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170 THE SIGNAL OF LIBERTY.
From the Emancipator
ASPIRATIONS.
. , Obi that thy name—Thy glorious name,
Were known from pole to pole!
That man, the apostate, might become
Again a "Living soul!"
Redeemer] Snvior! hfiste the day
When out rebellions o'er,
Our heart?, the nurseries of vice,
Shall cherish sin no more!
Oh! way thy searching- gospel light
[Hume each cavern deep,
There, in our spirits' dark reels'.
Adders and scorpions sleep!
May Thy all purifying blood
Remove each leprous slain,
And make the temple of our heartfl
Meet place fur thee to reign!
Eren now, as in Thine advent day, k
Anoint the blinded eyes,
And ope cur Ruler's deafened eara
To hear the bondman's sighs!
Oh give them grace to purge away
The plague spot of our land,
Ere yel the threatening bolt shall leave
Thy guilt avenging hand!
And we, whose fathers nobly dared
To stem the tide of wrong,
To plead the cause of the oppressed,
With utterance meek, but strorjg;
WLile from the Southern prison-house,
Ascends the awful cry,
Daily, and hourly unto Heaven.
Shall we stand calmly by?
Not thtia to cold expediency
Did righteous VVoolman bow;
•••••• Oh! for his self devotedness,—
Hia fervent spirit now!
Lot us throw off that apathy
We have indulged too long;
And rouse as from eur lethargy,
In moral influence strong!
"Do what our hands may find to do,"
To succour and to save,
While pleading earnestly in prayer,
For master and for slave!
LETTERS FROM MICHIGAN.
NUMBER X.
Women, says Lord Chesterfield, in hi
celebrated "Letters to his Son"—are only
children of a larger growth. They
serve chiefly to please, to amuse, to entertain
the mind in its hours of relaxation.
* Intercourse with them tends to refine the
feelings, and give grace and elegance to
the manners and address. They should
be treated with great seeming respect, but
neither made counsellors or confidants;
for they are utterly unfit to conduct any
affairs of moment, with sound discretion.
although they have a great desire to be
dabbling in business, which they are almost
sure to spoil. Amuse yourself with
them as you would with forward children
—make use of their potent and extensive
influence over weak and foolish men for
•the accomplishment of diplomatic or political
purposes—Jove them with all the
ardor which properly belongs to one of
those "eternal attachments" which may,
by possibility, last three months: but as
you value your dearest interests, neither
trust them with your business, depend on
their faithfulness, nor grant them your
confidence.
Stlch, in substance, was the advice of
Lord Chesterfield to his son, in reference
to his intercourse with the sex—advice
given from long and extensive acquaintance
with the most brilliant females in
the courts of London, Paris, Vienna and
Rome. For this advice, he has been denounced
as a most unjust and contemptu
pus despiserand libeller of the whole sex.
But the circumstances should be taken into
account. His Lordship».was far from being
a fool, but on the contrary possessed
a most accurate and discriminating knowledge
of the worst side of human nature.
He described only such women as he
knew, and he knew only those brought
up in courts. There were, undoubtedly,
in his time, females of the most exalted
moral worth, and the most comprehensive
and well disciplined minds: but they could
rarely be found or be appreciated amid
the foolish diversions and licentious manners
of heartless and intriguing courtiers.
"The woman was first in the transgression"—and
it was therefore predicted—I
do not say commanded—that man
should rule over her. He has done so
from the creation to this time; and he
has often ruled with the greatest rigor.—
Among heathen savages and barbarians,
women are slaves.
They are articles
of property—bought and sold, like the
beasts with whom they labor. But Christianity
and civilization have done much for
women. In most enlightened nations,
they have been released from personal
thraldom, and their persons secured from
the infliction of domestic violence by their
husbands. The old English law allowed
a man to chastise his wife with moderation.
The anecdote of the English judge
is well known, who decided that a husband
might correct his wife with a rod as
large as his thumb: whereupon the ladies
of the city addressed a request to the judge
to furnish them with the exact dimensions
of hia Lordships thumb.
One principal means of elevating the
«ex must be to employ them in matters
of moment.
Their faculties, like those
of men,' increase and expand by exertion.
They must do something else besides performing
mere menial offices. The woman,
however gifted by nature, who regards
herself, not as an independent being, but
as a mere adjunct of her husband—a waiter
on his necessities or caprices—a mere
instrument of his wishes—will never be
'•any thing but a waiter. It is true she
may take pride in being this, and in being
nothing more. She may be an accomplished
waiter—a kind, benevolent
waiter—a pious waiter—but while SIIG
considers herself, and is considered by all
mankind, as an inferior being to her husband,
merely because she is a woman,she
will always be inferior.
The state of public feeling in this country
is highly favorable to the social elevation
of the sex. A deference is paid
to women in all public and private situations
in the United States, which is accorded
to them in no other nation on
earth. I was amused lately in reading a
letter from an American lady travelling
in England.
When on the deck of a
steamboat, every seat was filled. After
she had stood a long time, tho gentleman
who accompanied her went to several.of
nen. In the first place, our Legislature
as given them quite a liberal chance of
etting divorced when the matrimonial
oke proves to be heavy or galling. Next,
ley have bestowed a consider able amount
f personal estate on every widow.amount
ng to about one thousand dollars, whethr
her husband dies insolvent or not: thus
iving the property of the creditors to
IG widow. Next, they have made words
loken against female chastity actionable
themselves, thus securing the highest
rotection- the law can give to their reptation,
and shielding them against the
reathof suspicion.
Then they havetacn
the Seducer in hand, meting out to
rim a degree and kind of punishment hithrto
unknown to tho Statute books of our
nation. This is just and right. The deiberate,
practised Seducer is an enemy of
he whole sex, and they should make war
upon him as such. It is the Libertine
vho traduces the female character, who
neers at their virtues, who ridicules their
weakness, who ensnares them by temptaion,
who rejoices in their degradation,
nd glories in their ruin. I think that
here is no danger of the repeal of this
aw, because it just comes up to public
entiment. It will prevent those montrous
legal perversions of justice, by
vhich murders committed in revenge for
tie destruction of female virtue,have been
ronounced by our jurors to be no rnurers.
and the acquittal of the prisoner,
vhose crime was undeniable, has been
lailed by the popular voice with loud
ilaudits, and by the Press with undisguisd
approbration. A legal method for the
)unishmcnt of the Seducer being now
brown open to the injured,the person who
refers private revenge to public justice
vill hereafter receive from juries and
rom public opinion, his just deserts.
Lastly, the Legislature have recently
nacted a law allowing married women
o hold real and personal property, and to
arry on business separately from their
lusbands during life.
As this law is conidered
unique, and is very important in
(s efleets, I subjoin it entire.
the male passengers, and begged them to
give up their seats for the lady. But
they utterly refused, telling him distincly
that they thought the request entirely unreasonable.
The woman might as well
stand as they.
The consequence was
that the American lady had to squat on
the deck on such unoccupied portion of
territory as she could find. This disposition
of Americans to pay deference to
the convenience of women is noticed by
all foreigners, and is a highly favorable
ircumstance for them.
They should
make use of it as a means of securing a
n'gher intellectual estimation among men.
They should bespeak a share in intellccual
discussions and employments. For
most kinds of mental exertion, they are
is well qualified by nature as men. It is
stated, that in Paris, some of the principal
jankers have given their daughters seats
n the counting bouse, where they may be
bund serving their hours as clerks, witjh
fidelity and punctuality. The government
had in some cases employed female
clerks, and found them more faithful and
ess dissipated than young men. But a
proper pre-requisite to obtaining an emiloyment,
is the acquisition of the knowledge
necessary to fulfil its duties. Hence
he growing disposition in this country to
give girls a liberal education, and a knovvldge
of collegiate studies,may be accountd
an. infallible forerunner of the general
elevation of the sex, and of the wider exension
of thier moral and intellectual influence.
Just in proportion as they deerve
respect and influence, they will obain
it. In refined circles, women, like
men will be esteemed for just what they
re, and each female will attain her proper
level.
The social condition, then, of Amerian
women, is highly favorable to their
apid elevation in commuity. But this
s not the only agency which works for
heir benefit. The tendency of our legslation
has been steadily in their favor.
Especially in this true in Michigan.—
Our State has been called the Paradise
f Debtors; and, with equal justice, may
ereafter be called the Paradise of Wo-
No. G6.
AN ACT to define and protect the righ
of married women:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senat
and House of Representatives of thestat
of Michigan, That any estate, real
personal, which may have been acquire
by any female before her marriage,eithe
by her own personal industry or by in
heritance, gift, grant or devise, or t
which she may at any time hereafter b
entitled by inheritance, gift, grant or d
vise, and the rents, issues, profits and in
come thereof, shall be and continue th
real and personal estate of such femal
after marriage to the same extent as be
fore marriage, and none of said property
shall be liable for her husband's debts o
engaments, but such property shall be 1
able for all the debts of the wife contrac
ted prior to the marriage.
Sec. 2. That no estate of any fern
covert of which she is possessed, or enti
tied to, in her own right, (excepting he
contingent right of dower in the estate o
her husband,) shall henceforth pass b)
her deed without a previous examination
before a justice of the peace or notar
public, in the county wherein she resides
and she-shall have acknowledged on oatl
that she executed such deed freely anc
voluntarily, and of her own accord,with
out any fear, or compulsion of her hus
band or any other person.
Sec. 3. On the demise of the wife during
the life time of her husband, he shall
be entitled to such portion of the property
owned and possessed by his wife at the
time of her demise, in like manner and
to the same extent as. by the laws of this
state, and this act, the widow is entitled
to have or possess in the state and property
possessed by the husband at the time
of his demise.
•
Sec.4. Any married woman,may by will,
bequeath or devise her property, or any
part thereof, as fully and in like manner
as if she were sole.
Sec. 5. All laws or parts of laws contravening
the provisions of this statute
are hereby repealed.
Approved March 11, 1844.
It appears to me that this act will prove
rather discouraging to the spendthrift fortune
hunters, as it leaves the property of
women whether girls or widows, in their
own hands during life. It is intimated
that the law was made to meet one or
more individual cases, but it is certain that
its application'will be very extensive, affecting
the interests and happiness of very
numerous families.
Should it be retained
long enough for a fair trial, I think
its operation will be found to be salutary,
and it will then be fully sanctioned by
public opinion.
I know not what more our Legislature
can do for the ladies, unless it be to give
them the right to vote and hold office—
a privilege that the one party would probably
be as as far from desiring as the other
would be from granting.
Confession of Solomon Shoemaker.—We
announced, briefly, the other day, the execution
of Solomon Shoemaker, at Zanesville,
Ohio, for the murder of hie own brother.—
His confession is published in the Zancsville
Aurora, and discloses a frightful sequence of
crimes and vices—disregard of the Lord's day
and of all religious duty, use of intoxicating
liquor, unbridled passion, gross licentousness,
jealousy, hatred, and murder. The story is
briefly told. Shoemaker became desperately
enamored of a gi'rl who had already been criminally
intimate with his brother; he married
her, but that intimacy was continued; he became
furionsly jealous, drank himself to desperation,
invited his brother to a Sunday gam
bling party in the woods, and shot him on the
way.
Retrenchment in Ohio.—The Retrenchment
Bil which has become a law, reduces the pay
of officers generaly one half.
Members of
the Legislature receive $2 per doy; Governor,
81,000 per annum, Secretary of State, §500:
Stote Auditor, $730; Treasurer, $730: Auditor's
Chief Clerk, $600; Judges of the Supreme
Court, SI,000 each; President Judges
of the Circuits, $730 each; Associate Judges,
$2 per day each; County Commissioner and
Ccunty Auditor, $2 per day each; County
Treasurer not over $600; Sheriffs not over
$730; Cle.ks of Courts not over $700; Deputies
to do. 300; and no other S'ate or County
officer over $2 per day. Each Sheriff, Auditor,
Recorder, or Clerk to keep a sworn account
of all hi3 recipts of fees, end to pay into
the Stale or County Treasury all the excess
©ver the sums above stipulated.—Free
Press.
A Slave Shot —The Plaquemine, La., Gazette,
states that on the night of Sunday, the
17lh ult., a GIRL belonging to Mr. Joseph
Schlaire, was SHOT, while endeavoring to
escape from a man who ordered her to stop.—
She was in company with three or four other
runaways. The peisoti who shot her first
tried to slop her, by firing at her with fine
ehot which did not injure her materially and
as she still continued to run he BROUGHT
HER DOWN WITH A CHARGE OF
BUCK-SHOT!!
JVegroiana.—A planter in Virginia once
owned a slave in connection with one of his
neighbors. He was a pious man, and would
sometimes wind off his prayers saying-—'Oh!
Lord! m addition to all the blessings I, a sinner
have asked at your hands, will you in your
infinite mercy and goodness, condescend to
bless my half of Pomp.'
There arc 1,031 Colored children in daily
attendance at the different schools in New
York city.
LOWER TOWN
ESSRS. DAVIDSON & BECKER, have just received
from New York a large and splendid assortment
of Fancy and Staple
T
Also, a large quantify of Dry Groceries, Crockery,
Shelf Hardware,
Nails, Boots and Shoes,
Men's and Boy's Caps, Paints, Dye
and Medicines, &c. &c. «&c.
which they will sell lower than has ever before been
offered in this place.
For particulars call at their Store, No. 3, Brown's Block, (formerly oc
cupied by H. Becker.) The highest Market price will be paid in Goods
for most kinds of Produce.
#^» Remember 1 hat they will not be undersold.^
Ann Arbor, Lower Town, Nov. 13, 1843.
20-Gm
The Fever and Ague used
D R. BANISTER'S CELEBRATED FEVER AND AGUE PILLS—
PURELY VEGETABLE.—A safe, speedy, and sure retried}' for fever and
igue, dum ague, chill fever, and the billious diseases peculiar to new counries.
These pills are designed for the affections of the liver and olherinteral
organs which attend the diseases of the new and miasmatic portions of
>ur country.
The unparalleled success that has attended the use of these pills, induces
lie propriefor to believe that they are superior to any remedy ever offered
o ihe public ior the above diseases.
They are purely VEGETABLE and perfectly harmless, and can be laen
by any person, male or female with perfect safety.
The pills are prepared in two separate boxes, marked No. 1, and No. 2,
nd accompanied with full direction,*.
A great number of certificates might be procured in favor of this mediine,
but the proprietor has thought fit not to insert them, in as much as he
epends upon the merits of the same for its reputation.
The above pill is kept constantly on hand by the proprietor and can be
ad at wholesale or retail at the Store of J. Beckley & Co., Ann Arbor,
.ower Town.
Orders from the country promptly attended to.
L. BECKLEY, Proprietor.
January 17, 1844.
39-3m.
UST received at the Farmers' and Mechanics' Store.
a general assortment, of Fancy and staple
Groceries, Crockery, Boots and Shoes, &c. &c. which
vill be sold cheap and for ready piyonlv.
C. J. GARLAND.
Ann Arbor, Upper Town, Nov 20, 1843.
N. B. «#s usual, any Goods purchased of him not.giving satisfaction in
irice and quality, the purchaser has the privilege to return them and reeive
back his monfy.
32 C. J. G«/?RL.#ND.
RAIL KOA D
TEMPERANCE
HOUSE.
T HE undersigned would respectfully inform
the friends of Temperance, and the public
enerally, that theabo\e named House, f'ormery
known as the Temperance Hotel, and situated
n the corner of Michigan.nve.nue.jind Wnakingnn
street, near the Central Railroad Depot, Ivivig
undergone thorough repairs "and very great
ddilional improvements, is.now ready for ihe roeption
of all those who may favor him with a
all.
The accommodanans, in every respect, are
ot inferior to any Temperance House in the
ountry, and every attention will be given to
uch as bestow their patronage upon this laucta-
Ie enterprise.
N. B. Carriages always in readiness to coney
passengers to and from Boats and Cars.
WM.
CHAMP.
Detroit, May 9, 1343.
4-1 y
CLOTH! CLOTH!!
TI THE Subscribers would inform the Public
JL that persona having woo! to be mamifactnrd,
can have it done at their Manufactory wrthna
short time, as the largo quantity of wool
urnished them by farmers and others the past
eason is nearly completed, and will be finished
vithin a few days. We have manufactured
loth this season for about ona hundred and
went'j-fice customers, to whom we hnve reason
0 believe, we have given general satisfaction.—
iVith this encouragement, we hope for future
atronage.
TERMS.
Half the cloth the wool will mnko, or 37J cenls
fir yard. We will also exchange Clofh fur
Vool on recsonable terms.
Woor. sent by Rail Road to Scio will be
roperly attended to.
SAMUEL W. FOSTER & CO.
Scio, Washtenaw Co., Dec. 25, 1843.
36-tf-
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.
T HE undersigned, having been appointed by
the Judge of Probate for the County, of
Vashtenaw, administrators.on theestnto of Asa
J. Smith, late of said county, and having given
onds as required by law, hereby give notice to
I persons indebted to said estate to make imediate
payment to them, nnd all persons havg
claims against said estate to present them !
roperly attested for adjustment.
SYRENA SMITH, Administratrix.
WILLIAM M. SINCLAIR, Administrator..
RAIL ROAD HOTEL.
1843. BY S.843,
PATRICK & ANDREWS.
OPPOSITE THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN"
RAIL ROAD DEPOTS, DETROIT, MICH.
rpiIIE above Hotel hns been greatly enlarged
JL and titled up in a style equal to nriy public
house in Detroit, for comfort and convenience.—
Its location is in a healthy and pleasant part o
the pity, being situated on the Public Square
nnd in the imrnediato vicinity of the Central ant
Northern Rail Roads, and convenient to th
principal
STAGE ROUTES
diverging to the different parts of the State.
TKAVKI.KRS wishing to take the Cars or Boats
cannot find a more convenient place than this
being near the Cars on both Rnil Roads, and ir
immediate connection wiih the Boats.
The Proprietors assure the public, that no
pnins willbe spared to furnish their TAB!..E
with, the best the Market affords, nnd their customers
with every attention in llnsij power, requisite
to their comfort.
CARRryi&K^ # BAGGAGE WAGONS
always in readiness to convey Passengers to anc
from the Boats nnd Cars free of charge.
TERMS—75 cents per day, or 25 cents per
meal.
PATRICK &. ANDREWS.
,1843. l'8-Om.
Bristol's Sarsaparilla.
tJ IS valuable medicine so justly celebrn'ed
as a certain cure for Scrofula or Kin25 cents, the former price being tn 0 «jxorbitant.
The 50 cent size now coniains four
imes (is much ns the lormer, and the $1 siza
near ten times ns much.
No family that hns any title to humanity, will
"ail to hnve CONNKI.'S pnin Extractor Oiiynient
ilwnys at hnnd, to snve life, all scars. t>nd redut.fi
nil r.gony from any burn in five minutes, proviled
they hnve seen'it used, or will believe those
vho have used it.
COMSTOCK & CO.,
21, Cburtland StireejL
IP* Be time, thorrfore. nnd nsk foi CONNF.I.'S,
IS our pi no with-Dnlley's name on ii Ims b«eri
ilolen, and the spurious may nppenr wiih thnt
lame en it. Know, therefore, that it comes diectly
Aom Comstonk A Co.. or shun it.
WM. S. & J. W. MAYNARD,
30 Airent for Ann Arbor.
CLOCKS.'
CLOCKS!!
consisting in part of Gold P'inger Rings, nnd
Bosom Pins. .'Henris and Crosses. Silver nnd
Common Thimbles, Watch Chains and
Keys, Pencil Caaes: also, Spoons,
Sugur Bowls, Butler Knives, .
Tooth and Hair Brushes,
Pocket Books, Violin
Strings, Needles,
Pins. Hooks,
and Eyes.
Spectacles. Fine
Combs,Dressing Comb?,
Side Combs, I3nck Combs,
Pocket Combs. Water Painis,
Marking Cotton, Stool Prn? ? am?
Twensers. Snuff & Tobncco Boxes. Elastics, &e.
All of which will be sold as cheap as nt any other
establishment this side of ?\c\v York.
N. B. The subscriber thankful for so largo
n share of pnblic patfoSfafipe. still solicits n continyence
of the same. CLOCKS AND WATCH-
ES of every description repaired and warranted.
Also~jJEWELRY repaired on short notice.—'
Shop at his old stand directly opposite tb« Court
U0U£e - . C. BLIPS
Ann Arbor, Nov fi,1P4H.
f j'lHE following indispensable family
X may be found at MAYSARD'S Druggist
Store, in Ann Aibor, where none will be sold
unless krown to be of the best kind nnd no
counterfeit article ever offered, patent meilicino
invariably procured ot the origin :1 inventor or
his reguhir successor:
EF A"o famil-j should be a wcelc without that
BALDNESS:'
Balm of Co'umliia. J'or the Hair, wliicli wil
stop it if falling out, or restore it on Imld plucosi
and on children make it grow rapidly." or on
those who h-ive lost the hair from any cause.
ALL VERMIN that infest the heads of children
in schools, nre prevented or killed By it at
once.' Find ihe name of COMSTOCK on it
or never try it. Remember this always*
PILES, &c.
are wholly prevented, or governed if ihe nMack
hns conn; on, if you use the only true H-tYS* Lm-
IMKNT.
from Comstock & Co. All SOjRES,
and every thing relieved by it that admits of nn
outward application. It acts like a chaitri.
Uifl
' "RHEUMATISM AND LAMENESS positively
cured: all shrivelled muscles and lim!>snro
restored, in the old or young, by the lfi(ti