lous amusements; while
they crush the powers of the mind, by opposing authority and
precedent to reason and progress; while they arrogate to
themselves the right to point us to the path of duty, while they
close the avenues of knowledge through public institutions, and
monopolize the profits of labor, mediocrity and inferiority must
be our portion. Shall we accept it, or shall we strive against
it?

Men are not destitute of justice or humanity; and let it be
remembered that there are hosts of noble and truthful ones among
them who deprecate the tyranny that enslaves us; and none among
ourselves can be more ready than they to remove the mountain of
injustice which the savagism of ages has heaped upon our sex. If,
therefore, we remain enslaved and degraded, the cause may justly
be traced to our own apathy and timidity. We have at our disposal
the means of moral agitation and influence, that can arouse our
country to a saving sense of the wickedness and folly of
disfranchising half the people. Let us no longer delay to use
them.

Let it be remembered too, that tyrannical and illiberal as our
Government is, low as it places us in the scale of existence,
degrading as is its denial of our capacity for self-government,
still it concedes to us more than any other Government on earth.
Woman, over half the globe, is now and always has been but a
chattel. Wives are bargained for, bought and sold, as other
merchandise, and as a consequence of the annihilation of natural
rights, they have no political existence. In Hindustan, the
evidence of woman is not received in a court of justice. The
Hindu wife, when her husband dies, must yield implicit obedience
to the oldest son. In Burmah, they are not allowed to ascend the
steps of a court of justice, but are obliged to give their
testimony outside of the building. In Siberia, women are not
allowed to step across the footprints of men or reindeer. The
Mohammedan law forbids pigs, dogs, women, and other impure
animals to enter the Mosque. The Moors, for the slightest
offense, beat their wives most cruelly. The Tartars believe that
women were sent into the world for no other purpose than to be
useful, convenient slaves. To these heathen precedents our
Christian brethren sometimes refer to prove the in