arriage
relation, we conceive, does not come within this category. As
there can be no wives without husbands, the subject concerns the
latter quite as much as it does the former. One of the wrongs
which it is charged woman suffers from man, is that he legislates
for her when she is not represented. We acknowledge the justice
of that plea, and, for that very reason, complain that she, under
the name of Woman's Rights, should attempt to settle a question
of such vital importance to him where he is supposed to be
admitted only on suffrance. We believe in woman's rights; we have
some conclusions(?) on the rights of husbands and wives; we are
not yet, we confess, up to that advanced state which enables us
to consider the rights of wives as something apart from that of
husbands.

On the subject of marriage and divorce we have some very positive
opinions, and what they are is pretty generally known. But even
were they less positive and fixed, we should none the less
protest against the sweeping character of the resolutions
introduced at the Woman's Rights Convention on Friday by Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. We can not look upon the marriage
relation as of no more binding force than that which a man may
make with a purchaser for the sale of dry-goods, or an engagement
he may contract with a schoolmaster or governess. Such doctrine
seems to us simply shocking.

The intimate relation existing between one man and one woman,
sanctified by, at least, the memory of an early and sincere
affection, rendered more sacred by the present bond of dependent
children, the fruit of that love, hallowed by many joys and many
sorrows, though they be only remembered joys and sorrows, with
other interests that can be broken in upon only to be
destroyed--such a relation, we are very sure, has elements of
quite another nature than those which belong to the shop or the
counting-house. In our judgment, the balance of duty can not be
struck like the balance of a mercantile statement of profit and
loss, or measured with the calculations we bestow on an account
current. Such a doctrine we regard as pernicious and debasing. We
can conceive of nothing that would more utterly sap the
foundations of sound morality, or give a looser rein to the most
licentious and deprav