the wife merely the common necessaries of
life; all that she receives beyond these is looked upon by the
law as a favor, and not held as her right. A mother is denied the
custody of her own child; a most barbarous and unjust law, which
robs her of the child placed in her care by the great Creator
himself. A widow is allowed the use merely of one-third of the
real estate left at the husband's death; and when her minor
children have grown up she must surrender the personal property,
even to the family Bible, and the pictures of her dear children.
In view of such laws the women engaged in this movement ask that
the wife shall be made heir to the husband to the same extent
that he is now her heir.

Taxation without representation is another of the wrongs that
woman endures. In this she is held below the negro in the
political scale; for the black man, when not possessing property
to the extent of two hundred and fifty dollars, is not allowed to
vote, but neither is he taxed. The present law of divorce is very
unjust; the husband, whether the innocent or the guilty party,
retaining all the wife's property, as also the control of the
children unless by special decree of the court they are assigned
to the mother.

Rev. ANTOINETTE BROWN said: The wife owes service and labor to
her husband as much and as absolutely as the slave does to his
master. This grates harshly upon the ears of Christendom; but it
is made palpably and practically true all through our statute
books, despite the poetic fancy which views woman as elevated in
the social estate; but a little lower than the angels.

Letters were read from Paulina Wright Davis, Dr. Trail, Mary C.
Vaughan, and Hon. William Hay. A series of fourteen resolutions were
presented by Mr. Channing, and discussed, which suggested the
appointment of various committees. One to prepare an address to the
Legislature, and to ask a special hearing before a joint committee to
consider the whole subject of the just and equal rights of woman;
another to prepare an address to the capitalists and industrialists of
New York on the best modes of employing and remunerating women.

_Resolved_, That the movement, now in progress throughout the
United States, for securing the just and equal rights of women,
in education, industry, law, politics, religion, an