Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-03
For the National Era
A REVERB.

aWoman's Rights Woman's Rights ~
Sounding words !-a great swelling words Of
yanity,D ometimes-echoing words now, ut
every point, in every tone-croaked in ambi-
tious crsseendo by the frog who would be an
ox-his. ed sharply, through scorn set teeth,
masculine, Of course,) or enveloped in not un-
musical laughter by the oontented blind.
Was it special wonder that with the day 3
din in my ears, the days paper before my eyes,
and the days care chatting me YEARLY, fell
bordering whether had right to anything :
Or that, musing, melted into that seance, in
whose magnetic triumph over time and space
the procession of ages walks upon breath
and that in dream, which was not all
q dream, the floating tones took shape and
history!
got brush from the brief skirts Of dam
sci, who was climbing above my head, to take
up Bible position" and saw her bootees
set their sharp heels straight through Saint
Paul; q fierce woman in spectac!es threw her
blue lights over my idle figure and passed me
with scornful snuff hopelessly little ladies
whisked by me, on stills; fearfully tall ladies
strobe over me by native propulsion; one poor
little wiry body shrieked the common cry
with q voice like paper Of pins; footsore
women moaned it, as they sat down by the
"
groaned it, under heavy burdens; halfnaked
figures, toiling with skinny fingers over rich
vestments dared not stop to utter it; miscra-
BILE crowds-pressing aimlessly against each
other, the hurry in their faces sharply at war
with their slow, providing footsteps, sent up
the words, in starved wall pitiful to hear ;
from lonely figures, standing on blackened
hoarthstones, they dropped, like clods upon q
coffin wild armies turned them to fierce bat.
theory; aud hunger, grown to madness,
wrought all forms Of horror in their sacred
name; while, in far, dim background to all
this uproar, ainarticulate masses seemed 10
shape their claim, in slow, dismal pantomime,
against shaded sky.
Now, in the wide dream-light / could see
that, through all the ringing changes Of the
"Woman's Call from base TO top-stone of the
living pyramid, il was from each--cven from
those who garnished their clamors with rhcto-
rio and explanation--less the text of an argu.
ment, than the keynote Of single life and
my mazed mind went cropping for the abstract
right.
Once thought CLINT of its "silyer lining =
fell on me, from cloudy corner, where weak
women worked, in still patience, against want,
neglect, abuse wearing ever thinner and
paier--while more and more their faces shone,
Us tho face Of an angel, and their quiet lips
opened tn the words counted worthy to suf-
fer.v Yes--the right to endure--that was II
the right, through faith and patience, to draw
nearer, year by year, to the great Captain OF
our salvation.
None gainsaid my triumphant solution, yet
the fairly conceded right was not widely
claimed
But hearty matron near me was drawing
q different inference from the same premises,
calling cheerfully a pile Of overturned
cradles and bread troughs, her rickety ros-
trum--in this wise "Fcllow.sisters see
what al this fuss is about You want better
husbands and better brothers--to make better
homes. You've right to them But you
can't straighten the sticks ready grown and
twisted You must shape the timber twigs
let's ~ home md do i'll"