in our eyes
It stands complete before us as a dome
Of light beyond this gloom--a house of stars
Encompassing these dusky tents--a thing
Near as our hearts, and perfect as the heavens.
Be this our aim and model, and our hands
Shall not wax faint, until the work is done."

The Woman's Rights Conventions, which, since 1848, have been so
frequently held in New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
etc., have aroused respectful attention, and secured earnest
sympathy, throughout the United States. It becomes the advocates
of the Equal Rights of Women, then, to take advantage of this
wide-spread interest and to press the Reform, at once, onward to
practical results.

Among other timely measures, these have occurred to me as
promising to be effective:

I. There should be prepared, printed, and widely circulated, A
DECLARATION OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

This Declaration should distinctly announce the inalienable
rights of women:

1st. As human beings,--irrespective of the distinction of
sex--actively to co-operate in all movements for the elevation of
mankind.

2d. As rational, moral, and responsible agents, freely to think,
speak, and do, what truth and duty dictate, and to be the
ultimate judges of their own sphere of action.

3d. As women, to exert in private and in public, throughout the
whole range of Social Relations, that special influence which God
assigns as their appropriate function, in endowing them with
feminine attributes.

4th. As members of the body politic, needing the protection,
liable to the penalties, and subject to the operation of the
laws, to take their fair part in legislation and administration,
and in appointing the makers and administrators of the laws.

5th. As constituting one-half of the people of these free and
United States, and as nominally, free women, to possess and use
the power of voting, now monopolized by that other half of the
people, the free men.

6th. As property holders, numbered and registered in every
census, and liable to the imposition of town, county, state, and
national taxes, either to be represented if taxed, or to be left
untaxed if unrepresented, according to the established precedent
of No taxation without representation.