al proportions, and though some accident had
deprived her of her left arm, she had a right arm, however, which
was worth a good many. She had one arm, and the editor of _The
New York Times_, he supposed, had two. He was not much
accustomed to seeking defence of anybody, but he must say that,
if he ever did get into difficulty as a Woman's Rights man, and
had to choose between the protection of the one arm of that girl
in Kansas, and the two of the New York editor, he thought his
first choice would not be the Lieutenant-Governor. Seeing the
heroism of the women of Kansas, he told the men of Lawrence, that
when the time came for them to assert their rights, he hoped they
would not imitate the border ruffians of the Eastern States, who
asserted rights for man, and denied them to woman.

Mr. Higginson then reported the following resolution from the Business
Committee:

_Resolved_, That the warm sympathies of this Convention are
respectfully offered to those noble women in England, who are
struggling against wrongs even greater than those of American
women, but the same in kind; and we trust that they will follow
on their demands in logical consistency, until they comprise the
full claim for the equality of the sexes before the law.

This resolution referred, as some of them knew, to the recent
action of some of the noblest women in England, in behalf of
juster rights of property and a larger construction of human
rights than had hitherto prevailed there. The list included a few
of the very noblest of the women who had helped to make England's
name glorious by their deeds in literature and in art. It
included Mrs. Norton, to whom Wendell Phillips had referred, as a
living proof of the intellectual greatness of woman; she had a
husband who, after blasting her life by an infamous charge
against her, which he confessed to his counsel he did not
believe, now lived on the earnings of the brains of his wife. It
included, also, Mrs. Somerville, a woman who had forever
vindicated the scientific genius of her sex, by labors that
caused the wonder and admiration of scientific men; a woman of
whom it is said, that she is in all respects true to her sex,
because while studying the motions of the heavenly bodies, she
does not forget the motion of the tea-cups aro