It is idle to say that the guilt is common, that the women are as deeply involved in this matter as the men. Never can it be said, that the victims are as much to be blamed as the victimizer; that the slaves are to be as much blamed as the slave-holders and slave-drivers. That the women who have no rights, are to be as much blamed as the men who have played the part of robbers and tyrants, and placed woman under their feet. We must deal with conscience. The men of this nation, and the men of all nations, have no just respect for woman. They have tyranized over her deliberately, they have not sinned. through ignorance, but theirs is not the knowledge that saves. Who can say truly, that in all things he acts up to the light he enjoys, that he does not do something which he knows is not the very thing, or the best thing he ought to do. How few there are among mankind who are able to say this with regard to themselves. Is not the light all around us? Does not this nation know how great its guilt is, in enslaving one sixth of its people? Do not the men of this nation know ever since the landing of the pilgrims, that they are wrong in making subject, one half of the people? Rely upon it, it has not been a mistake on their part. It has been sin. It has been guilt; and they manifest their guilt to a demonstration, in the manner in which they receive this movement. Those who do wrong ignorantly, do not willingly continue in it, when they find they are in the wrong. Ignorance is not an evidence of guilt, certainly. It is only an evidence of a want of light. They who are only ignorant, will never rage, and rave, and threaten and foam, when the light comes; but being interested, and desirous of walking in the light, will always present a manly front, and be willing to be taught, and willing to be told they are in the wrong. Take the cause of slavery: How has the anti-slavery cause been received? Not argumentatively, not by reason, not by entering the free arena of fair discussion and comparing notes ; the arguments have been rotten eggs, and brickbats and calumny, and in the southern portion of the country, by a spirit of murder, and threats to cut out the tongues of those who spoke against them. What has this indicated on part of the nation? What but concious guilt? Not ignorance, not that they had not the light. They had the light, and rejected it.

How has this Woman's Rights movement been treated in this country, on the right hand and on the left? With what jeering and scoffing; what rowdyism in the city of New York, within a short time past, where the Convention was invaded by a genteel and well dressed mob, to howl down every sentiment uttered by man or woman on that occasion? This nation ridicules and derides this movement, and spits upon it, as fit only to be cast out and trampled under foot. This is not ignorance. They know all about the truth. It is the natural outbreak of tyranny. It is because the tyrants and usurpers are alarmed. They have been and are called to judgment, and they dread the examination and exposure, of their position and character.

Women of America! you have something to blame yourselves for, in this matter, something to account for to God and the world. Granted. But then you are the victims in this land, as the women of all lands are, to the tyrannical power and godless ambition of man ; and we must show who are responsible in this matter. We must test every body here then. Every one of us must give an account of himself to God. It is an individual testing of character. Mark the man or the woman who derides this movement, who turns his or her back upon it, who is disposed to let misrule keep on, and you will find you have a sure indication of character. You will find that such persons are destitute of principle; for if you can convict a man of being wanting in principle, anywhere, it will be everywhere. He who loves the right for its own sake, loves the right everywhere. He who is a man of principle, is a man of principle always. Let me see the man who is willing to have any one of God's rational creatures sacrificed, to promote anything, aside from the well-being of that creature himself, and I will show you an unprincipled man.

It is so in this movement. No body argues against it, no body pretends to have an argument. Your platform is free everywhere, wherever these conventions are held. Yet no man comes forward in a decent respectable manner, to show you that you are wrong in the charges you bring against the law-makers of the land. There is no argument against it. The thing is self-evident. I should not know how to begin to frame an argument. That which is self-evident, is. greater than argument, and beyond logic. It testifies of itself. You

and I as human beings, claim to have rights, but I never think of going into an argument with any body, to prove that I ought to have rights. I have the argument and logic here, it is in my own breast and consciousness; and the logic of the schools becomes contemptible beside these. The more you try to argue, the worse you are off. It is not the place for metaphysics, it is the place for affirmation. Woman is the counterpart of man; she has the same Divine image, having the same natural and inalienable rights as man. To state the proposition is enough, it contains the argument, and nobody can gainsay it; and therefore nobody attempts to gainsay it, in an honorable way.

I rose simply to say, that though I should deprecate making our platform a Theological arena, yet, believing that men are guilty of intentional wrong, in keeping woman subject, I believe, in having them criminated. You talk of injustice, then there is an unjust man somewhere. Even MRS. ROSE could talk of the guilt of society. Society! I know nothing of society, I know the guilt of individuals. Society is an abstract term, it is made up of individuals, and the responsibility rests with individuals. So then, if we are to call men to repentance, there is such a thing as wrong-doing intelligently, sinning against God and man, with light enough to convict us, and to condemn us before God and the world. Let this cause then be pressed upon the hearts and consciencies, against those who hold unjust rights in their possession.

MRS. SANDFORD, of New London, Huron Co., having unexpectedly arrived, addressed the Convention as follows:

My Friends :- You have had taxation without representation; the small amount of wages given to woman in comparison with man, for the same devotion of time and labor; the natural right of a woman to her children and property, set aside by law,-portrayed to you faithfully and seriously, by abler advocates than myself. Bear with me then if I speak in a different manner, or pursue a different course upon this subject.

The gaining of woman's civil rights will be not only a blessing to herself, but it will be a moral, social and religious blessing to all; you will then, see union and progression exalting the most debased ;

you will see intellect and benevolence reaching forth from the hovel, factory and garret, to purify and ennoble; and the dignity of woman's duties will then fall like a sacred mantle about her. Education then will not consist in classics for the rich, sciences for the mechanic, or a primer for the poor; but it will consist in development for all. The lighter passtime of the toilet will give way to the weightier obligations of duty. The trashy shilling literature of the day, will give place for the writings of a Franklin, a Jefferson or Ellis, a Sigourney, a Whittier, and others who have written upon government, morals and reform, and woman will find a time and place to make them practical. Mothers, your daughters, instead of wickedly and wearily stitching roses into their samplers, and ulcers into their lungs; dogs into their hearth-rugs, and disease into their systems; lambs into their stools, and inflammation into their brain; will leave these paltry and ignoble pursuits of life, for higher duties; and when the time comes to wrap the coffin vestment about them, they will be judged by the use made of the talents God has given them.

Woman's mission on earth is one of mercy, she does not at present wish to be a Statesman, but a benefactor; she does not wish to be a President, or the elector of the President, but a benefactor; she wishes to be an ornament of the Republic, not its ruler. It is an easy thing to place a man there who can annex territory, appoint and remove incumbents of office, but it is not so easy a matter to place there a champion of right, justice, and liberty. It needs some man of clear calm intellect and pure heart, unshackled by platforms, conventions or pledges, who will tread in the footsteps of the fathers of the revolution. Rut, is it important for woman to vote at elections? It may not be within her sphere of propriety, to buy votes, and to hawk about a nominee's principles to the highest bidder; to collect a noisy rabble to vote for a man who is pledged to an interested committee; but it may be proper for her to see to it, that merit keeps the officers; and to vote for men, from the President down, when convinced that they will seek the greatest good of all, and not temporize for power and emolument. It may be proper for her to see that the internal improvements, instead of enriching companies and corporations, should benefit the transporter and producer; to see that revenues instead,

of swelling the salaries of government officers, should be equally distributed among the people; to see that the public lands, instead of lining the pockets of agents and speculators, shall be apprised within. the compass of the poorest purse in christendom, and made free to worthy settlers. It may be proper for her to make the inquiry, whether it is necessary to drain the treasure and blood of the country to quell opposing factions. Within the prolific resources of woman's brain there may be found some wiser way than that of offering her husband's and children's blood; some other definition of a nation's glory than military pomp and parade, booming cannon, wounds and death.

If the present Congressmen do not use the power delegated to them by the Constitution, to enact laws for the general welfare, we wish to elect such Congressmen as will so use it. Heretofore Congress has been magnetized into ultra pro-slavery measures, and hugging its power like a giant, with a weight upon its neck, when it might rise and wrestle with that giant. Congress and the American sentiment might come down like a thunderbolt upon American slavery. If we want extent of territory, why refuse free Canada on the north, and grasp after Texas and Mexico on the south; why reach out after Cuba and Jamaica, while long trains of slaves are tracing their way to California and Oregon, unnoticed and uncared for? Where do you think will be the vile trickery of office and policy, when woman's finer perception is brought to bear upon it? Where will be your license for gambling in offices, when woman's power, enlightened by her past suffering, is brought to bear upon it? Where will be your bribe-taking and your disbursement of public plunder, when woman's new-born liberty is brought into exercise? Oh! for an administration of justice, that no emolument can waver, and no inducements corrupt! You censure England's oppression, and yet you oppress. You sympathize with a mild type of slavery across the water, yet here you rivet down by the chain gang of the law, three millions of the American race. But everything verges toward equality. Nature never ceases from balancing till she has found on equilibrium. Look at the crowns of Europe. They are counted mere footballs by the nations. There is nothing stable in human action, unless it is in conformity with the law of progression. There is no path of duty that leads not to civil elevation, and this can be obtained only by moral, and civil liberty.