brave enough to do more
than touch the fringe work that circles round the vortex which is
heaving and surging with social pollutions, which might well make
angels stand appalled; but should the occasion come in this
country, the pure women of our nation will rise, as the women of
England are now doing, resisting a legislation which degrades
womanhood to the lowest depths. We proclaimed a peaceful
revolution; for we abhorred then as now the atrocities of war,
hence our demand for a participation in government, that we might
bring a new element into it to restrain and purify it. Says a
French lady in a private letter received a few days since, "Oh,
is it not time that women come? Is it not because we have no
voice in public affairs that Europe is on fire now? Men are true
brutes. Pride, injustice, and cruelty are their most remarkable
qualities. What can free us from their laws so unjust?" This is
the sad, passionate utterance of a French woman now in the hour
of her country's peril. What better proof that women love peace
more than glory, than in the Empress Eugenie's course,--She would
have no force used to uphold her power. "She would rather be
pitied than hated."

Frances Wright, a noble Scotchwoman, early sought to make herself
thoroughly acquainted with the nature of our institutions, and
the genius of our government. She determined to try the
experiment of organized labor with negroes. Purchasing two
thousand acres of land on the Bluffs, now known as Memphis,
Tenn., she took a number of families, with fifteen able-bodied
men, and, giving them their freedom, organized her work.
Prostrated by illness, she was compelled to yield her personal
supervision, and thus her attempt to civilize those people
failed, and they were finally sent to Hayti.

She then commenced lecturing on the nature and object of the
"American Political Institutions." She gave also a course of
Historical and Political Lectures; and another course on the
Nature of Knowledge, Free Inquiry, Divisions of Knowledge,
Religion, Morals, Opinions, Existing Evils and a Reply to the
Traducers of the French Reformers. No other person was at that
time prepared so well to defend them as she was, from her having
been in part educated in General Lafayette's family. In all
t