-convicted of the grossest injustice and of inconsistency with
their own admitted principles, while they refuse these rights to
women.

_Resolved_, That taxation without representation is tyranny.

_Resolved_, That in accordance with an universally admitted and
self-evident truth, woman should possess the elective franchise, as a
basis of all legal and political rights, as the only effective
protection of their interests, as a remedy against present oppression,
and as a school for character.

_Resolved_, That the right to acquire knowledge should be limited only
by the capacity of the individual; and, therefore, we deprecate,
especially, that social usage, inexorable as a written statute, which
excludes woman from all our best colleges, universities, schools of
law, medicine, and divinity, and that we demand equal scholastic
advantages for our daughters and our sons; that while only three out
of the one hundred and fifty American colleges are open to women, and
while every avenue to scientific and professional culture is closed
against her, it is unfair to judge woman by the same intellectual
standard as man, and impossible to define a limit to her capacities
and talents.

_Resolved_, That the inadequate compensation which the labor of women
now commands, is the source of inexpressible individual misery and
social demoralization; that inasmuch as the law of supply and demand
will always regulate the remuneration of labor, the diversity of
female employments and her free access to every branch of business,
are indispensable to the virtue, happiness, and well-being of society.

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CHAPTER VIII.

MASSACHUSETTS.

_First Worcester Convention, 1850._

NAMES OF PERSONS WHO SIGNED THE CALL OF 1850.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Lucy Stone, B. S. Treanor, Dr. Seth Rogers,
Wm. H. Channing, Mary M. Brooks, Eliza F. Taft,
Harriot K. Hunt, T. W. Higginson, Dr. A. C. Taft,
A. Bronson Alcott, Mary E. Higginson, Charles K. Whipple,
Nathaniel Barney, Emily Winslow, Mary Bullard,
Eliza Barney, R. Waldo Emerson, Emma C. Goodwin,
Wendell Phillips, William L. Garrison, Abby Price,
Ann Greene Phillips, Helen E. Garrison, Thankful Southwick,
Adin Ballou, Charles F. Hovey, Eliza J. Kenney,
Anna Q. T. Parsons, Sarah Earle Louisa M