New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-23


arrangements az once. Il is an outrage both on the
lecturer and The audience to iuPrson them FOR two
mortal hours Ia zach unnlid .atcd gloom.
Woman ihe Inferior.
BY NRs. Z. oAEEs SMITH
The Fifth Lecture Of Mrs. E. Cakes Smiths
cOurse delivered last evening 81 Hope Chapel In
consequence OF the unfavorable state Of The weather
the audience was not so large usul The Lecturer
commenced her discourse as follows The subject Of
niy remarks this evening Is. Woman as Inferior 70
Man" Who shall be the grest apostle TO womsni
Who shsl interpret her 10 herself and thence reveal
herto the world Our books are full OF false dlnea
tions.hey represent Man as our enemy the perpetual
foe TO our purity-snd we, always subordinate vscil
ltng uibecile misled by our affections and living in
weird at narrow and degrading for love - 10
longer noble when it has become a necessity crea-
ture whose only world is in the affections is so nearly
allied 70 the lower creations that she ceases 70 be
representative Of WomanhoQi. By education or in
heritspec she Is diseased being ft for the hos
ptsl than the freside. better adapted 10 fas.ings
prayers and auiidotes, than the family altar She is
unworthy the Office of maternity AMI unit for
the holy position Of wife, for a vile SHOULD be
friend counsellor and lover combined. Yet the
only phase in which truly recognized in the
world. Our brothers have ignored all but the quail.
ties % nature that bring in relation 70 them.
selves. They have ignored all that by any possibility
might bring US into competition with them selves
They have filed the world with codes of lava in
which deInguencies have been carefully provided
with penalties they have burned the stake they
have butchered in wars; they have confined us in
dungeons tortured in inquistons, and hung us on
gibbets without once saying by your leave, without
once nquring if a creature thus held to account by
the law represented in that law. Our voice in
legislation hrs been dumb if every man in the
country owed his birth q mute and we have been
involved in all the horrors that have outraged the world
with no power 10 counterfeit them. We have brought
forth children in anguish he immortal to social
wrongs, and I'll the charnelhouses Of earth with hu-
man corruption
Men grayely sit in judgment upon u.s. and condemn
for crimes that never would have existed but for
this false legislation They incarcerate in prisons
which would have disgraccd the Garth but for this
denial TO OF the rights pertaining to Us "a portion of
humanity for had aided in the formation Of law it
is certain our legislative code would never have been
what it now is; and when we consider what Is due 70
free, christian people could not well be worse They
write books and with odurn for faults belong.
ing to the period rather than the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
code Of moral science which it is their whole study to
induce US to infringe and then upon the hounds
Of the law, or the more terrible vultres Of human cal
umny, till We are hunted from high places, and
sink pitch OF infamy which the angels might
weep.
Do not cay the designs OF God are visible in all this
do not say in your blasphemous concet that the Al
mighty designed that the mothers of the should be
blind helpless slave disfranchishcd mbecile and de-
pendentFhuned ind oppressed by the very being she
has nuItured at her bosom. The holy sentiment of
terny cries shame upon the world and the noble soul
Of Womanhood cries shame and the vast heart of hui
manly cries shame. We talk of human Governments
and Democracics; the world has never bched such
sight a whole people bowling down to mems embod
ed sovereignty viii ii behold that vision of d.
vine power aud beauty till Woman shares equally with
Man all the privileges of citizenship, aud il il here where
the greatest impulse has been givl to the human free
DOM that this Democracy must be built up It is here
that we must right this great injustice done by husbands
and fathers and brothers, to the wives and mothers,
and sisters OF the race
II does not matter that the world has precedent to
justify what we claim. We ask only justice in the
sight of God and Our people not such miser-
able stcklers for tmehonored usages up such
aplea-our whole history has been one of denial and
rejection. We have been always nation adopting
ourselves to new emergencies. Our career has been
one Of protest We look boldly at human necessities
az rights arising from the nature Of things, and
ready overheard whole cargoes of precedents
as did the tea party in Boston harbor.
Women have questioned more or lees through all
changes of the country and while have departed
entirely from the platform built by the Pilgrims they
have retained tenaciousy their of the nerory Of
Woman Our personal attractions no longer regard
cd as bugbears, il is true but they would now then
silence our intellectual questioning if they could But
it cannot be; the habit has become inyeterate,
movement for rights is old assertion dating
back far when our brothers amused themselves by
hanging for witches in Salem Il Is not we Of to.
day who disturbing the Republic by claims for
we have only preserved the watchword handed down
TO us from the women Of the Mayiover"
Again who shall be the Apostle Of Womanhoodi
Are we prepared to accept her should che appear or
would she be followed by persecution and obloquy
was the Christi know not, and yet fear such will
be the fact Her revelation must wound the selfove
Of thousands, and there is no friend malicious
and cruel than the born Of wounded selfloye The
prototype of the perfect humanity in it mascHne
pect has appeared in Jesus. Time must reveal the
true humanity the feminine aspect the perfect type
combining al attributes of Man Woman and Child
Tie fair lecturer then proceeded to show that no
man. not even Plato had get forth the true nature OF
Woman; that woman alone must be the expounder Of
Womanhocd; that she only could be the reyelator Of
her That she must be WIFE mother, and prophet
mAD wsnsn and child friend, counsellor and lover
the tender, eompassionstne woman, the intutive per
ceiyer Of Divine truths the wise and judicious OBJ
server Of life in all lie necessities and with soul 70
which the heavens opened and angels ascend aud
descend with revelations of infinite love and purity.
New-York Bible society.
The Twenty-ninth Anniversary Of Jhis So
c;etv was corneunorated last night az The Broadway