Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-23
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Commercial.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RIGHTS.

SALEM, Ohio, March IL. |
EDS. CoM.:-I desire TO invite, through your
columns, your spirited correspondents Of the 4th
instant-"Amazon"--to investigate our Woman's
Rights principles, and cooperate with us in our
measures. What she told us is evidently trre,
that she has nos done 90, else she would UNDER
stand that the thing she 90 much breads, happened
long, long ago. The married woman has no legal
protection in any business pursuit, and if she calls
this e~nslavement, the women Of Ohio, have always
been enslayec. On this very subject The Legisla-
sure has been petitioned this season, perhaps four
times as numerously as on any other interest what
ever, and hundreds of names to our petition, have
been sent Up from her own city.
SO much better are men than theis laws, that.
many a woman remains in utter ignorance Of her
legal condition. She does business on her own ac-
count, and pockets the money she don't have oc-
casion to spend, all by the sufferance Of her hus-
band; and never dreams but it is a legal transac-
ton, till some ex~acting creditor Of his, comes and
sweeps way the fruit Of all her toll, into his OWE
Golfers.
There are women in Ohio, not a few, perhaps,
who receives and control the proceeds of all the real
estate which vests in them and they believe they
do it by law, when it is simply allowed by the
kindness Of the good husbands with whom they
are so fortunate as to be united No honorable
and upright man wants the property belonging to
d his wife, or the use off he does not want her
= separate earnings to squander upon his pleasures,
y or to discharge the debts he was 90 foolish as TO
K contract. He can attend to these matters withou,
any help. Hence, the law, as it NOW stands, is
b a powerful agent for evil in the hands of bad men,
while true, generous men never avail themselves
i of it. Is not this q good reason for change?
The Woman's Rights bill, drafted and nobly ad-
vocated by Judge Key,of Cincinnati, in the Senate.
and for which l thank him in the name Of all the
laboring women of Ohio, was lost, it seems, upon
! ! the eDgrossment, by the casting vote Of the Presi-
dent. Ladies, hope your memory is good, and
& will serve you till next Autumnl heard a por-
e ton of the discussion on that bill, and Il was truly
!, amusing to see grave Senators set up q man Of
b straw, and then beat him down with perverted
y scripture. The moss improbable and the most
o impossible things Hers supposed by the opponents
Of the bill.
This is only a question Of time. II the as
d sembled wisdom see fl to turn a deaf ear TO our
J, prayer this year, rest assured that a Legislature
o Will be elected next, that will show it more respect.
Q Such a constituency as have interested themselves
~ en'S suUSSsi auo whose names are before that
d body. will noi be apt to let IL drop. The women,
b too, who are constantly embarrassed BY the res
%trlctions upon their personal, property, and parsn.
; tai rights will ultimately prevail BECAUSE of their
Q importuSity, if,for 40 other reason. lAg
q We have an abiding ~interes. In the subject. and
: although We could not join Amazon" in her pro-
y posed raid upon the Legislature, las womans'
rights women are a little fastidiOus ia the matter
Q Of dignity,) yet we are terribly in earnest. No
men who have ever gone to war have been more
80. We use words. aud words alone, and they are
. kind and gentle; bus the claim 70 these rights we
shall nerer yield; our purpose 10 as firm as was that
of the Prince Of Orange when he said, '.IIl die in
the last ditch"
We have some interest also, as well as men, in
the general welfare and prosperity Of our country.
Lit was not our mothers who fought and bled
for ito liberties, they made the cartridges and
buekled on the knapsaeks Of those who did, in the
spirit of true Spartan women. lift is mot our
selves who have titled the soil. aud dug The gold,
and built the cities, We have raised .he men who