But it must come here and be settled, sooner or later, because
its interests are everywhere, and all human relations center in
this one marriage relation. (Applause).

SUSAN B. ANTHONY: I hope Mr. Phillips will withdraw his motion
that these resolutions shall not appear on the records of the
Convention. I am very sure that it would be contrary to all
parliamentary usage to say, that when the speeches which enforced
and advocated the resolutions are reported and published in the
proceedings, the resolutions shall not be placed there. And as to
the point that this question does not belong to this
platform,--from that I totally dissent. Marriage has ever been a
one-sided matter, resting most unequally upon the sexes. By it,
man gains all--woman loses all; tyrant law and lust reign supreme
with him--meek submission and ready obedience alone befit her.
Woman has never been consulted; her wish has never been taken
into consideration as regards the terms of the marriage compact.
By law, public sentiment and religion, from the time of Moses
down to the present day, woman has never been thought of other
than as a piece of property, to be disposed of at the will and
pleasure of man. And this very hour, by our statute-books, by our
(so called) enlightened Christian civilization, she has no voice
whatever in saying what shall be the basis of the relation. She
must accept marriage as man proffers it, or not at all.

And then again, on Mr. Phillips' own ground, the discussion is
perfectly in order, since nearly all the wrongs of which we
complain grow out of the inequality, the injustice of the
marriage laws, that rob the wife of the right to herself and her
children--that make her the slave of the man she marries.

I hope, therefore, the resolutions will be allowed to go out to
the public, that there may be a fair report of the ideas which
have actually been presented here, that they may not be left to
the mercy of the secular press. I trust the Convention will not
vote to forbid the publication of those resolutions with the
proceedings.

Rev. WM. HOISINGTON, the blind preacher: Publish all that you
have said and done here, and let the public know it.

The question was then put on the motion of Mr. Phillips, and it
was lost.

After which