WIVES AND SLAVES
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We publish today, from the Democratic Re-
view, most interesting and original Essay, to
which we invite the attention of the reader. The
proposition of the writer seems at the first blush
to be absurd, but he sustans it as he progresses,
and fixes upon the mind the undeniable fact, that
the wives of Christian husbands are as much
slaves, so far as privation of rights is concerned


as the negroes of the utmost South We have al
ways regarded many of the provisions in our laws
in regard to the rights of married women, as un.
just and harsh-as illiberal and tyrannical as the
powerloving founders ofthe common Law, whom,
to our deep discredit, we have too implicitly fol-
lowed even in our own enact ments But this is
not the point of the writer, nor do we propose to
dwell upon it. The parallel he draws between
what the slave IS and what the wife might be, is
both striking and complete, and it is commended
by its truthfulness to Northern fanatics We have
only to add the hope that the article to which at
tention is invited. may not cause "rebellion {"
among the married ladies'. s - '.-'s'