of women.

And no one has thoroughly fulfilled the law of his being,

who has not fulfilled that relation. I know that true marriage is at present rarely realized. Many of us will never be able to attain it, condemned to live without society or companionship. Be it so! Better live and die thus, than sacrifice the most high and sacred objects of existence.

Let us, then, make up our minds, that it is for the interest of woman, as of man, to develop all her powers. It is her own fault if she do not. She will succeed, if she is true to her highest standard of womanhood. It may be necessary to pass through storm and fire to accomplish it, and ages may elapse ere her rights are fully acknowledged. Yet, as generation follows generation, one will catch the falling standard from the other, and, as Mary Wolstonecroft and her daughter carried it forward for a season, so the women who are here to-day will take it up and bear it still further onward, until this Woman's Rights movement is lost in the final recognition of the inalienable rights of universal Humanity.

At the close of the foregoing able and admirable remarks, the Convention adjourned to 7 o'clock P. M.

EVENING SESSION.

Convention metįpursuant to adjournment.

Mrs. Foster said she desired to repeat the invitation to any who opposed their movement, to take the platform at any time. The announcement of speakers for the evening was made, merely to assure the audience the time would be occupied, but regular speakers would at any time give way to other speakers. She desired it distinctly understood, that their platform was entirely free, and particularly to those who desired to oppose the Woman's movement.

Mr. Garrison said he did not appear this evening to make a speech, but merely to read some additional resolutions from the Business Committee.

LUCRETIA MOTT hoped, after the explanation of Mrs. Foster, that Mr. Garrison would not feel a reluctance in addressing the Convention. She would be glad to hear him.

Mr. G. replied that the resolutions would do for his speech tonight, and read as follows:

1st. Resolved. That the natural rights of one human being, are those of every other, in all cases equally sacred and inalienable; hence the boasted "Rights of Man," about which we hear so much, are simply the "Rights of Woman," of which we hear so little; or, in other words, they are the Rights of Humanity, neither affected by, nor dependent upon, sex or condition.

2d. Resolved, That those who deride the claims of woman to a full recognition of her civil rights and political equality, exhibit the spirit which tyrants and usurpers have displayed in all ages toward the mass of mankind-strike at the foundation of all truly free and equitable government-contend for a sexual aristocracy, which is as irrational and unjust, in principle, as that of wealth and hereditary descent and show their appreciation of liberty to be wholly onesided and supremely selfish.

3d. Resolved, That for the men of this land to claim for themselves the elective franchise, and the right to choose their own rulers and enact their own laws, as essential to their freedom, safety and welfare, and then to deprive all the women of all these safeguards, solely on the ground of a difference of sex, is to evince the pride of self-esteem, the meanness of usurpation, and the folly of a selfassumed superiority.

4th. Resolved, That woman, as well as man, has a right to the highest mental and physical development; to the most ample educational advantages; to the occupancy of whatever position she can reach, in church and state, in science and art, in poetry and music, in painting and sculpture, in civil jurisprudence and political econo my, and in all the varied departments of human industry, enterprize and skill; to the elective franchise, and to a voice in the administration of justice, and the passage of laws for the general welfare.

5th. Resolved, That to pretend that the granting of these claims would tend to make woman less amiable and attractive, less regardful of her peculiar duties and obligations as wife and mother, a wanderer from her proper sphere, bringing confusion into domestic life, and strife into the public assembly, is the cant of Papal Rome as to

the discordant and infidel tendencies of the right of private judgement in matters of faith; is the outcry of legitimacy as to the incapacity of the people to govern themselves; is the false allegations which selfish and timid conservatism is ever making against every new measure of reform, and has no foundation in reason, experience, fact or philosophy.

6th. Resolved, That the consequences arising from the exclusion of woman from the possession and exercise of her natural rights and the cultivation of her mental faculties, have been calamitous to the whole human race; making her servile, dependent, unwomanly; the victim of a false gallantry on the one hand, and of tyranous subjection on the other; obstructing her mental growth, crippling her physical development, and incapacitating her for general usefulness; and thus inflicting an injury upon all born of woman, and cultivating in man a lordly and arrogant spirit, a love of dominion, a disposition to lightly regard her comfort and happiness, all which have been indulged to a fearful extent, to the curse of his own soul and the desecration of her nature.

7th. Resolved, That so long as the most ignorant, degraded and worthless men are freely admitted to the ballot-box, and practically acknowledged to be competent to determine who shall be in office and how the government shall be administered, it is preposterous to pretend that women are not qualified to use the elective franchise, and that they are fit only to be recognized, politically speaking, as non compos mentus.

Moved and seconded that they lie over for discussion. After an excellent address by Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, (which, by her own request, is not published,) a suggestion was made that speakers be limited to fifteen minutes each.

Mrs. Mott. I would yield the floor to any one who has anything to say at this time, and would gladly do it. I approve of the suggestion which has been made, that we should be limited as to time, for we are such imitators of men and customs around us, that perhaps we may forget that we are not upon the floor of Congress, and so may inflict long speeches upon the people.

I am glad you have had presented before you, in the address you

have just heard, a synopsis of the laws in relation to women, and the sentiments of some of the commentators upon those laws; and I want you to observe, (for it stands in proof of what our brother said this afternoon,) that there is a constant advance in truth, a constant uprising and appreciation of that which in the earlier days of an enterprise was not anticipated. So in this movement; Blackstone stated what was then regarded Law, (for it did not then appear to be understood, although he too defined it,) as a "means of sustaining justice and the right "- -but in giving a statement of what was Law, it was received by the people as tantamount to Gospel ; for Law and Gospel, Church and State, have been thus united. But it is to be broken up as regards woman, just as the religionists of our country have attempted to break it up, and have succeeded in the Church, as applicable to men. Our more modern expounders of the Law, in many cases, present to the public the degraded position of women in society, because of such enactments, claiming to be, Law.— Of these are a Hulburt, in an essay on Human Rights; and a Walker, I think, who first presented the fact to the public-or to the reader, not so public as I wish it was-that the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband! and Mr. Hulburt has presented the condition of woman in a light which cannot fail to be striking to those who will read his essays.

Look also at the Philosophers of the present time, and the Revolutionists of the last upheaving in Europe. Why, when woman went forth at the last effort to establish a republic through the provisional government in France, and claimed to have equal representation with man, some of the greatest statesmen acknowledged the justice of her request, and responded to it, that she had sat in darkness long, that this claim of women would have to be respected; that woman had too long been suffering under a night-mare of oppression. It was to me a striking comparison at the time I read it. The only cause of the failure of the revolution of 1779, was that it was represented by only one half of the intelligence, of the race--an intelligence differing it is true, in some of its peculiarities, but from that very difference calculated to form a truer republic. Victor Hugo in alluding to this effort on the part of woman for the redress of the wrongs and griev

ances under which she had suffered, says, that as the last age was notable for the effort to gain Men's Rights, so the present generation would aim to create a revolution in public sentiment which should gain the independence of woman.

Now these steps are beginning to be followed out everywhere.—— The Westminister Review, one of the cleverest journals in England, gave a very fair and interesting notice of the first National Woman's Convention in Worcester, and that article has been republished in this country in pamphlet form. There have been repeated notices also in the best of our own periodicals, encouraging women to go on and advocate their claims.

But, we are told sometimes that we are satisfied; that it is not woman who is urging this movement, and that she really does not wish any change in society. Has the slave been oppressed so long that he cannot appreciate the blessings of Liberty? and has woman been so long crushed, enervated, paralysed, prostrated by the influences by which she has been surrounded, that she too is ready to say she would not have any more rights if she could? Why she does not know her position, and whereof she affirms. A clergyman in Auburn, N. Y., soon after the Syracuse Convention, delivered a sermon pronouncing it an infidel convention,-for you know that is the usual weapon of defence against whatever appears to conflict with accepted creeds. He said the ladies of his congregation, he was happy to state, were not sensible of any chains binding them, not sensible of any liberties taken from them. Now this is the common boast-there are persons in your own city who stated on being invited to come to this convention, that they had other engagements, they had to sew at the Home Missionary Society; and if they had not other engagements, they had all the rights they wanted, and did

not care to come.

I heard not long since of some one who had several hundred acres of land left him by his father; a friend was speaking to him about the profitableness of his estate; he replied, the profits were not so great as might be supposed; the expenses of the family were large, for he had to keep his mother a good many years, and she lived to be ninety years old! He was asked if she were an active industrious