Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-26
WOMAN AND TAXATION.

I The following Protest Of DR.. HARRIET X. HrNT,
of Boston, against the repeated taxation of property
by State which denies her all Political Franchise,
will Of course be answered by conservatism with
sneer. But how else couid it be answered?
10 The authorities Of the CItyef Boston, lLrss.) and
tie CUiieas generQHy;
Harriet H. Hunt, Physician, native and rerma-
ncnt resident of the City Of Boston, and for many
years taxpayer therein, in making payment Of
her taxes for the coming year, protests again against
tue injustice OF leYying taxes without righ of
Representations The present system Of taxation is
serious wrong, violation of justice as well as II
violation OF rcpubliCauism. Ii Of all the women in
Massachusetts, who are citizens, only ten felt this
wrong, those ten should he relTesscl but when
nearly two thousand petitioners presented them
selves through their signatures, to your Cunstu-
tuJ!uru Convention on this vital question it was
"tHcrpcdieHf for the Convention to take any action
IN relation thereto. What woman of thought can
consent to be governed for that is the argumentl
under tho present subyersiyc party elements, that
bring into Office those who are to represent her?
No reasonable or satisfactory answer has ever
been given to woman on this subject, only that man
represented her, through fathers, brothers husbands
aud sons. Your remOnstrant has no such r,pTeseH,
dtioH and there arc many in lie situation State
county and city tax - the former the expense OF
tie Constitutional Convention, in which she had no
voice, (but petition and how iarcical that power
Of petition, when she can neither express assent nor
dissent to its doings, but be uniustly taxed, and.
like an idiot, lunatic, infant, be mped to meet
il. OF the city tax" one word. The inequality
and injustice of our Public School system, in hay
ing no High School for Girls, while our Bows have
both a Latin and High School, was spoken of in
her last protest, and our privileged right of petition
tested by the voice Of ut least 200, for such High
School. This petition was duly presented last
spring, and whatever action may have taken place
in the School Committee, the public are ignorant
no High School for Girls has yet been organized.
! With these views which might now be fully ear
ricd out, with the increase of her tax-bi IN consc
quencc of yom Constitutional Convention which
can result in no permanent good, since the great
central element Of Justice, was by the Committee
ON our petitions winkcd into "erpedicpcy;" :" and
no minority report, nor any act Of the Convention
yndcated or even recognized the right Of Woman
on the ieai basis of representation, Humanity.
Thus dissatisfied with city expenditures, the in
equality Of public school education, t,erUaiizial
eiucRionl your remonstrant pays her taxes coD.
pusordy instead Of cheertHiy, feeling with hc thai
element Of patriotism which inspired her, as wei
as yOr foreiathers, in the uttcrance Of that deep
full, and clear sentiment: "Taxation without reg
reseIdatioR is tyranny" This is respectfully sub
p mitted. HARRIET X. HUNT.
, No. 80 Green-st., Boston, Nov. 8, 1853.