Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-16

oped divinity. Were the latter perfectly
developed, it would as completely harmonize
with his animal nature, as the supreme Di-
viuty does with the material universe. But
mankind instead of initiating the order of
nature, has ever looked upon her laws and
moniiions, as something too gross aud grow
elling to dictate intellect; consequently those
instructive and sublime realities, but few of
which are within mnn's comprehension, are
overlooked aud rejected us comparatively
worthless, for some supernatural idenIity,
having no existence save in his own perver-
ted Imagination. Not only have the moni-
tons of nature been rejected, but reason,
natures highest dcvclopement. Occasion
ally reason has stood forth and demanded TO
he heard, hut the cry Of carnnl, earthly, dew
! iiish, lns drowned the feeble voice, aud the
| culprii, amid the tumnIIuous anaihemas of
the overwhelming multitude, has been con-
| demned TO an ignominious prison. Yet
there never has been one step taken, in all
the devious, protraclcd march from savage
to civilized life, only rs reason, by scientific
calculation, has practically adapted the laws
of nature to the various arts, that now so
slrkiugly distinguish those opposite states
of society.
Having partially examined the natural
rights of humanity, let us now examine its
wrongs, which Blackstone defines TO be n
deprivation of rights.
The first and greatest Of all wrongs is the
outrageous aggression Of man, upon the
rights of woman.
The unnatural exercise of,is superior phys
ical strength is without parallel in all the
jurisdiction of instinct.
No other male animal was ever known to
infringe upon the rights OF the female, or
pervcrt the harmony of his species, by the
least restriction of those feminine qualities
that are MS dislinciively recognized among
them, as in the human species. The brute
mother has no fears that the sire of her off
spring will use his greater strength to sepa-
rate them from her natural guardianship by
virtue OF any higher claim of paternity
But man regardless of natures claims, has
Ilsurped the prerogative of making laws,
without womnn's assent which have outraged
every God given right, by his selElegaized
superiority; tearing nsunder the sacred tics
of maternal instinct, 10y forcible execution
Of his unholy decree of paiernaI precedence.
Human sympathy cannot, without horror,
,l, I..l ,,c
wrongs in past ages, where we find her
crushed below the very brute, hy the most
lnborious, aud mcnial servitude to her iyran-
icnl husband; where she has been forciby
at his will driven away ia want and dcgra-
dalion; while her children have been torn
lrom her arms, with us little remorse, as fruit
from the senseless tree. Even at tho pres
cni in our own boosted land Of freedom, we
still find woman treated as an inferior being,
compelled by taxation TO support n govern
mcnt in whose laws she is allowed no voice
to rear colleges TINT she is forbidden TO en-
ter; to earn property over which she has no
control; compelled to perform the same Ia
Dor MS man, for one third the pay compelled
TO give up her children to her husband in
case of divorce compelled 10 see her sons,
dear as her hearts blood, dragged to war to
hc shot down us beasts of prey, having no
legal voice TO stay the ambitious demands of
the military cIieitains who rule her country's
destiny.
She is compelled TO witness their dcgrada-
ton, nad ultimate ruin, by tlIe legolized rob-
| berry of stealing away their senses by ardent
spirits, and with them, their money; or
whatever other abuses her country permits;
! for she is allowed no authority in tho laws
| that govern the dearest interests, that the
aiiectionate heart ever cherished. She is
compelled, after hearing all these unjust dis
abilities herself, to SEQ her tenderly reared
daughters usIIered out into the world to pass
through the same ordeal. Yet, if she com.
plain, she is scofed at, and accused of in
gratitude TO her PROTECTORS. II she refuse
confinement within the narrow sphere pre-
scrihed by man, and persist in her claims of
equality, she is denounced as all inlidel, for
DENYING his divine right to rule over her.
Another outrage upon humanity is the claim
Of one man to rule over aud ensave another,
because of different color. There is no
greater variety OF color, or feature, among
the different races of men, than is found
among the several tribes, in the same spec
les of animals. Among our herds, who ev
er thought one color superior to another,
only as matter of fancy-color being only
a different arrangement of the same element
ary particles. Though differing in form and
leOture, was il ever taken os evidence of