New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-23

SHE-Apd what becomes OF my name
HE-Iour name shall be my name.
SHE-Apd the chidrens lame?
Uy-Sball be my name. And we take care OF our
selyes and have the custody Of you. Ii you choose
TO stay with u.s. very well; If you don't weli maze
and the woman in terror asks for the law; and here
it IT, The custody OF the wes person sh all heongt TO
her husband; he shall have the right to the aid OF the
officers Of the Jaw. IL she go away from nun, ana II
rhe were not in danger of life or umb he shall have
rieh to bring her back and compel her to stay with
him; and if he don't choose TO bring her back he may
forbid any BODY from harboring or trusting her unless
they very generous for he Will NOT pay any oeDS
Of her contracting.
SHE-Who mace the law
HE-I made It.
SHL-And abou. the property
HE-O, the persolel property that was your sDe
your marriage shall be mine afterward.
SHE-And whose shall yours be-
Hr-Mine; shall have your 8 aud / shall have mine
SHF-And my real estate
Hr-Well, we've provided that if you have any
children it shall 60 to them; but have the use OF 1t
during my life.
SHT-And what about your real estate7
HE-Why, as much as / choose to give you you
shall have after ice, and while l live you shall have
food and clothing and medicine suitable.
The town gays TO the psuper: Wen maintain you;
the wife has the same hold on her husbsnd; he Is
bound to MAINTAIN her.
Hr-But you should have more when die you
should have the use Of third of my real estate;
will be enough for you. [LsughterJ
In mOSt OF the states tue law hlION5 tuo NiuOH
live in her husbsnds house 80 days without reut very
seldom longer than that. Renewed laughterl. In
most of the States the law is written too that married
women cannot make will; some of them write it
ont very clearly that no married woman Insane per
States they are allowed to make will with the con-
ent Of their husbands. One old woman n ID ass.c hu
sets tod me that she had written her WILL but her
husband wouldn't sign it, She hoped che would live
half an hour longer than ne. Lsughter. Ons
statute has a clauss msking womans will valid
without ier husbands consent, if she gives al her
money TO him. Then by and by, the woman begins
| in terror 10 inquire about the children.
UE-Ihe children mine. If The babe is nursing
at your breast, you may keep it until it is weaned
| then it is mine.
o. we pity the elave woman; but not woman of
Won has any more right to her Child tlan the slave
mother The statute of New-Jersey says that the
father whether II years of age or net shall have the
right TO dispose Of his ehilds person whether born or
unborn. Probably all of you know some women
whose hearts aching because their children have
been taken from them, and not by desth.
SnE-Suppose that there ore debts on my husoands
| property, is anything secured TO me!
HE-O yes; the law is generous. Every WIDOW OF
| an insolyent man may use bis spinning wheels aud
slaves and family bible and schoobooks and her own
searing apparel she did not OWL it before. The law
saws that she sb all have her own weangapparel and
| her husbands too. Laughter. Andit says that she
sba have one table, six chairs, six plates and six
knives forks, one sugar bowl and twelve spoons'
If she has as many children as Roman Cornea, they
be friendly, and two st on the sane char anu eo'
| from the same dish.
SHr-But may make contrsct7
HE-No; the wife and the minor can make no con-
tract; the wifes earnings belong to her husDaAd as
much as tn slaves to his master.
And although there has been before your Legisa-
ture bill asking that the wi should nave her earn
pgs secured to her if her husband were drunkaid or
a proAeate your Legislature will rot pass u;
| When the law had placed women where they mad
no right to their persons and property, and their emil
dreu she continued had no power to make contract
bass snd echoed in the shr treble of woman, said
that woman ought to be cOntented. But there were
| women who were dscontented, and elscontent was
| becoming deeper every day, and noble men were
| asking that the rights of woman be accorded her,
and noble women were asking that women have the
opportunity TO ennoble then lves The speaker then
instituted a comparison between the cause which
women were now struggling for and the cause OF the
Free State men in Kansas, and called attention to
the Inconsistency i'll the conduct of the Freeate men
| themselves. The of woman even worse
than that Of the Free Sate men there. Whist border
Rufian had ever dared TO say that man should not
have the right TO make will and TO have custody o
his children But the Free-Siste men had turned
about upon their principles. Though the members o.
the Constitutional Convention recently held ad 'aic
that the mother should have as much right to the
children ss the father yet, when It was proposed &c
siye to woman the right Of outrage, two tnlrds OF the
Free State men voted - g. should not be given her
and in prescribing that the people If hdnsss shai
vote upon the Constitution although women are q
portion of the people, yet it prescrioes who "a mean
| by the people nsnely-" Fe whits males over 2l
"years Of age And il further stated that "sry
"other person who should vote or offer TO vote
should be kept at hard labor Tor not
less than three more than elk months, so that
if the wife OF Gov. Robinson should go and offer &c
vote she would be liable TO suffer confinement at hare
labor for not less than three months the penalty
| presenting to do the very thing for which the Free
State men of Kansas had been struggling. Woman
| should continue to tell those Free-State men thai
governments derived their Just powers from the con
"seLt of the governed" that taxation snd repre-
"sentation were inseparable. They daily told
thst by extenSing the elective franchise to woman
discord would be created in domestic relations be
cause, if women were really free ana mad mind
of their owp they would vote, perhaps, g.
| their husbands did 10. want them to. Suppose
| the wife voted with the Republican party
as she would be more likely 10 do applause and sup
poee her husband belonged to the Know -Nothmgs-E
Il was possible now-(aughterl the fact ii was saiC
would create oiscord at home But this objection nad
| terrible revolution Of the condition of dOlneStt
sfTairs WHEN he dared 10 soy if woman dared to sc
upon ber own thought earned into sction lie snoult
quarrel ih heT if her opinion was not In accordance
| with bis But this was improbable. Man YVES neNe
so kind and affable 10 man as when be desired :" &c
his vote ara with the ballot IN her hard womsh cou
keen an unruly husband pescsiuL lAppleuse.i An
woman in the Legislative Halls would 90 much I
| purify them from their CORRUPTION Mrs ii1oreu
Mot in The Senate Q, House Of Representatives
.bsr WAS lie Ins7 90 ha,s o. T. spp-o:c- ns