ims are as citizens, and not as women. I for one have always
gloried in the name of Woman's Rights, and pitied those of my sex
who ignobly declared they had all the rights they wanted. We take
the new name for the broader work because we see it is no longer
woman's province to be merely a humble petitioner for redress of
grievances, but that she must now enter into the fullness of her
mission, that of helping to make the laws, and administer
justice.

Aaron M. Powell presented the following resolution:

_Resolved_, That in view of the Constitutional Convention to be
held in the State of New York the coming year, it is the duty of
this Association to demand such an amendment of the Constitution
as shall secure equal rights to all citizens, without distinction
of color, sex, or race.

Miss Anthony seconded the resolution, and urged the importance of
making a thorough canvass of the State with lectures, tracts, and
petitions.[67] Mr. Powell, Mrs. Gage, and others, advocated the
concentration of all the energies of the Association for the coming
year on the State of New York; after which the resolution was adopted.

PARKER PILLSBURY: Perhaps we ourselves do not appreciate the
magnitude of the enterprise we are here to inaugurate. If
successful, we close to-day one epoch in human history, and enter
on another of results more millennial than have been seen before.
We give now a new definition to the word Liberty. We clothe our
divinity with new honors. The ancients worshiped in her temple,
but to them all, even the devoutest, she was ever an "Unknown
God." In all ages, men sing her praises, but know not her law.
Our revolutionary fathers were blind as others--blinder than many
others. They declared all men free and equal. They fought long
and valiantly for their evangel, baptizing it in the blood of
many battles, came home triumphant, and then constructed a
despotism which their own immortal Jefferson declared was fraught
with more woes in one hour, to myriads of its citizens, than
would be endured in whole ages of the worst they themselves had
ever known! That government they named a Republic. Under it we
held millions of slaves, and were providing to hold many millions
more, when God sent a thunderbolt and dashed it in pieces before
our eyes and gave our slaves their