an; and in his written codes she finds
herself still a slave. No girl of fifteen could read the laws,
concerning woman, made, executed, and defended by those who are
bound to her by every tie of affection, without a burst of
righteous indignation. Few have ever read or heard of the
barbarous laws that govern the mothers of this Christian
republic, and fewer still care, until misfortune brings them into
the iron grip of the law. It is the imperative duty of educated
women to study the Constitution and statutes under which they
live, that when they shall have a voice in the government, they
may bring wisdom and not folly into its councils.

We now demand the ballot, trial by jury of our peers, and an
equal right to the joint earnings of the marriage copartnership.
And, until the Constitution be so changed as to give us a voice
in the government, we demand that man shall make all his laws on
property, marriage, and divorce, to bear equally on man and
woman.

{ E. CADY STANTON, _President_.
{ LYDIA MOTT,[172] _Sec. and Treas_.
_New York State Woman's Rights { ERNESTINE L. ROSE.
Committee_. { MARTHA C. WRIGHT.
{ SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
_November, 1860._

N. B.--Let every friend commence to get signatures to the
petition without delay, and send up to Albany early in January,
either to your representative or to Lydia Mott.

How can any wife or mother, who to-day rejoices in her legal
right to the earnings of her hands, and the children of her love,
withhold the small pittance of a few hours or days in getting
signatures to the petition, or a few shillings or dollars to
carry the work onward and upward, to a final glorious
consummation.

CONVENTION IN ALBANY AND HEARING BEFORE THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IN THE
ASSEMBLY CHAMBER.

FEBRUARY 7TH AND 8TH, 1861.

The last Convention before the War was held in Albany. Ernestine L.
Rose, Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, Rev. Beriah Green, Aaron
M. Powell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony were the
speakers. They had a hearing also before the Judiciary Committee on
the bill then pending asking divorce for various causes.[173] The
interest in the question was intense at this time, owing to several
very ag