Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-12

"What does that all amount 2" was his scorn-
ful answer.
why, my dear sir" replied, "If you will pay
your wife the ordinary price for simply doing up
your washings weekly, and allow her to put that
money in the savings bank, and continue it for
twenty years, she will have moro money laid up
at the end of that time than half you men could
raise as the saving Of the same number Of years"
81 :eli you," he replied, "it would be mighty
little she would have left is sho would pay me for
furnishing soap and wafer, tubs, fre-wood, board
and house rent"
"IIeavon save the mark I" II seemed to for.
get that she would or could, or did ever do any
thing else but wash his two or four fine shirts d
week
We met another Of these reformers who, in the
presence of large company, scolded young
wife not twenty-one, who was the mother Of two
children, and about to become the mother of the
third, till she wept like child in her Ggony; simp-
y because some trifing matter of mere conven-
ience to him had not been attended to in an et-
sence Of weeks, leaving her with all the household
care Poor slave
Another one who writes letters for the Libera-
tor, and gives his energies to the defence of the
slave, let's his wife get up, and build rOs and get
his breakfast, hnbitually; and appropriates her
earnings, without her consent, to his use. She
put sixty dollars in the bank, and for a special
purpose; and when she called for it., he had taken
it out, and spent it, thus betraying her confidence
and trust. Yet this man is called strictly hon
est man-high genial and hospitable
"Such good man ' the neighbors say.
Mr.. Pillsbury's account Of the woman who 90.
supper for ten, reminds me Of like crcum stance
l had leclured three evenings in a neighborhood,
and the mother of seven chidren-one at the
breast-was my landlady. The last evening l
urged her to go, and the husband offered to stay
with the baby. Talking it over, she let fall the
remark-"I never get out anywhere"
eyes you do !" shrieked out bright little girl
you've been out twice since l can remember:
once down to grandad's, and once over to aunt
Hannah's."
This husband was an earnest Womans Rights
man, and a Garrisonian-by Eprofesslon. He
might have emancip pated one slave, surely, if he
had been desirOus of so doing!
But we hope for better things, and an effort is
now making in our State of Illinois to secure to
married women the right to acquire and hold
property in their own name, and the right to alien
and devise the same and to protect their own per-
sons and reputation by law-askipg also joint
right in the guardianship of children for the
mother.
Mrs. TRACY CUTLER and myself have been, for
the last two months, circulating petitions for this
object and we find in the hearts of the people,
everywhere, a ready response. Much more so
than in New York last winter; and We hope that
the time is not far distant when the evils COM
planned of,-which are often moro the result of
custom than of any positive intention of unkind-
ness,-will not be found marring the household
relation.
The slavery of women is older than chattelsm,
and much fear it will take longer to file off her
chains-froni the simple fact, that the husband,
protesting deep love, considers himself and wife
unit; and:she being part of himself, be has
right to abuse himself as much as he pleases,
through her.
On the other hand, we do know women who do
not act we'll their part We pray that both may
do better in the time to come. If we have spoken
especially of anti-slayery and relormers it is
because we felt that they should stand pre-eminent
above all otherssin their work of kindness and
love; and, beginning their labors at home, let
them 60 from thence outward to the ends Of the
earth, wherever there may be human being wear
ing the fetters of slave.
F. D. GAGE.