the most feasible and proper mode of removing them, will be the
aim of the Convention which it is proposed to hold.

If it shall promote in any degree freedom of thought and action
among women; if it shall assist in opening to them any avenues to
honorable and lucrative employment (now unjustly and unwisely
closed); if it shall aid in securing to them more thorough
intellectual and moral culture; if it shall excite higher
aspirations; if it shall advance by a few steps just and wise
public sentiment, it will not have been held in vain.

The elevation of woman is the elevation of the human race. Her
interests can not be promoted or injured without advantage or
injury to the whole race. The call for such a Convention is
therefore addressed to those who desire the physical,
intellectual, and moral improvement of mankind. All persons
interested in its objects are respectfully requested to be
present at its sessions and participate in its deliberations.

THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

The position in which woman has been placed is an anomaly. On the
one hand she is constantly reminded of duties and
responsibilities from which an angel might shrink. The world is
to be saved by her prayers, her quiet and gentle efforts. Man,
she is told, is ruled by her smiles; his whole nature subdued by
the potency of her tears. Priests, politicians, and poets assure
her with flattering tongue, that on her depend the progress and
destiny of the race. On the other hand, she is told that she must
lovingly confide in the strength and skill of man, who has been
endowed with superior intellectual powers; that she must count it
her highest honor to reflect upon the world the light of his
intelligence and wisdom, as the moon reflects the light of the
sun!

We may congratulate one another on this occasion in view of the
cheering indications so manifest on every hand that the ignorance
and darkness which have so long brooded over the prospects of
woman, are beginning to give place to the light of truth. In the
summer of 1848, in the village of Seneca Falls, a small number of
women, disregarding alike the sneers of the ignorant and the
frowns of the learned, assembled in Convention and boldly claimed
for themselves, and for their sex, the right