The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-14
W0MANS' RIGHTS.

The Womans' Rights Convention held a formal
meeting at the Cooper Institute, in New York. on
Friday. The main question under consideration
was the marriage relation. Mrs Blackwell and
Mrs. Stanton offered resolutions bringing the sub
Jectup for discussion, which were opposed bv
Wendell Phillips, but finally adopted hy 4 larpa
majority vote; and, after thanking the late Iegis-
latGre for what it had done for the cause of NO.
men, and asking for more, the Convention ad-
Journed sane die. The following are the resolu-
tons
Resoued. That in the language (slightIy yaried\
OF John Milton "Those who marry, intend as little
TO consplre their own ruin as those who swear ale
glance; and as whole people is to an i'll govern
ment so is one man or woman to an i'll MARRIAGE
II whole people, against any authority, covenant,
or statute, may, by the sovereign edct of charity
save not only their lives, but honest liberties from
unworthy bondage, as well may maniac party
against any private covenant which he or sha
never entered to his her mischief, be redeemed
from upsupportable disturbances to honest peace
and Just cGntentment." ." Sd
Resotped, That all men are created equal: and all
women, in natural rights are the ennsis of men
and endowed by the Creator with the same inalien
an!e right to the pursuit of happiness.
Resotoed, That any constitution, compact or Gov
enant between human beings, or even between God
and human beings, that failed to produce or pro-
mote human happiness could not in the nature of
thlngs De OF any force or authority, and it would
be not only right but duty to abolish it,
heSotued, That though marriage be in itself di-
viney founded. and is fortified as an institution by
lnnumerabe analogies in the whole kingdom of
universal nature, still true mortgage is only
known by its results, and like the fountain If pure
w,a reveal t pniy pure panestations Nor need it
ever De SAID, "W hat God hath joined together, let
no man put asunder," for man could not put it
asunder; nor can he any more unite what God and
nature have not Joined together
Resotyea, That of all insulting mockeries of
heavenly truth and holy law, none can be greater
mia o1n0I
dlvoree, while no amount of mental, or moral, or
spiritual 'mdec'y is ever to be pleaded in support
OF such demand.
hesotUed, That such a law was worthy those dark
periods when marriage was held by the greatest
doctors and priests of the church to be- tpork o,
flesh only; and almost, if not altogether a de-
hlement, denied wholly to the clergy; and second
| time, forbidden to all. 49,
I marriage is ever calamity, but not ever perhaps
| never, crime; and when society or government.
| by Its laws or customs, compels its continuance
always to the grief of one Of the parties and actua
| loss and damage Of both, it usurps authority
never delegated to man, nor exercised BY God him
| self.
| Resolved, That observation and experience dali,
snow how incompetent men, as individuals, or al
governments. to select partners in business, teach
ers for their children, ministers OF their religion
or makers, adjudicators administrators of theil
| laws, and as the same weakness and blindness mus
attend in the selection of matrimonial partners, th
| dictates of humanity and common sense alike show
that the latter and most important contract shoulC
4 no more be perpetual, than either or all of thu
| former.
Resolred, That children born in these unhapp,
and unhallowed connections are, in the most oIemI
and important sense, of upIamfM kirth-the fruit o
| lust, but not of ovej and so not of God, dvinel,
] descended, but from the earth, whence proceed al
manner of evil and uncleanness.
| RESOLVED, That next to the calamity of such
birth to the child, is the misfortune of being train
| ed in the atmosphere of household where love i
| not the law, but where discord and bitterness
alb rund stamping their demonac features on tn
moral nature with all their odious peculiarities
thus continuing the race in a weakness and depra
.ity mat must be sure precursor of its ruin,
just penalty of long violated law.
The FIsHERIEs-This has been one of the mos
profitable seasons the fishermen have had for man,
years At Mr.. John Stump's shore, on the Sus
quehanna on Tuesday night la st, $4,000 berrin!
were taken at one haul. At Mr.. James A. Lack
lands fishery, ON the Elk river side of Turke,
Point, gov, 900 were taken at one haul. 0sbourn
at the Battery, Spesutia Island, caught $50 900 a
one haul and bond is said to have caught 72O, 90
at one haul. All the other fisheries have don
equally well in proportion to the capacity of thei
seines and the number of men empoyed Nothin,
like it has been known for thirty wears. One q
these large schools of herrings, making their wa
to the head waters of the Chesapeake, are said t
make noise upon the water like the approach Q
violent storm.-CecI Democrat, May IL.