Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-03-11

that woman, as n class, is naturally inferior to man.
Is not, also, one race Of men inferior TO another
race one man inferior TO another man2 Some
men, even, inferior to some womenH If man has
no right to enslave his brother, however inferior
he has no right to ensave his stor--because in
ferior. Right is Of no SEX The rights Of all hui
man creatures are equal whatever inequality may
prevail in the organization or circumstances Of
individuals. Man ii thou deniest this, what be-
comes OF thy own rights2 Thou assertest that all
men have equal rights. Ye, all men are not born
free from inequality. No two are alike one has
super eminent physical strength another has tow
orlng intellect. But thou wilt not, therefore, be
the slave of the man Of Drawn or the man Of
thought Not Of either. Rightly so: for what
matters Il to thee, o son Of man whether hot
boodcd Cain slay thee to satiate his own unbrdled
sayageness, or Iscariot coolly and philosophcally
sell thee to the same crueltyf Thou wilt not sub
nit to either tyranny. Thou claimest thy right Of
sefsovereignty, thy right of mortality, desiringto
become yirtuous. This too, is thy duty; Il is the
law Of life, the law in accordance with which the
rational being preserves, developes and perfects
hmself;' thy duty because the first Of duties is to
be and to continue to be human, involving the duty
of repelling Slavery which, despoiling rational
being OF his Tor her) individuality, degrades him Tor
her) even below the brute On the ground where
upon thou basest thy own claim to freedom stands
the claim of woman here upon this moral equality,
under this law Of life which forbids any man or
woman to abdicate the sovereignty of self, or, in
other words, to shirk their own responsibility.
Duty is Of no If thou deniest this go back to
the ancient brutality; crouch before its worldold
privilege, confessing thy observation-disclosures to be
an inexcusable rebellion. Let the most muscular
again bear rule Let mere bone and sinew tram
pie upon the God-like Let the strong-armed saw
age dash out the brains Of Christ, and laughing in
Gcds face, assert his unquestioned justifcaton-I
am my brothers keeper Art thou prepared for
thisH Either this or the Others either the despot.
ism of the sronger-no matter whether intellectual
or muscular, fraud or force-or full allowance Of
the equality of human kind Of the natural right of
ALL There is no juste milieu,' no golden mean, no
undressing place for principle. Either God or
hell, either the truth or liel Thou must choose
one of them, or lose thy manhood, degrading thy
self to be the slave of expedency the sport Of cir
cumstance, q thing, whose false and worthless life
Time scornfully tramples out, whose soul deth
hopelessly, unmourned, and without place in the
Eternal
"But women are not fitted for exercising their
political rights y Mani what made you the judge
OF their fitness? Brute strength or intellectual
overreaching? That same brutality that same
cunning would entitle the male despot, or the
few male privileged to judge your fitness, you male
aspirant for freedom? Who gave you righ: to
prescribe arbitrary formulas on your foolish
prcsumptions of capacityF
but what use would such rights be to womenS
What use are they to men? What use is freedom
freeman, or claiming freedom, darest to doubt the
worth and use of freedom? 'IIe who asks of what
worth is justice, profanes justice in his heart
"But, further, women do not desire this free
domp So much the wretcheder their condition?
Surely there is Mt least woman who desires to
possess the sovereignty Of herself to be free to be
yirtuousl Why should that woman be held in sla-
very because all other women are too debased to
know what freedom is, to desire its excellence2
We must teach them to desire freedom-the first
step toward its attainment. And how long is it
since men too-all save some few lone standing
martyrs, Gods beacons-were satisfied with their
slavery? What argument is this of the slaves con-
tent? o, that content is the most saddeningl 1t
is because the woman slave has not yet learned to
think; because she is too fallen to feel her wrongs
because she wants just selfrespect. We are
greved by the gaiety of the insane. There is a
sadness'-says DR.. Claiming, speaking of the con-
tented negro slave-in the gaiety Of him whose
lightness Of heart would be turned to bitterness
and Indignation, were one ray of light to awaken
in him the spirit of a man. Is woman's insanity
less deplorableY