PRESBYTERIAN MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER, 1852. Miscellaneous Articles. WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION. A CONVENTION, with the startling name of WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION, has recently been holding its sessions in Syracuse, N. Y. The question naturally arises, What are "Woman's Wrongs" in this Christian and free country? It has been a common sentiment, that the gentler sex are here invested with every right which God ever gave to Eve and her daughters. Although first in the transgression, and visited with judgment, their condition here is certainly one eminently favourable to their present and eternal interests. Who would not vindicate the wrongs of woman, if any existed? What father, husband, son, or brother is not by nature committed to the maintenance of every prerogative belonging to daughter, wife, mother, or sister? The female sex in this country are utterly unable to discern their grievances. The general unperverted judgment of both sexes is, therefore, the first fact which nullifies the claims of the new Reformation. We are aware of the sophistry by which this position may be resisted; but we are not so much contending with sophisters as justifying wisdom to her children. We have assumed that our readers know the object of these Woman's Rights Conventions. We perhaps assume too much, and will therefore briefly explain. So far as the real aim of these Conventions is distinctly divulged, their motto would seem to be "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and Hu-man-ity." They virtually advocate a sex-destroying process for one half of the human race. *We do not deny that woman suffers some wrongs under the statutes of some of the States. So do other classes in the community-sometimes the rich and sometimes the poor. The redress, however, of these occasional wrongs, is very different from the radical objects contemplated by the Woman's Rights Convention. VOL. II.-No. 11. 61 (481) |