Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-07-09

ono sooh u constant interest in the slave
9 and contributed to northern papers desert
1 lion OF slavery as it was. She began her a
, 1850.
When in Toronto, Mrs. Dali was corr
spending editor of the s'Una," a woman
paper, published at Providence, Rhot
Island. She furnished literary articl,
chiefly, and occasionally papers on III
woman question" At Toronto, also 81
was the agent of society for assisting fug
lives from slavery, and she records that in
single year, of four hundred who passe
through her office, not one returned to as
a second time for help.
In 1865 she assisted to call a convention /
6oston, to discuss the subject of woman
rights, and brought in report on the law
relating to women, as they stood on til
statute BOOKS OF Massachusetts, and th
otncr N. u. States. This was her first pub
nc contribution to the cause in which sh
has since become so Conspicuous. Hel
earliest sympathies had been aroused whe,
| a girl by finding, on consulting John w
broWn, an eminent lawyer in his day, in be
nall OF poor woman, that, although she
supported with her own earnings her family
OF seven children, yet she could not be pro.
tected from the robbery of her drunken hus.
Dand when he insisted on seizing the money
laid aside for her rent to buy LIQUOR. Miss
Bremer as late as 1860 felt grievcd that Mrs.
DalI took so little interest in the matter of
suffrage. She came gradually to sec its i'm
poftancc as means and its necessity as a
recognition. She believes, no party will
ever care to burden itself with reforlnatory
questions until sense of necessity drives ii
70 consider them. Women voters alone,
VINO acutely feel the wrongs done to their
sex, will ever compel reluctant lcgIslators 10
redress them.
In 1866 Mr.. Dali went as missionary to
Caicutta. Since that time, even more largely
than before, Mrs. Dali has been yolnmi-
nous contributor to the newspapers and
magazines both at home and abroad. Over
one Held OF reform she has made herself a
sieepless sentinel-that is, over all that CON
Germs the interests, duties and rights of wo-
man and for years she has suffered no au
thor, or journal of any eminence to slur
misreprcsent. or dwarf the cause without
sending aword-bullet whizzing in that d.
rection. OF course such fidelity has aroused
a most OF antagonists; for 1t is peculiarity
OF human nature not to like to be shot at,
ana am. MRS Dali has wonderful talent for hit
lng what she aims at. She has probably
the halfinsolence and half.laziness
which assumes that titlc-than any other
woman now living.
After this time Mrs Dali called number
ol conventions in different years to follow |
up the flrst meeting and discuss woman's |
flghts She had the entire management and |
responsibility of these meetings. Her own |
lrst series of lectures were sketches of fe-
male character, which were received with
general satisfaction. They have not been
published. la the following winter she de-
ivered second series on Woman's flights
2 Education In the winter of 1861 she
ave third series on Woman's Rights to
LABOR; and in 62 she concluded her course
y tnrce lectures on Woman's Rights under
ne Law. These lectures were many times
epeated, and soon afterwards were publish
u as little books, and they have since re-
'ppeared, revised and enlarged, in the
'oiume recently published by Lee g. Shep-
Ird' entitled: "Thc College, the Market and
ne Court; or. Woman's Relation to Educa-
ION, Labor and Law" These lectures were
thoroughly successful, and established the
'csitlon of the author in the foremost rank
i the advocates of these questions.
During these yeas End ever since, Mrs.
,all has leetured in New England and the
vest on Woman's Rights, Biblical Criticism,
and other topics, and has often
ileu the pulpits of Unitarian churches in
lHerent sections of the North. She takes
le whole services herself, and is regarded as ,
1e OF our ablcst and most erudite Biblical
Fitics. There is certainly no other Ameri-
IN woman who publishes anything by t
hich her learning can be gauged, who l
nows so much about philology, archeolo-
Y, oriental history and languages, and the !
suits OF modern Biblical criticism. It is :
'heved that she was provoked into lectur-
Y on THESE topics by hearing some of our
Comment clergymen give utterance to the o
ost crude and exploded exposiliops of ORR 7
ltal history, On these subjects she has 4
largely to quarterly reviews and
iiglous magazines, both in England and |
Q United States.
Her other works arc ''Life of Marie E. I
lakrzewska, M. ID. !" Historical Pictures
tetouched.. (vindications, for the most
lrt, OF eminent women-as Aspesia and Il
lppho among the ancients, and Mary Woll-
onecraft among the moderns) s'Sunshine, I
a new name for popular lecture on 7
ealtll;' and 'sEgypts Place in History: a a
Prescntation'-that is to say, of Bunsen's
cat book with the same title. This last v
oduction is apainphlet in which the re- 9
its OF Bunsens herculean labors are stated y
th conciseness and power which came !.
,m constant study of the bulky original n
Dirk for more than two years. r
In addition to her work as a writer and B
sturer, Mrs. Dali has taken an active part v
many yearsin Sunday schools She was
long the iirst to move in the formation of T
social Science Association, and has had
vcrai GLASSES Of adults in philology, bibli-
CRITICISM, Shakespeare and Herodotus.
70 is also dlIgent worker in various d
,thods of organized charity and at home. IL
her multitudinous writings show, She is p
heless and conscientious student.
Upon the whole, Mr.. Advertiser, how Ii
er much old-fashioncd fories like Won and To
may deplore tho delusi0n under which A.
s learned woman labors, still, now, to ~ =.
perfectly fair all round, do you think it II
surprising that she should regard herself, ii
view OF her requirements and natural is
wers, as quite as competent to cast bal W
assay, to dive down to the lowest &C
pths to find a conspicuous representative re
our own sex who has filled the highest e,
ices in our gift-Mr. Andrew johnson, or I.
en- the late ex-Prcsident Buchanan?
10 you know-G may just as well make n
lean breast of it)-when read the books
such women as Mrs. Howe and Mrs. v
III, and listen to other great women who n,
yer write at all, feel the ground of con- OF
,vative theories growing crust-like be- W
attn me, and am almost pursuaded to be- b
me radical. Pray, don't tell of it. But Y
truth is,--strange as it may sound-I ., Q,
miy believe that it is radicalism that win 4,
her flrst by the influx of women into the Is
tional lite. They will make their power &C
at once by the repeal of every law which a.
res, as most of our laws give, the advan- at
70 to man in his relations to woman; they n
IL render it impossible, hope, for the n, =,
Nv of gamblers, drunkards, and rowdies NJ
10 now disgrace our Congress to 60 there; e
: on all other questions, as women are in
turally conservative and as their habits of al
increase their dread of great changes, i
sy. will steady the ship of state instead of "
wing it moro recklessly onward. n
BERWICK. W
Hon. JAS M. Ashley, of Ohio, has been a.
nominated by the Republicans Of the 10th q, :,
,trict. q q