Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-06-10


Rev. A. Loose, the leaders of the Spartan ladies'
or the Z" beautiful and resolute" Amanda Way,
have discovered sorie scriptural connection which
less acute minds have failed to perceive.
The physical force argument is the weakest of
all arguments. Women, especially, ought not to
resort to it. What law has placed them in their
present subordinate position1 The law Of physical
inferiority. Man claimed the right, because he
had the physical power, to put her down and keep
her there. The Winchester appeal to arms justiies
him in his IL force is to be the recognized
principle by which we are to be guided in eur re-
latons to each other, then woman may appeal for
freedom in vain.
The physical force argument necessarily implies
weakness in moral argument. Let man feel
that he has justice truth, right on his side, and he
viii never knock down his antagonist. II the fair
advocates of physical force come out Of the combat
as crestfallen as the poor Chinese in the opium
war, they must only blanc the agency they have
invoked.
There cannot be more deplorable spectacle
than that of woman forgetting the dignity of her
nature, to enter the arena Of physical warfare
However just, apparently, the cause in which she
may be engaged, she ought never to forget that her
greatest power consists in lore her greatest yicto
res to be achieved by lore, Frantic with rage,
and armed with weapons, she is a ct subject for
pity or ridicue. Her influence for good is forever
gone. She may victmiEe some wretch whose soul
is too small to comprehend how any occupation can
he respectable than that of beer selling. But
she has degraded herself without striking at the root
Of the evil.
! 1t is no doubt sad that the wife or the mother
should bo called upon to weep over the grave Of
an inebriate husband or son. But let the mother
ask herself has she discharged her own duty faith
fullyi Has she given him those elevated notions
Of purity and virtue which can alone preserve him
from an ihcbriatc's gravef Has nature stamped
upon HIM no hereditary or constitutional craving
for intoxicating drnksH And if so, has she care
fully withheld from him all stimulating articles of
diet, whereby this appetite was increased? Let
the wife ask herself has she really been that con-
genial companion, that "ministering angel" that
heaven designed she should beH Has she made
his home happy and attractive or has she repelled
him from the domestic hearth?
If the wife and mother cannot answer these
queries as to exonera.c themselves, they should
not rccklessly revenge themselves upon others.
ALEX. HUNTER.
The above has been some time in our possession,
waiting an insertion. It seems to us, the writer
oyerstates the point in regard to the Winchester
women. As We understand the account Of their
doings, they proposed no violence to anybody's
person. "The foe" they sought to destroy was
alcohol, the foe Of all human bengs-the destroyer
I Of human happiness and human virtue. And for
augbt we can see, "ftith lore and hdtchets" were
united in moral harmony in the hands of the Win
chester women. 1t has remained for these hero
ines to teach the world the true use of tomahawks
Sayages and their "civized" imtators have used
them in tho past to beat in the heads of men
women and children. The Winchester women
t used them upon the heads Of whiskcy barrels
Physical force and hatchets seem to us Just tn,
things for such heads. Thanks to the women fol
3 the discovery. We have no such respect for pro
perty rights, will lead us to leave either slave
0 holders or rumscers in the undisturbed pos
r session of their peculiar" species Of chattols
}. Jesus taught lesson which the world has yet L
= comprehend and practice, when no significant,
. asked, How much better is man than sheep p
b, How much better is than barrel Of whiskcy
4 How much moro sacred the right Of the slave t.
: himself than the robber claim Of his tyrant mas
1 ter.