d's lawyer and witness of His Gospel) to be proved by
his own hand and seal, Sept. 16, 1542."

LUCRETIA MOTT (see 8th resolution) thought it important that we
should not disclaim the antagonism that woman's present position
rendered it necessary she should assume. Too long had wrongs and
oppressions existed without an acknowledged wrong-doer and
oppressor. It was not until the slaveholder was told, "thou art
the man," that a healthful agitation was brought about. Woman is
told that the fault is in herself, in too willingly submitting to
her inferior condition; but, like the slave, she is pressed down
by laws in the making of which she has had no voice, and crushed
by customs that have grown out of such laws. She can not rise,
therefore, while thus trampled in the dust. The oppressor does
not see himself in that light until the oppressed cry for
deliverance.

In commenting on the will just read, she further said:

The extract from Luther's will which has been read, while it
gives evidence of the appreciation of the services of his wife,
to a certain extent, and manifests a generous disposition to
reward her as a faithful wife, still only proves the degrading
relation she bore to her husband. There is no recognition of her
equal right to their joint earnings. While the wife is obliged to
accept as a gift that which in justice belongs to her, however
generous the boon, she is but an inferior dependent.

The law of our State and of New York, has within a few years been
so amended that the wife has some control over a part of her
property. Much yet remains to be done; and if woman "contend
earnestly" for the right, man will co-operate with her in
adjusting all her claims. We have only to look back a few years,
to satisfy ourselves that the demands already made are met in a
disposition to redress the grievances. When a delegation of women
to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840, could find no
favor in London, what were the reasons assigned for the
exclusion? Not that the right of representation was not as much
woman's as man's, but that "they would be ridiculed in the
morning papers."

Daniel O'Connell felt the injustice done to those delegates, and
in a letter on the subject to me, expressed his deep regret, that
owing to business