, the resolutions reported by the Business Committee
were adopted without dissent.

Miss MARY GREW, of Philadelphia, said: Friends, we are about to
separate. This convention was called for the consideration of one
of the most important questions before the American people. The
press may ridicule your movement, the pulpit denounce it, but, as
time rolls on, it will be seen--the press and pulpit will
see--that it is one of the most important questions that has ever
agitated the community. It is well that those who are engaged in
this movement should go forth deeply impressed with the
importance of the work that is before them. It is well that you
who have assembled from curiosity, to listen to what these
"fanatics" have to say, should take home with you to your souls
one thought which is sufficient to settle this whole question.
All the arguments that have been adduced against us, and against
granting to woman all her rights, come to us in one form or
another of prejudice or expediency. Talk with whom you will about
it,--the priest, politician, merchant, farmer, mechanic, and one
after another says, (you have heard them, I have heard them, we
all hear them,) to every right which woman claims, "I grant you
that, in the abstract, you are right; but it is not expedient,
nor wise, nor safe for woman nor man, nor good for the world."
Let me tell you, that the man who grants that the position we
assume is, in the abstract, right, has granted all we want; and
if he is not ready to take that step of abstract right, he only
assumes to be wiser than He who made the world.

Mrs. President, I hear every day of my life, almost, the
assertion that it is fanaticism to say that it is always safe and
right to follow abstract right. This principle does not belong to
any one belief; it is the living soul of God's universe, that the
absolute right is safe. If woman has the same right as man to
read, to vote, to rule, to learn, to teach, there is nothing
further to be said about it; and I never care to argue with the
man who says it is right, but for some reason or other, it ought
not to be granted, for he has granted everything, and has no
ground left to stand upon.

Is it fanaticism to believe that God is wiser than man; that He,
"who stretched out the hea