sitions
in her platform which we should dissent from. _The State
Register_ may do the same. All the "Woman's Rights" women claim
is fair play and truthful criticism. They object, however, to any
misstatements. They are willing to fall before truth, but not
before detraction. _The State Register_ will please notice and
act accordingly.

Mrs. Stanton's address to the Legislature was laid upon the members'
desks Monday morning, Feb. 20, 1854. When the order of petitions was
reached, Mr. D. P. Wood, of Onondaga, presented in the Assembly a
petition signed by 5,931 men and women, praying for the just and equal
rights of women, which, after a spicy debate, was referred to the
following Select Committee: James L. Angle, of Monroe Co.; George W.
Thorn, of Washington Co.; Derrick L. Boardman, of Oneida Co.; George
H. Richards, of New York; James M. Munro, of Onondaga; Wesley Gleason,
of Fulton; Alexander P. Sharpe, of New York.

In the Senate, on the same day, Mr. Richards, or Warren County,
presented a petition signed by 4,164 men and women, praying for the
extension of the right of suffrage to women, and on his motion it was
referred to the following Select Committee: George Yost, of Montgomery
Co.; Ben. Field, of Orleans Co.; W. H. Robertson, of Westchester Co.

We give the report of the presentation and discussion of the petitions
from _The Albany Evening Journal_ of Feb. 20, 1854:

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

ASSEMBLY, Monday, _February 20, 1854_.

Mr. D. P. WOOD: I am requested by a Committee of the Woman's
Rights Convention recently assembled in this city, to present to
this body their address, together with a petition signed by 5,931
men and women, asking that certain withheld rights shall be
granted to the women of the State. I ask the reference of these
two documents to a Select Committee of seven; and in making this
motion, I wish the Speaker to waive the courtesy which would
require him, under ordinary circumstances, to place me at the
head of this Committee. I am already on several Committees which
are pressed with business, and I would not, in my present state
of health, be able to give the subject that careful consideration
which the importance requires. I am satisfied, sir, that these
ladies are entitled to some relief. They think so, and they say
so, in langu