cult power do we understand that different nature to
dictate by metes and bounds its wants and spheres? Fair play is a
Yankee characteristic; and we submit, if but one-half of the race
can have rights at a time because of their different natures,
whether it is not about time the proscribed half had its chance
in, to assume the reins of Government, and dictate _our_ sphere.
It is no great compliment to that part of the race to venture the
opinion, that the country would be full as well governed as it
now is, and our sphere would be bounded with quite as much
liberality as now is theirs.

Let every human being occupy a common platform of political
rights, and all will irresistibly gravitate exactly to their
proper place and sphere, without discord, and with none but the
most beneficial results. In this way human energy and capacity
will be fully economized and expended for the highest interest of
all humanity; and this result is only to be obtained by opening
to all, without restriction, common spheres of activity.

Woman has all the interests on earth that man has--she has all
the interest in the future that man has. Man has rights only in
virtue of his relations to earth and heaven; and woman, whose
relations are the same, has the same rights. The possession of
her rights, on the part of woman, will interfere no more with the
duties of life, than their possession by man interferes with his
duties; and as man is presumed to become a better man in all
respects by the possession of his rights, such must be the
inevitable effect of their possession upon woman.

The history of the race, thus far, has been a history of tyranny
by the strong over the weak. Might, not right, has been as yet
the fundamental practice of all governments; and under this order
of things, woman, physically weak, from a slave, beaten, bought,
and sold in the market, has but become, in the more civilized and
favored portions of the earth, the toy of wealth and the drudge
of poverty. But we now have at least a new and different theory
of government; and as the aspiration of one age is sure to be the
code of the next, and practice is sure at some time to overtake
theory, we have reason to expect that principle will take the
place of mere brute force, and the truth will be ful