Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-06

miscalled a man. with no thought nobler than the
food he fills his mouth withal, and scarce capacity
to choose that judiciously ythen, oh then give
to her. did the Roman Legion of old to the trail
toress Tarpeia, the tinsc and the trappngs Of her
choice; the adornments Of the outer being in token
of the utter lack Of inner life, of truthfuness to
nature to God and to his creatures, until their very
weight crush, now ms then, that life from off the
Garth which is so basely priced, so little worth a.
place amid the grand mysteries of time, the sublime
verities Of eternity
But, we know you must scout in all manliness,
such an unbecoming estimate, or at most such
miserable exceptions to the womanhood of our
day--womanhood which offers to your reverence
such types of Lcauty and strength as abound on
every hand among your own wives and daughters
and mothers--such sacrifice Of personal case, as
that which, beginning in the nursery and by the
frcsidc, finds fuller expression in the noble life
of n Dorothea Dix--such foresight and judgement
and ability as make many wife and mother the
master spirit Of the family and society--and which
has shown itself equal to boader spheres of duty
and effort, in the comprehensive craftsmanship of a
Caroline Chisholm, compelling as it does, he
admiring wonder of all England, and even public
and honorable recognition from peer and sovereign
Of its superiority in humanity aud efficiency to all
previous efforts Of government officials in that de-
partment.
Indeed in such days and under such conditions
IA ours IL would seem almost insulting to your
discrimination, as distrustinl to your enlightened
judgement, to attempt the defence Of woman's
equal humanity-and somewhat provocative Of
right womanly indignation to be compelled to do so.
We prefer rather to take the vantage ground Of
your own undcniable convictions, and ask, that as
sons of the pilgrims, and as citizens under our
fathers uncompromising declaration Of equality
you should with becoming consistency, recognize
practically woman's humanity by according to her
n its rghts-rights for which every man among you,
and all men everywhere, not altogether besOttcd
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man is not now represented as it is often claimed
many have neither son, brother husband or
father to represent them--and of those who have,
many are miSrc presented by SUCH We have lived
to learn, not only from all the history Of the past,
but from woman's especial experience, that no
class is safe under government, which is unrep-
resented in that government that all rresponsi-
/ BILE power is absolutely and everywhere unsafe.
| Hotc woman has been represented hoW her inter
csts have been cared for, let the iaus hare cited
| TO you dnsrerl
! And if it be clearly woman's right, by virtue Of
her common humanity, to stand side by side with
man in the ownership of that which she inherits
and earns can any, under our broad protest as a
Republic against taxation without representation,
against government exercised without the consent
of the governed, rightly pause at the first step in
the process Of according justice to her,-admtting
her right to the holding of that property and al
lowing her the pririiege of being taxed thereon,
but, denying her the representation inscparable in
the case of all male prUpertyholders and tax-pay-
ers? The one must follow the othcr-the latter
is legitimate TO out-growth Of the former as thai
is Of all our first and worldacknowledged princi-
pies Of justice.
Gentlemen of Senate In asking the recognition
of these "inalienablc rights" for woman, upon the
ground Of simple Justice, we have not deemed 1t
necessary to canvas the catalogue of "consequen-
ces" SO generally arrayed against our impregnabe
i argument, consequences it would seem scarcely
l.. IL. IL. E oil
worlds"
lfa deed be proven and acknowledged just
one, no sane or honest man should delay 1t:
execution in Difference to the fears of the tmd oil
f the short-sighted prudence Of the conservative
Let justice be done, though the Heavens fall"
And the plea that the exercise Of those rights
and the discharge Of those duties and trusts whcl
might follow, and for which woman might bc founC
peculiarly fitted, would defle the purity, and be
strow the dccacy Of her nature is neither sustain
ed by sound philosophy, the analogy of past ex
perience, nor indicative of high faith in God am
| nature. The assertion that such public life AM
its responsibilities are necessarily cOrruptlng
, not only disproven, by the stern integrity OF
9 Washington, II Franklin Penn, an Adams, ant
f their successors, but would come with q sad con
| fession Of lack Of conscientiousness from an
who accepted willingly such positions, and seen
. ottimes well nigh to compass sea and land to secur
/ them. Neither are we unmindtul in asking tn
cLnnnoIs in ,rbich hes oner,ios now And scont
and her benevOlcnce finds exercise. but We kn0'
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removed and make her life truIv and thorouqhl
effective rather than frapmentary and superGcia
By the recognition of her ouuaI right 10 the DR.
perty of her individual nheritonce or earning. W,
4 man would be free from the crushing consciou
i ness of unjust enforced dependence, be stimulate
u to the exercise of prudence elevated in the b
!, stowal of her own charities. and dignifed in ht
u own selrospect. and the respect of the world, M
in multudes of cases protected against the nece
o sty of divorce. Much as woman may have o,
lived in our own, and in.called civilized lands, Il
y savage valuation of her as mere physical comfol
u sTpuIeaeltayV companion, she has not vet r
W ceyed any where that broad recognition of h
= humanity that shall make her truly and mob
y free.
v Tho world has mayor vot convinced the boou
~ and gain of unfettered Spontaneous iron,an-acfio
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