New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-20
woMsws RIGHTS AND THE E1B4E.

To Re EGdoyof TIN Y Tubpae
SIR Having gained some acquaintance with you through
The columns Of TIE Tribune take the liberty ofaddresng
YOU few lines merely for Information. Much as esteem
your bold straightforward the subject of reform
and with due Difference your superior knowledge must
beg leave TO dissent from item of your reform code
That Is the subject of Womans Rights do not oppose
Womcns Rights and think there are some laws needed
for her special benefit But think you claim too much
for her If understand you you claim for Woman equality
with Non in every respect You would have her legislae
and eligible to all Offices This is going much farther than
the Bible or my conscience would approve. will give
Won few quotations from the Bible. Please give an eI
rlarrtion Of them through Tie Tribune and you wiz
confer a favor many OF your readers here
First The Lord said to Mother Eve, "Thy desire shall
be TO Thy husband and he shall rule thee Not
Paul rays: The husband is the head Of the wife,
~ Isl is the head Of the Church Therefore, the
"Clurch Is subject Christ let the wives be to their
own husbands in every thing" Would you have the
nan subject to the woman half the time That VII DC
equality, so far
~usr1, avLorifv over the man. but 20 be in silence.
Paufto Timothy " viii, therefore thatthe younger
women marry, bear Children guide te house give none
occasion 10 the adversary 10 speak reproa;htaly.
Would yen add another injunction to that OF guide the
house, and say guide the State also!
Paul again SAYS: The aged women are 10 teach the
"young women TO be discreet chase METERS AT HOME
good Oh odieIt to their own husbands lShall the we
leave home To legae for her husbssd 70 fill any other
Office might add mOfe but enough at prescott
II has been asked, Why should mob Wonans Work be
paid for according the quality Of the work DIME, and
atethe price of Woma labor by law any more than you
can the price of Whea Wool Isl not regulated by
supply and demand
Friend Greeley bear with the weak and do not disian
10 reIlv. Your, in haste PHILIP SNiDEk.
CsiGL Fuifor, Monday Dec. S, lass.
Remarks.
l. Theology, including Biblical criticism is about
the only department of human knowledge that We
would gladly let alone, leaving its exposition and in
culcaton to those whose studies aud habits render
them presumptyely Ear better qualified Therefor than
we are 1t does seem TO us cut reasonable that our
correspondent should have addressed lis inquiries 10
Rev Antonette l.. Brown, South Butler NY. or Rev.
Luther Lee, Syracuse, rather than U.s. Our Rev. CON-
patriots are thoroughly posted up OF the very
points raised abOve-they have discussed them criti
cay and carefully and it is morally certain that their
replies would have conceded more nearly with
Ouerist frame of mind than Will For we have a
short method with all such cayis correspondent
raises which is very different from that of the Rev.
advocates of WOman's Rights above referred TO- and
for which they must in no manner be held responsible
Wien any one tells US that Slavery or Rumdrnking,
or Persecution for opinions sake, is justifable,
because the Bible says so and So our readiest
: which all the books in the world could not
hear up and that rather than admit that the Father Of
Mercies Lad commanded that which our reason aud
conscience tell us is unjust and wrong, should be
forced to believe that His VIII had been msapprehend
ed or His Word corrupted on its way down TO US from
remote antiquity We knotc that He never commanded
or permitted any thing essentially unjust perncious
and that We could not dslonOr Him more than by be-
lieyiDg or affirming any thing diverse to this PROPOSE
ton.
/ H. Now we cannot see how the denuncatiOn TO Eve
of the consequences of her tr4nsgreson should have
the force given it by correspondent Directly after
il was said to ADAM In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread yet no man, however pious, feels
constrained TO earn bis bread L" in the sweat OF his
face if an easier way of obtaining lies open before
him. Each passage has rather the force of prediction
than of command-thst is is the Indication of what
was to te as a general law of human existence. than
an Injunction which all required TO obey
So with the passages quoted from Paul Certain
disorders manifested themselves in the early Christian
Church, which Paul was required to compose, and he
did so. The new liberty and importance accorded to
Woman under the Christian dspensation had been
abused as newly acquired liberty is apt to be; and
Pail found il necessary for the time 10 restrict her
within narrower sphere than tina! accorded her By
the spirit Of the Gospel We 90 not believe be had
any more idea OF making what proper in the cases
be contemplated law Tor al Christendom through all
tine than we row have OF doing likewise. Or in other
words. fl tie Wcmen Of whom lie wrote lad been a.
Wen qualified 20 speak To- eddcatoaas some who spe4i
ia car 6sy We believe be would lave written yery di