Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-18
Gclrttro articles.
WOman'S Rights,

The Tribune publishes a circular, calling
for donations aud loans, to be SO invested
Us to secure to female laborers in the cities,
the profits of their labor. MIR. Grcely intro
duces this circulor, with the following re-
marks in regard to the present condition and
future prospoc; of female industry:
In the agitation now in progress for more
equal aud Just relation between the two sex
es, in ilie domains of Industry, Government
and Practical Life there is very much ut
which the 6lslidious may covil and the cyn-
ical sneor. Our female champions of their
sex, are not Dlways those who have the deem
est and clcarest perceptions Of the wrongs
they would iaiu expose and redress. They
often seem TOO volublC in their Rhetoric, too
theatrical in their pathos to escape the sus-
picion Of diiitudinising. The illnatured are
reminded by them Of tie client who burst
into tears on hearing his lawyer plead his
case in court, declaring that 4" he had never
before suspected tho extent and nagrancy OF
the wrongs he had endured"
But these foibles ought not to blind MS 10
the real grievances which the 'Wonau's
Rights movement is intended 10 redress
The laws hitherto enacted and modified ex-
nre, unjust to Women. We do not regard
the reservation of political franchises TO the
rougher sex as hardship to the softer, ex-
cepi as il leads to aud results in practical
injustice; but when we find Woman exclud-
ed, not merely from Political stutions but
from the professions also; her education
exceedingly narrow aud superficial heI
property, inherited from her parents, or nc.
qnired 10y her own industry, coolly taken
from her Mt marriage and handed over, moi
to the marital partnership or firm, hut to thC
husband alone, to be preserved or squnndered
al his sovereign pleasure we feel that there
are great practical wrongs involved in the
present Legal aud social condition of Woman.
nnd thar, IN view of The prevalent ndifcr.
ence hitherto cvinccd by ier lord and mas
ter, she is fully justified in attempting 10
redress them. primarily, by her own exertions.
All are aware that tie Industry of Woman
is not rewarded equally to, or relatively with.
that of Man. II there be n species of man.
ulncture in which equal amounts of Mems
and Womcn's labor is required, at least two
thirds Of the aggregate disbursements for
wages will be pail to the Men employed,
leaving but one-third for the Women. Let
a citizen in active life die, leaving three
grown children OF either sex without prop
erty, and every body realizes at once that the
boys can take care of themselves aud need
no compassion, while the case is very differ
ent with the girls. Unless these Inter have
remarkable talent or have enjoyed rnre op-
portunitics for education, they will become
burthensome to relatives or friends, or they
must sink below the sphere in which they
have hitherto moved aud engage in an irk-
some and desperate struggle for daily bread.
bad rs the state Of things has hitherto
been, il is becoming still worse the onward
march of machinery is dnly encroaching
more and more upon the narrow field hilh-
erto conceded to female effort The spiu-
ning-trnmc aud the power.loom llnve thrown
out of employment nine-teutlIs of the fe.
males formerly engaged in the conversion
of cotton, wool and hemp into fabrics; and
now, the Sewing Machine is upon tile point
Of eflacting similar revolution with regard
10 Needle-work. The sphere of Industrial
Opportunity for Woman must be enlarged
or great proportion of the sex must sink
into ahject dependence und hopeless pauper-
ism.
Idle, in view Of these fncts, is the stubborn
conservatives suggestion :-Woman's place
is nt the head Of her household MS Wife and
Mother: lei her accept that aud he contented
mothers. Many could not marry if they
would some would not if they could; and
besides, those whose destiny it is to marry
may not he transferred at once from
Inoiher's lreast TO husbands fireside-
there are years of girlhood and emily wo-
manhood through which tie daughters Of
The poOr, especially if carly deprived Of n
fathers guardianship, must earn their liycli-
hood by independent eXertion. What has
the conservative to proffer with regard TO
these? Aud what has he to say as To their
luhoriug from daylight TO dark at ncver-cnd-
ing houscwork for some four to six dollars
per month, while their bro,ers are paid
twice TO thrice as much for labor less repul-
sive nnd nowise associated in the common
mind with personal degradation And
what has he 10 say 10 this probem-'lf If tens
'of thousands OF women in all our great
'clies are glad TO work for ten TO twenty.
. five cents per day at shirt. making, Sc.
'whatNyili they fud 10 do and what musi
'become Of them, when even this desperate
'resourco shall have been swept away by
the relentless advance of Machinery.
A sochl Transformation or renovation o
some sort seems inevilnIie, and the praciica
question Of the day is this Shall this trans
formation he forpsecu, cuinprehcnhcd ant
guided by heuevolence aud wisdom or
'Shnl il be left to burst upon us like ih'
avalanche, tile tornado, or the earthquake?
Let Christians, philnnhropisls and patriots
ponder these problems.