If she is to have the power of keeping
hi r property separate from that of her
husband, and subject in no manner to
his control, she must have the pow er
of suing him. as well aa others. If he
interferes with it. she can sue him in
trespass, and confine him in jail on ex
ecution, for imprisonment is allowed
in actions of tort. She will have the
power of selling her property, ex
changing it, buying othi r property,
for it is an essential requisite of prop
erty that one can do what they please
with it, and it is contrary to ihe policy
of laws to tic it up and prevent its be
ing disposed of. She can then con
tract and be contracted with, execute
bonds, mortgage-, deeds, notes and all
other instruments. She can form a
partnership in business with her hus
band. undir the name of ‘John Doc &
wife,* or ‘Mary Doc & hu-band.’ or
may add another, and hi' <■ it ‘John
Doe, wife,& Tom Nokes,’ or she may
formpartnership with Nokes alone,
orttitb others added, or there may
he dormant partners, and it will be |
none the husband’s business who arc
her partners or paramours. She may
engage in any kind of at any ,
hour or place, and with any body.—
The Bible says that woman sh-.1l leave
father and mother, and cleave unto
her husband, and they twain shall be
one flesh. The constitution, says that
they twain shailhe as separate & distinct
persons, as any other two individuals
in the community, or as any laws can
make them. Tell me wl ut more enn
be done by laws, to effect this object?
Woman is to be transferred horn her
appropriate domestic sphere, taken a
way from her children, and be cast out
rudely into the strifes and turmoil of
the world, there to have her finer sen
sibilities blunted, the riding motives of
her mind changed, and every trait of
loveliness blotted out. When the
husband returns at night, perplexed
with care, dejected with anxietv, de
pressed in hope, will he find, think
you. 