The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-07-06

From the Genius Of Liberty.

| io 90 odruost ds any one needs be When 0W6IhnS
upon important topics.
Ano the agitation is not a one! Who shall
tell US that the ancients had thought about what
constituted the rights Of the sexes? The Iegisla-
.ion Vi all nations and all ages, has beeeu engaged
=" 'ay'ng down principles and making laws for the
,eeuaelon OF these rights, as they were admitted
W tne legislators. Woman has always had sen.
afate set OF legalproasions made for her, either To-
protect her IN hef acknowledged rights, or tn ex.
clude her from the possession of certain tb;nos =
which she might be disposed to claim, as Justly her
own. All this legislation has recognized diffar.
ence between the rights, of woman. Leois,a tora q.
have often waxed bot and earnest over the mai ter
Some of the most valiant battles upon record. ars :
these word wars, fought in legislative halls, over
the subject of Woman's Rights. There have been
solemn decrees ponderous statutes, vouminous. If .
not luminous codes all turning upon one hinge, Wom
an Rights: 1t is true they generally swung to-
gether slde-wise, and had the art to shut out wom
| an from The common province of humanity: vet
t'ers OF these man-made laws, piled one above the
o'her' nave been accumuating probably since the
',lne the first man set up legislation over the
thorns and thistles of his wide home eat.;nI,,
| since the birth eff his eldest SON. -
All our literature from time immarna,;.l=
oeen saturated through and through with this ap;-
| ''ss'u' iufn to the mouldy old parchments, eop:
'ou ~ every variety OF ourandsh characters; yoa
VIII hno perfect network of thoughts upon the
SUBJECT running in every direction. The resur
recteo hiefoglyphics are full of it. It has living
voice In all the dead languages and all modern In
erature would become one ilegibIe blot. IF vo1
were to cross out what has been said directI, ad
indirectly, upon this momentous subject of 1vonss
ans rights and duties; her nature and relation. =
her sphere and her influence. Abstract science
is the only department of literature which NAV NOT
oe charged with abetting this agitation. Social
liie mas Deen always reryaded with it; and if there
nas ever lived man or woman upon earth xrbo
has not had something to say upon the subject he
OF she must have been born dumb. We are ali
agators' and SO were our fathers and grandfathers
before us. <- .ls.s
A new comedy, indeed 1t is drama which !,
mas extended through many centuries: and to
judge from present appearance, we are yerv far
yet from arriving at the last act The plot NAV
have been seemed intricate, aud there have haan -
aetors butthere is One'who has had supervision
VI ai' ana lie will yetsee toit that is brought to
ooS" 7apie consummatlon Every age has had its
iotiou HIS peculiar scenes, till the
,ety mas been almost infinite. Woman's rights have
'eeh asserted and disputed and re- asserted and re-
uiSPuteo' from time immemorial; and there has
peen perpetual change coming over the spirit Of
Inc worlds dream upon the subject. The end is
not yet.
Womans sphere is continually enlargiup.-.
Ihere are stern facts in reference TO what yvas
and is which we may take as data, and from these
calculate with certainty in regard to the future
Woman's duties and responsibilities must sssuma
new phases The changes in the whole structnrs
of society, show this conclusivey Her ocnnns-
tons are every day being modified Some of the
prominent feminine employments of feWV Ysarss
since, are no longer the employments of the
oay. The entering wedge has been driven faff
/ into the midst of her occupations and il will vet.
eHectuaiy shlVer up the old endless routine of do
rnesilc and social arrangements. Every dsv.
uoors are oelng opened to new occupations. That
this must still continue, is the inexorabe law of
| Fate. "
as 'aoorer woman will of necessity, have bef.
ter pay forher work. This is the certain rasri, -
alow'ng her new employ ments, and thus Increasing
the demand former service. Mind has alsvavs had
supremacy over muscle, and that sunrep.oy
is every day increasing.
When the doors are thrown so f,r a5o; =.
man that she may enter any calling fo ,yh;o,, -
is adapted by her capacities, without onnrobr;.n,
Tue thinking reasoning, investigating part of her
na'ufe' VIII then have room, also for develot-
mens' She will become an efficient actor in tbe
mentai world. New and higher thoughts will be
ADMITTED into her busy brain, and when she bns !,
thought, she will love to tell it, as she now does
Ii there IS an idea which strongly moves her soui
she Will be willing t, proclaim it, even upon tha
nouse-top. While the man of thought andintellec.
mas pre- emlnence over his fellows, woman has
that in her nature which will seek the same, nra:
1 eminence, if she may Go this without censure.-
This may not be wholly true of the masses. but
the .fe0 have a mental stimulus within which will
impel them to arrive at such attainments
It's not more certain that the sphere of the sex will
continue to enlarge with the progress Of the race
tlan that it will increase in the mental department.
even more rapidly than in the physical. The very
struggles which will be necessary to make woman
cross the charmed circle of her prescribed domain
will be beneficial. They will give her depth
and strength of character which could be develop.
ed under no other circumstances. They will AVA
ken thoughts which might else have slumbered for:
ever, and quicken all the energies of her nature.
till she has strength to rise above all Obstacles into
the world of independent thought and action
When one has reached that sublime moral a,a;-
nence, whether it be man or woman, he or she has
ataineda position from which can be commanded
multitude of other minds, easily moved by the
everguidug power of spirit quickened by its own
purest ntuitious-those intutions planted in the
inner sanctuary of the soul, by the souls Creator
| 4 tt,a
ton in which women have so long been placed,
and the suffering which it has Gust them, viii, TO
thinking active minds, be the very occasion Of elec
yatinp them aboye all these Influences and cultiva