ss through life without effecting anything--to die
and leave the world no better than we found it, never being
missed in consequence of any useful work we have done.
(Applause). No good cause can go backward. No good cause
declines. Nothing can put us down if we are right. All that we
need to sustain and strengthen us in any great work is to be
quite satisfied with the smile of God, and to have faith and hope
that man shall at last be wholly and utterly redeemed and saved."
(Applause).

The Convention then adjourned _sine die_.

_From The New York Tribune of May 80_.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

_To the Editor of The New York Tribune_:

SIR:--At our recent National Woman's Rights Convention many were
surprised to hear Wendell Phillips object to the question of
Marriage and Divorce, as irrelevant to our platform. He said: "We
had no right to discuss there any laws or customs but those where
inequality existed in the sexes; that the laws on Marriage and
Divorce rested equally on man and woman; that he suffered, as
much as she possibly could, the wrongs and abuses of an
ill-assorted marriage."

Now, it must strike every careful thinker, that an immense
difference rests in the fact, that man has made the laws,
cunningly and selfishly, for his own purpose. From Coke down to
Kent, who can cite one clause of the marriage contract where
woman has the advantage? When man suffers from false legislation,
he has his remedy in his own hands. Shall woman be denied the
right of protest against laws in which she has had no voice--laws
which outrage the holiest affections of her nature--laws which
transcend the limits of human legislation--in a Convention called
for the express purpose of considering her wrongs? He might as
well object to a protest against the injustice of hanging a
woman, because capital punishment bears equally on man and woman.

The contract of marriage is by no means equal. The law permits
the girl to marry at twelve years of age, while it requires
several years more of experience on the part of the boy. In
entering this compact, the man gives up nothing that he before
possessed--he is a man still; while the legal existence of the
woman is suspended during marriage, and henceforth she