ABSTRACT
Equity knows no difference of sex. The law of equal freedom manifestly applies to the whole race—female as well as male. The impracticability of an equality of rights between the sexes will be urged by them in disproof of its rectitude. Recognition of the moral law, and an impulse to act up to it, going hand in hand, as the people have seen that they must do, equality of rights in the married state will become possible as fast as there arises a perception of its justness. The extension of the law of equal freedom to both sexes will doubtless be objected to, on the ground that the political privileges exercised by men must thereby be ceded to women also. It is indeed said, that the exercise of political power by women is repugnant to the people sense of propriety—conflicts with their ideas of the feminine character—is altogether condemned by the people feelings.
