ually
qualified, as practiced in Louisiana. I regret to say, was
checked in its passage by Bishop Potter; by him who has done so
much for the encouragement of education, and who gave his
countenance and influence to that Convention. Still, the fact of
such a resolution being offered, augurs a time coming for woman
which she may well hail. At the last examination of the public
schools in this city, one of the alumni delivered an address on
Woman, not as is too common in eulogistic strains, but directing
the attention to the injustice done to woman in her position in
society in a variety of ways, the unequal wages she receives for
her constant toil, etc., presenting facts calculated to arouse
attention to the subject.

Women's property has been taxed equally with that of men's to
sustain colleges endowed by the States; but they have not been
permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning. Within a
few years, however, some colleges have been instituted where
young women are admitted upon nearly equal terms with young men;
and numbers are availing themselves of their long denied rights.
This is among the signs of the times, indicative of an advance
for women. The book of knowledge is not opened to her in vain.
Already is she aiming to occupy important posts of honor and
profit in our country. We have three females editors in our
State, and some in other States of the Union. Numbers are
entering the medical profession; one received a diploma last
year; others are preparing for a like result.

Let woman then go on, not asking favors, but claiming as right,
the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of
being; let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation
of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the
active business of life; employing her own hands in ministering
to her necessities, strengthening her physical being by proper
exercise and observance of the laws of health. Let her not be
ambitious to display a fair hand and to promenade the
fashionable streets of our city, but rather, coveting earnestly
the best gifts, let her strive to occupy such walks in society as
will befit her true dignity in all the relations of life. No fear
that she will then transcend the proper limits of female
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