Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-05-17
RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED By THE WoMAN's CONVENTION OF
ONO.

whereas. All men are created equal, and en-
dowed with certain God-given rights, and all
Just Governments are derived from the consent
of the governed; and whereas, the doctrine
that man shall pursue his own substantial hap
piness,' Is acknowledged by the highest author
ity TO be the great precept of nature; and where
as, this doctrine is not local, bat universal, be-
ing dictated by God himself; therefore
/. Resolved, That all laws contrary to these
fundamental principles, or in conflict with this
great precept of nature, are of no binding obi
cation, not being founded in equity or justice.
2. Resolved, That the prohibition of Wo-
man from participating in the enactment of the
laws by which she is governed, is a direct vio-
lation OF this precept of nature, as she is there
by prevented from occupying that position which
duty points out, and from pursuing her own sub
stantlal happiness by acting up TO her conscien.
entions convictions and that all statutes and
constitutional provisions which sanction this pro-
hibit;on, are null and void.
3. Resolved, That all rights are human
rights, and pertain to human beings without dis
tincton of sex; therefore justice demands that all
laws shall be made not for man, nor for woman,
but for mankind, and that the same legal pro-
lection be afforded to the one sex as to the other.
4. Resolved, That the serve subm sion
and quiet indifference of the Women of this
country in relation 10 the unequal and oppres-
sve laws by which they are governed, are the
frnit either of ignorance or depreciation, both re-
sultlng legitimately from the action of those
laws
5. Resolved, That tie evils arising from III ,
present social, civil and religious condition of
omen proclaim to them, in language not to be
misunderstood, that not only their olon welfare,
but the highest good of the race demands OF
them, as an imperative duty, that they should
secure to themselves the Elective Franchise
8. ResOlN ed That in thUse laws which con-
fer on Man the power to control the property and
p rsOn OF Woman, and to remove from her at
will the children of her aif4ction, we recognize,
only modified code of the slave plantation; and
that thus we are brought more nearly in sympa-
thy with the suffering slave, who is despoled of
al his rights.
7. Resolved, That we, as human beings,
are entitled to claim and exercise all the rights
that belong by nature TO the member of the hui
family.
g. Resolved, That I'll distinctions between
men and women in regard to social, literary, Pc
cunary, religious or political customs and ins-
tutions based on a distinction of sex, are con-
trary to the laws of Nature, unjust, and desiruc-
tive to the purity, elevation and progress in
KIN Owledge and goodness of tie great human
family, and ought to be at once and forever abo-
ished.
9. Resolved, That the practice of holding
woman amenabe 10 different standard of pro-
prety and morality from that to which men are
held amenabie, is unjust and unnatural and
highly detrimental to domestic and social virtue
and happiness.
TO- Resolved, That so long as women OPP
pose the examination of the position and duties
of Woman in all the various relations of human
life, they do but enhance and perpetnate their
own degradation, and put far off the day when
social laws and customs shall recognize them as
equally entitled with men to a voice in creating
and administering the governmental and reI-
gious institutions under which they live
IL. Resolved That tie polit ca history of wo-
man demonstrates thai tyranny the most deera-
ding, cruel AMI unreeniing, can be exercised and
produced, the same in effect under mild and
republican from OF government as by al heredit-
airy despotism.
u. Resolved That while we deprecate' thus
earnes ly the 10 1t cal OPP essiol of woman, we
see in her social condition, the regard in whieh
she held as moral aud intellectual being, the
fundamental cause of that oppression.
10 Resolved, That among the principle causes
of such social condition, we regard the public
sentiment which withhods from her all, or al
res of labor
IA Resolved, That in the difficulties thus cast
in the way of her self-support and in her conse-
quent dependence upon man, we see the greatest
Influence at work in imparting to her that tone of
character which causes her to be regarded as the
weaker vessel
10 Resolved, That as all things work in a
circle, such places as we have spoken of will
only be open'd TO woman as she shows by the cul-
tivation of her own mind and the force of her
own character, that She is capable of filling, and
that herself must prove her courage by calmly
putting forth her hand to grasp them, in disregard
of the usaees which have hitherto withheld them
from her.
lG Resolved That we regard those women
who content themselves with an id e, aimless
life, as involved in the guilt as well as the suf
fefing of their own oppression, and that we held
those who go forth nio the world, in the face OF
the frowns and the sneers of the public, to fill
large spheres of labor, the truest preachers of
tie cause OF woman's rights.
II. Whereas, One class of society dooms
woman TO life o: drndgery, and another to one
OF dependence and frivoty and whereas the
education she generally receives is calculated to
cultivate vanity and dependence; therefore Re
Soired, Tha, the prevalent ideas of female elu-
cation are in perfect harmony with the position
elected her by the laws and usage OF society.
10. Resolved, That he education of woman
should be in accordance with her responsibility in
life that she may acquire that slet-reliance and
rue dignity so essential to the proper fulhlment
OF the important duties devolving upon her.
49, Resolved, That as woman is not permit
ted TO hold Office nor have any voice IN tie Gov
ernment, she should not be compelled to pay tax
es out of her scanty wages to support men who
get eight dollars a day for taking the right TO
themSelu9S to enac, laws for her.
20. K solved, That we, the women OF Ohio,
will hereafter meet annually in convention, to
consider and adopt measures for the removal OF
the various dsablitis political, social, religious,
legal and pecunary. to which women as class
are subjected, and from which result much
misery degradation and crime.
81 Resolved, Tia we will appoint commit
tee to attend TO all the interests OF this cause,
and to fix upon the time and place of holding
our next Convention.
% Resolved, That we will personally inter
est ourselves in promoting the circulation OF
these periodicals which endeavor TO promote tins
great cause OF Justice and Equal Rights.
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