Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-15
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WOmaH's Rights Convention at Worcester.

desire to put the Resolutions upon record.
RESOLUTIONS.
l. Resolved, That while we would not un.
dervalue other methods the Right of Suf.
froge for Woman is, in our opinion, the cor
ner stone of this enterprise, since we do not
seek to protect wotnnn, but rather to place
her in position to protect herself
2 Resolved, That it will be Womans
fault, II, the ballot once in her hand, oil the
barbarous, demoralizing and unequal laws
relating to marriage aud properly, do not
speedily vanish from the statute book aud
while we acknowledge that the hope of
share in the higher professions aud profitable
employmems of society is one of the stron-
gest motives TO intellectual culture, 1--WE know,
also, thot an interest in political questions is
mn equally powerful stimulus; aud we see
beside, that we do our best to insure educa-
tion TO nh individual, when we put the ballot
into his hands: il being so clearly the inter-
est bend its welfare and safety, should both
have FREQ access to the best means of educa-
iioD, and be urged to make use of them.
3. Resolved, That we do not feel called
upon TO assert or establish the equality of the
sexes, in an intellectual or any other point of
view il il enough for our argument that nat
nral and political Justice, and the nxioms of
E"glish aud American liberty alike deter
mine that rights aud burdcns-taxation and
representatiou--should he cocXtrusive: hence
women, MS individual citizens liable to pun
ishment for acts which the laws call criminal,
or TO bc taxed in their labor aud property for
the support of Government have n sclf-evi-
dent aud indisputablc right idcn;icaIy the
same right that men have to Il direct voice
in the enactment of those laws aud the for
mntion of that Govercmant.
4. Resolved, That the Democrat or Rcf6r-
mer, who denies suffrage TO Women, is
Democrat only bcrausc he was not born II no
BILE, aud one of these Jewelers. who nrc willing
TO level only down tn themselves.
5. Resolved, That while political and nat
urnl justice accords civil equality TO woman;
while great thinkers of every nge, from Plato
10 Condorcct and Mill, have supported their
claim while voluntary associations religious
and secular, have been organized Oh this ba-
Fis, still, it is II iayoriie argument nguinst il,
TINT no political community or milton ever
existed in which women have not been IN
state of political and social inlcriority. But
In reply we remind our opponents Tint the
same fact has been alleged, with equal truth,
in favor of slavcry-has been urged against
freedom of industry freedom of conscience,
and the freedom Of the press-nonc of these
liberties having been thought compatible with
well ordered State, until they had proved
their possibility 10y springing into existence
as facts. Beside, there is no difficulty in un-
derstanding why the suhjeclion of Woman
las been uniform cdStOm, when we recol-
lect that we are Just emerging from the ages
in which might has been always right.
Resolved, That we are firmly convinced
that the division of mankind into two castles
--one horn to rule over the othcr-is, in the
case of the sexes, as III all eases an unquul-
flied misrlici, II source of peryersiOn aud dc-
nioralizalion, both to the favored class and to
those ut whose expense they are favored,
producing none of the good which it is the
custom to nscribe TO il, and forming II bar al
inost insupernble, to any really vital improve
ment, either in the character or in the social
condition of the human race.
z. Resolved, That so far from denying the
overwhelming social and civil influence Of
Women, we are fully aware of lis vast extent,
aware, with Demoslhcncs, HAT "mensilres
which the Statesman has meditated II whole
gear, may he overturned IN day 10y wo-
man," and for this very reason we proclaim
il the very highest eXpediency To endow her
with full civil rights, since only then will
she exercise this mighty influence under II
Just sense of her duty aud responsibility, tic
history of all ngcs bearing witness that the
only safe course for nations is 10 add open
responsibility wherever there already exists
unohselved power.
8. Resolved, That we deny the right ofany
portion of the species to decide for another
portion, or of any individual for another i'll
dividual, what is aud what is not their prop
er sphere" that the proper sphere for all lu-
man beings is the largest and highest to
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cannot be ascerInined without complete lib
cry Of choice; Woman, therefore, ought TO
choose for herself what sphere she will fill,
what education she will seek, and what en-
ploymemt she will follow; and not lac held
bound to accept in submission, the rights,
the education, and the sphere, which man
thinks proper to allow her.
9. Resolved, That we hold these truths TO
be selfevident, that all men are created equals
That they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienablc rights; that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
that, to secure these rights governments are
Instituted among men, deriving tier just
powcrs from the consent oftlIe governed, and
zee churge that man with gross dishonesty OF
ignorance, who shall contend that "men" III
fhe memorable document from which We
quote, does not stand for the human race
that "lile, liberty, aud the pursuit of hapPi
ness" are the "iualienahlc rights" of hal
only of the human species; and that, hy "th'
governed" whose consent is affirmed to bt
ihe only source of just power, is meant that
half of mankind only, who, in relation TO the
other, have hitherto assumed the character o
Governors.
10. Resolved, That we see no weight in the
argument that it is neccesaryto to exclude Wo
men from civil life because domestic cares
and political engagements are Incompatible
since we do not see the fact to he in the cast
of nar; and because, if the incompatlblitl
be real it viii take care of itself, neither mer
nor women needing any law TO exclude then
from an occupation when they have und derIa
ken another incompatible with It: Second, W.
see nothing in the assertion that Women
themselves, do not desire change, since w