they
oppose to oppression, and to some extent we judge correctly by
this test. The same rule holds good for women; while they tamely
submit to the many inequalities under which they labor, they
scarcely deserve to be freed from them.... These are not the
demands of the moment or the few; they are the demands of the
age; of the second half of the nineteenth century. The world will
endure after us, and future generations may look back to this
meeting to acknowledge that a great onward step was here taken
in the cause of human progress.

Mrs. Rose took her seat amidst great applause from the galleries
and lobbies. The Committee adjourned.

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_Albany Register_, March 7: WOMAN'S RIGHTS IN THE
LEGISLATURE.--While the feminine propagandists of women's rights
confined themselves to the exhibition of short petticoats and
long-legged boots, and to the holding of Conventions, and
speech-making in concert-rooms, the people were disposed to be
amused by them, as they are by the wit of the clown in the
circus, or the performances of Punch and Judy on fair days, or
the minstrelsy of gentlemen with blackened faces, on banjos, the
tambourine, and bones. But the joke is becoming stale. People are
getting cloyed with these performances, and are looking for some
healthier and more intellectual amusement. The ludicrous is
wearing away, and disgust is taking the place of pleasurable
sensations, arising from the novelty of this new phase of
hypocrisy and infidel fanaticism. People are beginning to inquire
how far public sentiment should sanction or tolerate these
unsexed women, who make a scoff of religion, who repudiate the
Bible and blaspheme God; who would step out from the true sphere
of the mother, the wife, and the daughter, and taking upon
themselves the duties and the business of men, stalk into the
public gaze, and by engaging in the politics, the rough
controversies, and trafficking of the world, upheave existing
institutions, and overturn all the social relations of life.

It is a melancholy reflection, that among our American women who
have been educated to better things, there should be found any
who are willing to follow the lead of such foreign propagandists
as the ringleted, glove-handed exotic, Ernes