| Show A NOTED WOMAN REFORMER ONE of the noted women of the age pawed paused away recently at brighton england in the elethy third year of her age it was mrs mn ernestine Erne atice ia I 1 rose her maiden name was waa sint sial mund Po pothook Poto took aki for she ehe was born in Poi poland alid and she ahe became a jewess in religion from choice and conviction thin subjected her to great perse cu tion but she stood up nobly for her religious rights and became a strong advocate of the liberties of the polish hebrews this brought her into prominence and the acquaintance of emine t men and women in all the european countries and in 1834 she was chosen to preside at the formation of a cosmopolitan association of all classes and parti and conditions for the amelioration or mankind she bhe was waa married in england in 1836 to william E rose and afterwards lectured in the british isles and t the be united states she appeared before various legislative bodies in this country as an able advocate of equal rights to women in person and property and politico for thirty years mn amro rose worked in this country in the interest of her sex and then returned to europe once when speaking on rights in south carolina she was denounced as an an abolitionist and was asked by a slave flare owner whether she understood what was done in that re glon gion to folks who meddled with slave labor she confessed her ignorance and asked for information the planter replied we tar and feather them fi f I arp rose bose said 1 I did not come here to speak against slavery but you have shown me my duty I 1 shall now d so you southern gentlemen ave are too idle you have not enough to do I 1 will give you some some work get your tar and feathers read ready yX she then delivered an oration against slavery and followed it up with other abolition speeches but was not disturbed on the suffrage question she once aad said 1 I have sometimes been asked even by sensible men if woman had bad the elective franchise would she go to the polls to mix with rude men well would I 1 go to church to mix with rude men and should not the ballot box be as respectable and as respected and as sacred as an the church aye infinitely more so because it is of greater importance men can pray in secret but must vote in public bangay hence ence the ballot box of the two ought to be the most respected and it would be if women were once there but it never will be until they are there I 1 on the question ques of the equal rights of women with men man to hold bold property rome said educate women to enable her to promote her independence and she will not be obliged to marry for a home and a subsistence give the wife an equal right with her husband in the property acquired after marriage and it will be a bond of union between them diamond cement applied on both sides aides of a fractured egme re unites the parts and prevents them from falling as sunder A gold band to ia more efficacious ious than an iron law until now the gold has all been on one side and the iron law on the other remove it place the golden band of justice and mutual interest around both husband and wife and it will hide the little fractures Irao tures which may have occurred ven even from i heir own perception and allow i bem effectually to reunite re unite unit e A union of interests inter Int erAsts pats helps to preserve a union of hearts this for that early day was ad thought and there is BO doubt that the able efforts yf that gifted wo mat mao helped to bring abut about the reforms deforms that have aluce ben accomplished in this direction on OB the he anniversary of american independence iu the year 1876 mrs rose boge wrote a letter from aph alb the following Is ie an extract the glorious day upon which human equality was first proclaimed ought to be commemorated not only every hundred years ar every year but it ought to be constantly held before the public mind until its grand principles are carried into practice the declaration th that at all men which means all human beings irrespective of sex have an equal right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness is enough for woman as for man we need no other but we must reassert in 1876 what 1776 so gloriously proclaimed and call upon the lawmakers law makers and the lawbreakers law breakers to carry that declaration to its logical consistency by giving woman the right of representation in the government which she helps to maintain a voice in the laws by which she is in governed and all the rights and privileges society can bestow the same as to man or disprove iTs validity we need no other declaration all we ask is to have the laws based on the same foundation upon which that declaration rests viz upon equal justice and not upon sex When whenever liver the rights of the man are claimed moral consistency points to the equal rights of woman those the are striking klog words and the excerpts we have given show the quality of mind of the able woman who has departed she was wai buried in the grave of her bar husband who died ten y jeara ears before and has left a record which should bould be prized by the reformers of her sex in both hemispheres |
