Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-06-12
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FROM A LETTER BY MRS. PAULrSA w. DAVIS.
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PRovIDENcE May 18Th.
My DEAR FRIENDs: lam rcioiccd to again
see the call for your annual Cuuvcution.-
Your first movement IN this great works two
years ngo was watched with Intense interest.
by all those who felt how important "A spiiug
you were touching in the worlds history. II
was no childish thing for your young State TO
be SO early ia action; do not say tie first, as
has often been said, for there were two Con-
ventions held in Central or Western New
York four years ago, and the chord then
struck has not since ceased to vibrate. The
small stone thrown into the still waters has
continued to produce eddy after eddy till the
outer circles have come back to us FROM
foreign shores with renewed power. do
not however doubt but what The individuality
Of woman will he first recognized and au-
thenicaied in the new West. Men feel L. $
regard there for old worn ont institutions
Time honored customs were lett behind like
out-grown cloathes 10y the adventurers who
have in few years changed those stately
forests into fair aud pleasant homes. Men
have learned in this free life that they can do
very well without these crumbling insiitu-
tons and customs; they have learned 10y the
circumstances of their own lives the first
w HuC N'UluNlhtN, illul lliull ~
superior To all insiituliOn-ihat his self
hood rises above them, aud having learned
this fundamental principle, they will be less
slow in according 10 woman her true woman
hood. Following ont the principle TO its
ultimate the legislators will perceive il To hc
their duiy 10 legislate for the many aud not tor
tho few; for the interests of one will he the
interest of all. As our movement strikes at
the root of the deepest evils of society. we
are bound 10 put forth no crude thoughts, no
theories which will not bear the test; we
must advocate no one-sdcd doctrines. The
unity, harmony aud oneness, of the human
family must he plainly understood to be
our broad ground of organization.
II we demand TO have all Fictitious res
trants removed from Us, We must not leave
it TO be supposed that we desire to assume
the rule over men or that autugonisms
are To he increased by our throwing Off
That which oppreSses us. There are
now many bitter autagouisms existing be-
tween the sexes, they have crept into the
sacred place Of home, aud scowl beside
the domestic altar. III our conversations aud
writings our great aim must he TO remove
these, MS preliminary step toward the
uuityoi all in the hOuds of peace. Peace is
desirable but we are taught TO he "iirst pure
then peaceable," aud there can be no pnri,y
where the principle il recognized that
"mght makes right" An unlimited power,
though it is never abused, is auiagonslic TO
purity, to peace, to charity or love. Political
power pivots itself upon the bnrharous may
i'm tIlntwho would he free himself must strike
the blow Our movement Hs moral rcvo-
luton aud perhaps the very last which is 10
disturb the tranquil flow Of life, must have
n higher pivotal maxim than has governed
man in his struggle TO Obtain the right Of
self government. Let ours then he, There is
truth, only in the unity, harmony aud ohc-
ness of the race; with doctrine like this
we cannot fail of our purpose, aud with this
principle fully established there will bo no
privileged classes.
Hoping that your Convention may he
characterized by the high tone of those
which have preceded it.
am yours very truly,
In the cause of Humanity,
PAULINA w. DAVIS.