Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-23

joint action of man and woman, in the family,
the community, the Church and the State.
family without the presence of man-with
no mother, no wife, no sister, no womankind-
is a sad thing. think Community without
womans equal social action, Church without
her equal ecclesiastical action, and State with
out her equal political action, is almost as bad
is very much what a house would be without
a mother, wife, sister, or friend.
You see what prevails in the Christian civil
ization Of the Nineteenth Century it is Force
I -forco of body, force of brain. There is little
justice, little philanthropy, little piety. Sell
fshncss preponderatcs every where in Chris
tcndom-individual, domestic, social, occlesias-
tical, national sclfshness. 1t is preached as
/ gospel and enacted as law. 1t is thought good
political economy for a strong people to devour
the weak nations-for "Christian'' England and
America to plumber the "Heathen" and annex
their land for a strong class to oppress and
ruin the feeble class-for the capitalists Of
England to pauperiso the poor white laborer,
for the capitalists Of America to enslave the
poorer black laborer; for strong man to OPP
labor too cheap, and sell its product too dear,
and so grow rich by making many poor
Hence nation is arraycd against nation, class
against class, man against man. Nay, it is
commonly taught that mankind is arrayed
against God and God against man that the
world is n universal discord that there is no
solidarity of man with man, of man with God.--
fear VIC shall never get far beyond this theory
and this practice, until woman has her natural
rights as the equal of man, and takes her natu-
raj place in regulating the affairs of the family,
the community, the Church and the State.
1t seems to me God has treasured up re-
served power in the nature Of woman to correct
many of those evils which arc Christcndom's
disgrace to-day.
Circumstances help or hinder our develop
ment and are ono of the two forces which dc.
tcrmino the actual character Of n nation, or Of
mankind, at any special period. Hitherto,
amongst men, circumstances have favored the
development of only intellectual power, in all
its forms-chieAy in its lower forms. At pres
cnt, mankind, as a whole, has the superiority
over womsnkind, as a whole, in all that per-
tans to intellect, the higher and the lower
Man has knowledge has deas has administra-
tive skill,-enacts the rules Of conduct for the
individual, the family, the community, the
church, the state, and the world. lie applies
these rules of conduct to life, and so controls
the great affairs of the human race. You sec
what world he has made of il. There is male
vigor in this civilization, miscaled "Chustian'
and in its leading nations there a,c industry
and enterprise, which never fail. There is
science, literature, legislation, agriculture man.
uiactures, mining, commerce, such as the world
never saw. With the vigor of war, the Anglo
Saxon now works the works ofpeace. England
abounds in wealth,-richest of lands but look
at her POOR her vast army of paupcrs, two mil
lion strong, the Irish whom she drives with the
hand of famine across the sea. Martin Luther
was right when he said, The richer the nation,
I the poorer the poor America is democratic"
-'the frcest and most enlightened people in
the world" Look at her slaves every sixth
woman in the country solo as beast with no
more legal respect paid to hor marriage than
the farmer pays to the conjunctions of his
swine. America is we'll educated; there are
four millions of children in the school, houses of
the land it is a States prison offence to teach
slave to read the three letters which spell GoD.
/ The moro democratic" the country, the tight
or is bondage ironed on the slave. Look at the
cities of England and America. What riches,
what refinement, what culture of man and wo-
man tool Ay; what poverty, what ignorance,
what bcastliness Of man and woman too The
Christian civilization of the nineteenth century
is well summed up in London and New York
the two foci of the Anglo Saxon tiibe, which
control the shape of the worlds commercial
eclipse. Look at the riches-and the misery /;
at tho "religious enterprise" and the hcathcn
darkness; at the virtue, the decorum and the
beauty of woman well-born and we'll -brcd-and
at the wild sea of prostitution, which swclls and
breaks and dashos against the bulwarks of So
ciety-cvery ripple was woman once
o, brother men, who make these things, is
this a pleasant sighti Does your literature
complain ofit-of the waste of human life, the
slaughter of human souls, the butchery of wo.
mani British literature begins to wall, IL
"Nicholas Nickelby," and -"Jane Eyre" ant
"Mary Barton" and "Alton Locke, in many
"Song of the Shirt; but the respectable litera
turc of Amerca is deaf as a cent to the outcry o
} humanity expiring in agonies. 1t is busy will
D California, or the Presidency, or extolling niqi
ty in high places, or hattering the vulgar van
ity which buys its dross for gold 1t canno
{ even initiate the philanthropy of English let
, ters it is sup for California and market
, Does not the Church speak the Englisl
, Church, With its millions of money, the Ameri
can, with its milliors of men--both want L
, bay tho moon of foreign heathcnsmi Tn
Church is dumb dog, that cannot bark, sleep