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Show a son i) nosm itnoiiMi.ii. O.sk of Ilia notod women of lb 'go paswtl iwjr rectmtl lit llrlithtou, England, In the elgthMlilnl year nf tier sgo. It mi MM. Krnttlln I Itoir. JUr maldtn rums Hlsl-munJ Hlsl-munJ l'otoilil, for alio wsa born In I'olanJ, and alia lecsrao a JawiM In religion from choleo and oonvlctlmi. rhll eubjectad tier lo Ktet perHCU-lion, perHCU-lion, but ha etood up nobly for her relltlotm rlglilt and Iwcame a etronjr ndTocaleof din llbertlriof lha rollili llebrawa, Tula trough! her Into iromtnnca and the acquaintance of eminent men and women In all the I'.uropwn countrlee, and In ISil alio wai ohoien to prefttdu at the formation Df a coimopolltan BMOOIatlon of all c!kmi and rartlraand condltlooi, for the amelioration of mankind. riho wm married In lnglaud In 1820 to William i:. Hone, an J alterwardi lectured In the llrltlib Iilraand the United Htalee. Hha apjwared before Tarlom leglilallvo bodlra In thli country aa au able adrocale ol iiual rlghta to women, In pereon and prop city and polltlca. Kor thirty yeara Mre. ltoaa worked In thli country In the Intereet of her acx and then rt-turned rt-turned to Kurope. Once whau apeaklug on woinen'a rlghla In Boutli Carolina ahe waa do-nounoed do-nounoed ai an abolltlonUI, and waa aaked by a alaTe owner whether aba underttood what waadoueln that ru ylon to folka who meddled with alaro labor. Bhe confraied her Ignorance and arked for Information. Tho planter replied! "V tar and feather them," Mri. lloae aald: "1 did not lome hora to apeak ngalnit alafcry, but you haTeahown me my duty. I ahall now da ro. You Houtberu gentlemen are too Idle; you have not enough to do; I will gite you aome aoma work; get your tar and feather ready." Hha then dellrtredau oration agalnit ' very and followed It up with other abolition apcechea but waa not dla turbtd. On the aulTrago iiucalloii aha once aald: 4IX hare aometlinca baen aikeil. aven by aonalbla men, 'If woman bail the electUe f ranch Inc. wonld alia go to the polta to mix with rude men?' Well, would 1 go to church to mix with rudo ineuT Amtehuutdnottho lieltot'box lie aa renwctabte, and aa roa ectod, and aa aacred aa tho church Aye, Infinitely more ao, becauao It la of greater Impor tanoe. Mon can pray In aocr ct, but inuat Tote In public, llvnio thobnllotbox, of the two, ought to bo tho moat reattciodt and It would Imi If wonetn were ouco there, but It uerer will be until they are theru." On'theiiueatlonof Iho equal rlghta of women with men to hold property Mra, ltoaa aaldi "l'ducato women, to onul la her to pro-luoto pro-luoto her lndopandeoco, and aho will not bo obllgetl to marry for a home and a aubalatenre, (the tho wlfo an oqual right with her buibaml In tho property acquired after tuarrlage, and It will bo u boud of union bctnciil thoin. lllamoud evinont, appllail on both aldoa of a fractured Yaau, ro.uultea the parte, and proronta them from falling naaunvlor. A gold band la mora e (Ucaoloua than an Iron law. Until now the gold haaall boeil on ono aldo, and tho Iron law on the oilier, ltoinovn Itt place the go lden band of Juatlca and tnuluallntoreataroundboth huaband and wife, and It will hldo the Ititlo Iracturea which may haro occurrod, ercn from their own ioroepton, and Id low thorn effectually toa-o-unllo. A union otlntereataholpa lo rcflono a unluu of heart.." Thla, for that early day waa ail-Tanced ail-Tanced thought, and there la uo doubt that the able elloru of that nl(lJ woman wo-man helped to bring about the rcforma that havaklnoa ben accomjllahod lu thla Ulnctloru On the anulvcriary of American In-dependence In-dependence lu the year 1870, Mra Hole wrote n letter Irora which the following fol-lowing lean txttact: MTba glorloua day Uon which human 'uulity v, ftrtt proclaimed ought to bo commemorated, not only ercry hundred juar or every J ear, but It ought to be exultantly held before the publlo mind until Ita grand principle are carrhd Into praitlre. The declaration that 'All mon (whhh meaus all huiuau belnge Irreapcctlvo of mi) have an oquar right to Itro, llliorly, and tho purault of happl-iicmm," happl-iicmm," la enough lor woman na for man e lieetl no othor, bntouiuit rcaiatrt In 1KI1 what 177il au gloiioualy pro-clahnctl, pro-clahnctl, and call upon the law-makera and the law-brcukcra to carry that declaration to Ita lAghul onalatcucy by giving woman tho right of representation representa-tion n tho government whh h aim helpa lo maintain, a olrn In tlio liwaby whtoh aho la governed, und all tho rlgbte and prlvlleea aoelety can bealow, Iho eaina aa lo man, or dlaprove It rail Illy We noed r oilier declaration. All we ask latohaethe lawabaat-d on thaaame fonndallou npon which that dcclaikllon reita, via,: Upon equal Juatlca, and not upon acx, hnaver tho rlghta o( tho man are claimed, mornl conaliteney polnta to lheKuat rlghta of woman " Theio ate attlklng word), and lha extrrpta wa have given thow the quality of mind of lha able woman who has departed. Hha waa burled In lha grave of her huibaud, who dlej ten j can before, and haa left a rotor I which ahould lie prlrid by lha reformer! re-former! of her rex In both hcinlipherce |