New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-12

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| night with slave TO fan her into the arms Of
| Morpheus and be washed and dressed in the
morning by slave. Such modesty is not expected
to sympathze much with the freedom of Worces-
ter, Salem, Akron and Massion Conventions.
| Let us look at another elegant extract from
The Quarterly. Speaking Of those women thus
engaged the writer saws: They should be
women but, ike Macbeths rifches, they come TO
US in such questionable shape, that We hesitate
so to interpret them, mora monsters as they are;
things which nature dIsclaims. In cees'ns to De
women, they yet have failed to be msn.
A writer who attempts thus mercilessly TO
| crush those engaged in what they deem good
I cause-a writer who attempts to sacrifice them
by ndicule, sarcasm anu abuse, should be cautious
/ against making fool of himself IL he venture
upon class'ea illusions in such cases, he should
guard against heaTssy and bad memory. Shsk-
spere is an English notion" but The Quarterly
/ writer seems 10 have a limited motion Of
! Shakspere's language. Who ever before heard of
"Mscbeth's witchesw But this is not argument
though when man merely croaks, he Is liable to
double contempt when ignorant and stupid in
/ his crOaking and especially when he attempts to
appear learned, and betrsys his ignorance. He
would not be entitled to as much consideration.
were ~ not contributor to di snihe3 Quarterly,
| and fair specimen of the whole rUce OF the
champions of error and despotism.
Moral monsters as they are, which nature
! disclams; in ceasing to be women they have
u
men of Southern chirairy that is so much
Wanted. Ii is not | who make the inyidious
distinction of locality-it is the writer in question
who thanks Heaven that our modest Southern
sisters have held alOof from its dehlng PITCH
Ii is concusiyely proved on historical, phiosophi
CAL political and democratic principles, chat there
i,e foauafn0s" 81 "adlnS xaRan ,.tS"nS sths
| bility. IL is selfevident tmt she male is
the most man. and the fe male the most
woman. Mans capabilities are the ireest, whose
powers, ply steal and mental are most fully mani
tested. IL is selfevident that both man and wo-
man are most fully and truly developed by acqui-
ring the greatest number of ideas, pursuing the
greatest variety of labors. and energetcally en-.
plOyiDg the greatest number of faculties. These
are educational and disciplinary axiOms, with
which all reasoning on the subject of mental cul-
ture and development commences the data from
which sturt-aS we'll settled any mathemat-
ical aXiOmS. III, then, the number OF subjects for
man or woman to cOnsider-it the range of action
for either sex can be widened Of course the men,
tai strength of MAJ and woman can be increased,
and humanity exalted. Woman is forbidden to
act in some departments of human engagements by
law and custom. Many things which she can do
she is forbidden to perform, and therefore her re-
source are 80 far hmited and she Is 80 much the
weaker for it. Ii is scli-cyident that anything n
woman can do, she has right To perform at her
OWN discretion. Woman can vote, rs far ns men,
tai or ply steal capabty is concerned. She can
serve ~ political stations u we consider herablty
aleIe but in all this she is fOrbdden-iorbdden
to use her powers, forbidden to derive the strength
and deyelopmc mt which would fellow this enlarge
neDt of her sphere of action, this increase OF re-
spJnslbllty and selt-hOOd. And yet for believing
these doctrines which no one can rciite, and seek
ing to establish in the social and political systems
these seli-eydent truths, the chtratr0HS writer IN
The Quarterly uses the language We have quoted.
Natural Rights are in bad Odor where 100000 of
human beings are fettered to the plOw, the spade,
the hoe, and the sugar mill.
But =" i'm ccasing "a be women they have failed
to be men," SAYS The Quarterly. ! refer to it,
not because this writer uttered 1t, but because It
is the common speech OF all our opponents. Ii
Woman ceases to be Woman in attempting to cx-
tend her sphere of action and give her powers a
fuller manifestation, and higher Development,
what does Man become IN restricting her acton,
in limiting her growth in thought and wisdom
Let The QUdgteTig answer-what does man be-
come in running athwart the rights OF the race,
and saving to onc-haif of m.Nkind, " thus far ana
no farther shalt thou gO!" lie becomes impu-
dent for " hat right has Inc to procllim Inns III
sovereign over another lie becomes an arlst0'
crat. because he is not cOntcntcd with the govern
mont of hin self but desires to control others at
his will. They fail to become men, and in attempt
ing to transcend the limits OF his authority, his
"youlting ambition o'erleaps itself and falls the
other sde;' for behold his eebeness and stupidity,
the off prng OF Mothers grown soft and degenerate
under Masculine despOtism.
Ii may be said that our grandmOthers were VI
gorous, and nurtured our healthy fathers, while
under as much restraint as the mo hers of our
time. IL is true that our grand or great-gi aud
mothers were stronger women than their descend
ant daughters but It is not true that they were
as much restrained. The race in this country has
made wonderful intellectual and educational adj
yancement since those hale and hearty women
blessed the earth. Wonderful has been the pro-
press of invention and discOyery-Of science, art,
and all phys cal improvement. With this progr
have advanced, in u still greater ratio, luxury, fash
ion, and all the facilitating vices. Thus We see
that the ply steal and moral progress OF the ages
has created demand for high degree Of dcvel-
opment on the part OF our SOmeD, to enable them
TO be true philosophers, to understand the new
lations into which Progress is continually bring
ing them-to know the effect every changing mole
of lite has and will have upon them and the race
and to be able to 30 adapt themselves to every
succeeding change as to preserve all their physical
yigOr while the mind s more and more unfolding
its powers. The race, during the past fifty years,
has passed far beyond the reign OF mere Instinct,
and the pres ent and future will be more and more
uuder the empire of Reason, Intelligence, Consci-
cutjousness and Philosophy. Hence the nccessl-
ty for more rig I'd practical education, fuller UNI
folding of thought in both sexes in order that they
NAV resist The encrOachments OF eneUating luxu-
ry idleuess and the ten thousand abuses to which
civilization subjects the ignorant and unthinkIng.
Hence our argument for bringing Woman up to
the same standard of responsibility as Man, OF fit
ting her as well as him Tor the age in which she is
born. and therefore, the guarantee to her Of the
same natural political, civil and educational rights,
as essential to make her feel the responsibilities
which civilization imposes. In more barbarous
ages, no rights were recognized except those which
the law conferred, in general, upon the Aristoera-
cy. In the worst of Despotsms, Queens have
been permitted to reign but in our refined Repub
licanism no woman IL ever permitted to hold q
political station. In England, now, some
offices can be filed by women.
To pass on toward conclusion, and returning
again 10 our syllogism that Government has no
NE bit to limit Human Freedom except for the pre-
servation Of order-that laws limiting the freedom
of Woman are not necessary to preserve order
therefore, all such laws should be repealed. The
whole question turns on the point whether lmita-