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Literary Reviews. Tar Wine, Wive Wourp. By Slizabeth Weth- erell 2vole,!2mo New York: Putnam, 1852. Quszeny, By Elizabeth Wethereli. 2 vols., New York: Putnam, 1962. We must apologise for uttering a traism, whea we siy that people will nover buy what they can borrow or steal impunity. If we suppose a @ase, and add that im general the quality of the | merchandize offered for sale is inferior to that which anybody mey appropriate, it will appear watter of wonder that any purchasers at all can be | found. This ie, inere word, the condition of Ame- Tioan Hiterature at ths prevent day. Anenterprising publisher, who exoploys a Leudon agent, can reprint the works of the first English authors almos as soon ag (and, in one or two recent instances, actually sooner than) they appear ia the booksellers shops im the Strand. A few dollars secure the proofsheets, and tho enceersfr! literary pirate distances his rivals For every mon that reads in Britain, there age at least two who read on this continent, and buy the pirated edition. ‘ Bleak House,” for in- stance, which, it is oxpeeted, will give Dickens a net profit of some $75,000, will probably produce over $100,000 for the publishers in this country; and Abe expenses of tho latter are simply the cost of paper and printing. fo long as they can keep their printers occupied with works obtained at this cheap rato, and stock their shelves with similar razzias, hew can it be expected that publishers will pay for manuscripts? We conceive that some credit is due to them for bringing cut any original matter atall. = It is not our design, at present, to enter into the moral view of the question, as between the English author and the Ameriean publisher. We have no jatention of entering the livte as the champion of the injared, and we must repress the natural indigna- tion which every mau ficls at the sight of glaring yapine ard planter. We have to do with the mat- ter only av it affects American literature, and we are much mistaken if this be not the view in which th» iniqnities of the cop % law are eeen in tho strongest light. The Amorieen author goeg into the market with his manuscript, the frvit of many an hour of thought, and many a night of toil; ho finds Macaulay, Ali- son, Carlyle, Texnyson, Thackeray, Jerrold, Dickens, Smith, ard a thousand others, ail men equal, if not f, before him, and offering grata- hich are a! t as promising as the e price of a year’s labor. Putnam, or Messrs. Appleton remind him of the fact, and (to their credit be it said.) as they are us to eneourage their own authors, offer him a sum whieh berely pays the terivener fur copying the manuseript. More they cannot affurd ; books are s0 cheep, when the me- 8 itously worka w one for which he as! Mesers. Harpers, Mr 2 book. and not with the author, that we have to do. Seme apology, perbaps, for owr want of gallantry in eritioi: ng vie performance of a Indy, might be | expected. We can make none. In the drawiog- | room, by the fireside, woman is entitled to the hom- | age ef every civilized man—bat when she abandons | the domestic eirele, to join the ranks of literature, she must be ae regular at parade, and as fauldless ab drill, as the most hicmte specimen of the rougher sex If she fail, she haz only herself to blame, when the adjutant administers the correction due to her offence. | Gerx’s Harrvorn Crry Drapcrory ror 1853 — Hartford: Geer —A useful and neatly prepared litte manyal. Siaveholding Netther a Wrong Nor a Sin. Bauwmore Crry, August 20, 1952. TO THB EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. | Your valuable paper of last week makes the fol- lowivg remarks, concerning a prevailing error with Northern men of both parties:— We have to remark, in conclusion. that with both par- ' ti» im tbe North. and among the soundest men of bo’ parties—whige and democsats—there bas been too m temporizing and trucking to the unclean spirit of aboli- tion and free foil, in all our elections. general and ioeal, | ularly in our locul elections. We doubt whe- 18 @ single politician im the North—whig or demecrat--that will bave tne moral courage. or has thet prac’ical common senre information, to proclaim, opent: and above board, the morality ap‘ the humanity of the Soutbern institution of slavery There is sosrcely a pub- licjourpal in the Nerth, exeepting the New Youx Henacn, tbat bas bad the independence or sagecity to adopt this practical view of the subject. Our view of Southern slavery is, that it is an institution cousistent alike with the dictates of humanity ond the principles of morality. And such ia our view of the Fugitive Slave law Che Southern slave fa invured against starvation or the alms- house. He and his family have a hen for their support upon their master’s estute, while they live, Africa, Hay- ti, apd Jamaica, prove that Cuffes caanot get along witi cut a master, Lefc to bimeeit, be rapidly deteriorates Dock again to the ravage canmbal, In the same commu. nity with the white man, there is for the negro no other | Telation of boppiners or safety to eitber race. than that of | dependence avd submission, The inrtitution of slavery in the South, then, being tue only syscem adapted to the harmony of both races inthe same commuaity. we mein- tain thst it is coveisiens with humaa'ty and morality, | eommon rense, the Bibie, 8s, Paul and the eonstitudon, The justness of all these ebservations must be felt and acknowledged by all men in this latitude. There has been, and yet is, too much yielding on the part of Northern democrats, ae wellas whigs, te what is termed the anti riavery prejudives of the non-slaycholding States. Nearly all say, ** we dise like slavery in the abstract—we think it wrong, and would remove it, if we could; but we are opposod | to interfezing with it because of the deplorable consequences that will follow.” Not one man will stand up and vindicate tlavery as a moral right. Not one will boldly stand up and proclaim it aa in- stitution of divine sanction Tuis is no way to fight abolitionism—a far greater woral wrong than siavery. Like yourseives, | choose the Bible as my platiorm, und, on the faith of what is contamed in the holy hook, L proclaim abolitionism to be one of the greatest sios of which apy man, professiag Christian or otherwige, can be gaily, Tsay thas slavery, such as now exists in the Unitcd States, existed by sanction of the Almighty, thousands of years ago, aud that in no instance was that instivu- obanical portion of (he labor is all that costs money: and the publisher nexé door is bringing out a work on the sume subject, trom the pen of 2 well knowa English author. The American must bow assent or yemain in obscurity. He accepts, and abjures authorship or starves. ; We need not recur to examples _to prove this fact; it is too well known, and has been too ofcen set prominently before the public, to need further illus- tration. u Nor does the obvious corollary from the proposi- tion—that the standard of native American hitera- ture must be far below what might be expected from anation oecupying high a position in the world as tbe Unitea Stutes—admit of coutroversy. When Sydney Suith prophecicd that America would bo engrossed with steamers, and railroads, and bridges, and cotton, and agriculiure, for fifty years to come, and would be content with receiviog bules of Evg: lish poetry,and science and literature, by every steam er, he drew from false premises an interence which every honest American must admit to be true America has no literature to compare with that of ra foveign country oceapying a rank even second to hers among nations Criticism is unborn in the States. Stale, hacknied puffs, smacking strangely of private friendships, or less pure motives, are the wretched but invariable substitute. Her authors are often full of rich fancy and pleasing gifts; but they are weak a3 boarding-school girls, and so in- correct as to transgress, constantly, the simplest roles of grammor. he stimulus to exertion being taken away by the fate] rivalry of the British writ- ere, and the fear of criticism being calmed by the oonsciousness that reviews and newspapers wili unite in ono uniform hymn of praise, a cureless, slovenly style of writing. and a loose, illogival modo of thinking, are the inevitable results. We bave been wondering, four instance, what eould have induced Miss (or Mrs., we realiy do not know which) Elizabeth Wetherell to publish the works, the titles of which we have prefixed to this article. We have been still more astonished that Mr. Patnam ehould have put his name and advanced his eapital on such trash. We have been amazed, above all, that the rapid sale of the books should have almost gained a notoriety for their authoress. To read four thick volumes, closely printed and , crammed full of utterly commonplace stuff —the most tiresome conversation—the most trivial ineidents—withouta single striking sce2e, or well drawn character, or interesting situation, to redeem the monotony of the whole—is assuredly a punish- ment too severe for our bitterest foe. ill it be be- lieved that a couple of chapters are devoted to an account of a morning’s shopping by a lady—that the clerk is minutely described—that the merinos are elaborately painted, and the quantity desired deliberately measured off in aur presence? On farm- ing we have several chapters; item, several on cook- ing and the economy of the kitchen; item, one or ‘two on flowers; several are little sermons, put in the form of question and answer, and larded with Scripture quotations, and Newton’s hymns Pg enti Others are miniatures, & /a Cario Nei, of an impossible hero—a very “Crichton—to whom nothing is difficult, and whose virtues are enly equalled by his talents and his graces—just such a picture as young ladies of a romantic turn of love to sketch, mentally resolving they will roam the world in quest of the original. The plot is 8o insignificant that you might lop off half-a-dozen chapters anywhere, and their absence would iy be noticed. Itis based on the usual condi- ments of a lady’s novel—a family in distress, a pro- digy of a daughter, with the graces of Venus and the wisdom of Minerva; a helpless aunt, an imbe- | eileuncle, and a scapegrace of a cousin; dreadful sufferings from poverty; detested suitors, who ‘‘cor- ner” the young lady, by exhibiting between their finger acd thumb a note forged by her uncle; an English Crichton, rich as Croesus, and excellence per- sonified, as we said, who buys up the forged note, of course, and gets the Jady’s heart at the three hun- dredth page of the second volume, leaving barely a hundred pages fur billing and cooing, and preparing the wedding clothes; ana nothing more that we re- collect. We have spoken of “Queechy,” and “The Wide, Wide World,” as though they wore tho same work. They aro not, in name, at least; but we have vainly sought for any distinguishing mark in tho plot or characters. Like Byron and Scott, Mise Wetherell repeats herself. May we hope she won't do so again? Both works contain an ‘‘infant phenomenon,” o ooursea girl. Before Nicholas Nickleby appeared infant phenomena were thick as mushreons in novels and on the stage. to doctors of divinity, were thought to be a sure card. Mothers raved about them, and pictures of “that extraordinar, wonderful Miss Evefina,” were hung in every nuree- Sai The phenomena vanished in a twinkling, aud ehildren were content to be children, till Dickens, playfully resuseitating the monster he had slain, odueed Paul Dombey. This again let loose the Rood: ates of infant phenomenonism; and a host of scribblers have since given birth to ehildren, who, like the blue-eyed goddess, spring from the brain of their father, armed cap @ pied and crowned with the gravity of age. Miss Wethorell has a neat lit- tle brace of phenomena—Fleda and Ellen—who aro equally competent to write articles for reviews, jin- ps poetry, do plain cooking and washing, manage # farm, preach a sermon, or flirt in a drawing room. tion vitited with his displeasure. Asit bas always been a practice with me to prove everything as I pass along, I must here call the attention of your readers to the following, from the fourteenth verse of the fourteenth chapter of the book of Genesis:— | “And when Abram beard that his brother was | taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in | his own house—three hundred and eighteen—and | pursued them unto Dan.” The persoyvs pursued unto Dan were the captors of Abram’s brother, and the pursuers were his j “trained servants, borm in his owa house”? Abram | was, therefore, alarge slavebolder, tor his servants were “trained and born in hisowa house.” This is proof that they were his property, because hired | servants are never born ix the houso of the man who employs them. But to remove all doubt about | Abram’s being a slaveholder, let me here introduce | the thirteenth and twenty-third verses of the seren- | teenth chapter of the book of Genesia:— “And God ssid unto Abraham, he that is born in thy house, and he that is bough: with tay monoy, mnustneeds be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant,” “© And Abraham took Ishmael his gon, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of-Abra- hum’s house, and cireumcized the flesh of their fore- ae son tho self same day, as God had said unto bim ” There can be no mistake about this Hora is the proot that Abraham had slaves of his own raisiog, and others bought with his money, just as is tho case with slavebolders of the present day. Well, was Abrabom censured by his Divine Master, for thus dealing in human souls as he did in castle, as the abolitionists express it? I find no such thi in the record, On the contrary, the provf is every page of that book that Abraham enjoyed God’s special confidence, and received numcrous favors from his bands. I will now give your readers one or two of these proofs. Aceurdingiy, I will quote first, the 15th, 16th, 17th. and [sth verses ot the 22d chapter of the book of Genosis “And the Angel of the Lord galled unto Abrabam out of Heaven ihe second time: *¢And eaid, by myself hath I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son; “ That in blessing I wall bless thee, and in mul- tiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the Heaven, and as the sand upon the sea shore, and in thy sced shall all the nutions of the earth be blessed. I should be pleased to hear what Messrs. Seward, Jobuston, Greeley, Stevens, Weed, Wade, Sumner, Chase, Hale, and other abolitionists, have to say to this. I have not only proven that Abraham was a very large slavebolder—having servants bought wita his money, and servants of hisown raising—but that Ged blessed him, and promised that, in his seod, all the nations of the earth should be blessed. Is ful- lows, then, that the institution of slavery among the children of Israel, was not offensive in the sight of God, because He gave no instructions to Abra- ham, or his descendants, to emancipate them. He did not see any moral wrong in it, or proclaim that it would, at snp time, prove a curse to that people. Slavery, as we find it existing in the United States, appears to bo precisely like that prevailing in the auys of Abraham; and yet our abolitionists under- take to denounce what God appeared not only to have tolerated, but to have authorized. In substantiation of this last word, you must here permit me to quote the following passages from the twenty: fifth chapter of the book of Leviticus:— “Tam the Lord, your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Ypt. to give you the land ot Canaan, and to be your God.” “ And if thy brouber that dwelleth by theo be waxen poor and be sold unto thee, thow shalt not compel him to serve aga bond servant. ** But as_an hired servant and as a sojourncr, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee. ** And then shall be depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto Lis own family, and unto the possession of bis fathers shall he return, For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt—they shall not be sold as bondmen. Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids, which | thou shalt have, shail be of the beathen that are | round aleat you: of them shall ye buy boudmen and bonamaids. Children in short petticoats, | sojourn among you, ofthem shall Tek and of their discoursing moral philosophy, and striking terrorin- | fumilies that are with you which they be; child, Wilhelmina,” or “the | your children after you, to inherit them for a pow Alas! Miss Crummles was the destroyer of ber | | | hired tervant and a bond servant, which is proof | Webster's dictionary, we will find that boud-man Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do gat in your lund: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them, as an inberitanee, for session; they sbali be your boadmen for ever.”” Now, here we have a distinctionamade between a enough that the Jatter means a sisye, as we now understand the term. Moreover, it we examine means a man slave, and bond-woman a woman slave. No man or woman, however, ef common sense, will deny that these terms mean slaves, otherwise authority to buy them would not have been given to the ehildren of Isracl. The words above quoted from the 25th chapter | any mortal can be guilty. To | they deserve. Marter, there is no sin committed in buying slaves of the Afviean raee, and bolding them as our pos- fecrion. ee ae a4 essentiaby heathens as aoy ived round shout the Childien of eople that Yrracl, and stand in quite a3 much neod, no doubt, of the civilizing influences that are conneeted with their enslavement. [f slavery was no abomination, ip the sight of God, and if it brought no curse. according to the record, upon the Children of Israel, I see not how Messrs Seward, Greeloy, Hole, ond Chase, can diseover any wrong about. it, or for what reason they need spprehond any evil to ' our nation from it. ‘They can find uo “higner law”? than the authority of the Great Jehovah, and His law ig in favor of Lhe Such being thecare, marvel that any man inthe | non-slavebolalig States (whig or democrat), should yield an inch to the abolitionists and free oilers, who denounce slavery and seek its extine- tion. With such a platform to stand upon as the ible affords them, they can denounce abolitionism asa sin, and one of the very worst sins too of which denounce or oppose slavery, conducted upon benign and humane prinei- ples, is to bring them into direct collision with God’s instructions to Moses; and to ‘ execrate and epit upon” that part of the Whig or democratic plat- form which secures the restoration of fugitive slaves to their owners, isto scoff at and make a mockery of God’a law. With such a platform to stand upon as the 25tb chapter of the Book of Leviticus, every TBE WOMEN’S RIGHTS CONVENTION FOR THE DEVELOPEMENT AND BLEVATION OF FRYALES The Syracuse Platform, then Bier dite First Day. Syracuse, September 8, 1352. MORNING SESSION. The rally of the women for their rights, to-day, ‘was very respectable—far superior to the whig mect- ings in Now York—oxbibiting » thousand times the amount of enthusiasm and sinverity. In iho foro- noon the building was not so well tilled as a similar one was last year at Worcestor, but’ still the num- bers were great, considering thet there are throe days of the convention to run, and that tho morn- ing was chiefly oceupied in the organisation. The same orators were present ag in former yoars. Mrs. Rose, MissI.ucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Mrs. Nichols, Vermont ; Rov. A. Brown, (feminine gonder), Mra. ‘ood man can prove abelitionism to be o sin against Beaven of the highest grade, and justly hold up every abolitionist and free so‘ler to the oxecration of the people Why, then, should any candidate for public favor in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, or elsewhere, truckle to.the unchristian spirit of obolitionism and free soilism, and gratify that God- condemned faction so much as to say, that the fugitive slave law is *t opposed to humanity and moral right.” Instead of doing this, let them bid the hypocritical abolitionist that defiance which Let them take the constitution first, and prove that abolitionism is virtual treason to their country; and let them take the Bible next, and prove that abolitionism is in violation of God’s authority, and should emanete only from open- mouthed infidels. If the Bible is not a fiction or a fable, T contend that no man can reverence (rod and be an abolitionist at the same time—no man can claim to be a Christian whilst ho hesitate to de- nounce it. When we make war upen slavery, we set ourselves above our Great Creator, and profess to know more than He does, and to be for righteous than He. He has sanvtioned and autnorized slavery, and the proof Ihave already given. That roof I defy all the Greeleys, Sewards, Halos and thises in the universe, to weaken in the slightest dogree. A Sovurnern Man, But not a Slaycholder. he Presidential Hlece The Catholic Test thon. [From the Boston Pilot, Sept. 4] There is not, in all America, we believe, a mau more hostile to Catholicity than Horace Greeley. There is not @ worse paperthanthe Tribune Fo years, down to the month of June last, whon Seott and Pierce were nominated, the Tribune preserved ite anti Catbolic gharacter. It preserves that chav- acter yet, in every respech save one. It does not openly atiack Catholicity by name. It would not, for all the world, give utterance to a word in dispar- agement of anything said or done by the Most Rev. Archbiehop of New York, or by any bishop in Amor- ica. And it publishes most moving appeals in be- half of the Cat! of New Hampstire. Now this trick is stale. It is true that, were it not forthe vigi+ lance and independence of the Catholic press, many voters might be bagged and tossed in at the polls, But the impudenee of these politicians, and the in- eult upon the understanding of Catholiea were too great to be allowed to pass. The end of it will be that Greeley, in trying to serve his party, will have dove it great harm. He does it injury in other ways, as we shall see hereafter. What we have heretofore said of the duty of the democratic party, with rofor- ence to the wretched gang that hss possessed tha Democratic Review way be said of the eet that pave sess the Tyibune. These men inflict jacalenlable injory vpon their party, and the sooner they are turned out of doors, the hetier will it be for the country. They must be turned cut one day, ard the work may a8 gel hedone now. Notvithstand- ing he disguire of party'pames and of party slang, it Is easy to see that the free sotlers,ihe ocmocran? es, and Greeley, really helong to ono section, Wait a few years, and seo if they be not fighting under the same banner. ‘The other reason which moved us to expose this trick was as follows We Catholics, nowadays, understand our own interests, and can take care of ourselves. We have a hierarchy, a nutnerons body of priests, an imposing list of influential laymen, and a press made up of fourteen p:pers, all zealous, united, watchful and fearless. Nov, not one com- plaint or objection against Gen Pierce, in conse- quence of New Hampshire bigotry, came from aay of these sources, exponents or defenders of sarnont? authority and of Cathotic interests. No ceclesiasti- cal voice was *hised, Sf déurse. No paper opposed him. This silence of the Catholi ss is the more yaluable, inasmuch as not one of the Catholic pspers isa party journal. (We do not consider the Truth Teller, of ‘course, much less the Irish American.) No Catholie paper, that we know of, has written a line directly advocating the election either of Piercy or Seott. Only four laymen, we believe, in tie United States, have expressed an opizion that Catho- lic interests would or could be in any possible way injured by the election of the Now Hampshire can- didate. Catholics citizens, therefore, may be regard. ed as of the unanimous opinion that Catholic i rests are in no way affected by the present poli iseues. lies, into the political arena—they have only inter- fered to prevent party hacks from dragging them, as Catholics, into that arena without cause. Very well. If Catholics aro satisfied, who has a tight to complain! It isa most curious fact that our chempions, in a fight which we neither got up, encouraged ror cared for, are Protestants, and gome of them deadly enemies to Catholicity. Had this happened years ago, when Catholics were fow, and voters fewer, perhaps their honesty would bo Jess liable to suspicion. But now, whon we area fifth of the population, when our vote is strong, when we have a position and a stake in the country, a 1 this misbegotten love of popery, on the part of the enemies of catholieity, isa ioe thing. The votes and the close elections explain it all. W.E. Robinson is one of these suddenly converted friends of popieh rights. Our neighbor of the Post, in common with some other papers. was mistaken in supposing that Robinsonis a Catholic. He is not. He has no right or title of any sort to epeak forus. We can speek for ourselves; and the fact that we have said nothing is suflicientiy stggng evi- dence that, in this Presidential electionSthere is notbing to be snid. If we needed advocates, we would not go to Mr. Robivson. In saying this, we do not ixtend the remotest disparagement to his character as a private individual, for we know no- thing of him in that capacity, and,ifwe did, we would not say anything. But he isa party hack— worse, @ party hack selected for driving in dirty weather. A party hack is’a man enguged to do dirty work for a party—there are several in both parties; perhaps, like spies, they are ne- Gacy evils; perhaps the party leaders, es- pecially the gallant and honorable standard bearers, Pierce und Scott, may repeat, with refer- ence to these hacks, the language of Cromwell and say—**T love the treason, but I abhor the traitor.” Such characters, above all others in political life, excite our abhorrence and disgust. Hence we ean- not express our contempt for a long lecture, pub- lished by Mr. Robinson in the Zribune, in which he Jaments, weeps, and howls over the condition of the Catholic voters in New Hampehire, of which there were none twenty five years ago, and but a very few now. Why did he not lameut, weep. and howl over the poor men of North Carolina, (Graham’s State,) who are disqualified by law on aecount of their not holding property ? Because, like a keener, he bas engaged to cry on the other side. This lec- ture has been printed at the Zribwne office, and Greeley offers it for sale at a nominal price, in order to secure a wide circulation for it at the West, for here, at the North and East, it isof nouse. Neither is it of much use nt the West, for the Catholic press, a higher authority, for Catholics than Mr. iobinson, has settled the matter also there We did intend to review this lecture, but we give it up, in utter weariness. It would occupy more than a page of our paper, in close type, ands review of it would fill three or four pages more. A falsehood told in three words, frequeutiy Tequires twenty for its examination. We care less for it, as the New Hampshire question, eo far as it afiects Catholics, of the Book of Leviticus, are a part of the sayings of the Lord unto Moses in Mount Sinai; in other words, they constitute a part of God's instructions We notice that American novelists generally in- | to him. From those instructions it appears that the dulge themselves with a trip to Paris, and their readers with a eorision of the same, May we humbly suggest that the subject is not a maiden ono? That people have bee known to write des- ogee of a voyage to Paris before the year 1852, and that some few have actually personal recollec- tions of such a trip? Some day, wo shall have a chapter in a fiue duodecimo, describing a journey in the cars from the Park te ‘Twenty-eighth street. To conclude —The style and of their books are as bad as the conception is feeble. Well- educated Re le, sueh as Carleton, Fleda, Olurney, do not tal © western farmers; and though cer- tain license is granted to an author in his dialoguo, there is assuredly no custom or rule which can ex- = vulgar, ungrammatical expressions in his nar- tative. Woe shall,be sorgg, it anything that we have said offend Miss Wethefell. It is net our provinge to speak of her otherwise than as an authoress ;" and we are tran: sing the limits of our sphere, when wo say, unless we are much on, those books reveal fine Late edd warm heart, and a pure spirit venient piety. We sped nately, an ut; 3 We or pT nr remnant, fa 4 potent qualitios Children of Israel were autherized to buy their own poor, and hold them in a sort of bondage for a term of years, in addition te buying bondmen and bond- women of the heathen roand about them, and the strangors sojourning among them. The conditions exacted of them were that thoy ‘should not rule with rigor over their brethren,’ but allow them fair wages until the price paid for them should have been redeemed. Of the heathen and the strangers they were authorized to ‘buy bondmen and bond maids,” as a possession for themselves and their children after them,” aud to hold them as their ** bondmen for ever.” 2 ‘ Now, untess the editors of the New Youk Tribune and Evening Post can prove that God afterwards revoked this authority, or that St. Paul did not direct servants to obey their masters—and, having * masters,” Le dane slaves of course—I am justi- fied in saying that the institution of slavery, as we find it existing in our Southern States, has received the Divine sanction. The puseages which I have quoted above make this clear to every man’s mind; and there is nothing on record to show that the Son of God, our Saviour, uttered one wordin condemna- tion of the institution during His pilgrimage on the earth: According to the nuthority conferred upon wee vine YT, ai et ard an has been thoroughly discussed in our columns, and we bave no wish to repeat what we have said when other topics, claiming attention, press sf closely upon our space Domestic Intelligence, An aged man by the name laboring under a fit of temporary insanity, leaped from the third story of the Washington Honse. Cincinnati. on the &h inst., and was so much injured D whether he i recov. uch in): that it is doubted omas Shannon, who was tried in 1; Ky.. fome time ngo, ‘and found guilty of Milne 0 ony Cynthiana, was hung near that place on Saturday last. An immense concourse of people were present. About forty deaths from cholera itely occurred oA s.calene a Inset called t Bonapa At Potosi and m, Mo,, the eare §' Tages, Peaent citizens have died, vdirftabaoraer hae ad body, very far advanced in ition, appearance, the body was Cy to be that of ® Gen. San Goren, who had, doubtless, fallem overboard from In consequence of a difficulty between the lerece of the ferry a Albany and the city authorities, the boats have been laid up. and the communication between Albany and Ureenbueh suspended. In Alavheim, N. ¥,, near the mouth of the Rast Ca nada Creek, the corpee of Archibald Van Aller wns found’ onthe 6th inst, by workmen d upon the rallread> He had been missing on a carouso for almost a week vious. The wife of the deceased was drowned, tome wo yenvn since, in attempting to ford the Mobawk Hver ; , They have not entered, therefore, a3 Catho- , when our papers are numerous and independent, ' of Alexauder Wade, while | Davis, Providence, R I.; Mrs. Oakes Sinith, Miss Sa- rab Miller, doctor of medicine, Rov. Samuel J. May, &c. But the fiery orator from Ohio, Mrs. Coo, who ' played such havoc among mankind last year, wav greatly missed this timo, also friond Channing, but hia loss was made up for by Rev. Samuel J. May and Gerrit Smith, Mr. James Mott, hueband of Lu- cretia, and two or three other old respectable gen- tlemen. The ladies enumerated above are, some of them, very fascinating (we must not be so ungallant as to say anything of the “‘plain” ones), and they were all dressed in the highest style of fashion. Besides these there was a new accession of very pretty girls from every point of the compass. To deny such agents their righta would be the height of cruelty. There can be no doubt that many young men who came to laugh lost their hearts before they went away, It is said that these conventions, just like the Phalanx, are re- markabie for getting the girls marriod, who, though they say so much of the wrongs inflicted by hard- hearted man, have not so mueh objection r all to tako husbands for “ better for wose” It is worthy of remark that this time ‘“ the bloomers” have almost totally disappeared from the convention, I saw only two, and one of them was a lady who was considerably on the wrong sido of her “ teens,’’ and evidently wisked to be taken for a little rosebud of ‘sweet fifteen”? She could not bo lesa than double that age. She had her hair cut short likea child; but the effect was rather ludicrous than other- wise. It is also worthy of remark, that not a single person of color was preseat. This was not the case formerly. hs There are all sorta of influences usod, to induce the convention to go for Scott. Greeley, it is understccd, hag promised, as a quid pro qua, the support ofthe Z'réowne, to such an extent ae it was never given before. Seward too, has his agents at work with the corps de reserve, and it is very likely that they will give their support to old Chippewa. Some of them think he is entirely too old fora ladies man, and would prefer a younger aod fresher individual of the masculine gender ; but tho majo- rity seem to like him with his fautts and ** fuse and feathers.” ‘They say he comes beyond all com- parigon, nearer to their views on slavery than Pierce, and that such @ man esnnot but have the true notions about woman’s rights Perhaps to- morrow will tell more on the subject. ss The meeting was called to order by Mrs Paulioa W. Davis, of Providence, RI, cabing the ‘chair, protm., which ske djd as chairman of the Central Committee. v. 8. J. May, then offered a devout Prayer for the succes: of women’s rights Miss Lucy Stone, as secretary pd tent » then read the following call of the convention:— g WOMAN'S RIGHTS. A NATIONAL CANVENTION, SEP TEM TH, syRAcuar. ights Convention, held at Worcerier, October 22d and 24d, 1351, adjourned to ineet fi ember Sth. 9tit amd lush, 1852, The 'y justice and trath, are earnestly in- Vited to aseemble there at that time. dircurs the im- portant question of reform, technically termed Woman's Fights. We propere not only to review the past and con. sider the present, but tomack out new god broader baths for the opeving future The tims bas come, not mere for the examimution and discussion’ of woman's civil and religious rights, bot alto for a th hb an: cient orgamzationa well digested plan of ope wh thorg ae tted rights for which our faphe fooght, bled and Med. may Se seoured and en- Joyed by us, gor stupidly endure those evils she may ape, but with her own right hand carve cut for berseit a higher. nobler destiay, than bas hereto- fore bem bers. Eparmmed as throvgh the folly aad imbe- cility of woman the race is what itis, d varfed in mind aud . and as thyoagh her alone it can set be redeemed, qually intexested in the objects of the convention, We, therevore. rolemuly urge those men and women who desire 994 look for the developement and elevation of the » to be present at the coming convention. and aid us hy the wiedom ef their counsels, Oar platform will, as ever. be free to all who are capanie of difusing the sub- ec! with scrfonsness, candor, and truth, On behalf of Ore ap 1690, at The National Woman's I Luey Sroxe Pacuixa W. Dav Sanur. J May. Wn H Cnansine. Geant Sarta, Mirs Sroxp, in commenting on this document, the hoped every one present would say some- every body had a El feeling—and what she wanted was, that it be expressed. Even if it. was adverse, she wished that every one would spenk his or her mind Bh Some women’s voices were never heard beyond the fireside, and this was the reason, she supposed, they did not vote, and speak out as they ought. She thought they did not speak wy strong enough in voting for hor (Laughter But el Asc only beginning, and the voice, like everything else, would improve by tim: he Present then read a lotter from G, Ww, Jobnston, of Buffalo, enclosing $10, and 4eserting for women an equal right with men to ‘fe, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Shia Vorces.—Is that ffom a man or a wo- man The PrestDENT. —Ié is froma lady who has con- trol over her own purse. (Laughter. ) The following letter was tuen read from Horaco Greeley. It was notin his own handwriting, but copied by a clerk, with a note at tho top in his handwriting :—‘ Copied for legibility’s doar eake :°— * ‘ew York, September 1, 1852, My Friemd—I have once or twiee Fae urged to attend @ convention of the advocates of woman's rights; and though compliance has never been within my power have a right to infer that some friends of the cause de- tire sugestions from me, with regard to the best means of advancing it. I, therefore, Venture to submit seme thoughts on that subject, ‘To my mind, the bread problem lies at the base of all the destrable and | ed mye reforms which our age medi+ tates. Not that bread is intrinsically more important to man than temperance, intelligence, morality. and religion; but that it is essential to the just appreciation and healthful acquisition of all these. Vainly do we preach the blessings of temperance to human beings cradled in hunger, and suffering, at intervais. the agonies of famine; idly dowe commend intelectual euitmre to those whose minds are daily racked with the dark problem, “How shall We procure fuod for the morrow.”” Morality, re- ligion, are Lut words to bim who fishes in gutters fi means of sustaining life. and crowches behind barr bo for shelter from the cutting blasts of » wiater's night. Before all questions of intellectual training, or political franchises for women—not to speuk of such a triile aa costume—do I place the question of enlarged opportuni- ties for work of a more extended and diversitiod fleld of ewployment. The silk cultute and manufacture, firmly established and thriftily prosecuted to the extent of our home demand for sick, would be worth everything to American women of Design should be ex wider and more prosp couraged with the same view A rous developement of our manufac Our now feeble and infantile Schools | turing industry will increase the demand for female la- | bor, thus enhaneing its average reward. and elevating the social position ot women. I trast the future bas, therefore, much good in store for the less muscular halt of the human race, | But the reform hove anticipated rated in our several homos, | know bow idle is the expec- tation of any general and permanent enhancement of the wages, of any class or condition, above the level of equation of supply and demand; yet it seems to me that | the friends of woman’s rights may wisely and worthily tet the example of paying juster prices for female | sistance in their househelds than those now current. If they would but resolve never to pay a capable, efficient | Woman, less than two thirds the wages paid to a vigorous effective man, employed in some corresponding vocation, they would very essentiaily aid the movement now in | progress for the general recognition and concession of | equal rights to women, Society is clearly unjust to Women in uccording them but four to eight dollars per | month tor labor eqanily repugnant with. and more pro- | trocted than that of men of equal intelligence and re- lative efficiency, whose services command from ten to twenty dollars per mouth. If, then, the friends of wo- | man's rights could set the world an example of paying for female service, not the lowest pittance which siern necestity may compel the defenceless to accept. but an approximately fair and liberal compensation for the work actually done, as determined by a careful comparison with the recompense of other labor. I believe this would give their cause an iro) which could uot be perma- nently resisted, With prefound esteem, yours, HORACE GREELEY, Mrs, Pavutna W. Davis, Providence, R. I. Another letter was then read from an English lady, Mrs. Hugo Reed, ths substane: of which was, that it was easier for ween ‘0 get their rights in America, where there was so much liberty, and where women were 8° much tod, than it was for European wotuen to succeed in the sume object, degraded as they wero in common with #0 men who were deprived of tical franchises. Miss Lucy Stonr took the very opposite of this view, and said they would have @ far beltor prospect shou'd be inaugu- | | and faculties half the men were 4d d of ae tie thon both men aod vaoats Coote y suscossfu dua ed ‘tint @3ut now, men looked down en, aad considered thomaclves the ‘taller Mand it was rather from a foeling of gal- lantay, than from a sense of right, that thoy lent any countenance. to this movement If the time crmitted, ahe would say something in reference to jorace Greeley’s ides of ‘* bread” belug the one thing needful, te was the souls of women that were starved, rathér than their bodies. ‘The list of permanent officers was hero reported, npon which Luerctia Mott objocted to herself being President, but it was no uge, aa her own and her bus! ’s vote were the only two against her. Mrs Mott suggested Mrs. Oakes Smith for Prosi- dent. Tho PresipEnT then invited every person presont While we demand for woman 4 more complet sical, intellectual and moral cdneation as the meee * strengthening and eegeeying ber own natare, tof ennobling the whole race 40 wk for a more “eratet standard of excellence avd meral purity in man; We maintain that if there is any price Of resort erent ployment in socloty, which neces-arily would sully the delicacy of woman's spirit, in teat, man also umust ba contaminated and degraded, Weman indeed should wear about ber wherever sha moves, the protecting investment of tamocenee and puri. but not less is it requisite that he who ix the companid(? of her life, should guard his spirit with the «ame saera™ and beautiful covering. We believe that women a4 an a wountable being eann¢ © innocently merge her individuality in that of her brotha or accept from him the limitation: of her sphere, Tn all life's great extremities -he also is thrown upomw her inward rerources, and stapd+ alone, Man ¢annot step im between her and the ~ accusing angel” of het own conscience ; alone in the solitude of ber epirit she ve to speak freely, for or against auy propositions that st with her own sorrows : none can walk for h might be made, and procesded to address the as- | ey a "i the shodow of death". When" beet sembly herself. She said the honor conferred upon | ther shall be ableto settle for her accowntatabilities, ang her was so unexpocted, that she was not pro- | + give to God a ransom for her roul,” then, and not till ed with anything like a regular address. Sho | then, may she rightly commit to hun the direction of hog Poped they would all movo on without egotism, or | powers and activities, thinking too much of themselves. At tho same time, let them lay aside all embarrassment, and preach for the great cauve of woman's rights as best they may. Tho convention had hith:rto been sig pally suecessful. Many who went to sooif romaine: to pray, being convinced of the dignity and propri- ety offibe women of this convention. Respoct was generally paid to them in the papers, and in tho lo- calities where the conventions wore held, there was very little disposition to ridicule them. When they embarked in tho cause, they expected some ridicule. Therefore, it was with deep gratification that they observed go much seriousness und atton- tion from those outside. She hoped they would co- rate in the same way still, and not only so, but that the good cause would spread to other lands, and all the results anticipated from it be realized. Sho had to request that they would address and faco the audience, and not the chair, and that they fix their eye upon tho person in tho most distant part of the house. here is a necessity for women, whose voice is naturally weak, and still weaker for want of exercise, to speak loud. In advocatins women’s rights, Jet them remewber that huma. rights—universal rights—defined, and comprehende | women’s rights. She would, therefure, be glad tha men would offer resolutions sage pendene of the Cen tral Committee. She concluded by requesting the Vice-President to come forward and face the audi- ence, which they immediately did. ¢ A Business Committee was then nominate] to draw up, receive, and consider resolutions. Meantime the following address was read and adopted :— ADDRESS. ‘The question is repeatedly asked, by these who have thought but littte pos the subject of woman’s position in society—"* What does woman want more than she pos tenses alieady? In she not beloved, honored guurded, cherished ? liberties curtailed Glewing pictures have been Jrawn of the fitness of the present relations of society, and of the beauty of woman's dependence upon the protecting love of mat, and tright- ful visions have been evoked of the coufuston and per- ‘We ask, in fino, for the application of the fundamental principles of Christianity and repablicaniam to this. a¢ to all other questions of vital imp rtance ; and appealing to all who desire the progressiou and happiness of thé whole race. we ark them, as magnanimous men and tru¢ women, to examine this sulject in the spirit ofa geme- | rous and candid investigation. Wherein are her rights infringed, or her version of nature which would occur. if the doctrine of the equal rights of man and woman was once admitted, ‘The ides seems to prevail that movements for the ele- vation of woman, arise, not from the legitimate wants of society, but from the vague restieseners of unquiet spir- its; not from the serene dictates of wisdom, but from the headlong impulses of fanaticiem We came not here to argue the question of the relative strength of intellect in man end wowan. for the reform which we advocate depends not upon its settlement, ‘We place not the interests of woman in autagoniem to thore of her brother, for “The woman's cause is man’s: ‘They rise or sink together, Dwarted or (iod-like, bond or free.’ We maintain not that woman thould lose any of that refinement and delicacy of spirit which, as a celestial hulo, ever encircles the pure in heart. We contend not that she slall become noisy and dicta- torial, and abjure the qniet graces of life We chim not that the, any more than her brother, should engage in any vosation or appear in any situation to which ber nature and abilities are not fitted. But we ask for her, as for man. equality before the law, and freedom to exercise all her powers and facul- ae under the diregtion of her own judgment and voli- tion When a woman dies, leaving behind her a husband and children, no appraise: czgmine the effects; the futher js the guardian of his offsprigg; the Jamil relation ia not mvaded by law. \e' Bat when A man dies tig cose dp gutirely different; im the hour of the widow's deeb distress suranges® COM? into the house to take an inventory of the effects, stran- gers are appointed to be the guardians of her children, avd she, their natural care-taker thenceforth his no legal direction of their interests ; strangers decide upon the propriety of the rale of the property--carned, perhups. by her own and her busbend s mutual efforts—and ber interest in the estate is coolly designated as the “ widow's jngpinyrance |”? In the ¢Stremity of her bereavement there is piled upon her, not only the dread of separation from hur chil- Aten, bus thet of being sent homelees from the spot where orery object has been consecrated by her tenderest affections. Nor $s the prastical working of this law better than ite theory; all over the country there are widows who have been made doubly cerolate by its provi-ions— widows eeparated from their children, who. if they had had the disposal of their own and their husbands mutual property. might have retrieved their circumstan- ces, and kept the Wea old bund together. ge int DYYLig fen‘iment as shall cure the repeal of this oppressive law. We ask that woman shall have free access td Merk er of profit and honor, the means ot earning a livelihood 80g independence for herself! As a general rule, profitable employments are not considered open to woman, nor are her business capabilities encournged and developed by systematic training. Gloomy must be the feelings of the father of a family of young daughters when he is about to bid farewell to the world if he is leaving t+ without the means.of pecuniary support, | Their b” oghary nay go out into society and ‘gain position 2” “Compe, «0 of employ- fi repressed aud sider the bitter sense Rov eb: for suc tency; but forthem there is but litle cho* meant, and, too otten, they are left wi crippled energies to pive and chafe v of poverty and dependence, pation odgment ond fF {xermined. not by thoir inel- * : "wility, as are those of man, but by he a ee Of what is proper and becoming. a ey eae °, delicacy is outraged if a woman ap- eee lec - eeyond the walls of the harem; in America o rs fh "46 oO less arbitrary presumes to mark out for lin. .y# Precise boundaries of womanly propriety; and fhe, «ho ventures to step beyond them. must do it at the peril ot encountering low sneers, coarse allusions, and the witheslng imputation of want of femenine delieacy. Even for the same rervices woman generally receives less than wan The whole tendency of our customs, hab- its and teaching, Is to make her dependent—dependent in outward circumstances, dependent in epirit. As a consequence of her fewer resources, marriage has been to her the great means of recuring position in so~ ciety, Thus it is that this relation—which should ever be @ “holy sacrament’’—the unbiassed and generous election of the free and self-sustained being, too often is degruded into a mean acceptance of a shelter from neglect and poverty ! We ask that woman shall be trained to unfold her whole Dature ; to exercise all her powers and faculties, __ It is raid that the domestic circle is the peculiar prov- ince of woman that “men are what mothers make bow ean that woman who does not live fur self-culture end eelf-developement. who bas herself no ex- P| sited objects in life, imbue her children with lofty axpira- tions, or train her sons to a free and glorious manhood ’ She best can fulfll tbe duties of wife and mother, who is fitted for other and varied usefulness. ‘The beirg who lives for one relation only. cannot pos- sess the power and scope which are required for the high- + excellence even in that one, If the whole body is left without exereise, one arm does not become strong; it the tree is stunted in its growth, one brauch does not shoot into surpassing Inxuriance. ‘That woman whose habits and mental training enable her to assist and sustain her husband in seasons of diffi- eulty, and whose children rely on her as a wire counsel- ; commands @ life-long reverence far deeper and dearer an etm be secured transient accomplishuents, or the mest refined and delicate imbecility ! All wemen are not wives and mothers, but all have t, powers that grow with their ety. know that there isat this time, a yast ame unhappiness among women for want of free outlet to their powers; that thousands are yearning for fuller de- Velopement. and a wider field of urcfulness, The same energies which in man find vent in the professions, aud in the thousand forms ot business and study. must find an ennebling channel in woman. else they will be frit. tered away in trifles, or vurned into instruments to prey upon their possessor. To follow the empty round of fashion, to retail gossip and scandal, tobe an ornament in the parlor or a mere drudge in the kitchen, to live as on appendage to any hue man being, does not fill up ner sstisiy the capacities ot a Soul awakened to a sense of its trae wants, and the fare reaching and mighty interests which cluster around its BY ence. who are best acquainted with the state of fy. | © protest against the tyranny of that public sentl- | ment which assigns any artitrary spbero to woman. God has made the happiness and developement of His | creatures to depend upon the free exercise of their powers Freedom is the law of beaut y, written by His fingers upon the human mind, and the ouly cendition upon which it can attain to its full stature, and expand in its natural and beautiful proportions, It is recogniged, in reference to man, that his judg- ment, opportunities and abilities are the proper measure of his sphere, “The tools to bim who can use them.” But the same principles are not trusted in their applica- tion to woman, lest. forsooth, she should love her femenine SeaTasteriatio and, like the lost Pleiad, forsake her na- e sphere! ‘. Tt secans to be fovgotten that the laws of nature will not bo suspended : that the human mind, when released from pressure. like water, must find ite own level ; that woman cannot, if she would, cast away ber nature and instincts ; that it is only when we are left free to obey the inward tions of our gbe! that we fall into our natural nd move in our God appointed orbits. sk that none shall dare to come in between woman and her Maker, aud with unballowed hands attempt to plant their shallow posts and draw their flimsy corde around the heaven-wide sphere of an immortal spirit ! We maintain that God bas not #0 failed in bis adapta- ticns as to give powers to be wasted. talents to be in @ napkin; and that the possession of faculties ant 3 pabilities is the warrant of nature, the command ef the Wet SS cane and exercise, e believe that the woman who is obeying the convie- tions of her own soul, and whose ability . pond with her enployment, is ever im her own true sphere; ota ae Ste Poe is training her children 0 no! and virtue, or is stand! yeician the bed of rickmens ar.d'sorrow-—mbether with Riteaneth glad tidings tothe sad | who shall scod delegates to a Congress, Fry the js preaching the of filings fF or ike the Ttalian, Lauri Bassi, is fensor'a ox) ty and Stet — Philosophy to come into the desolated home to | Mrs. Nicnons, of Vermont, said, in reference to woman’s sphere, it bad been laid down invariabl, that woman had a sphere different from man. This could not be sustained philosophically, or in point of fact. It was maintained. aleo, that man wat woman’s head, and she wae bis helper. If this ba so, then they belong to the same sphere. Tha theory thus upsets itself. Iv wus not becauee they wanted to be men, or to invade mon that they went forward in this work. The two sexes were part of wm whole, and what ia done by outy one is inne done. (Great laughter among some wags) If woman bad been permitted to co-operate with mam in forming creeds and laws, toere would be more justice in them. Justice is but love in a chronia state. Representation is veceseary for free Be vernmont, and taxation withoutit is tyranny. But this principle was violated in woman’s regard, though their fathers had fought and bled for it sa many years ago. Woman was permitted to vote im banks and taliroad corporativus, because fer money could not be got any other way. (Applause.) Sha begged they would not applau:l --it mterrapted her. | She bad a fuculty of reading the humun tace divine, and she saw their sympathy ‘Tat was suflicient.! If there is anything rowdyish in elections, that is unfit for women’s presence—though the elections im Vermont are generally held in the clurches—wh; ‘. let the woman assemble ona differeut day and de- posit their ballots. With regard to offices, thera are 122 women in the post, offi day, without re« proach from man or woman—even those who say that the ladies of this convention want the unmen+ tignables. (Applause ) ius The URESENT—L think the speaker is in soma respects the victim of hét ¢#» Mheology. Sho hag admitted that man is the head of the woman, Mrs. NicHo~s—(smart as a flas oo! Ughining Tale admit a theory that upsets ik. You know I ama politician. © (Great laughter ) The PresipENt— Another objectiou to your specct is, that you infer the morality of woman ia supes, rior to that of man. All we ask is equality. Mrs. Nicno1s—The superiority of the woman ig the result of her persecution. do not claim it om the ground of nature, but in point of fuct. (Great nn lause). rg. OAKES Suiri then reported the rosolutiona forwarded to you by telegraph. The Convention then udjourned till the afternoon AFTRNOON SESSION The Afternoon Session opened at 2 o’clock, and the hall was densely filled. . Mrs. E, Oakes Siri, who displays a magnificent bust and a digniticd person, then proceeded to ad- dress the meeting. Mr. James Morr said she spoke in too low atona to be heard. Mrs. Smiru said sho was sorry for that, thougk the charge was unusual If the audienco wo only keep still she could be easily heard. Woman’s voice was heard rather by its pevetrating, sym) thetic quality, then by its toations I did not coma here to shont at the ‘top of my voice. My friends, do we realize for what purpore we aro convened & Do yg folly vagarrtoes SHAY We artiye at nothing else than an entire subversion of the existing order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing socia} compact? Do wo see that it is not an error of toe day nor of yesterday against which we are liftix up the voice of dissent: but it is against hom: headed error of all times—error barne onward fro: the firat footpriuts of the first puir eje:ted fro paradise, intermingled in every aspect of civil zation, down to our own times "In view of this, i does seem to me that we sbould each and all fee us if animated, senctified, set apart, as to a grea mission. It seems tome that we who struggle t restore the divine woman to the world, should fee’ as if under the very eye of the Eternal Seareber 0 all bearts, who will reject any sacrifice other than @ pure offering. We are said to be a few disaflected embittered women, met for the purpose of giving vent to petty personal spleen and domestic discontent. We repel the charge, and J call upon every woman ‘ct to. repel the charge. If we have personul wrongs, here is not the placo for redress. If ©: navy private grief, and what human bres’ “ 6, ia witha 2 -wov, in a large sense, out *2h,) Wo oy not come ere to pessamt tham- The gure Will lay ite 0% norrore over the hoarts of | are ” . Srey os hers present. vefore the good wo ask for our kind will bo t¢*\ized ‘to the world. We shall pass onwar# to ether spheres of existence, but we trust the sea we shall here plant will spring to a glorious harvest We ‘see the end from the beginning,” and rejoia in spirit. Wo care not that we sball not reap th fruits of our toil, for we know, in times to come,t| will be seen to be sipaions work. Bitterness if} the child of wrong. If any one of our number ha 4 become embittered (which Goud forbid), it is becaus. social wrong has so penetrated to the inner life, that we are crucified thereby, and take the gal and vinegar of the Divine Master. All who take their stend against false institutions, are, in some sense, embittered. The conviction of wrong has wrought mightily in them. Their hearts lock in the whole sense of human woe, and bleed for, those who had beceme brutalized by its weigh They sy as never man spoke in his own individue alism, but as the embodied soul will speak when tha full time shall come. Thus Huse, and Wickliff, and Luther spoke, and the men of ‘76, No woman hag come here to talk over her private griefs, and de- tail the small coin of personal aneedcte 3.and yet did women speak of the wrongs which unjust legisla- tion—the wrongs which corrupt publio dpinion, the wrongs whieh false social aspects have fastened upon us—wrongs which the hides within smiles, and con- ceals with womanly endusance—did she give veice to all this, her smiles would seem ¢o hollow, and her endurance so divine, that ber brow would beenoircled with the halo of a saint. But we are not here from apy petty pertonal motive ; we bave not left ow firesides for any purpore incondstant with its sancti- ties. Were we ambitions, we should seek a field Jess obnoxious to pablic opinion. Did wo desire notoriety, as is so often said o us in a sense, this is not the field ir which to win it, for here the ove is lost in the morn ing. No, it is only a deep, holy sense of good, tobt done for our kind, that hes coinpelled us from; sanctities of home, that we may bere eay whatoug pulpits dare not utter, God's truth although it ig and that we may challenge our legislators to ag necount of their stewardship. We are but a hand- full, it is true, to resist the combined forces of Piejudiced oppression, and we now say, if any one of our number dreads the contest, let bim or her go out from amongst us now, for we that remain repared to stand like the band at Thermopylae of old. Let this Syracuse, already known as the watchword of freedom, be cur Thermopylae, and here let us enter our solemn protest, and pre} to abide the issue. Let us protest against law in which we have no voive, against legislation in whielt Wwe are not represented, agains democracy im which half of the people are denied the right of citizenship. I call upon every woman here to en= ter her solemn protest against » country claim« ing to be free, and yet denying to her the ights of a citizen. Men gravely tell us We are un= fit for the positions to which we aspire. They say We are unfit for legislators, an’ therefore we must not vote, while the squalid omigrant, who ean nei- ther read or write, is admitted to a privilege denied to the American matron. Because women cannot all of them do that which only the wisest of mon ara capable of doing, must we therefore do nothing % Because we have ret the heads of gladiators and gilists, must we be denied the use of what little brain we do happen to porsess 2 This reminds me of | | ! i | | Oi anecdote of a poor Scotch woman, who was tel about the rising in the North for Prince hehe which a certain Highland laird lost his head. “To be sure,” she added, ** it was nae much of a head, but ye ken it was all the world to the puir man.” trust this will not be a mere talking convention. Wa have walked long enough. For years brave women have talked and have appealed tous whoare younger in the work, und have encountered nothing but contempt and odium. Wo are stronger now. TI have been to the North and tho West, and must go to the South, and find thousands ready to Ferond, if they know what to do. Again, 1 say, Ig us have done with so mush talk, and let us aot 5 us take our right. It was a in our humanity, when woman felt speak at all, and make her grief known. miracles of Jesus, that in which ho rebuked cuss fu is the one atts v7 oer — But mue! uries the subject unde words. The losson is brief, pithy, and home purpose. Your great taikers are poor enthusiaem evaporates in words ; Of all the the tor ith their own oud she el sree a convention. us Btate let us frame petitions claiming our Stato legislatures ; above all lot ge