The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-18

great business Of redressing woman's wrongs.
We appealed particularly to Miss Lucy Stone,
and were answered by her prompt attention to
the subject in her speech before the Woman's
Rights Convention at the Tabernacle. Nothing
more was done-but that was something.
Now, we believe that If our womans rights
women can read this letter of Mrs. Norton with
out resolving upon some scheme for the amelio-
ration Of the condition of the women OF England,
their professions of universal sympathy with
their sex are all moonshine. Let Miss Lucy
Stone the Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, DR.. Har-
riet K. Hunt, and the universal ssterhood, turn
their attention for moment from the imagine
ry sufferngs in Uncle Toms Cabin, and nom
the highly exaggerated grievances Of the weak
er sex in this country, to the glaring and bar
barous disabilities and restrictions upon wo-
men. Especially married women,) in England,
as illustrated in the case of Mrs. Norton. Let
our feminine reformers do this, and instead OF
joining in the libels of British abolitionists
against our sy stem of Southern slavery-instead
of consorting with atheists and domestic traitors
in anti-Blble, abolition, and vegetable conven-
tions. they will be apt to consult the eXpediency
of detailing missionaries to reclaim their sisters
in England from their present worse than feu-
dial degradation. If in benevolent enter
prise like this we could get rid of dozen
of our leading woman's rights abOlitionists.
and squash philosophers, male and female.
it would be great relief to society here, and
would be fairly requiting John Bull for such
emissaries as Madam Trollope. Fanny Wright
| and George Thompson independently of the
| good that might result in turning the attention
| of old John from the mote in his brothers. eye
| to the beam in his own.
| Seriously however, this case of Mrs. Norton.
as detailed in her earnest and convincing let
ter, dscloses most graphically some of the
many social inequalities and legalized oppres-
sions which, inherited from the piratical
Saxons and fillibustering Normans, exist in
England to this day. Under the same circum-
stances between the parties, this narrative Of
Mrs. Norton would have been widely different
on this side the Atlantic. Her allowances in
such case of separation would not have been
left to the honor " Of Mr. Norton. Upon her
complaint, in positive and final divorce. they
would have been fixed by law. But according
| to the customs of England there was nothing
to hinder Mr.. Norton in the outset of this quar-
| rel from leading his wife to the market-place,
| with rope about her neck and selling her at
| public auction to the highest bidder. What a
| field is there in England for missionary enter
prise in behalf of woman's rights Read the
letter of Mrs. Norton
Mr.. DICKINSON AND THE WASHINGTON UNION.
The article which we publish to-day from the
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, in the true spirit of
| Southern chivalry. vindicates Mr.. Dickinson
| from the odium of free soilism which the Wash
his well-earned national reputation. 1t needs
no testimony from us, yet we are free in the
attestation of his unqualified claim to the con-
fdence Of the South. In defence Of her consti-
tutional rights there was no balancing Of expe-
dencies and patriotism with Dickinson. He
sacrificed himself, with his eyes open, upon the
altar of the constitution. He did it with that
courage and consistency which are without a
parallel, in the whole catalogue Of his service
in Congress Of individual sacrifices for the
public good. The ignominy which he suffered
in his own State in the outset. from being SO
far in the advance Of his party here, has been
amply repaid him III the nationality OF the po-
pularity which he has thereby achieved And
he cannot be robbed of it for partisan or fac
tious purposes. He has earned it-nobly earned
it. 1t is his, and cannot be taken away.
The Washington Union, we fear, has com
mitted fatal blunder in it's attempt to har-
monize the democrats at Syracuse by making
free soiler of Dickinson. Old Hudibras speaks
| Of gun which sometimes, although
Well aimed at duck or plover,
Recoils, and kicks its owner over.
| And this very gun the organ. Gf is the
| organ) of Governor Marcy, in discharging it
rom the left shoulder has not avoided the
kick. very serratic organ is that Washing
ton Union. One day it eulogizes the govern
ment of Russia as model affair of harmonious
despotsm; and the next day the Russian
minister withdraws his patronage from the
paper because OF its wanton attacks upon his
august master" 1t was but yesterday that
it read the Erening Post out of the party, be-
cause of it's free soilism; and to-day the No
tionoi Democrat is communicated for being
too free the other day. We never had such an
organ at Washington before. John Jones was
a subject Of common ridicule as the organ Of
Honest John Tyler; but the Union is rapidly
winning the contempt of its own party. hards
and softs, North and South. 1t applauds Dix
attempts to blacken Dicki nson, rails at the Al
bany .argus, and scolds the New YORK HERALD,
with admirable fexibility and volubility; but
we are afraid it won't do.
The fact is, we must look to Mr.. Tucker for
the true organ. if we are to have an organ at
Washington Mr. Nicholson-known a. the Mr..
Nicholson to whom General Cass wrote the
Nicholson letter"-can hardly be the control
ling head of the Union. We rather suspect that
it is open to all sorts Of opinions from all sorts
of democrats sn that thew Gil nm thu nai 4ori.l