude them from these privileges, an
g claim them for himself, us confiscated good
J. We move that the editor of the New Yor
+ Mirror be entitled 10 the honors aud enou
&c ments of any woman of his acquaintanc
J. who has forfeited the same by showing di,
:, content with her lot, and that he be, ali
l. hereby is Installed wife, mother, daughte
Is sister aud friend TO all aud sundry individual
i TO whom she may have filled the like rel,
Ie tons. Let other and similar confiscnton
Ie be made in behalf of all the gallant fellow
n who are doing the State good service, by |,
e boring to suppress this female nsurrecIol
is and The vineyard will surely not lack labo
IS ers.-Saturday Visiter.