New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-01


this one Kind Of contract involve yourselves IN she gross
est al urdt5s and contradictions.
SO long a. by your laws make contract for
horse or piece land until he is nty years OF age
and by which contract he is not bound if any deception
has been pracced if the party contracting has NOT fu
filed his part OF the sCTeement-sO long the parties in
all mere civil contracts retain their identity and all iae
power and independence they had before contracting with
the full night 10 dissolve all partnerships and contracts for
any reason the viii ana option If the parties themselves
upon what principle of civil Jurisprudence d. YOU permit
the boy OF fourteen and tie girl OF twelve in violation OF
every natural law, 20 make contract mOment0us in
importance than any other and then hold them 10 H.
Whist may the whole OF their natural lives in spite OF dis
appointment. deception and misery.
Then too, the signing of this contract is instant civil
death 20 one Of the parties The woman who bat yeser
day on Bonded knee who stood 80 high in the
scale q being 70 make agreement equal terms
with proud Saxon 10 day has civil existence,
social freedom The wife who iuherits no property holds
about the same legal position thss does the slave the
Southern plantation. She cen own nothing, sell
nothing. She has right even 10 the Wsges she earns
her person her time her services the property Of
another. She cannot testify in many against ler
husband. She get redress for wrongs in her
in court OF justice She neither be
sued. she is not held morally responsible Tor any crime
committed in the presence OF her husband completely
is her very existence supposed b. the law be r.ed IN
that of another Think OF il your wives may be thieves
hbeers bUTgars incendares, and for crne. Ike these
hey rot held amenGbl 70 the laws OF tie land Il they
but commit them IN your d-esd prsen-e. For them alas
there Is higher law than the viii Of man. Herein be
hold the bloatsd conee OF these Pstuchos Of tie law who
ssCm 10 cay
Nay iook not Big stamp q s-sre. frs-
Iwil be master Of Whsl q mine
she . Eoots chsr-els, she hJzse.
Nv househo.a sruf teld nv hern.
Ny acTse, =. n anything;
Ane here BE stsrGs touch dare,
III bTias seto1 90 tbs prol lest
That stoIs my way IN PaG-Af
How could zoos thus woman. She ~
whose feet Socrates learned Wsd0m-she who gave % the
world Savior ard witnessed alike the alteration OF tie
Magi and the asouies of the Cross. Now could such
being. blessed and honored. become the gnobls
Ia saya With rhor the of
be paramount TO the sacred dictates OF conscience and the
holy love Of heaven. BY the common law Of England
the spirit ofwhch has been bat too faithfully incorporated
into statute law husband has q night 20 whip his
Wis with rod larger than bis thumb 70 shut her 10
in room, and administer whatever moderate ehastse
meni he may deem necessary TO insure Obedience 20 his
wEhes and for her heslhfu moral development He can
forbid all persons hartOrrg trusting her h account
lie deprive her II ali social with her near
es tnd desEest friends II by great economy shs aeca-
nslsfes small s1n which for future need sac deposit