The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-06-01

right of community. Lei both be judged by their
own intrinsic merit. We ask nothing on the
scale of gall lntry We detest that mock obsequi-
BUSINESS which is bound by ts code of flattery TO
appease whatsoever women may say or do, be-
cause she is woman. We only ask what in
most cases we have received. fair anl impartial
judgment. A porti of The press, in sort of
transition state remains sileI while another por-
ton still. seems unwilling to lei opportunity
pass for a vulgar joke or supsrciaus sneer. But
unpopular sentiment which is slowly advancing
to the right. viii gradually the evils with
this cllss of papers as far possible. They are
but ndices of public Opinion. and will as soon rep
resent one side of the question as the other. We
have little TO do with them, except to mark where
they point as indiea ian Of progress
The result of our labJrs have been seen, and
our ehjeet advanced, by large number of women
assuming new vocations aud new responsibilities;
aud we have occasion for ccngratul tion that these
new responsibilities have been discharged in
ner to prove that womans right to extend her
sphere to new fields of enterprise and improve
meni is no idle or self coaceed claim, hut
which lie common interests OF both men and wo
men demand, aud which wo:nan's own capabilities
aulhprize her 10 ci.iln.
The already successful efforts of women as Au-
thors, Editors, popular and Scientific Lee
lures few Pnysicans many as efficent ad-
| vocates of important reforms, Artisans, as Msr-
chants, Clerks and Book Keepers, is cause of en-
couragement to the timid and ubiful and fore
stall al! disposition to caril, in the honorable OPP
poser. R-cen,iy an increased number of females
have found employment in printing Offices, and
the public, SO FIR il takes cpsnizance of the fact
highly approves and suddenly discovers peculiar
fitness in for the employ ynent. So We
conceive it will ever be, us women cone into new
departments of labor, suited TO their physical ca
pabll,ies SYciety vii b-cuma Immediately rec
oncied to it, bu. always really to oppose the next
step of progress.
Not only is the sphere of womans activity ex-
tended but facilities for her Improvement are haD-
ply the mu ipl lag. Iasance lacrosse Of classical
schools and colleges affordiag facilities alike TOR all
-,he Medical College of Philadelphia. designed
exclusively for women-olhrr increasing means
for acqlr;pg Knowledge of the medical profess
| sion, an,nng which We notice with cordial appro-
bation DIR. K. G. Thomas' school at Marlboro
and the voluntary association located at Cleveland,
designed TO afford aid to persons of limi'ed means,
who design 10 enter the profession. These and
other kindred means, ARE supplies to meet The de-
mands of a rising ambition for usefulness and i'm
! provemeut.
Our coadutors ID some other States have been
active during the past year. A Comm ttee of the
National Convention held at Syracuse have put in
circulation series of most admirable tracts.
In Massachusetts petitions have been largely
circulated and numeruusiy signed TO the Canstitu-
tionai Convention praying them to exclude from
| the new constitution the word "male."
We have long felt the need of paper devoted
to this interest. Such paper ably conducted we
now have in the Una recently commenced
by Mrs. 2. w. Davis. of Providence, R. 1. 1t is
thorough in its principles. earnest in its purposes
and the editor is sustained by able corpse Of
c,rrespondents. We hope it will receive as it
well deserves, liberal support from friends OF
the cause in the West.
The Genius Of Liberty, Edited and published
by Mrs. Al ir;ch, lis an able Journal, and should
have wide circulation.
Out side oftbose whosympathse with us our cause
receives much aid. Woman's sphere is frequent
ly defined from the pulpit in notes of solemn warn
C0DceQ0fEi6
stantiaI education, aad the Injustice of closing t.,
woman, institutions of learning endowed at public
expenses; and othes propose an amendment ol
laws regulating properly rights in short-s sighted
ness forgetting that the process of modifying an
unjust law more clearly manifssts its injustice.
Horace Mann, who has lectured to large audi
enees in many Of the large cities with Instructive
conservatism and lordly prerogative, would i'm
prove The educational privileges; but save herfrou
the stygian pool Of politics. In these we rel ice
rs all these nsfrumentalities reach class of mind
to which we have not access, and will lead 10 re-
Election and inquiry, and in tine to the conception
and application of more radical truth
For the efforts we have made we conceive oul
cause has made unexamlled progress.
Our first Woman's Rights Convention in Ohio
met in Salem, few weeks previous to The m Q :
ing ofth Constil utonal Convention of 1880 The
bject was to investigate The subject of H imam
Rights, their origin and basi and the social cordi
tiou of woman. It semi m -morial 10 the C, nst
tutional Convention, requesting that in the new
Consition they were about TO form for the State
OF Ohio. women should be secured, not only the
right of su aga, but all The political and legal right
|
effect widely circulated and more generally
signed than the petitioners anticipated-were pre-
sented and received thirteen votes in their favor
The same Convention gave twenty votes il
favor Of coored men exercising The right of suff
rage. The claims of the memorial and petitions
were based the ground of natural justice and Oh
this same impregnabls basis we continue the issue
and recommend tho sans course toihose who ma,
hereafter agitate the subjectin new Iocalriee. be
evfng that natural right is the sfronge righ, ant
takes precedence of all other rights. and il th
: proper antidute for Conventional wrongs.
: Previous to the Salem Convention, there wa
.. . oue held in Senaca Falls. N. -Y.-subsequenty
: two in Ohio two in Massachusetts, two in Indanp
one in Penasy'van and Que in New York. A
of these We're nume,ously attended and character
ized by much ability and devotion to principla, eac