the increased moral and
mental influence of one-half of its members? Let these and
similar questions be fairly, candidly, thoroughly discussed in
the hearing of the Legislature of New York.

Come then, fellow-citizens, to this Convention prepared to speak,
to hear, to act. Lucy Stone, Wendell Phillips, Mrs. C. I. H.
Nichols, and other earnest friends of the cause from New England
and the West, as well as from our own State, are to be with us.
And may the spirit of Truth preside over all.

ELIZABETH C. STANTON, SAMUEL J. MAY, ERNESTINE L. ROSE,
ANTOINETTE L. BROWN, WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING, WM. HAY,
BURROUGHS PHILLIPS, LYDIA ANN JENKINS, SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

Those having petitions in their hands will please send them to
Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, until the first of February, after
which they should be forwarded to Lydia Mott, Albany.

N. B.--Editors please copy.
_January 23, 1854._

The officers[126] of the Convention being reported, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton (President) took the chair, and after returning her
acknowledgments for the honor conferred, introduced Rev. Antoinette L.
Brown, who read a series of resolutions:

1. _Resolved_, That the men who claim to be Christian
Republicans, and yet class their mothers, sisters, wives, and
daughters among aliens, criminals, idiots, and minors, unfit to
be their coequal citizens, are guilty of absurd inconsistency and
presumption; that for males to govern females, without consent
asked or granted, is to perpetuate an aristocracy, utterly
hostile to the principles and spirit of free institutions; and
that it is time for the people of the United States and every
State in the Union to put away forever that remnant of despotism
and feudal oligarchy, the caste of sex.

2. _Resolved_, That women are human beings whose rights
correspond with their duties; that they are endowed with
conscience, reason, affection, and energy, for the use of which
they are individually responsible; that like men they are bound
to advance the cause of truth, justice, and universal good in the
society and nation of which they are members; that in these
United States women constitute one-half the people; men
constitute the other half; that women are no more free in honor
than men are to withhold their infl