Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-26

aud Ignorance from which they suffer. We
never ask this from our sons, and should
LOOK upon them MS worthless, did they sub
INIT to such dependence. We bring them
up with the expectation that they shall fol-
low some employment or profession (how-
ever rich we may hch which shall make
them independent. VI we want their nM in
our countmg-bouses, we expect TO give them
n share M the profits. If we need them on
: our farms, who but expects TO work IL BY
halves, and give them the reward of their
labor ?-And This is right But how is il
with the girls? They fnay labor sixteen or
eighteen hours ont of the iweniy-four in our
daries, kitchens, or nurseries, and That for
long years and nobody thinks Of their hnv-
lng earned more than their food and clothes
know one girl in New England who felt
this deeply, and begged her father TO pny
her servants wages, when she did the whole
work of his family which he refused, aud
she LEFT him aud taught school, This very
father had staid with his parents and worked
the farm ot the halves, supporting his own
| large family out of the united stock, for
| more than twenty years; and nt their death
inherited the whole, (about thirty thousand
dollnrs,l because he had stayed i0ih them, they
said, and would have earned one for him
self;--while an unmarried sister who had
stayed, and labOred ns New England women
| know now 10, spinning, weaving, cooking,
washing, making hroOms and mate, rag cur
pets aud soap, was LEFT with the interest Of
Two thousand dollars, the principal of which
was entsilcd upon this brother at her deuth,
which he was so anxious not TO he deprived
of that he crossed her in every little indulg-
ence she might have had, That by the accu-
initiation, Of the interest his legacy might
he Increased. What protection had she
from iliis: Public opinion called il broth
cry carei mud unless she openly dsgraced
him by n disclosure of all his selfshuess,
she must, as she lid, endure TO the end
This is only onc Of many such instances.
All things that God ever made love free
! dom. II Is their nature, and they never
tmWc without II. Birds, animals, and flow
crs resist control and we all acknowledge
| that they are never reduced TO state of
| submission, except under constant exertiou
OF an exterior force, cramping their energies,
aud lettering their will or through their
! peri ct Ignorance of their own power, which
might, If known, free them. The specimens
ever shown os raised very much out of their
| native atmosphere will be stinled and nferi-
or. But IN no part OF nature is infrriory
assigned on account of SEX Differences
| there will he, but no Deficiencies. never
knew female bird love TO be cuged better
than n male one, nor submit TO it a moment
longer, IL she could help il. Nor that our
good aud useful friend of the dairy felt her
self any way inferior TO her stupid though
more powerful brother of the piow. Nei-
ther would woman ever have supposed tba,
her heavenly Father assigned her for INV
position subordinate to Ills son, were il not
Tor The unnnturul and crushing influences
| under which she has 30 long been brough,
aud kept That her own powers of discrini-
mating between what is right for her to
claim, and what is possible for her no,p TO
have, seems almost lost. The present inlso
position which she holds, aud seems in soma
instances cohicnted with, cannot at once DO
overturned; but the truth can and ought
gently to he presented TO her own heart, anil
to the mlnds OF good men aud when once
seen, way To remedy the evils growing our
OF these abuses will gradually be deyeloped.
and we gradually be made ready to receive
aud adopt il.
IL cannot all DO done at once; but thai
| there - nhd has always been, resyeness
under these unnatural claims on women,
alier MIXTURE age, for an rksome dependence
on pnrcuis is shown 10y The early aud in-
mature marriages rushed into TO escnpe
from H. thinking that il they have n home
Of their own they shall be free. They mar
ry for nn independence. How little do they
guess that for one restraint before marriage,
| Hiey nave twenty hlter
| have been asked what plan would lay
down, whnt it is | wunl what particular
change would gain the object aim at.
answer that want suppose, just what any
! independent man would want, when he feels
his own powers making it degrading to him
! To live upon another. want il To he dis
! timely understood that il woman takes
! care of n mans house and children, shs
earns Gs much more than her food and
clothes rs II man does, when he takes caro-
OF tile iurn aud stock. No woman, in tho
present state OF society, is ever admitted to
have enrned more than bare living. But
let every good aud just mnn give lis wifs
now what the law should IF she works as
hard as lie does) just half of whatever in
come he has, either from property or busi-
ness. Let him feel aud acknowledge that
because the labor is different, and her part
OF the firm is indoors, and his out, there is
no rensOn that she deserves no remuneration,
but that she should have half the profits Of
the Joint stock concern; and should tho
thing be reversed, aud he tuke her part, 1
am sure he would feel il quite as worthy OF
reward and Independence as his own. Let
every woman have her own purse. Give
her some motive Tor forethought and thrifl.
aud we should hear less of dleness and
"asteiu exlra,ngnnce. Let every father re-
n,unerae his daughter Just os he would his
son. Educate her for self dependence
Teach her that idleness is as disgracefni az
il is in man, and untold health and happi.
ness would spring from il.
am fully persuaded that could parents be
brought to do this, and public opinion should
secure woman in honorable sell dependence.
one in hundred OF the ill-assorted and
premature marriages now so sorrowfully
endured, would never be formed.
Could It be made unlawful and disgrncs-
ful for woman TO marry before twenty LONG,
they would have time Tor education, as p,sa