know what our laws are, you must refer to the laws
passed in Ohio since 1840."

This has already been answered.

"You said last night, that the property of the wife passed to the
husband, even to his sixteenth cousin! Will you correct your
error? And oblige A BUCKEYE."

I should be extremely happy to oblige the gentleman, but having
committed no error there is nothing to correct; and I do not,
therefore, see that I can in conscience comply with his request.
I am, however, exceedingly thankful for any expression of
interest from that quarter. There are other laws which might be
mentioned, which really give woman an apparent advantage over
man; yet, having no relevancy to the subject in the petition, we
did not see fit to introduce them. One of these is, that no woman
shall be subject to arrest and imprisonment for debt; while no
man, that is, no ordinary man, none unless he has a halo of
military glory around his brow, is held sacred from civil process
of this kind. But this exemption is of very little benefit to
woman, since, if the laws were as severe to her as to man, she
would seldom risk the penalty. For this there are two very good
reasons. One is, that conscious of her inability to discharge
obligations of this kind, she has little disposition to run
deeply into debt; and the other is, that she has not the credit
to do it if she wished! If, however, she does involve herself in
this way, the law exempts her from imprisonment. This, perhaps,
is offered as a sort of palliation for the disabilities which she
suffers in other respects. The only object of the petition is, I
believe, that the husband and wife be placed upon a legal and
political equality. If the law gives woman an advantage over man,
we deprecate it as much as he can. Partiality to either, to the
injury of the other, is wrong in principle, and we must therefore
oppose it. We do not wish to be placed in the position which the
husband now occupies. We do not wish that control over his
interests, which he may now exercise over the interests of the
wife. We would no sooner intrust this power to woman than to man.
We would never place her in authority over her husband.

The question of woman's voting, of the propriety of woman's
appearing at th