SARAH PELLET, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.

ALBANY CONVENTION.

FEBRUARY 14 AND 15, 1854.

Although the weather was inclement, a large audience assembled in
Association Hall on the morning of the 14th, representing the
different portions of the State. Susan B. Anthony called the
Convention to order and read the call, which had been written by Rev.
Wm. Henry Channing, and published in all the leading papers of the
State.

JUSTICE TO WOMEN--CONVENTION AT ALBANY, FEB. 14 AND 15, 1854.

The petition asking for such amendments in the Statutes and
Constitution of New York as will secure to the women of the State
legal equality with the men, and to females equally with the
males a right to suffrage, will be presented to the Legislature
about the middle of February. We, the Committee appointed at the
Convention held at Rochester in December--by whose authority
these petitions were issued--do hereby invite all
fellow-citizens, of either sex, who are in favor of these
measures, to assemble in Convention, at Albany, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, February 14th and 15th.

The so-called "Woman's Rights Movement" has been so much
misrepresented, that it is desirable to make the appeal for
justice earnest, imposing, and effective, by showing how
eminently equitable are its principles, how wise and practical
are its measures. Let the serious-minded, generous, hopeful men
and women of New York then gather in council, to determine
whether there is anything irrational or revolutionary in the
proposal that fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, should treat
their daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers as their peers. This
reform is designed, by its originators, to make woman womanly in
the highest sense of that term--to exalt, not to degrade--to
perfect, not to impair her refining influence in every sphere.
The demand is made only to take off burdens, to remove
hindrances, to leave women free as men are free, to follow
conscience and judgment in all scenes of duty. On what
ground--except the right of might--do men, claiming to be
Republicans and Christians, deny to woman privileges which they
would die to gain and keep for themselves? What evil--what but
good can come from enlarging woman's power of usefulness? How can
society be otherwise than a gainer by