alm where women have spent their energies fighting shadows. The
power that makes laws, and baptizes them as divine at every church
altar, is the power for woman to demand now and forever.

WESTCHESTER CONVENTION. _June 2, 1852_.

The first Woman's Rights Convention held in Pennsylvania was called in
the leafy month of June, in the quiet Quaker town of West Chester, in
one of the loveliest regions of that State. Chester County had long
been noted for its reform movements and flourishing schools, in which
the women generally took a deep interest.

It was among these beautiful hills that Bayard Taylor lived and wrote
his "Hannah Thurston," a most contemptible burlesque of his own
neighbors and the reforms they advocated.

Kennett Square and Longwood have for years been noted for their
liberal religious meetings, in which the leading reformers of the
nation have in turn been annually represented. In those gatherings of
the Progressive Friends, all the questions of the hour were freely
discussed, and their printed testimonies sent forth to enlighten the
people.

The Convention assembled at ten o'clock in Horticultural Hall, and was
called to order by Lucretia Mott, and the following officers chosen:

PRESIDENT.--Mariana Johnson.

SERVICE-PRESIDENTS.--Mary Ann Fulton, William Jackson, Chandler
Darlington.

SECRETARIES.--Sarah L. Miller, Hannah Darlington, Sidney Peirce,
Edward Webb.

BUSINESS COMMITTEE.--James Mott, Ann Preston, Lucretia Mott,
Frances D. Gage, Sarah D. Barnard, Dr. Harriot K. Hunt, Joseph A.
Dugdale, Margaret Jones, Ernestine L. Rose, Alice Jackson, Jacob
Painter, Phebe Goodwin.

FINANCE COMMITTEE, appointed by the Chair.--Hannah Darlington,
Jacob Painter, Isaac Mendenhall, Elizabeth Miller.

Mrs. Mott read the following call:

The friends of Justice and Equal Rights are earnestly invited to
assemble in Convention, to consider and discuss the present
position of Woman in Society, her Natural Eights and Relative
Duties.

The reasons for such a Convention are obvious. With few
exceptions, both the radical and conservative portions of the
community agree that woman, even in this progressive age and
country, suffers under legal, educational, and vocational
disabilities which ought to be removed. To examine the nature of
these disabilities, to inquire into their extent, and to consider