ed protection, by which the industry of women is
kept on half-pay, their affections trifled with, their energies
crippled, and even their noblest aspirations wasted away in vain
efforts, ennui, and regret.

6. _Resolved_, That in consistency with the spirit and intent of
the Statutes of New York, enacted in 1848 and 1849, the design of
which was to secure to married women the entire control of their
property, it is the duty of the Legislature to make such
amendments in the laws of the State as will enable married women
to conduct business, to form contracts, to sue and be sued in
their own names--to receive and hold the gains of their industry,
and be liable for their own debts so far as their interests are
separate from those of their husbands--to become joint owners in
the joint earnings of the partnership, so far as these interests
are identified--to bear witness for or against their husbands,
and generally to be held responsible for their own deeds.

7. _Resolved_, That as acquiring property by all just and
laudable means, and the holding and devising of the same is a
human right, women married and single are entitled to this right,
and all the usages or laws which withhold it from them are
manifestly unjust.

8. _Resolved_, That every argument in favor of universal suffrage
for males is equally in favor of universal suffrage for females,
and therefore if men may claim the right of suffrage as necessary
to the protection of all their rights in any Government, so may
women for the same reason.

9. _Resolved_, That if man as man, has any peculiar claim to a
representation in the government, for himself, woman as woman,
has a paramount claim to an equal representation for herself.

10. _Resolved_, Therefore, that whether you regard woman as like
or unlike man, she is in either case entitled to an equal joint
participation with him in all civil rights and duties.

11. _Resolved_, That although men should grant us every specific
claim, we should hold them all by favor rather than right, unless
they also concede, and we exercise, the right of protecting
ourselves by the elective franchise.

12. _Resolved_, That if the essence of a trial by an "impartial
jury" be a trial by one's own equals, then has never a woman
enjoyed that p