The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-05-24
THe women or onro....in COaYention

the Women of Ohio assembled in Con
yentiun, at Salem. Ohio. for the purpose
Of considering and adopting some means
To force meu To grant them their rights
aud privileges. They passed twen
ty-lwo resolutions asserting their rights
and defining their duties, from which we
Gull those which are most to the point
In the first place they resolve that all
men are created free aud equal. without
distinction of see, color or nation. ne
following goes over the whole grou"d'
Rcs0tsed, That all the distinctions be-
tween man and women in regard l" Soc''
al, literary, pecuniary, religious or p"I''
| lea customs and institutions, based "n
distinction ot sex. are contrary 10 the
laws of Nature. unjust, and destructive
10 the purity, elevation aud progress IN
knowlejqe aud goodness of the great
human family. and ought To be at once
and forever abolished.
In the following there Is much more
truth than poetry:
ResOlred, That the practice of hold
ing women amenable to a different stan
dara of propriely and morality from that
to which men are held amenable, is un'
Just and unnatural. and highly detrmen.
ltal to domestic and social virtue aud
happiness.
Res0lved, That we regard those wo.
men who content themselves with an idle,
uimless life, az involved in the guilt as
we'll as the suffering Of their own op-
preston, and that we hold those who go
forth into the world in the face of the
frowns and the sueers of the public, to
6ll large spheres of labor, as the truest
preachers Of the cause Of women's rights.
Here is another, rather in the shape of
. warning than otherwise, and which in.
directly points out the course which the
Ladies, in Convention assembled, think
D their sex oughtto pursue;
Resolred, That So long as women 0p'
pose the examination ui the position and
J. duties Of Woman in all tho various rela,
II tions of human life. they do but enhance
II and perpetuate their own degradation
II and put far off the day when social laws
- and customs shall recognize them as
equally entitled with men to voice IL
T. creating and administering the govern
'i mental AID religious institutions unde
'g which they live.
II. From the following it will be seen tia
TO the fur Convenlinnsts are in earnest
W and intend to try TO do what they resulve
u. When Gid woman fail in carrying ou
d, resolved
v. RcsOlocd, That we. the women ofOhi'
- will hereafter meet annually in conver
lion, to consider and adopt measures ia
y the abolition of the various Disabilities
u political, social, religious, legal and pc
cuniary, to which woman AS class ar
as subjected, and from which result misery
al degradation and crime.
Il. A goodly number of the sea were |
l.. attendance, and letters were read iroI
- many distinguished women Of the da
~ regroting their inability to be present.
We cannot join in with some of ~
-. contemporaries to laugh down the move
%. ment. They ask some things which "
SO deem impracticable, but there are man
OF wrongs Of which they should comPIa
"a and for the abolition Of which thoy ougI
10 to strive. Good men need no induce
ee men, to do right and no laws to restra
p. them from evil, but bad men there al
TO- who cause much misery in the worl
,e' 10, Against thoir conduct it is proper
as provide