New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-20
70 TIE WOMEN or THE STATE OF
NEW YORK,

We purpose again, this winter, to send petitions to
our State Legislature; asking for tho JUsT and
Equal RlGHr OF WoMAs, and one for WoaASs
RIGHT or SUFFRAGE. The latter, We thick, covers
the whole ground; Tor We can never be said 10 have
itd and tqUoi rights until the right IF suffrage is
ours. Some who will gladly sign toe former, m.y
shrink from making THE last demand. But be as
surCd cur cause can never rest q safe, enduring
bsss until we get the right of suffrage. So long as
va have 10 voice in the laws, We have guar all
tee that privileges GRANTED 10 us today, By one
body Of men, may Lot be taken from Us To- morrow
By another.
All mans laws, his theology. his daily life. 20 to
prove the Fixed idea il his mind Of the entire differ.
cree 10 the Sexes difference so broad that what
would be considered cruel .aad unjust between man
and man, is kind and just between man and woman
Having discarded the idea of the oneness Of the sexes
how nan judge Of the needs and wants Of being
wholly unlike himself! How car he make avs
for his own benefit and womGns TOO az the same
time He cannot He never has As all his laws rel.
alive to woman must clearly show. But when man
shall fully creep the idea that woman is being Of
like feelings, thoughts, and passions with hiu,seif be
may be able TO egislste for her, one code would
a1swer for both But until then OF justice,
wire se!flove, iinpes Us TO demand voice in his
councils.
To every intelligent thinking woman, we put the
question, On what sound principles of jurisprudence
constitutional law or hug an rights, are one.half Of
the people of this State disfrancbied Ii you answ er
as you must that 1t Is done in violation Of all law then
We SAX you, when aud how is this great wrong 10 be
;
step in its accomplishment. We hope therefore, that
every woman in the State viii sign her name to the
petit ns. 1t is most huuliating TO know that macy
educated women go stuiIly their consceuces to de-
Glaze they have oil tue rights they want. Have you
who make this declaration, ever read the barbarous
Jaws in reference to women 10 mothers to wives and
daughters, which disgrace our statute books Laws
which are not surpassed in cruelty and Injustice by
any slave holding code in the Unitod Sta,es--lags
which strike at the roof Of the glorious doctrine for
which eur fathers fought, and bled and died, "no
taxation without representation Laws which
deDy right mott sacIsdly observed by many of
the nonarchies of Europe, the ris hit of trial by
a jury Of ones own peers laws which trample
on the hottest and most unselish Of all human
affections, mothers love for her child and with
tutbless cruelty snap asunder the tenderest teslaws
which enable the father, be he q man or & minor 10
tear the infant nom tie mothers arms and send il il
he choote to the tegee lleadS, Yea, to will the
guardianship Of the uaJorn child to whomsoever he
may please, whether 10 the sultan Of Turkey or toe
lmGum Of Muscst-laws by which our sons and
daughters may be bound 10 service 10 cancel their
fathers debts of honor in the meanesG rum sles and
bTotbels IN the yast me,ropolls-lews which violate
all that is most pure and sacred in the N Iiage rea
uoD, by giving to the cruel, beatty drunkard the
nights OF man, husband, and father-lsws which
place the life long earnings of the wife at tne DISPOSAL
OF Tie lusbend, be hi. character what IL may-lsws
when cave us al the mercy OF ,he rGmse er and the
oruIkerd, sgatnst whom we have no protection for
cur Nv es, our children, or our hometmsss by which
We are made the watch-dogs 10 ke,S4 million and
taif OF cur sneIs in the feues bondage the sun ever
store upon-whieh forbid TO give food aud shelter
10 NE painting fugitive from the land Of Slavery.
II, ia view Of laws ike these there be women in
tbs State 60 lost to serespect to eli that Is vrtuou,
lobe and true as to retuse to raise their voices in
pr 1est against such degrading tyranny We only
gay OF that STEM which has thus robbed sshood
q al its glory and greatness, what the nmorts!
Claiming did Of slavery: H., said be, il be true
" that the slaves are contenied and hsppy--if there
IL system that can blot out all love Of freedom
T ON the soul Of man, destroy every trace OF hrs
divinity, make him happy in a cor iiiion 50 low and
" benighted aud hopeless-I ask fox no srpnger ar
- guInent against ouch q slavery as our3'' Mo-
never believe il; woman falsles herielf and bias
phemes her God when, in view OF her pre'ent social
legal and political position, she declares she has all
The rights ale wants. II few drops of Saxon blood
gave our Frederick DOUGLASS such clear
perception OF his humanity, his inalienable
sht, as TO enable hin, with the slayeholders
Bible, the slayeholders ConstituLon, a southern
pubhs sentimen. and education all laid heavy on bis