ear
proof that they could accomplish almost anything within the power
of human capacity, for girls have to study under all sorts of
disadvantages that boys do not have to contend with. Hang a
hoop-skirt on a boy's hips; lace him up in a corset; hang pounds
of clothing and trailing skirts upon him; puff him out with humps
and bunches behind; pinch his waist into a compass that will
allow his lungs only half their breathing capacity; load his head
down with superfluous hair--rats, mice, chignons, etc., and stick
it full of hair-pins; and then set him to translating Greek and
competing for prizes in a first-class university. What sort of a
chance would he stand in running that race or any other!! Mrs.
Stanton read a civil rights bill for women, to be presented to
Congress. This bill is to secure to them, equally with colored
men, all the advantages and opportunities of life; open to them
all colleges of learning; secure to them the right to sit on
juries; to sue and be sued; to practice in all our courts on the
same terms with colored men; to be tried by a jury of their
peers; to be admitted to theaters and hotels alone; to walk the
streets by night and by day, to ramble in the forest, or beside
the lakes and rivers, as do colored men, without fear of
molestation or insult from any white man whatsoever, to secure
equal place and pay in this world of work.

She also presented a series of resolutions, nine in number. The
first five are for freedom generally, and no taxation without
representation. The sixth and seventh denounce the bills of
Senators Frelinghuysen and Logan, the former being designed to
deprive the women of the Territories of jury trial, and the
latter to restore the common law in the Territories. The eighth
recognizes the importance of the organization of the Grangers;
and the ninth opposes the granting of general amnesty to former
rebels. This resolution Mrs. Stanton denounced, speaking in favor
of universal amnesty. Quite a spicy discussion ensued on this
resolution, which was drawn up by Mrs. Joslyn Gage. Mrs. Stanton
in her remarks in opposition, said it was hardly worth while for
women in their conventions to throw any stigma on Jefferson
Davis. The institution of slavery was sustained by the North as
well as the South;