Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-25
Syracuse N. Y, Sept. 9Th, 1852.

Syracuse N. Y, Sept. 9Th, 1852.
Mrs. T.. Oakes Smith has just delivered
uoslerly address, clothing the practical duty
before us with the artistic beauty of her
poetic soul, urging to immediate action in all
possible ways" that this place already
watch word of freedom, he tho Thermopoac
where we take our stand until DEATH"
Miss Lucy Stone rose to speak Oh the first
resolutions. can give you very little idea
Of her oloqucnce, impressiyeness, aud close,
clear logic from any partial report. She
speaks without preparation, but also without
Hesitation or wandering, aud is n universal
iavorite with the audience. She is smoll in
stature, dresses partially la Bioomer, that is
~ a neat dress Of black silk, slightly short
cncd aud loosely fitting, beneath which are
light pnnts Of the same material is plain in
appearance, but with face, with glow of
intellect, aud features soitened into almost
positive beauty, by the thoroughly kind and
loving soul that looks forth through them
The present address was characterized by
her usual directness, consisting mostly of
illustrations Of The workings of the laws in
regard to woman. Among others she mem
toned n case in Boston, of n young lady
who married, bringing to her husband seve-
raj thousand Dollars. lie died four weeks
after the marriage, and his relatives came
down from the country, entered their claim
and secured wo-thirds of her property.
Another, of mother, who hud lnbored
with all true wolnun's self-sncrifcing devo-
lion, 10 accumulate n sum sufficient to carry
her only child, an invalid, TO the sea-shore,
MS last chance of restoration, when the
hard-heartcd husband aud illher learning
The place of deposite of this invaluable
treasure, seized il, (you know it was not
stealing under The tdto, it was his, because The
p0pldn tpds his, he owned her) appropriated
j, to pay old debts, and left his child TO die
aud his wife to weep unavailing tears and
suffer untold miseries.
Another still, where young man not long
married, was sinking into the grave leaving
u wife and daughter. A brother of his long
married aud clildess, wished greatly to OBJ
tain the child as his own, aud hy continued
pcrsuasions succeeded in securing an article
making her over TO himself upon the death
of lis brother. lie afterwards persuaded
the mother TO consent to her return with
him TO his home, for mere visit, but when
upon the denth of the father, the mother
wrote for her return, she was informed it
was no longer hers, but his, and when in her
dssolaton and anguish of soul she set off
fer the place, and sought legal advice, was
shown as beyond appeal the document in the
ireniulous hand Of the sick husband, making
over her own child TO another. You will
sny added Miss 5. that these were all very
mean men. Yes, but remember Just us
mean as the lao aiioIrs them 10 be.
Anioineiie Brown, of Rochester, followed.
She is like Miss s. graduate Of Oberlin,
nud an honor to il. But quite unlike her
Otherwise. Has less vigor aud strength, aud
less intellectually of tuce,i every way more
thoroughly feminine, but is of more pleas
iug address and well cultivated mind. She
urged woman's right 10 he tried by her
peers, from the impossibity that one of nm
other sex should so well understand her ma
tire, her peculiar trials aud mptntions.--
II is not so much because they will not, that
they cannot right women, they do not know
h0p 10 do Il.
Mrs. Ernestine Rose, of New York city,
followed She is Polish lady, of fine tai
1uis aud cultivation, of prepossessing per-
sonnl appearance, her dark hair silyered
with grey, but MI eye of youthful fire that
kiudles into hrilliancy under the glow o.
thought. She differed on some points from
bliss Is. hut urged lint the right of woman
10 trial 10y her peers was equally hers
whether she was unlike man or otherwise
ii alike, the right was ~ evidently hers a'
his, ifunlke he cannot rightly understand o
represent her. She spoke Of the charge o
ambition brought against the women of thi
effort, and insisted that certain amount o
ambition is essential TO full development an'
success ia man, why not in woman. Is i
right and well to be great man, but wron:
10 DO a great woman? She decided will
earnestness the idea of sex in mind or NOR
nls, we could not make Thing right in ou'
sex and wrong In the other. She said it wa
proof OF great native beauty, intellect, aro
nobility Of soul in woman that under all lht
discour0gemeDts, and despite of all hin
drancns, she is good for, ms much as she is