rked that he could distinguish the Massachusetts women from
the women of any other State--not because they spoke through
their nose, or sung psalms, but because they had "views." Every
woman had her "views" upon every subject. It was true that the
English women had superb frames, grand muscles, fine energies,
that they spoke two or three languages, but then they usually
didn't have any "views"; and he thanked God that he lived in a
State where women had them.

He had spoken for woman and to woman, because he was a man. He
did not dare, as a Republican voter, to throw his vote with one
hand, without doing something for Woman's Rights with the other.
Men and women were one before God, and this union can not be
perfect until their equality be recognized. So long as woman is
cut off from education, man is deprived of his just education. So
long as woman is crushed into a slave, so long will man be
narrowed into a despot. Without this movement, the political
conventions of the present day would only prove to posterity that
the nation was half civilized; but now future historians will
record that in 1856, New York had not only her caucuses and her
ballot-boxes, but her Woman's Rights Convention also.

Mrs. Rose wished to remark, in reference to the resolution
offered by Mr. Higginson, that English women, to her knowledge,
were very active in forwarding the Woman's Rights movement
throughout Great Britain. And not only English women, but young
and noble English girls--girls, who were too timid to take part
publicly in the movement, but who were untiring and indefatigable
in making converts and enlisting aid. There was Miss Smith, Miss
Fox, the daughter of the celebrated W. J. Fox, the eloquent
lecturer and member of Parliament for Oldham, Miss Parkes, and
others. They had devoted themselves to the great work, which was
more difficult in that country than this. They had no declaration
of independence to appeal to, declaring that all men were created
equal, and endowed with the incalculable right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. They had no such standard to appeal
to there, because men there were not recognized as free. Banking
interests, manufacturing interests, land monopolies, and
monopolies of every other kind were represented in En