r changes demanded, is the right of
suffrage for women--which right will surely be granted, if
through all the intervening years every woman does her duty.
Again do we appeal to each and all--to every class and
condition--to inform themselves on this question, that woman may
no longer publish her degradation by declaring herself satisfied
in her present position, nor her ignorance by asserting that she
has "all the rights she wants."

Any person who ponders the startling fact that there are four
millions of African slaves in this republic, will instantly put
the question to himself, "Why do these people submit to the cruel
tyranny that our government exercises over them?" The answer is
apparent--"simply because they are ignorant of their power."
Should they rise _en masse_, assert and demand their rights,
their freedom would be secure. It is the same with woman. Why is
it that one-half the people of this nation are held in abject
dependence--civilly, politically, socially, the slaves of man?
Simply because woman knows not her power. To find out her natural
rights, she must travel through such labyrinths of falsehood,
that most minds stand appalled before the dark mysteries of
life--the seeming contradictions in all laws, both human and
divine. But, because woman can not solve the whole problem to her
satisfaction, because she can not prove to a demonstration the
rottenness and falsehood of our present customs, shall she,
without protest, supinely endure evils she can not at once
redress? The silkworm, in its many wrappings, knows not it yet
shall fly. The woman, in her ignorance, her drapery, and her
chains, knows not that in advancing civilization, she too must
soon be free, to counsel with her conscience and her God.

The religion of our day teaches that in the most sacred relations
of the race, the woman must ever be subject to the man; that in
the husband centers all power and learning; that the difference
in position between husband and wife is as vast as that between
Christ and the church; and woman struggles to hold the noble
impulses of her nature in abeyance to opinions uttered by a
Jewish teacher, which, alas! the mass believe to be the will of
God. Woman turns from what she is taught to believe are God's
laws to the laws of m