xcess might prove fatal.
The case came into court, and the judge decided that the two
daughters should be given to their mother, but that the custody
of the son should be given to the father. She was acquitted of
the least impropriety or indiscretion; yet, though the obscenity
and profanity of her husband in his own family was shocking, and
it was in the last degree painful to that high-minded woman to
see her son brought up under the charge of such a man, the law
decided that the unworthy father was the more proper guardian for
the boy!

In the Green Mountain State a great many sermons have lately been
preached on the text, "Wives, submit yourselves to your
husbands." The remaining words, "in the Lord," are generally
omitted; so that the text is made to appear like an injunction
that the wives should submit to their husbands, whether they were
in the Lord or in the devil. And the best of all is, that we are
told that if we would be submissive, we could change our husbands
from devils into angels.

Mrs. MOTT: I now introduce to the Convention Frances Dana Gage,
of St. Louis, Mo., better known as "Aunt Fanny," the poet.

Mrs. GAGE said: This morning, when I was leaving my
boarding-house, some one said to me, "So you are ready armed and
equipped to go and fight the men." I was sorry, truly sorry, to
hear the words--they fell heavily on my heart. I have no fight
with men. I am a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother, and in
all these relations I live in harmony with man. Neither I, nor
any of the sisters with whom I am united in this movement, have
any quarrel with men. What is it that we oppose? What do we seek
to overturn? The bad laws and customs of society. These are our
only enemies, and against these alone is our hostility directed;
although they be "hallowed by time," we seek to eradicate them,
because the day for which they were suited, if such ever existed,
is long since gone by. The men, we may suppose, are above and
beyond the laws, and we assail the laws only.

There is one law which I do not remember having heard any of my
sisters touch upon, that is the Law of Wills, as far as it
relates to married women, and as far as it allows a husband
(which it fully does), along with his power to determine the lot
of his wife