New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-26
g womnn and the womnn's Movement"


A good English writer, prince OF words and IDEAS,
has lately written an article in Putnam's Monthly on
"Woman and the Womans Movement" To speak
If the artistic merits of this production would be super
auous. We have to deal only with the sentiment.
Has not our author totally inexperienced the genius
and demands of the Woman's Movement" He en-
ploys the purest sunshine to pencil the likeness and
over all is thrown the rainbow drapery of decomposed
LIGHT but the effect is the inverted image of camera
obscura melting as YOU look into the dmness dss0vlng
view rather than a perpendicular, honest daguerreO-
type growing more and more e-lKe uhder your eaa]c'
TIL you look to it start forth into breathing reay
The ladies who manage the movement ana give IL
character surely, "never have dreamed oil Claiming
the existing professions the arena upon when wo-
man is to enter into rivalry with man ana mus
retrieve her birthrigh Compared with such iOundaon
the rock mon which they have assayed to plant tner
feet is like continent in its eternal strength, placed IN
parallel with coral reef just emerging from the waters
of Southern sea. - ., ,,.,c1 IL;
content WHICH is pervading all minds and conditions and
which surely oretokens the eventual permanent enlarge
ment of society" hencer their Immediate ann Is TO
bresk artificial shackles and leave the SUBJECT ree 10
think and act in any, and every arena where MS own
ah;t;es Owe him license to enter. Their primary de-
mand is mental and physical latitude 10 woman
bounded only by her own capacity Ihey wSulu regain
her title TO mark out her own pathway whether ~ oo
ioyous flight among the stars or 100tsore Phgrhage
sands of earth Leave her free say They'd
aeveon her own nature. Let her grow IN symmetry anu
natural ygor unpruned by jealous CONSERVATIVE custom
which has been wont in times past to sever every ouu
limo of womany thought springng III new direction anu
o;y;n toten of variation from the patented model oil
approyed womanhOod. They would quicken thaI
"heathful discomfort, till 1t is glowing IKE I'VE
in woman's bosom then let the mental eye, turn ln
ward read by the painful light It's
IL there are evils in society those evils are 10 De- ana
ought TO be- remedied. Allow woman TO study the eyh
and its causes, and the relations she sastans 10 eac
ion ha cad
tb search: let there be hight and no depth from
wb;cb she is excluded by artificial barrers no maze
an intricate that may be licensed to shut her OUT oy
tborny hedges of private or public Precedent, III 9he
harolant fear that she viii grow bewildered Let
b Creator stamp her mission upon her nature let them
limit and define her sphere by her capacity iet nun
@ agsinst her as many subtle barriers OF sentiment ana
taste as he will but let not man so ABOUT W qua" nei
with his clumsy iron letters OF masculine Ia"
there is good vet unattaned by mankind this good
ia the great desderatum OF the race IL Is ieSaIy ~
which every man and woman mas az nv 90 sat ;ts
S 20 he left as actually and absolutely free to seek lts
atts;nment as his neighbor-as free as the one can
he and vet harmonic with the freedom Oh inc lli!
It is then not only the right, but the inquest 800
of woman 10 search after TINS goou SS "isoi fS
tressnre not for herself merely, but Tor her KIM It,
tben Tho roessions are paed in by the DrstlnS peg
cts of custom and her chosen pain Is thus lPe 49,
she must of necessity demand, elther 'hot 'ne ~;
be thrown down. or the gates WSs he stand.
rsty hinges for her freely for her oroer
neng tfrough the and sees the ~ 80
with and
substitute somehipe better Ii che tanees she 0ouu
these pubic commons-publc not 70 man aone-tl.o
den she must claim isht at least TO make the
Men NAV warn her the piercing brArs Sut ne M :,
s. ev,e,iance would her the best OF teachers ~
any rate shc mpelsd protest against -
official whey ards have ample @uu
xbundsnt psc Ell for the play thought and muscle WINE many
In the womens quarters are ha1
dIed tore4her in destusOn wonder teT plea or
While she the iron OF legal depend
corrdpa In heart OF TIE WIFE she can onI oesnu
even though be too late in this democratic coun
e. think of retrieving her dignity by recourse to the learned
Wy n the Vulan furnace Of Lawi forging thuniero s
enacmsn be hurled unceremoniousy AZ her poor
sec9unsned scahing dash OF popular sentiment she
s,cely withhold her claim right as sooty workman al
a. sees where power Manufactured with sucn mnnuncehee
She might even prefer become the sws and erswny e.ch
h ns,oed In the Of legal chains TOR the ntes
1hs o rather sit in passive sorrow we the
,nspend their sngured counteres over Ger 40 ~
he.bstone But the Of those who give Character 70 t
moyement freedom 10 enter the existing aep Oh
hn, feedom 10 enter lawful arena Of the past o.
In which Woman may be mpeled TO the exercise o. I s ne,
bestowed talents In word they demand the removal o %
of ali social and civil disabilities which are founded upon ~
socisl arrapgements Their immediate oe9ect 70
domant eperge of women themselves 20 engage IN inc 49,
en Of question 60 intricate Its testimony and 20
In IL consequences. ,..s wo-.n Ie,ps ne.
word now upon the nstsral nferiori'y OF woman Leg
knowledge Man her superior In passion 10 nteect pa
strength Ish then the mere absence o. these ns q5~