Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-06-11

States of America,-how il stands more es-
pecially in the State of Ohio, in regard to
woman aud properly, do not fully under
stand. know what the law is in England,
the land that gave me birth, in respect to
woman, and know that the rights of women
in Europe ought TO be as dear to us Us in
America.
The law in England regards the posses
sions of women, | mean married women, rs
the property of their husba nds; and wo-
man who has $4,000 to-day, aud tnorries
tomorrow, the moment the marriage cere-
mony is over, all her earnings mud treasures
except such settlement as she holds IN the
hand writing of her husband, granted before
their marriage, is her husbands. In Eng
land, the law is, "Whot is my wiie's is mine,
and whit is mine is my own" And that is
the popular rule. II after her marriage she
earns $4,000, this is exclusively her hus-
bands or # she receive bcquest, unless
il is SO worded Ms to debnr his cluin, that
legacy too, becomes h,r husbands II she
should marry to-day and die tomorrow, she
cannot will one dollar of the money, not
even to her child Ii the husband die, he
has the power to will the property away
from her and her children, and She can
claim nothing.
Perhaps It may be said TINT the husband
never takes advantage of these laws. |
know n case in which n husband took adj
vantage of the law. A man had been mar
tied,-he had gone through one wife's for
| tune he fixed his eye upon another woman,
md Ivy craft and fraud gained her hand
She was wonlnn Of pr pcrty, and was we'd
| by him on that account. She hecane a
mother, aud he shortly afterwards died
| Whether she had feared anything, | do not
I En.,,y. I.N nf har Gr,....ta boI g.oraI
for her, and had taken the precnution Of Sc
curing her property to herself Before his
death, however, it was found he had hired
lawyer to insert in this article flaw, so
that il was invalid. She discovered that
she was in her husbands power, aud feared
the worst. Her husband at his death, left
every cent of the property not to her chill
dren, hut 10 bis own relations, only provid-
ing that she should have the interest so long
as she remained his widow But mark =
not long after his death, it was discovered
that he had given notes to lis relations for
various sums. They collected these aud she
was robbed of all. She lnd no redress
Sometimes she was advised TO put the mnt-
ter in.o chnucery but it is not expected in
England, that chnnccry suit will end for
several generations, and she wisely forbore, |
and let the mntter drop.
These are facts for which | can vouch-
The man who trea,a, this woman so menu-
ly, does not stnndsNlonc in the world. But !
the question is not what men do, but what |
they have the po,rer to do, aud we have no
right to tempt men TO do wrong, by giving !
them the power to do wrong. Bad iaips
should he abolished. If law ,rorks badly, |
that is better reason for abolishing il, aud
all those laws which give to men The right
IN Nxnfnnlfa pr aud ba 81 nLt To,
woman herself, enlrustng to them such n
fearful power, should be abolished without
one moments delay.
But this is no, all. Woman is dealt nm |
justly with in regard to Education. 1t is |
said that woman has not the same natural |
abilities MS man. well suppose she has but
one half the intellectual power that mnn has |
is she only to have one quarter by being |
denied the advantages of eiucaiion? Be- |
cause she hes lttle TO begin with, must we |
mike it less? IL woman has less intellect |
than man, she should have better opporiuni- |
ties,-if she must he behind mnn, especial |
means should he devised to make her Ms
little behind aud below him as possible. III
mother has two children, one of whom is |
wcnk, and the other strong what docs she
do? Give the weaker one less exercise, that
it may become still weaker? No. She
says we must make this weak boy as strong
ms his brother. Why then not act the part
of kind mother toward the female portion
of society? know that there are women
present, who would spurn the idea that wo-
man is intellectually inferior to man, and
am well assured they would mike out
pretty good case. PIT woman against a
man on this single point, and OH will soon
see that the woman will prove herself the
strongest.
There is another matter in which every
one present will ! think, feel tlIut woman
has just ground of complaint. In England,
the principle is, mo taxation without repre-
sentnion." And il wns upon this prncple
that the American Revolution commenced.
Ii was considered nothing better than rob-
berry for Great Britain to tax American prop.
erty, and yet refuse Americans the right to
vote upon the disposal Of the money.
But it the principle of taxation without
representation, be unjnst in regard to men,
ltcannot be less so when applied TO women.
Then why nre women not represented in
your assemblies? That women nre taxed
you well know,-tlnt it is not every woman
who has n husband to pay her taxes, you
all know; and you all know that the cnses
in which the women have TO pay their hus-
bands taxes, aud feed aud cloihe their hus-
bands besides, are not rare. Yet woman is
forbidden voice in electing The legislators
of the nation. People ridicule her for asking
II. They grant it TO the mere boy that has
just reached twenty.one; but to the woman
OF intellect the woman of virtue, the woman
of wealth, they deny il The boy of 81, if
he has not learned the alphabet, must be
represented before he is taxed; but the wo-
man, though she be philosopher, must not
have voice in the elections!
But again ] refer to the husbands author
i'y over the wife. In England, the doctrine
is that The husband is his wies master, and
has right to rule--that tho wife occupies