4th. That confirmed and habitual drunkenness, of either husband
or wife, be held as sufficient ground for divorce; and that the
temperate partner be appointed legal guardian of the children.

5th. That women be exempted from taxation until their right of
suffrage is practically acknowledged.

6th. That women equally with men be entitled to claim trial
before a jury of their peers.

These petitions should be firm and uncompromising in tone; and a
hearing should be demanded before Committees specially empowered
to consider and report them. In my judgment, the time is not
distant, when such petitions will be granted, and when justice,
the simple justice they ask, will be cordially, joyfully
rendered.

I call then for the publication of a Declaration of Woman's
Rights, accompanied by Forms of Petitions, by the National
Woman's Rights Convention at their present session. In good hope,

Your friend and brother,
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING.

Miss Brown remarked:

There is one of these demands, the fourth, which for myself, I
should prefer to have amended thus--instead of the word
"divorce," I would insert "legally separated." The letter
otherwise meets my cordial and hearty approbation.

MR. HIGGINSON'S LETTER.

WORCESTER, _Sept. 15, 1853_.

DEAR FRIEND:--In writing to the New York Woman's Rights
Convention, I mentioned some few points of argument which no
opponents of this movement have ever attempted to meet. Suffer
me, in addressing the Cleveland Convention, to pursue a different
course, and mention some things which the friends of the cause
have not yet attempted to do.

I am of a practical habit of mind, and have noticed with some
regret that most of the friends of the cause have rested their
hopes, thus far, chiefly upon abstract reasoning. This is
doubtless of great importance, and these reasonings have already
made many converts; because the argument is so entirely on one
side that every one who really listens to it begins instantly to
be convinced. The difficulty is, that the majority have not yet
begun to listen to it, and this, in great measure, because their
attention has not been called to the fac