with three young children. She was able, and most willing to
support them in humble independence; but her husband before he
died, had secretly given two of them to his relatives, and the
law tore them from the mother's bosom, and left her but the
youngest, who was soon taken from her by death. That, mother
lived to see her two surviving children, grow up, the one to be a
drunkard and the other a felon, all through neglect and the want
of that care and guardianship which none so well as a parent can
be relied on to afford. I plead for woman as a mother, that her
right to her children be recognized as at least equal to that of
the father, and that he, being dead, no other can have a right to
their guardianship paramount or even equal to hers.

Pantalooned mob as aforesaid: Oh, dry up! Bow-ow! Waugh!
Hiss-s-s! Get out!

The case is still on.

[Illustration: SUSAN B. ANTHONY (with autograph).]

WOMAN'S RIGHTS STATE CONVENTION,

ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 30 AND DECEMBER 1, 1853.

As William Henry Channing resided at Rochester, and felt that the time
had come for some more active measures, he was invited to prepare the
call and resolutions for the Convention. The following was issued and
extensively circulated, and signed by many of the leading men and
women of the State:

THE JUST AND EQUAL RIGHTS OF WOMEN.

_To the Men and Women of New York:_

The "Woman's Rights" Movement is a practical one, demanding
prompt and efficient action for the relief of oppressive wrongs;
and, as the Conventions held for several years past in different
States, have answered their end of arousing earnest public
attention, the time has come for calling upon the people to
reform the evils from which women suffer, by their
Representatives in Legislative Assemblies.

The wise and humane of all classes in society, however much they
may differ upon speculative points as to woman's nature and
function, agree that there are actual abuses of women, tolerated
by custom and authorized by law, which are condemned alike by the
genius of republican institutions and the spirit of the Christian
religion. Conscience and common sense, then, unite to sanction
their immediate redress. Thousands of the best men and women, in
all our communities, are asking such questions as these: