in this State, without the grant and assent of the
people of this State; by their representatives in Senate and
Assembly"; and that "no citizen of this State can be compelled to
contribute to any gift, loan, tax, or other like charge, not laid
or imposed by a law of the United States, or by the Legislature
of the State"; therefore do we proclaim, that it is a gross act
of tyranny and usurpation, to tax women without their consent,
and we demand, either that women be represented by their own
appointed representatives, or that they be freed from the
imposition of taxes.

_Resolved_, That inasmuch as it is the fundamental principle of
the Nation and of every State in this Union, that all
"governments derive their just powers from the consent of the
governed"--it is a manifest violation of the Supreme Law of the
land for males to govern females without their consent; and
therefore do we demand, of the people of New York, such a change
in the Constitution of the State, as will secure to women the
right of suffrage which is now so unjustly monopolized by men.

_Resolved_, That Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Samuel J. May, Ernestine
L. Rose, William Hay, Susan B. Anthony, Burroughs Phillips,
Antoinette L. Brown, W. H. Channing, and Lydia A. Jenkins, be a
committee to prepare and to present an address to the Legislature
of New York, at its next session, stating, as specifically as
they shall see fit, the legal disabilities of women, and to ask a
hearing before a joint committee, specially appointed to consider
the whole subject of the just and equal rights of women.

_Resolved_, That Horace Greeley, Mary C. Vaughan, Abram Pryne,
Sarah Pellet, and Matilda Joslyn Gage be a committee to prepare
an address to capitalists and industrialists of New York, on the
best modes of employing and remunerating the industry of women.

The President invited any one who saw errors or fallacies in the
arguments brought forward, to make them apparent.

Mr. PRYNE, of Cazenovia, editor of the _Progressive Christian_,
said: If women desire to enter the ordinary avocations of men,
they must be brave enough to become shopkeepers and mechanics.
There is no law to prevent it, neither is there to woman's
voting. The men have made an arrangement by which their votes are
not counted, but