New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-11
The Sphere of Woman.

sxacted to tho consideration OF the foslVlon
asWoNAN in our Social and Political state,
her Rights, Opportunities and Needs That
there is grievous wrong somewhere in sys-
sem which accords TO nine-tenths of the
weaker sex scarcely one-third the remuner"
ation for their labor that is conceded to the
roupher half of our Race--which bids her
work for her livelihood, yet shuts up against
her opportunities to be employed and re-
wsrded which are freely open to her kins-
men--whioh virtually impels her to Mar
riage as the only condition Of usefulness and
honor in maturer life, yet strips her therein
of property, whetherinherited or earned'
10 bestow il on him who has protested to be
her adorer but whom the Law constitutes
her dictator and master-is widely believed
bv those who have devoted time and thought
20 the subject. Our garrets slowed with
poor, Industrious wives and mothers, eager
" stitching twelve to eighteen hours per
day for hardly so many cents wherewith to
keep together soul and body in their Or
phaned or deserted children--our streets
throDged with the hopeless, blasted victims
of mans perfdy and baseness-our dwell
ipgs and boarding houses, whence young
and innocent maidens vainly look forth day
after day in search of some honest means
of earning a livelihood, TO return at night
disappointed, despairing, and one day nearer
The gulf of infamy and crime into which
hasd necessity viii one day drive them-all
these plead warnipgly, nightly for an I'M
prejudiced and searching consideration Of
che Sphere of Woman, with view to its
improvement if that be not absolutely I'M
possible. And who shall say it is impossi-
ble in advance Of such scrutiny
The following call for Convention of
all earnest seekers for improvement in the
Sphere of Woman has been some weeks in
circulation, and hes received the hearty ap-
proyal Of many who have not chosen to sign
Ii for various reasons, but who accord to
Che Convention and its objects their infu-
snoe and their fervent good wishes. 1t is
here FIRST presented complete:
A
Oh the 23rd and Path Of October ne2s sgreeably
90 appointment of preliminary meeting held at
Ho,top on the 3Oth Of Msy lsEi) to coDslder the
sueston OF WomAs's RIGHTs, DUTIES AND he
IAT1oEs; and the III Ion and Women OF our Country
who feel icent interest in shis great subect 10
give an earnest thought Or effective effort TO Its
Tishtful adjustment, invited to meet each other
In free conference at the time and place appointed
The upward tending spirit of the sse, busy In
hundred forms Of Hort for the worlds redemption
Al II ,tjarip tNl
brought shis one, which yields to none in import
ance and urgency, into distinguished prominence
One halt of the race are ts Immediate objects, and
she other half are as deeply involved, by that ab
soluts unity oil interest and destiny which nature
has established between them.
Ihe neighbor is rear enough to involve every
human being in a general equality OF rights and
community OF insereatS bat, Men and Women, in
their reciprooises OF love and duty, are one flesh
and one ho0d--mother, wife, sister and daughter
come no near the heart and mind of every man that
shey muat be either his bloasng or HE bane
where there ia such mutually of interests such
an internbiDg of life, there can be no real sntago-
nism Of position and action. Ths sexes should not,
for any reason or by any chance, take hostile atti
sges tow ard each other eithey in the apprehension
Or amendment Of the wrongs which exist in their
necessary relations; but they ahould harmonize in
opinion and cooperate in effort for the reason that
they Duse unite in the ultimate achievement OF the
deaired reformation
OF the man, points now under discussion and
demanding just settlement, the general question
ofWoman's Rights and Relations comprehend such
rs Her EDUCATION, Lperaf9 Scteatafc and dr
kistic; Her AyoGATloNs, Industrial, Commercial
and Professional; Her INTERESTS, Pecmniary, Ctcl
and Pois zeal in word-Aer RIGHTS as an I,ldl
eidaGl, and her FUNCTIONS as Csttzen.
No one viii pretend that all these Interests, EN-.
braciug az they DO, all that ia not merely animal
IN a human lite, are rightly understood or Justly
provided for in the existing social order Nor is it
any more tsua that the constitutional differences Of
the sexes, which should determine define and
limit he re eultipg differences OF oshce and duey,
are adequately comptehe0ded ead practically OBJ
SERVED.
Womsn has been condemned, from her greater
Gelicary of ply aical Organization, 10 iIeriorty Of
intellectual and moral culture. and in the forfeiture
OF e.. az aooial civil and religious privileges In
fhe relation OF marriage she fas been Ideally ami
hilatsd and actually ensaved IN ell that concerns
hex psnonAl AMI peconsvy rghtsi and even in
Eidc whood ard single lue, abe u oppressed with
aEch limitation aad degradation OF labor aad avo-
cation clearly ana eraely mark the condition O!
q dis& hed cGate But, by the Inspiration OF tue
Almighty the benz hisDt spirit Of re!ocn is reused
TO tte redress OF those wrongs The tyranny which
desfades and cruShss wives and mothers ats no
sopger lightly on the worlds conscence-the hsarss
home xosskip eels tbs stEin Of stopping as dis
hopossd alsar-M aneood begins 10 feel the shame
OF modoyipg the spsnes ron " hich 1t draws its
highest life; and Wonsphood 10 everywhere
avaAeBiDg to assert iss d,viusy chartered rights,
ard TO faa iss mobiles, duses Il is the spirit Of
yisine truth and righteousress which has moved
upon she great depot the public hears and aroused
ita iedteasine Justice; and, through it, the Provi-
depcs OF Goo Is vindcs|isg she order AMI appoint
menta OF bio ereation
The ,lsns are encourasios the sime ia oppor I
rune. Come then to this Convention. 1t is year
any any you ae worthy Of yoar ago aud country
behs from the darkness, Wisely s;;gs the prossc
son OF SoaF name and the benefit Of your erss to
zee great Of settling she principles, deyising