WOMAN'S RIGHTS TRACTS. BY WENDELL PHILLIPS, THEODORE PARKER, MRS. AND MRS. C. I. J. NICHOLS. STEREOTYPE EDITION. DIVINITY SCHOOL LIBRARY. BOSTON: ROBERT F. WALLCUT, 21 CORNHILL. 1854. This volume can be obtained of J. M. W. YERRIN TON, 21 Cornhill, Boston; T. W. HIGGINSON, Worcester; LUCY STONE BLACKWELL, Cincinnati. It will be sent by mail, bound, for six postage stamps; unbound, for four. A bound copy will be sent to any Public Library on receipt of one postage stamp. SPEECH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS, ESQ., AT THE CONVENTION HELD AT WORCESTER, OCTOBER 15 AND 16, 1851. THE following resolutions were under consideration : 1. Resolved, That while we would not undervalue other methods, the Right of Suffrage for Women is, in our opinion, the corner-stone of this enterprise, since we do not seek to protect woman, but rather to place her in a position to protect herself. 2. Resolved, That it will be woman's fault if, the ballot once in her hand, all the barbarous, demoralizing and unequal laws, relating to marriage and property, do not speedily vanish from the statute-book; and while we acknowledge that the hope of a share in the higher professions and profitable employments of society is one of the strongest motives to intellectual culture, we know, also, that an interest in political questions is an equally powerful stimulus; and we see, beside, that we do our best to insure education to an individual, when we put the ballot into his hands; it being so clearly the interest of the community that one upon whose decisions depend its welfare and safety should both have free access to the best means of education, 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. It is enough for our argument that natural and political justice, and the axioms of English and American liberty, alike determine that rights and burdens - taxation and representation - should be coëxtensive; hence women, as individual citizens, liable to punishment for acts which the laws call criminal, or to be taxed in their labor and property for the support of government, have a selfevident and indisputable right, identically the same right that men have, to |
