New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-12
.pCItrT.Ts. PRO AND con.

Woman Lad hired the house paid the advertising and
ofter exrerses. gathered at their own expense from
tleir distant homes aud taken all the responsibilities Of
,le outlay: yet they offered aud desired throughout to
surrender their own platform for half tie time 10
any refrectabe and capable antagonists who should
10 fl 10 arpear and attempt 70 show WHY their de-
msrds were rot just and their gIielalces real Con-
sderine that tiey are engaged in struggle not only
against hunters and power and fashion and iron Gus
tcu but with the Pulpit and the Press actively and
bitterly heading and squirting their antagonists AMI
with no access to the public ear but from tue public
pl.torm we consider this prefer more than li5eralit
was chya1ic and generous We listened with interest
to some Of the arguments. pro aud con- and propose
heie 10 recapuae their substance that our readers
may sec glance the present position AMI bearings
Of tie controversy We will begin with the first
speech We heard-that OF
Re. Bm. H. Charming They say the public plat
form Is not in Womans sphere but let US understand
riyl Jenny Lind stands hist platform. before thou
sands Of nen and women. and sings know that my
Redeeuer l,eth with III hearts approving all voices
spIlaudiue, and nobody spng suggestion that she is
cut Of her sphere Well AntOinette Brown believes
tie sentiment 20 sung be the hope of lost world,
ard fecs lerself called to bear witness in behalf OF
that RcdeCmer and to commend His salvation to the
Understandings and hearts of all who will hear her.
WY LAY fle not obey this impulse and bear the IT,
dIfs of worlds salvation TO those perishing in dark
ness and sin What is there unfemnine or revolving
in ler preaching the truth which Jenny Lind may sing
without objection and amid universal applause
Ansiror Ia things IN male costume c'-iIiss-s-s
Ms T. l. Iose: Tile law declares husband aud
wife oDc: end such all feel they should be, and
must Be wien tlcir marriage is true one. Now why
Should tlat same law base this union on me
quality and suljucatOn The wife dies, and thehus-
band irierts all her property is rights but let the
husband die and the greater part of the property is
taken from tie wife and given TO others though
al that property was inherited or earned by the wife
Sic may lie TUNED out of the hOuse she was born in
aId which was hers until marriage and see given 20
her husbands brothers other kindred who arc stran
gers 70 ler insist that the wife should own and in
hert the property of the husband inst TO the same ex
tent that the husband inhcrts that OF the wife-why
not
Ansxfr Bg he aforesaid :--IIs3-s-ss, BOw-ow-ow
Iayrid H. Hri IL plant myself on the basis OF the
Declaration OF Independence and insist with our Rev
olutonary sres HAT Taxation without Representation
il Tyranny. Well here am |, an indePen-
dent American woman, educated for and lly-
irq Nv the practice Of Medicine. l own prop
city, aud poy taxes on that property de-
nand IF the Government that taxes me that 1t should
allow me IN equal voice with the other taxpayers IN
the disposal Of tie public money | am certainly not
less intelligent tLan thousands who, though scarcely
able to read their ballots, entitled to vote am
allowed TO vote in any Bank or Insurance Company
wherein choose to be stakeholder: Why ought not
70 vote in tie disposition of Public None. raised by
Tax os well as those men who DO not pay taxes-or
tLo.e WHO do. eitLer
A1srsybg Tie Aforesaid Yah Wow. Hss-s-si'
LrCu Aone II plead for the right Of Woman to the
control of Ter own person as moral intelligent, ac-
countalle being. 1 know a wife who has not Sc. her
foot outside Of her husbands house for three years be-
cause her husband forbds her doing when he is pres
ent and locks herup when he is absent That wife Is
now arey with sorrow and despair though in middle
life but there is no red ess for her wrongs because
the Law makes her husband her master, and there be-
inc no proof that he beats bruises her. there IL moth
inc in his treatment of her that the Law does not al
low protest against such law'and demand ITS over
throw. and protest against every law which limits
tie here Of Wonauas bar TO her intellectual deye-
l0ir,nt You say She cannot dtthis md that but II
80 What need of a hw to prevent her iou say her
Intellectual aolie7emens have not equaled those Of
Mar: but answer She has had 10 aiOire. no opp)r-
tmi,,. for such achievement Close all the avenues,
t.ke away all the indictments. 20 Mans ambition aud
lie would do no NOR, than Woman does. Give her
freedom education and opportunity, and size viii do
Wilt Ged intended .he shOuld-nO less, no more.
Men Won dwarf YOU wrong yourselves in stunning and
fuarg the intellectual Development Of Woman!
ak for her liberty 20 DO wlateger moral and useful
deed .le prove 80 do-why should as in vain
haare5 fy Tine scr5irg Poss:-Men. Women and
/ Hioomcrs FaueL Bah
AH'oaos Bsora II plead TIA. the mother may not
/ le LEGALLY robbed OF her children know a mother
wlo vas le poor widow wiki three young children.
/ she wss able and q most willing to support them in
hun he inderandeuce but her husband before be died
had secretly eyen two OF them to bis relatives AMI the
Law tore them from the mother bosom, aid lett her
! but TIE Youngest, who soon vas taken from her by
/ death That mother lived 10 see her two surviving
cl ldren crow up, the 10 be drunkard the other
sflon-an through neglect aud the want OF that care
and suarliansbip which none 20 well ss parent can
be relied on 10 Afford | plead Tor Woman as Mother
that her rigLt 10 her children be recognized as At
least equal 10 that of the father and that he being
dead 10 other can have right 10 their guardianship
psrsrourt or even equal TO hers
Pes,elcensd Mo5 as efor,sad: o dry uP' BowOS'
Woueh Hss-s-s' Gee Gu.
The case Is still on.
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r. o. sTANTOs's CASE.
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