My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's / Designed as a Beacon Light to Guide Women to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, But Which May Be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the Book

by Marietta Holley

From his own home and kindred tear,

And scourge, and fetter, steal and trade.

If ’twas because they were less wise

Than our wise race, why not arise,

And with pretext of buying teas,

Lay in full cargoes of Chinese.

Let Fee Fo Fum, and Eng, and Chen,

Grow wise by contact with wise men;

If weakness made the traffic right,

Why not arise in manhood’s might,