years ago. The children had no conception of the "Bobolition
Society," but as of a set of persons making themselves ridiculous
for the amusement of the public; but that "Bobolition Society"
has shaken the Union to its center, and filled the world with
sympathy and concern. The Woman's Rights Convention is in like
manner a thing for honest scorn to point its finger at; but a few
years may prove that we pointed the finger, not at an illuminated
balloon, but at the rising sun.

We have no hesitation in acknowledging ourselves to be among
those who have regarded this movement with decided distrust and
distaste. If we have been more free than others to express this
disgust, we have perhaps rendered some service, by representing a
common sentiment with which this reform has to contend. We would
be among the first to acknowledge that our objections have not
grown out of any deliberate consideration of the principles
involved in the question. They have been founded on instinctive
aversion, on an habitual respect for public sentiment, on an
irresistible feeling of the ludicrousness of the proposed reform
in its details. Certainly social instinct has its proper place in
the judgments we pass on the manners of both sexes. What is
offensive to good taste--meaning by good taste, the taste of the
most educated and refined people--has the burden of proof resting
upon it when it claims respect and attention. But we should be
the last to assert that questions of right and rights have no
appeal from the bar of conventional taste to that of reason.

And however it may have been at the outset, we think the Woman's
Rights question has now made good its title to be heard in the
superior court. The principles involved in this great question we
can not now discuss; but we have a few thoughts upon the attitude
of the reformer toward society, which we would respectfully
commend to attention. If the female sex is injured in its present
position, it is an injury growing out of universal mistake; an
honest error, in which the sexes have conspired, without
intentional injustice on one side, or feeling of wrong on the
other. Indeed, we could not admit that there had been thus far
any wrong or mistake at all, except in details. Mankind have
hitherto found the natural functi