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FOR THE FORT WAY5F. TIMES.The Rights of Women.The attempt of Orlando to evade the real import of his remarks, is any thing but manly. Come, Mr. Orlando, prove your assertions, or come out like a man—acknowledge your errors, and take back yonr remarks, and not seek a miserable subterfuge to shield you from tho odium you so justly merit. This courso would bo more creditable to you.You certainly mistake your own feelings when you say that you would cordially give us “all the privileges applicable to our ecx,’5 and yet not allow us a larger sphere of action, than the ordinary range of domestic affairs. We grant that B is the province of woman to move in tho domestic circle, and that to her belongs tho task—“A well ordered home man's chief delight to make.” But ha9 bIio no other mission or no higher vocation? Wo think she has. Woman is deprived of privileges which sho can justiy claim without impairing her qualifications to administer tho affairs of her home and family.But man—the would-bo-lord of creation—delights so much in supremacy that his own elevation engrosses his whole mind: while that of wo-D *man is never thought of. And although ho concedes the right of females to an education, yet ho would not remoye an obstaelo that prevents them from rising to tho dignity of their proper station.Wo ask not for seats in legislative halls, nor to bo heard in tho councils of tho nation ; but we protest against being coerced into submission to laws, unjust and oppressive, without a voice in making them. It was this kind of oppression that caused an infant country to revolt, and seek its independence. Men may now boast of their republican and happy institutions, but in rcspoct to women they are oppressive and unjust. The right to exercise tho elective franchiso, and hold property, as naturally belongs to women as to men. Wo know, that it is said, woman is disqualified, mentally and physically, for tho properexerciso of thoso high prerogatives. But this has never been proved, and never can be. In claiming these privileges we do not arrogate to ourselves disgraceful rights. Eliza.Fort Wayne, Dec. 22, 1851.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 25, 1851
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