New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-13

~, sau of these conmunicanons gve ccfs~in
,,Is,;on 70 the discourse, or . turn 10 the argu-
msnt 10 which heed is due. In one ~oru' 'ao
otter. complain, in the rouudess terms IN tue OH
,s,e.t Saxon that they are the drudses the house
hold slaves Of money-getepg husbands "no' p'V-
v;ded they can lay BY year after year money Non.
l.Sy says $4,000 Of profits, are either inone'eus
10. or DO not appreciate, the cares sono"s anu
ovsr.to;l If their wives. We do not make THESE
charges. but they come thick and heavy In va''-
Gus Letters. the writing of which may be oaa' Out
the thoughts come hot from the heart ana 0rs'n'
What, axis oae lady, is farmers vile Is o'ea
found A drudge, Q slave Sharp TERMS toeee'
What does she do : asks the same qaeIist Every
thing but instruct her mind. She has no tune LOT
social enjoy ment, for domestic adornment and
hardly k:sure to go TO church even Occasionally
She tolls with all the heavy claims Of maternity
child bearing, suckpg-as though woman's lot was
not hard enough without being made to work full up
to the mark lie the man day.laborer. From morn
to nisht, ard pieht interrupted BY the thousand
sp1ieties of mother, she il going in the kitchen,
the nur,ery, the wash house, the dairy, ceaseless
round of haId and unrelieved drudgery. What
time. ask our fair correspondents, can such
won an have to learn to do anything inteuigenay
lean TO cook as cooking should be learned What
time 10 give grace ard beauty 10 the table when it
is spread, BY her toilette, her leisure aud her
accomplish ments What i, life to her but slayish
burden shout a chorus Of feminine correspond
EMS.
We are iuplored, corjured to appeal to tho
"blunted or uLdevelOped senses of many men In
tie country in regard to their tres ment Of their
wive,, booming them to "a dreary slavery IN the
Free States A girl, We are told, is married at
saw II. "srd from that her slavery begins: CHILD
" rem como thick as backberries; births follow IN
furious succession; and the mstron Is but the
"cotk, washerwoman, dairy-womsn, housema'd,
"sculliou. nurse slave" The husband in this case,
"what is he but tyrsnt!" He is penurious-he
arudses everything e1oepths own modest vices;
that is, he drinks perhaps-he certainly chews an1
expectoraes bis filthy tobacco, and As certainly
smokes; ard occasionally he "frohcs'; but h's
DOOR wife. what care is there for her : Tnen in
An erica whether of the country or the to In, you
have great deal to learn before you appreciate the
rights of woman, and as we use these words we
hope no fool among you will grunt strong nd
"td," "bloomer," horse marine" &c. The
great poet says:
Man so of unjust TO man
And alcavs so 70 woman
But yesterday woman in European Chrstendom
was relieved from absolute slavery-irom being
bought and sold like dumb beasts, or like 900 900
American bonn women. Nov, in Europe, it 10
fact that when ono occupation is harder or more
repulsive than another, woman may be selected to
do it, We have seen such scenes as this which We
give 10 exsmpbfy cur position: AT French port
wi arr was being repaired; it was necessary to drain
poi hon of the dock round about it; the operation
epge rendered stencil 30 lit )ereb'e that the work
men r.coiled, snd-workwomen accordingly were
cent down to complete the operation Ia Frame
We have seen q WOMAN, geared with quadeuped,
blowing. In Paris women are scavensers aud
porters. On the Rhine they drag the boat. 10
Vienna they carry hods. And SO through the whole
catalogue Of masculine meanness, cowardice,
cruelty and infamy. Every scOundIel called great
the NspoleoDs, the Caesars, the AleIanders-dOoms
women to yet more gh,sty drudsery by the wars
which kill off their natural protectors, destroy cap
ital, and multiply pauperism. ~ was" says an
American, "six months in the south Of France, at
"the time Of Napoleon's Russian campaign.
" During that time did not see six men working
sin the fields, but all wOnen-the men being
dragged away for slaughter and glory"
Now, while We are shocked at these cita-
tons Of the degradation of European women,
and especially Of the wives of European
peasants, what shall We say of the women of our
own cOuntyi American women are either
Europe an. born, that is immigrants with immigrant
husbands most likely, or Of European descent. Ac-
cordingly eur rural customs-as well as those OF
the towns-partake largely of the brutality and bar
barsm Of European life. Hence it is that the farm
ers, complained Of by our fair correspondents, do
not thea their wives like women but ike beasts Of
burden, after the chivalric European fashion.
Hence il is that such farmers-and be it unler-
stood We do not make the application except
where it i, deserved-bave not got out Of the slough
Of European degradation-baye not learned to 70
spect the exceeding glory Of wouan-her beauty,
Der charms, her devotion, her Piety, her measure
lees work-which are the themes Of inspired poets,
above all Of Shakespeare, who if be lived now,
would give to the WHO'D sex-to the poor, the
obscure and the oppressed-the love, honor and
ectaty be be.towed after the fashion Of his ehival
TIC time, on the nobiy born and beautiful.
Remember, nen who turn your wives into
drudees, that the custom Of thus making brutes
If womep 10 the lie direct 10 the tender and losey
srirt Ct Christ snity, as we'll 40 TO all true IDEAS OF
humanity. Remember, too, thai our poll ic,sy'tem
IL. 1akn Ill