Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-02
miscellaneous .
For the Dugle,
EQUAL RIGHTS.


The following letter, us well rs the Legislative
Reports from day to day, show that ous cause,
ts assuming much importanco-is in fact becom-
Ing quite formidable. Private dispatches give me
the impression that the original committee in the
Senate was composed Of members uniriendly 70
our prayer, that they might soon present an ad-
verse report, and thus dismiss the whole subject.
But when the petitions come in with names at
t,ched, amounting to three, four, six, eight, ten
and fifteen hundred in a single day, the Commit
tee did not like to take the responsibility Of an
adverse report. Messrs Ready aud Ilclmes, ap.
Tear to have treated the subject honorably, as the
letter shows, the amount Of Mr.. Moore's Report
may be gathered from the follJwing. which l find
In the correspondence Of the Gin. Commercial.
NJ Moore had q report on the subject, but q
portion of the Senators we're indisposed to permit
che subject to be Senatorially ridiculed, and after
an amusing fues, the subject was dropped. The
report embodied some telling points, and closed
With q recommendation to the ladies Of an excellent
treatise upon the relations Of husband and wife
being the New Testament, a work Of which
many Of them may not have heard, and suggesting
tbasa careful observance of its precepts would rem
NNA 6'0hehA wy u htNNG' AN ~ N'NHNH
the author recommends the ladies to wait patiently
until the Legislature dispcses Of the niger in the
wood pile"
/ am sorry this report was not presented. !
have a specimen OF the gentleman's style and
logic, in a letter embracing the points above men
toned, which / received from him some weeks
since, and from that, l judge that the report would
have done US good.
j. j. Zones.
COLUMBUS, JAN, 81, 1861.
Tho Senate Committee to whom was referred
,he petitions asking for the restoration of perso-
nal end property rights of married women, met
this day, and on the meeting of the Senate Mr..
Ready, one of their number, asked to be excused
from further service. He stated that the number
of the petitions we're so great that they were en-
titled to respectful onsideration-that by all just
Parliamentary rules these petitions should be COM
mitted to their friends, that he was not one of
them, and in justice to the petitions he asked to
be excused from further service on the committee.
The Senate excused him.
Mr.. Holmes another member of the same COM
mittee then rose end begged to be excused for the
same reason, using the same arguments. He also
was excused. Mr.. Moore, chairman, then said
that he would not make such a report as the peti.
TONERS had a right to expect, and that he should
therefore beg to be excused from further serving
on that mttte The Senate excused him, and
the Speaker appointed MesSrs Monroe, Morse and
Key on said committee, in the places thus vacated.
Mr.. Monroe thought that he should not placed Oh
the committee as he was not q friend to oil the
measures prayed for in the petitions, lie was
not excused.
A motion was then made and carried requesting
Senator Moore to read to the Senate an adverse
report which he had drawn. II was understood
that the tenor and weight of it was that Of sheer
and ridicule, and but for q very decided expression
that was manifested in the Senate that it was un-
dignifed and unfair, it would have been read
The better sense of the Senate however resulted
IN having the motion withdrawn. 1t is probable
that the Senate will hear the petitioners urge
the reasons they may have why their prayel
should bs gran ted, when, if Mr.. Moore is disposed
he will probably have on opportunity to read biz
report, and to make an argument in its support.
j, L, G,