espect to rights, stands on an
equal footing with man. In the judgment of such persons the
American slave system, with all its concomitant horrors, is less
to be deplored than this _wicked_ idea. It is perhaps needless to
say, that we cherish little sympathy for such sentiments or
respect for such prejudices. Standing as we do upon the
watch-tower of human freedom, we can not be deterred from an
expression of our approbation of any movement, however humble,
to improve and elevate the character of any members of the human
family. While it is impossible for us to go into this subject at
length, and dispose of the various objections which are often
urged against such a doctrine as that of female equality, we are
free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold woman to
be justly entitled to all we claim for man. We go farther, and
express our conviction that all political rights which it is
expedient for man to exercise, it is equally so for woman. All
that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being,
is equally true of woman; and if that government only is just
which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be
no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the
elective franchise, or a hand in making and administering the
laws of the land. Our doctrine is that "right is of no sex." We
therefore bid the women engaged in this movement our humble
Godspeed.

THE ROCHESTER CONVENTION, AUGUST 2, 1848.

Those who took part in the Convention at Seneca Falls, finding at the
end of the two days, there were still so many new points for
discussion, and that the gift of tongues had been vouchsafed to them,
adjourned, to meet in Rochester in two weeks. Amy Post, Sarah D. Fish,
Sarah C. Owen, and Mary H. Hallowell, were the Committee of
Arrangements. This Convention was called for August 2d, and so well
advertised in the daily papers, that at the appointed hour, the
Unitarian Church was filled to overflowing.

Amy Post called the meeting to order, and stated that at a gathering
the previous evening in Protection Hall, Rhoda De Garmo, Sarah Fish,
and herself, were appointed a committee to nominate officers for the
Convention, and they now proposed Abigail Bush, for President; Laura
Murray, for Vice-President; Elizabeth McClintock, Sarah Hallowell, and
Catherine A. F. Steb