The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-12-21
The wOman's Rights Convention at Mt. ailead.

The Woman's Rights Convention at Mt. Gilead.
Below we give the Preamble and Resolution
! adopted by this Convention in session durin
the 10th ard 18th of this month.
Inc ladies certainly have right to be heart
after having gone to tho trouble of getting u
convention for the purpose of making the
wishes and wants known. The Resolution
are sufficiently explicit of themselves, withou
comment:
WHEREAS. we believe that woman has simi]a
gifts of intellect and suffers the same woe
and partokes of the same Joy with man; tha
/ God requires Of ber individual duties, an
holds her responsible for her own acts. an,
whereas our great political creed declare
that "all men are created equal" and where
as among the grievances against which ou
forefathers protested, were taxation withou
representation, and required submission I,
laws, in the making of which they had n,
voice therefore.
Resolued, That the like causes for revolution
exist among us, and wo believe it high tim,
that woman should take up the weapons of ,
moral warfare in defence of the Same RIGHT
for .herself which the mothers of the nation s,
| no5ly assisted our fathers to obtain for them
selves,
ResotUed That upon the ground of Justice
and right, wo the women of the nation, ought
not to be compelled to pay taxes without repre-
sentation, or be required te submit to laws, to
which we have never given assent.
Resolred, That we consider it no more de-
tracing from the true dignity and loveiness Of
woman hood to deposite her vote in the ballot
box. than to make out the amount of her goods
to the Assessors, or hand over the money to
the Treasurer-and if the first act be unwo-
manly, the requirement of the second must be
extremely unwomarly:
RESOLVED, That we consider it unjust to COM
pei woman to labor. but six days for the wa
ges which man receives for one DAYS work.
and that we will do all in our power to hasten
the time when the price of labor shall be esti-
mated by the 0neonnt done, and manner Of do
ing it, rather than by Me person who does it.
Resoloed, That our colleges and other pla-
ces of learning should be open to woman as
fully as man; and that we urge upon our Sis
ters everywhere to knock at their doors for ad-
mission.
Resotved. That the capacity, individual fit
ness, and attractions. being the best indications
Sexes sR5oid Be i6Rr eiftao to h iefrfaes 0fb"of
their own choosing and that ifwomen have but
the head to will, and the energy to do, they may
qualify themselves and take possession of all
enployments and professions for which they
may be best fitted, and most inclined
Resolred, That we rejoice that any women
have had courage to enter the legal, medical
and ministerial professionalism at least two
Professors chairs are now filled BY women in
this country, and that Female Physicians are
increasing in numbers throughout the land,
and trust that the time may soon arrive when
each town and village shall number at least one
such practitioner among our own sex.
ResoiUed, That the popular doctrine which
required Of woman unqualified submission to
man, virtually denies her individuality, and
accountability to God. and should therefore be
repudiated by every Christian.
Resoired, That as the goodness, genteness,
patience and forbearance of humanity are so
often said to be pre-eminently bound up in the
"angelic nature of women, we ask that these
good qualities may be permitted to find their
way into our legislative councils, and there full
fiji their needed mission in assisting to abolish
the wrongs which every lover of the race and
Christianity must deplore,
Resolued, That our platform is wide as the
wants of humanity; deep as the souls sympa-
thy and high and noble as the great cause Of
human quality and elevation, and that wherev-
or there is a woe TO relieve tear TO wipe away
or an injustice to abolish, there is a romans
sphef e, and that she should be permitted every
means or using her influence for good i'm the
social, political and religious world, enjoyed by
any human beng.
Resolped, That we desire the cooperation of
all sincere lovers of humanity in the work of
elevating woman to the proper position as an
human being of society.
Our readers will excuse the absence of the
usual gossip and poem of this column. We
thought the above Platform gossip and poetry
enough in itself-enough to satisfy dreamer
and thinker. We shall never again accuse
these ladies of modesty in their ambition for
they assume their entire superiority over man
with as much complacency as a mother as
sumes when she pulls the ear of the boy in her
jar of sugar. Perhaps it is all right, but really,
we don't know whether to laugh or cry over
the threatened revolution.