p, and state what that right shall be. We do not ask
law-makers whether there shall be rights of dower and
courtesy--rights to equal shares--rights to this or that interest
in property. That is not our business. All we say is, "Gentlemen
law-makers, we represent woman; make what laws you please about
marriage and property, but let woman stand under them exactly as
man does; let sex deprive her of no right, let sex confer no
special right; and that is all we claim." (Applause). Society has
done that as to marriage and divorce, and we have nothing more to
ask of it on this question, as a Woman's Rights body.

ABBY HOPPER GIBBONS, of New York City, seconded the motion of Mr.
Phillips, and said that she wished the whole subject of marriage
and divorce might be swept from that platform, as it was
manifestly not the place for it.

Mr. GARRISON said he fully concurred in opinion with his friend,
Mr. Phillips, that they had not come together to settle
definitely the question of marriage, as such, on that platform;
still, he should be sorry to have the motion adopted, as against
the resolutions of Mrs. Stanton, because they were a part of her
speech, and her speech was an elucidation of her resolutions,
which were offered on her own responsibility, not on behalf of
the Business Committee, and which did not, therefore, make the
Convention responsible for them. It seemed to him that, in the
liberty usually taken on that platform, both by way of argument
and illustration, to show the various methods by which woman was
unjustly, yet legally, subjected to the absolute control of man,
she ought to be permitted to present her own sentiments. It was
not the specific object of an Anti-Slavery Convention--for
example--to discuss the conduct of Rev. Nehemiah Adams, or the
position of Stephen A. Douglas, or the course of _The York
Herald_; yet they did, incidentally, discuss all these, and many
other matters closely related to the great struggle for the
freedom of the slave. So this question of marriage came in as at
least incidental to the main question of the equal rights of
woman.

Mrs. BLACKWELL: I should like to say a few words in explanation.
I do not understand whether our friend Wendell Phillips objects
to both series of resolutions on the subject