Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-23

from the returning Kansas etnigrants, How do the
anon bear Themselves in this sc1uo Of danger still
more, how d. the women bear it p and tho inva.
ria5le answer was, They bear it even better than
The men, Afterwards 1t was my fortunate lot to
visit Kansas when the civil wars we're but Just sub
siding. and to see these women before The glow
had faded of their checks, md the heroism had
Itit theiF eyes. | saw the very woman who taught
her schooi IN the city OF Lawrence on the day of
the Missouri invasion, and kept the children quiet
ut Their books, the very next door to the burning
hotel, because they were safer inside than out. /
saw another young girl who had gone alose among
an army Of two thousand, eucamped around the
ruins OF her homestead Tho won't to save some OF
her fathers property, and returned uniniured, and
'he tod me the story above the stiil,smuking EN-
bers. ! saw the calm women. who, the Sunday
previous were engaged in making bullets, in
sight Of that Same invading army. | saw a woman
who had remained in her lonely prairie dwelling
with her sick children, after it was necessary tC
board up tho lower windows, leaving no communi
cation to the house lut by a ladder to he lowered
or Withdrawn, as friends or foes might come by
remained there till she was burnt out Wy the as
N''''N' 4 'A" s4fNoC NOHiCuJ uli 1 Htulu DuS Oht
testimony in all that region the women in a cri
sis Ike this, are drawer than Tue men,
TO reform these things the impulse must CONT
from woman herself, Men Judge OF women as they
personally see them. How can you expect a mar
to honor womanhood if you do your utmost to dis
honor it by wickolncss or frisolity ? How car
you expect any man to labor for the elevation Of
those who sPurn OF the very laborers, and take
pains to explain to the world, that they themselves
at least, are not strong minded , as if anybody
supposed they were! How can any man reyor
ence womanhood beyond the personal experience
Of his own household | do not need to visit O
man to see what his domestic relations are | can
talk to him about the rights and powers of woman
aud bis answer gives me the true dagnerrcotype oil
his sister, wife, mother, daughter. How can he
get beyond the standard of Thackeray-every wo
man weak or wicked If he can only Judge from q
wife who knows nothing in the universe beyond
her cooking stove, and a daughter who has not
much experimental acquaintance with even that
"On the other hand, what tales of mesmerism Oh
alchemy can fifty symbolic the power of a noble
woman over him who loves her? The table of I'm
dine is only half the story. Dryion's story o.
Cymon and l~phigenia needs to be placed beside it
Woman not merely finds her own soul through
love, but gives it to her lover. Woman has thi,
mighty pOwer-When will she use it MOLLY There
are thousands to-day who are looking out of theil
loneliness, their poverty, or their crime, for tht
new age, when women shall be truer to themselye,
than men have ever been to woman the new
age Of higher civilization, when moral power shal
take the place Of brute force, and peace succeed t.
war.
"A new age is coming for women, as sure as tn,
law Of gra7itation. Every demand now made b,
the strongest advocate for her equality will be full
filled. What is now called fanaticism will one da,
be simple common.sense. Every claim for her cul
ture, every desire for her employment or enfran
chisement it is all coming, it is all there non
of US can prevent it, while every woman can do s
much-more than any man-to promote it. An
oh, if my voice, q strangers voice, can reach on
I woman's heart within these walls, may this, Q
r least, be the result of its imploring, that she VIII
cannot yet join in the new claims now made 70
woman, may, in bare justice to her sex, remai
%neuteral. Let her, if she will lift no hand for help
ing, at least have the generosity to refrain from
opposing those. who, this day, in a neighborin,
hall, are casting down reputation, friends, time
wealth, casting them all down, that they may b
living stones in that temple of the future Of 'Wo
man in Christian Civilization"