Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1851-01-07
From the New York Evangelist,
MEMS RIGHTS.

by ONE ~ DISTRESS.
! MR. EDITOR; You are aware that the la
dies, dear souls. have just been holding a
most important Convention at Worcester. at
which they had resolutions, addresses and
Appeals (no prayers) in abundance. There
were eloquenee, wit, sharp and pointed rebuk .
and thrilling disclosures of unsuspected facts,
from Abby Folsom, Garrison, ef omne id genus,
all on the subject of Womans Rights. There
was Rev. Miss, besides Doctresses, and the
like and they seemed to unite in deep lamen-
| tatlon over the wrongs, expressions, and sla-
very OF women i'm these United States.
read tho newspapers containing full reports
OF this convention, and rubbed my eyes, try
ing to get them wide open, for had hitherto
| supposed that the ladies of this country were
held in high esteem, and were treated So
tendorly that they had no wish to complain.
Alas! alas! find they are bowed down, and
trampled on, aud there is not one drop OF
misery in the most calling slavery, that our
ladies' have not tasted-not one drop in tho
recital OF the wrongs of Egyptian bondage,
that cannot apply to them. So they tell us,
Well, sat aud thought it over, till my soul
was moved, aud with sorrow thought what
cruel creature, | had been, all my life, 10
my wife, daughters and sisters. To be sure,
nave always given my poor earnings into
my wife's hand, to spend for the family--be-
cause know she could do it better than /;
and have given my daugeters tho best edu-
cation possible, and far better than had, but
what then! Arc they not oppressedl Don't
they have to use a side saddle, and don't!
Don't they have to carry mutt, and sit un-
der the Buffalo, in u cold day, and have the
privilege of drvingl When the snow ls
deep, don't they have to wait till can dig
paths
All me! Aud is there nothing to be said
on the other sidel Suppose we carry them
into the cnemy's camp little, and speak of
our sutlcrings and grievances. Can we not
excite sympathy, if we speak of our unre-
dressed wrongs! Now | propose to call 4
Mans Convention in some important place,
say Matildatown, and to have a meeting of
the greatest and best, the wisest and boldest,
and seeif we can't emancipatc ourselves from
this thiadom What do propose! What
a question. Why. sir, | would have cav
alcade oibutchers as long as Maiden Lane,
and ! would let them tell how they have been
to do the dirty, disagreeable work
of killing calves and pigs, sheep and oxen,
and then dressing and cutting, and carrying
them to the door, and feeling very thankful,
II dear woman would Just come out to the
cart. and point with her jeweled finger at tho
piece she would like for the table, ...
would have long line of coal7diggers
come up from the deep mines where they
live, two. miles from daylight, and never see-
lng the heavens but once week; and they
should come with their little lamps in their
caps, and all covered with coal dust! No,
they would not come--they couldn't be spar
Ell long enough. But they should send up
their story OF wrong and expressions, and tell
the Convention how no woman ever came
there vita pick axe and blasting POWDER
What heart in the assembly, especially what
female heart, could remain unmoved, when
he voice came from those dreary subterrane-
IN caverns, and when the buried cried out
against the wrongs imposed on my SEX
There are, it is said, three millions OF men
constantly OH tho deep, as sailors, standing
1t the helm, working the pump climbing the
'hrouds wet and cold in the storm, clinging
o the wreck, going down to watery graves
and for what! Why that our dear ones
nay have their silks, their shawls, their Iaces,
heir china, and perfumes! 0, woman, wo-
nan, what do you meanl Why are you not
ranging on the swinging yards, climbing tho
mast, and facing these hardshps and dangers!
40 protest against the slavery to which ye
rave sunk my kind .~
And the Convention should be electrified
y the eoquence of men who fill our streets,
Who bear our burdens, who carry all the brick
nd mOrter to build the fine houses, who are
bged to handle pork and tobacco, train oil
nd sugar, molasses, and Goldfish, who are all
lay long confined in dusty, close counting
ooms aud eXhausting life and strength over
dotted account books, who in lonely church
ards must dig graves, and work with no
company save the moudering dead. Are we
lot compelled early and late, to do the hard
ST, vilest, fithiest work that human beings
yer performed When | come down To
our great city, cant get seat in the cars,
i'll the ladies are provided for, and that too
ext % the window. scan't ret a seat at
no table, at the hotel, or in the steamboat,
i'll the ladies arc seated at tho head of the
able, whelc, ! understand, the greatest deli
acics are placed. And if anybody has to
5ait for second table, and eat fragments,
: ) not a lady. II a gentleman has seat in
he cars, and n lady comes in, and wants it,
lough he be a Melchiscdeck himself, no
@ must give il up cheerfully. All, and who
seds the iron horse, and makes the ears go,
lights the street-lamps. brushes boots,
olors your hats, aud pounds down the stones
l tho street, o, men! men! poor menl my
oul yearns over you, and longs for your ds
yorance! Do you not see TINT it's the wo-
zen who keep you down to these ignoble
'ils. and who snuil'out the very light of your
xistenccl DO you not SEQ that If they would
My come and help US, and lift off our burden
20 may be free! | used to think, foolish me;
used think that the Bible made us to be the
rotectors of woman, and tina: thus the strong
zero To bear the inirmitves of the weak,
nd that we could not fulfill the designs of
royidence without doing all this hard druid
cry. and exempting our fceber sisters from
i: but since have read the report of the
Worcester Convention, | have learned that
au was an ''old batchelor," and "partook OF
10 preiudices Of the times" and that man
as not designed to be 'the head Of the wo-
Ian." knew it was disagreeable to be
irgeons, and amputate arms and legs, and
nt out tumors, and sew mp wounds, but bad