The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-11-25


luton, or of tempe I, among the blue stockings Of
New England, who held what they term a Wo-
m MS Rights Convention, at Worcester, Massa-
chI etts, short time since. At that convention
it was urged with great force, by some amiable
blue stocking, that breeches would very well be-
come the delicate limbs of delicate young ladies',
on the ground, we suppose, that they would dis
play them TO greater advantage than petticoats do
that young ladies entitled to the right of suf-
frage-that they should have a hand in the laws by
which they are governed-that, instead of being
treated as equals by man, they are regarded mere
ly as objects for the satisfaction of mans selfish
propensities; that mankind are leagued together
to commit and perpetuate wrong on them; that
women have never been anything but drudges in
the kitchen or psPpets in the paror, and lot of
other things of the same character. We have not
learned whether they drew VI declaration of IN
dependence, and pledged their lives, fortunes, aud
sacred hoEors to support it, or not but it would
have been quite proper for them TO do so, as to
adopt some Of the resolutions which they passed
with great usannty.
For our own part, We have always been gal
liant enough 10 consider that Vomen-especially
if they are young and handsome - ought to
have every right to which they are entitled
by usage, or the "law of natons," aud as
many more as they may please to claim Who
could resist q charming and handsome young
girl, appealing to you with tears in her eyes, for
the privilege Of wearing pair Of unmentioAabes,
strapped down over high-heeed BOOST Who
could be ungallant as TO prevent the same
amiable and interesting girl, just budding into
womanhood, from studying medicine, and, scalpel
in hand, dissecting the mortal remains of crusty
old bachelor and taking satisfaction out of him
when dead, for not fulfilling his duty TO her sex
when livingl We may do away with the needle
let men darn their own stockings, or wear them
with holes-let the men nurse the babies-let them
surrender the breeohes, and assume the petticoat-
let wOmen's rights be upheld, and let them have
as many more as they please.
IL Is said that " m2n's inhumanity TO man m kes
countless thousands mourn" But what shall be
said of voman's inhumahity to woman! Let an
errng fair stray from the path of virtue or pro-
puety, and how much sympathy or pity will she
receive from her sister woman9 None 1t is from
man alone she will get compassion So it is with
woman's rights. How many of them will be adj
yocated by woman! None. Mrs. PillsbUry, an
emisble woman, wife of Parker Pillsbury, gentle
man who has made himself more conspicuous than
agreeable in the agitation of slavery, herself blue
stocking, denies TO woman what we are perfectly
wiling she should enjoy. She says that woman
already has rights sufficient for all purposes She
even goes so far as 70 say that womans appropriate
sphere is at home, and that CUSTOM good taste,
and adaptation, have irrevocsbly fixed her relative
position in the family circle. This is really unkind
in Mrs, Plllsbury. Does Mrs. p. really mean to
say that in this age Of progress-of telegraphs,
railroads and ocean steam navigation--when the
human mind speneratipg'oRd bringing 10 ligh; the
hidden works of nature, and graspag the universe
tself, woman charming, divine, angelic woman
is 70 be confined 10 the nursing Of children and
The making Of babes clothes IL she does she
is uncharitabc and inhuman, indeed. What is a
happy hrcside, a whole pair OF socks, to the
IiQht Of yctingl VIII is the pleasure derived from
administering curtain lecture to her lord for re-
naming out late a. night, TO that Of a rough aud
tuIub'e az tie rols What -xei.-rscst - shoro h.
singing lullaby TO "the image Of its'father," com.
pared to that Of making a stump speech in favor of
her dear friend, Miss Squeers, as Mayoress, in op-
position TO that nasty thing, Miss Dobbs, who was
naughty enough TO say that the reason she was not
married was that she cou,d not get husband to
have hCrl That will never do, Mrs Pillsblry: |
Gad entertaining such notions, only shows that you
are behind the age. We are in favor Of giving |
fuse the dear creaturesl
We therefore propose that another Woman's |
Rights Convention be held-Aliss Lucretil Mott |
to be president, and Horace Greeley vice presi-
dent. Our Fourierite contemporary has a natural |
liking for woman's rights, and would make a CAPT
tai officer to ofoate on such an occasion. To be sure
he does not 90 as far as do in being willing TO
grant to womun all the rights she claims; but under
the tuition OF some of the fair ere atures who figured
AT the Worcester Convention, his intellect would,
10 doubt, be sharpened, and himself be brought TO
entertain juster appreciation Of woman's rights
than be docs, although some say that he is rather
demagoguical on this, as he is on other subjects.
DrsrNomsHEp EDITORS IN To IN, AND CoMye -
Mr. Elwooi sher, the distinguished editor Of the !
S0tthdn Pros, has arrived in this city, and is |
looking about him to see the positions Of the cur
rents end whirlpoos Of public opinion here at the
North. Mr. Fisher is a very amiable, modest, /
gifted, industrious, pious, and exemplary citizen, |
who might do a great amount Of good by devoiiDg |
his talents 20 useful ends. Unfortunately, how.
ever, he throws the whole weight Of his urbaniiy, |
modssty, talents, industry, piety, and morality |
@ egiEst the unity of the confeieracy. lie seems
bent upon destroying the constitution upon burn-
ing up the very parchment, so that not a vesigc Of
il may be left and thus to leave the ship Of State
without any chart BY which it may be guided.
This is certainly very singular conduct in so anna
DE a man. II is quite surprising, indeed, how
such q citizen can take his stand against the URion,
end counsel secession with all its train Of uncer.
tain;ies end evils, when the only hope Of this
country and Of this continent lies in the permanen.
cy Of our brotherhood Of States-in the unity Of |
that Ttfnv pf fnfereass M hicb have oroUn m s;Ia
by side, since the declaration Of our Independence.
Perhaps Mr.. Elwood Fisher may see farther into
iutury then most men, and can find reasons for
suaging his conscience, while he proclaims the
necessity and duty Of the South to secede-to dis
solve its connection with the North, and to termi-
nate the Union