Rev. Dr. Follen. Woman, though possessed of that rational and moral nature which is the foundation of all rights, enjoys among us fewer legal and civil rights than under the law of continental Europe. O. S. Fowler. Women have the whole ground conceded to them at the beginning. All government arises from the consent of the governed.
Women are as much interested in legislation as men, and entitled to representation.
As to woman's voting or holding office, I defer implicitly to herself. If the women of this or any other country believe that their rights would be better secured and their happiness protected by the assumption on their part, of the political franchises and responsibilities of men, I, a Republican in principle, shall certainly interpose no objection. I apprehend that whenever women shall generally and really desire an equality of political franchise with men, they will meet with little impediment from the latter. Hay, Saratoga, N. Y. I am convinced that until the individual and social right of our whole race, without distinction of caste or sex, shall have been universally recgnised, the tyrannies of earth will cease from it. Partial consent can confer only unjust power.