ed appetites of the vilest men and women.
Upon the physiological and psychological laws which govern
generation, we do not care here to enter, even if Mrs. Stanton
leads the way; but we believe that the progress of the world,
springing out of connections formed under such a dispensation of
humanity as is here indicated, with so little of duty or
conscience, with so little hope or expectation of abiding
affection, with so little intention of permanency as must
necessarily belong to them, would be more monstrous than the
world has ever dreamed of. For such a rule of married life
contemplates no married life at all, and no parental relation. It
destroys the family; it renders the dearest word in the Saxon
tongue (home) a vague and unmeaning term; it multiplies a
thousand-fold and renders universal all the evils which in the
imperfections of human nature are now occasional under the
binding force of a moral sense, the duty of continency, and the
remnant of nothing else is left of love.

There are some other things besides in these resolutions to which
we might object on the score of truth, some things which we
rather marvel, modest women should say, and that modest women, in
a mixed assembly, should listen to with patience. But these are
secondary matters. The thought--more than them all--that the
marriage tie is of the same nature as a mere business relation,
is so objectionable, so dangerous, that we do not care to draw
attention from that one point.

In asserting that marriage is an equal relation for husbands and
wives, Mr. Greeley, like Mr. Phillips, begs the whole question. If it
is legitimate to discuss all laws that bear unequally on man and woman
in woman's rights conventions, surely those that grow out of marriage,
which are the most oppressive and degrading on the statute-book,
should command our first consideration. There could be no slaveholders
without slaves; the one relation involves the other, and yet it would
be absurd to say that slaves might not hold a convention to discuss
the inequality of the laws sustaining that relation, and incidentally
the whole institution itself, because the slaveholder shared in the
evils resulting from it. There never has been a woman's convention
held in which the injustice suffered by wives and mothers has not been
a topic for discussion, and legitimately