ntry to allow
civil rights to a woman?

Susan B. Anthony, who had been a teacher for fifteen years, gave an
amusing description of her recent experience in attempting to speak at
a teachers' convention. Paulina Wright Davis offered the following
resolution:

_Resolved_, That inasmuch as this great movement is intended to
meet the wants, not of America only, but of the whole world, a
committee be appointed to prepare an address from this Convention
to the women of Great Britain and the continent of Europe,
setting forth our objects, and inviting their co-operation in the
same.[121]

WM. LLOYD GARRISON: I second the resolution, because it shows the
universality of our enterprise. I second it heartily, for it
manifests the grandeur of the object we are pursuing. There never
yet was a struggle for liberty which was not universal, though,
for the time, it might have appeared to be no more than local. If
the women of this country have to obtain rights which have been
denied them, the women of England, of France, of the world, have
to obtain the same; and I regard this as a struggle for the race,
sublime as the world itself. It is right that this Convention
should address the women of the whole world, in order that they
should announce precisely how they regard their own position in
the universe of God. What rights they claim are God-given; what
rights they possess, and what rights they have still to achieve.
It is time that the women of America should ask the women beyond
the Atlantic to consider their own condition, and to co-operate
with them in the same glorious struggle. There is not an argument
that God ever permitted a human being to frame, that can be
brought against this cause. This is a free Convention, and we are
willing that any man or woman who has aught against its
principles, should come here and freely urge it. And yet, with a
free platform, where is the human being who cares to argue the
question? Where is the man who presents himself decently, and
proffers a word of reasonable argument against our cause? I have
yet to see that man. Instead, we have blackguardism, defamation,
rowdyism, profanity; we have all the indications that hell from
beneath is stirred up against this divine Convention, for it is
divine--it takes hold of heaven and th